Comments on: Mmmmm … novelty food items

By: Paul Mison

Paul Mison — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:00:54 +0000

The greatest example of this would be the sale of Duff beer. In Australia in the early 90′s a brewery sold Duff beer without a licence and after legal action all cans were destroyed. They did manage to sell a few though a retail on ebay for over $120 a can (unopened). I knew i should have bought some at the time.

By: mikey

mikey — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:07:59 +0000

yeah, i remember that Mario Bros. movie…i think John Leguizamo played Luigi.awful. or was that the tv show with the cartoons interspersed with host Cap’n Lou Albano as mario?…my geekdom is failing me today…

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:38:32 +0000

The biggest novelty food items of my pre-teen years that I remember buying into was the Nintendo/Mario Brothers craze. Around the time of the release of Super Mario 3 in 1990 or so, they had Mario cereal, Mario fruit-snacks, and Oreo did a SMB3 content which caused me to actually believe I liked Oreos for awhile. Their biggest gimic of all was the realse of the movie, “The Wizard”, starring Fred Savage. In it, Savage and his youngr brother traveled to a video game contest. With the movie, Nintendo got to product-place SMB3, the Power Glove, and brainwash all of America’s youth into thinking Nintendo and movies could mix. Anyone remember the ill-fated and poorly received live action Mario Brothers movie starring Dennis Hopper and Koopa and Bob Hoskins as Mario?

By: John Brown

John Brown — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:08:10 +0000

My aunt has an un-opened 6 pack of “Billy Beer”. She won’t part with it. How much is it worth I wonder.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:45:50 +0000

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/simpsons-contest.htm

Springfield, Vermont – not Virginia – won the Simpsons’ contest.

By: heather

heather — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:49:05 +0000

In honor of the movie, they named Springfield, Virginia as the official home of the Simpsons. I think they even mention it in the movie, too.

I’d be a little worried about the 4077 bear, since a running gag in the show was how old and disgusting the food was.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:57:18 +0000

This isn’t really about a novelty beverage, per se, but your post brought to mind a type of malt liquor I once sampled that had a rebus puzzle inside the cap. I’m thinking it was Haffenreffer Private Stock, but am not certain.

By: natlynn

natlynn — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:17:47 +0000

My Squishee tasted eerily similar to a Slurpee….

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:16:33 +0000

My dad actually has an unopened six pack of 4077. It’s sitting on his bar, he also has an IV shapped margarita dispenser, also from M.A.S.H.