Ninja Turtles Pizza Crunchabungas!
OKAY. So.
My dad recently purchased a snack food. He offered some of it to me.
The snack food was:
As I'm munching on my TGI Fridays Cheese Pizza Chips, a wave of childhood familiarity bowled me over so fast, I thought I'd died for a minute.
I realized.
They tasted EXACTLY like a snack I used to get in my lunch box as a child.
As I continue to munch, the memories come pouring back to me. I'm saying things like, "It was some sort of cartoon snack. It was a pizza shaped snack. Uhm.... IT WAS A NINJA TURTLES SNACK!!!!!!"
It hit me like a ton of bricks.
Unfortunately, my memory for what things are called sucks something fierce.
I finally googled "Ninja Turtle Pizza Snack" today, and lo and behold, I found it!!!!!!!!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Crunchabungas!!!!!
There was an article to accompany that picture, and the person who wrote it said it best:
"Ninja Turtles Crunchabungas
"Pizza Crunchabungas" were the driving force behind this article getting written, as I feel somehow incomplete not having really paid tribute to them before. I don't know how many of you remember them; maybe not as many as I think, because Google matches for "crunchabungas" are about as high as Google matches for "ietrophysics," which is a word I swore I heard on a sitcom show's spelling bee once and will forever keep checking to see if it's begun existing. I look at that bag and feel capable of performing butterfly effect tricks. That right there is a view into a lousy past checkered with stay-at-home Saturdays with nothing better to do than watch T.G.I.F. and get drunk on pizza-flavored corn wheels. I remember being kind of grossed out by the taste -- artificial pizza flavoring is yucky -- but nevertheless absorbed by the texture, the crunch and the idea that Raphael wore a chef's cap and stomped around an assembly line liberally sprinkling vaguely pizza-shaped chips with vaguely pizza-flavored pixie dust. And the bag. The bag had a "Pizza Shooter!" I owned that toy! I knew what it was! I understood how strange it was for the Pizza Shooter vehicle to be chosen for mass-produced junk food package art. It made me proud."
Well, except for the ietrophysics thing. I know nothing of that.
(Credit for the article and picture: Here)
Either way. I'm beyond excited that I remembered it, and it's pretty friggin impressive that 14 years down the line, I could remember what these things tasted like and what they even were.
I loves me some Ninja Turtles.
My dad recently purchased a snack food. He offered some of it to me.
The snack food was:
As I'm munching on my TGI Fridays Cheese Pizza Chips, a wave of childhood familiarity bowled me over so fast, I thought I'd died for a minute.
I realized.
They tasted EXACTLY like a snack I used to get in my lunch box as a child.
As I continue to munch, the memories come pouring back to me. I'm saying things like, "It was some sort of cartoon snack. It was a pizza shaped snack. Uhm.... IT WAS A NINJA TURTLES SNACK!!!!!!"
It hit me like a ton of bricks.
Unfortunately, my memory for what things are called sucks something fierce.
I finally googled "Ninja Turtle Pizza Snack" today, and lo and behold, I found it!!!!!!!!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Crunchabungas!!!!!
There was an article to accompany that picture, and the person who wrote it said it best:
"Ninja Turtles Crunchabungas
"Pizza Crunchabungas" were the driving force behind this article getting written, as I feel somehow incomplete not having really paid tribute to them before. I don't know how many of you remember them; maybe not as many as I think, because Google matches for "crunchabungas" are about as high as Google matches for "ietrophysics," which is a word I swore I heard on a sitcom show's spelling bee once and will forever keep checking to see if it's begun existing. I look at that bag and feel capable of performing butterfly effect tricks. That right there is a view into a lousy past checkered with stay-at-home Saturdays with nothing better to do than watch T.G.I.F. and get drunk on pizza-flavored corn wheels. I remember being kind of grossed out by the taste -- artificial pizza flavoring is yucky -- but nevertheless absorbed by the texture, the crunch and the idea that Raphael wore a chef's cap and stomped around an assembly line liberally sprinkling vaguely pizza-shaped chips with vaguely pizza-flavored pixie dust. And the bag. The bag had a "Pizza Shooter!" I owned that toy! I knew what it was! I understood how strange it was for the Pizza Shooter vehicle to be chosen for mass-produced junk food package art. It made me proud."
Well, except for the ietrophysics thing. I know nothing of that.
(Credit for the article and picture: Here)
Either way. I'm beyond excited that I remembered it, and it's pretty friggin impressive that 14 years down the line, I could remember what these things tasted like and what they even were.
I loves me some Ninja Turtles.