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Nintendo's Summer 2022 Coldstone Flavors

Food

Type of Funny Food: Tie-In Product

Year Introduced: 2022

Location: Coldstone Creamery

For a short time in 2022, Coldstone Creamery offered three ice cream creations themed to a few Nintendo franchises, specially Kirby, Mario, and Animal Crossing.

The three flavors were The Mighty Pink Puff (strawberry ice cream, caramel, strawberries, and mini marshmallows) for Kirby, Superstar Sprinkle Blast (cake batter ice cream, icing, yellow cake, and sprinkes) for Mario, and Island Getaway (chocolate ice cream with bananas, strawberries, and whipped cream) for Animal Crossing. The ice cream also came in a themed, collectable cup!

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I only ever tried one of these- the Mario flavor. It tasted good at first, but there was wayyyy too much icing in it for my taste.

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Kellogg’s Minecraft Creeper Crunch Cereal

Food

Type of Funny Food: Tie-In Product

Introduced: August 2020

Location: Supermarkets

From 2020 to 2022, Kellogg’s offered a tie-in Minecraft cereal, Creeper Crunch. Named after its most famous in-game enemy, the creeper, the cinnamon flavored oat cereal came with appropriately square “creeper bit” mini marshmallows colored in different shades of green. Luckily for the consumer, the cereal didn’t have the same explosive properties of its mean, green namesake.

The packaging also included a code that interested gamers could use to redeem one of 16 wearable in-game items. Some items seemed harder to find than others, encouraging multiple purchases of the product.

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Geek Life Sonic Curry

Food

Type of Funny Food: Tie-In Product

Introduced: June 2018

Location: Online

Japanese nerd retailer Geek Life, in a bold, unique partnership with SEGA, elected to create a curry themed after Sonic the Hedgehog. Just like the video game franchise’s titular hero, the pre-packaged curry was a vivid blue.

The product was only sold in Japan, but could be bought and shipped elsewhere online. The product only included the oddly-colored curry sauce, requiring customers to shop elsewhere for other curry ingredients such as rice.

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This Funny Food was submitted by @quandrries​

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Lúcio-Oh’s

Food

Type of Funny Food: Tie-In Product

Introduced: November 2018

Location: Supermarkets

Announced at Blizzcon 2018 as a tie-in to the game that released two years prior, Lúcio-Ohs were an Overwatch-themed cereal based on the character Lúcio’s in-game product placement. The cereal was made of yellow and green loops, and sported a “sonic vanilla” flavor. The box came with a code to get an in-game “loot boost”.

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I know what you’re thinking, and no, I don’t know why they didn’t just call the cereal ‘Lúci-o’s’ either.

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Super Mario Cereal

Food

Type of Funny Food: Tie-In Product

Introduced: December 2017

Location: Supermarkets

To promote the recently-released Mario Odyssey, Kellogg’s offered Super Mario Cereal, a cereal available at select supermarket locations.

The cereal was star-shaped, and came with marshmallows shaped like green mushrooms, yellow question blocks, and Mario’s hat. The box also doubled as a special Amiibo that could be used in the Mario Odyssey game.

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Coldstone Creamery Super Mario Maker 2 Mario and Luigi’s Masterpiece

Food

Type of Funny Food: Tie-In Product

Introduced: August 2019

Location: Cold Stone Creamery

To celebrate the creation of Super Mario Maker 2, Cold Stone Creamery partnered with Nintendo to unveil an ice cream creation intended to have been created by the plumbing duo themselves- Mario & Luigi’s Masterpiece.

The dessert was a sweet cream ice cream mixed with blue icing, rainbow sprinkles, and hot chocolate fudge.

This collaboration also marked the first appearance of Rainbow Sprinkle Road, a sweet cream ice cream yellow cake creation covered in rainbow sprinkles made to look like a race track, and blue and white frosting, as well as toppers of Mario and Luigi in their go-karts. This cake would later reappear during other Nintendo Cold Stone Collaborations, albeit sometimes under different names, such as “Rainbow Road Rally”.

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Pokémon Berry Bolt Cereal

Food

Type of Funny Food: Tie-In Product

Introduced: November 2020

Location: Supermarkets

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the franchise, Pokémon partnered with General Mills to release Berry Bolt, a Pikachu-themed cereal.

The cereal was red and bluish-purple, and came with yellow and orange marshmallows shaped like lightning bolts and Pikachu heads. The flavor was, as the name suggests, “berry”.

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I remember buying multiple boxes of these as I’m a big Pokemon fan. I honestly really liked it, but couldn’t tell you what berry it was meant to be.

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Super Mario Oreos

Food

Type of Funny Food: Tie-In Product

Introduced: July 2023

Location: Supermarkets

Released during the same year as the plumber duo’s return to the big screen, Oreo collaborated with Nintendo to create Super Mario Oreos (Super MOreos?).

