{"id":6187,"date":"2011-06-26T19:54:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T01:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamesanityblog.com\/?p=6187"},"modified":"2011-06-26T19:54:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T01:54:43","slug":"super-mario-fruit-snacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/26\/super-mario-fruit-snacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Mario Fruit Snacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So we were at the grocery store today and I saw this: Super Mario fruit snacks. Of course I had to buy them. You know you\u2019re popular when you get your own fruit snacks. So let\u2019s take a look at what these are.<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s the box.<\/p>\n

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Looks like there are six shapes, although it\u2019s hard to tell on some of them. You have Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, a Koopa turtle shell, Toad, and a Star. No, the Star one won\u2019t make you invincible when you eat it, but it is nice that my favorite Mario character, Toad, made it into fruit snack form. They don\u2019t taste very good either, which is strange because as a kid, I used to love fruit snacks. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s an age thing, or they really are getting worse. Anyone remember Garfield fruit snacks? Those were really good and there wasn\u2019t another brand of fruit snack that tasted quite like those.<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s what\u2019s on the back of the box.<\/p>\n

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Mario Sudoku?!? I\u2019m actually surprised Nintendo hasn\u2019t made a game of that yet, given the popularity. The puzzles were pretty easy, too. I didn\u2019t even need to cut out the pieces! Seeing as though these fruit snacks were made by Kellogg\u2019s, I wonder if Mario cereal or Pop Tarts are next. Personally, I\u2019d rather see food products based on Kirby or Zelda or Metroid. How about you?<\/p>\n

You know, it\u2019s not the first time Mario was made into a fruit snack. Back when I was a kid during the NES and SNES heyday, both Mario AND Zelda got their own fruit snacks. I remember them tasting better than these new ones, too. They also had a contest in those that if you found a blue princess shaped fruit snack, you could sent it in and get a T-shirt that said \u201cI saved the Princess.\u201d I\u2019m not making this stuff up, folks!<\/p>\n

Another unusual Mario food item I remember as a kid was Mario fruit flavored sodas. Anyone else remember those? They were in little pony-sized cans and came in four flavors. Mario Cherry, Luigi Berry, Yoshi Green Apple and Princess Toadstool Pink Fruit Punch. I drank tons of the green apple one during one summer.<\/p>\n

Yeah I know, I\u2019m a freak. I promise the next thing I write about will be a real game review. –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So we were at the grocery store today and I saw this: Super Mario fruit snacks. Of course I had to buy them. You know you\u2019re popular when you get your own fruit snacks. So let\u2019s take a look at what these are. And here\u2019s the box. Looks like there are six shapes, although it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}