The themed cookies were the typical Oreo and white cream combo, but with one of 16 designs on the top, namely Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Toad, Yoshi, Bowser Jr., a Goomba, the Fire Flower, Super Mushroom, the Coin, Boo, Koopa Troopa, Spiny, the Super Star, Blooper, and the Piranha Plant.

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Sonic the Hedgehog Blue Rad and Hot Rings Lifesavers

Food

Type of Funny Food: Tie-In Product

Introduced: 1994

Location: Supermarkets

Sonic the Hedgehog, at the time fresh off the release of the third game in the series, received not one, but two tie-in Lifesavers flavors.

These were Blue Rad and Hot Rings, which were blue raspberry and cinnamon-flavored, respectively. There were other Lifesavers with Sonic on them (and at least one with Knuckles), but these two were the only themed offerings.

Additionally, because the latest of the blue blur’s games had just been released, each roll of Lifesavers provided a chance to win a copy of the game or a Sega Genesis to play it on.

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Michael Bublé Merry Berry Bublé Bubly

Drink

Type of Funny Food: Seasonal / Tie-In Product

Introduced: December 2021

Location: Supermarkets

In partnership with Michael Bublé, an artist famous for his covers of holiday songs, sparkling water Bubly created a special, themed flavor for the singer.

The flavor, Merry Berry Bublé, was a sparkling water flavored like a mix of raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries.

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Images courtesy of Bubly and SodaSeekers on Twitter.

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Megan Thee Stallion Popeyes Hottie Sauce

Food

Type of Funny Food: Seasonal / Event / Tie-In Product

Introduced: October 2021

Location: Popeyes

In collaboration with American rapper Megan Thee Stallion, southern chicken chain Popeyes created a special “Hottie Sauce”.

The sauce was a mixture of sweet and sour, made with Aleppo peppers, honey, and cider vinegar. Hottie Sauce could be added as a side to chicken nuggets or added to Popeyes’ chicken sandwich, which would be packaged in a special themed wrapper.

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Images courtesy of Popeyes, Brianna Wellen from The Takeout, and Abigail Rosenthal of The Houston Chronicle.

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General Mills JoJo Siwa Cereal

Food

Type of Funny Food: Tie-In Product

Introduced: May 2021

Location: Supermarkets

A tie-in breakfast food themed after dancer and singer JoJo Siwa, Strawberry Bop was a strawberry cereal with marshmallow pieces shaped like yellow and white stars, blue hearts, and pink bows.

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Burger King Artificial Ingredient Ban Celebrity “Keep It Real Meals” 

Food AND Drink

Type of Funny Food: Event / Tie-In Product

Introduced: September 2021

Location: Burger King

To celebrate the banning of 120 artificial ingredients from the burger chain’s menu items, Burger King debuted, for a limited time, the three “Keep it Real Meals”, each a collaboration with a singer. These were The Chase Hudson (stage name Lil Huddy) Meal, The Cornell Haynes Jr. (stage name Nelly) Meal, and The Larissa Machado (stage name Anitta) Meal.

The Chase Hudson Meal came with a spicy chicken sandwich with cheese, mozzarella sticks, and chocolate milkshake, The Cornell Haynes Jr. Meal came with a Whopper, small fries, and small Sprite, and The Larissa Machado Meal came with an Impossible Whopper, small fries, and small Sprite. 

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Tim Hortons Biebs Brew

Drink

Type of Funny Food: Tie-In Product

Introduced: June 2022

Location: Tim Horton’s

A second collaboration with singer Justin Bieber, Canadian-based chain Tim Horton’s created Biebs Brew, a steeped-for-16-hours French vanilla cold brew that came in its own special plastic cup.

This also marked the return of TimBiebs, a tie-in version of the typical TimBits offering previously cataloged on the Funny Food Database!

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KFC’s Jack Harlow Meal

Food AND Drink

Type of Funny Food: Tie-In Product

Introduced: June 2022

Location: KFC

Not content with McDonald’s monopolizing the current craze of celebrity tie-in meals, Kentucky Fried Chicken created the Jack Harlow meal, a combo offering designed by and named after the Kentucky rapper.

The meal included KFC’s Spicy Chicken Sandwich, KFC Mac and Cheese (a childhood favorite of Harlow’s), lemonade, and Secret Recipe Fries, all in a special Jack Harlow bag.

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The crime is it was vanilla flavored. It didn't even taste like blue.

See, as someone who has been 'fortunate' enough to drink the blue milk at Galaxy's Edge, I'd much prefer a vanilla taste, haha.

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Mint Chocolate Chance

Food

Type of Funny Food: Tie-In Product

Introduced: December 2021

Location: Supermarkets

In a collaboration with artist Chance the Rapper, Ben & Jerry’s released Mint Chocolate Chance, a mint ice cream with chocolate fudge brownies mixed in. The ice cream came in a regular and dairy-free version. 

A portion of the proceeds earned from sales of the collaborative flavor were given to Chance’s SocialWorks non-profit to aid public schools in Chicago.