Pet Food

 Previously:

Fruit Brutes

 Far From Home Fruit Snacks  - -  Teen Titans Go Fruit Snacks  - -  Justice League Fruit Snacks

DC Superhero Girls Fruit Snacks  - -  Batman v Superman Fruit Snacks

Amazing Spider-Man 2 Fruit Snacks  - -  Iron Man 3 Fruit Snacks

Captain America Fruit Snacks  - -  Superman Fruit Snacks  - -  Super Hero Squad Fruit Snacks

Amazing Spider-Man Fruit Snacks  - - Batman Fruit Snacks  - -  Avengers Fruit Snacks

It's new fruit snack season!  Looks like snack time has gone to the dogs (I'm so funny) with the new DC League of Super-Pets Fruit Snacks.  The movie hasn't been released yet but it's already on my very short list of "Reasons to Leave My House."  Well, the movie and the fruit snacks.  

This one is under the "Funables" brand that seems to be cranking out licensed fruit snacks in their own branded purple boxes.  I don't know where this company came from but they've been on fire the last couple of years with character-based snacks including DC Comics, Nickelodeon and other popular folks.

One of their best features is the collectible cards included on each box.  I'm a sucker for the "cut on the dotted line" prompt...and that's exactly what I did.  And now I'm the proud owner of card 1 of 3.  You could say I've invested in Krypto (see, I told you I was funny).

I guess Ace the Bat-Hound and Wonder Pig (or whatever her name is) are the other two cards.  While I definitely get excited about fruit snacks, I don't think I'm excited enough to buy two more boxes of these things to get the other cards.  But while the excitement lasts, let's take a look inside the box:

Is now is a good time to mention that I'm on TikTok?  Go ahead and give me a follow for all kinds of weird food and whatnot.  

Fruit Brutes

 Previously:

 Far From Home Fruit Snacks  - -  Teen Titans Go Fruit Snacks  - -  Justice League Fruit Snacks

DC Superhero Girls Fruit Snacks  - -  Batman v Superman Fruit Snacks

Amazing Spider-Man 2 Fruit Snacks  - -  Iron Man 3 Fruit Snacks

Captain America Fruit Snacks  - -  Superman Fruit Snacks  - -  Super Hero Squad Fruit Snacks

Amazing Spider-Man Fruit Snacks  - - Batman Fruit Snacks  - -  Avengers Fruit Snacks

From the ashes of a long, dreary year of sheltering in place, comes the good news of brand new fruit snacks.  The Avengers are back!  And they're in a variety of fruit flavors!  Similar to the "Super Hero Squad," "Marvel Super Hero Adventures" was/is an animated adventure cartoon aimed at the younger audience with kid-friendly designs and age appropriate stories.  With those factors in place, a box of fruit snacks couldn't be far behind.

Flip the box over and we get more of the gang.  Apparently the show features a ton of characters but, logically, they went with familiar movie characters for the outside of the box and for fruit shapes.  Let's take a look:

  I noticed they don't list any actual flavors so we'll have to assume that colors are indicative of taste.  Hulk = Green = Lime?  Let's go with that.  Since several of these characters have been killed off of the movie franchise, this might be the last time we see them in the grocery aisles for a while so now is the tike to fill your carts and your bellies.  Eat up!

Far Out

Previously:

Teen Titans Go Fruit Snacks  - -  Justice League Fruit Snacks

DC Superhero Girls Fruit Snacks  - -  Batman v Superman Fruit Snacks

Amazing Spider-Man 2 Fruit Snacks  - -  Iron Man 3 Fruit Snacks

Captain America Fruit Snacks  - -  Superman Fruit Snacks  - -  Super Hero Squad Fruit Snacks

Amazing Spider-Man Fruit Snacks  - - Batman Fruit Snacks  - -  Avengers Fruit Snacks

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to promote a new Spider-Man movie, mankind must produce and distribute a new version of that character's fruit snacks.  To my knowledge there was no new version of the beloved gummies for "Spider-Man: Homecoming" so let's see what "Far From Home" brings to the lunchbox scene:

As of this writing, Spider-Man is dead and exists as a pile of dust on Titan...so I guess he eventually gets better.  The release of these snacks isn't exactly what I'd call a spoiler since I think we all saw his resurrection coming.  I mean, you're not exactly gonna be excited about buying faceless, formless (possibly flavorless?) fruit snacks so the return of our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man was a given.  Unfortunately his return didn't seem to warrant any new shapes.  Let's see the breakdown:

Eh...nothing we haven't seen before sadly...two Spidey faces, two Spidey poses and two Spidey webs...all of them repurposed from previous fruit snacks releases.  I understand the need to cut corners from time to time and re-use a shape or two but, c'mon!

This is the MCU Spidey!  Let's put some effort into it!  How about a Nicky Fury shape or a big Mysterio fish bowl head shape?  Seems easy enough.  I'd even settle for Ned or Aunt May.  But I guess we get what we get.  Does a fruit snack by any other shape not taste as sweet?

Teen Titans Go Fruit Snacks

Previously:

Justice League Fruit Snacks

DC Superhero Girls Fruit Snacks  - -  Batman v Superman Fruit Snacks

Amazing Spider-Man 2 Fruit Snacks  - -  Iron Man 3 Fruit Snacks

Captain America Fruit Snacks  - -  Superman Fruit Snacks  - -  Super Hero Squad Fruit Snacks

Amazing Spider-Man Fruit Snacks  - - Batman Fruit Snacks  - -  Avengers Fruit Snacks

"Teen Titans Go" is a show that exists for some reason.  It's not the Teen Titans show I would have liked but my kids love it.  They also love fruit snacks.  And a brief intro like that can mean only one thing...

The little guys have a new movie coming out and nothing pairs better with promotion than snacks so this box was there to greet me on the grocery aisle. Other than some popsicles from years ago, I haven't seen a lot of TT foodstuffs.  Which is odd since they seem like such a no-brainer to slap on a box of waffles or a nice line of steak sauces.  But we don't have any of that so let's take a look in inside:

The gang's all here including "Silkie."  And I have to admit, I have no idea who Silkie is.  I've seen a few episodes (or at least had them playing in the background while my kids watched) and I'm not sure I've ever seen him/her.  I'm assuming that maybe the character shows up in the movie?  (Feel free to not let me know, it's not that important.)

Eat 'em up while you can because both Teen Titans movies and Teen Titans food are few and far between.  Don't even get me started on the lack of Doom Patrol snacks...

Fruit Troop

Previously:

DC Superhero Girls Fruit Snacks  - -  Batman v Superman Fruit Snacks

Amazing Spider-Man 2 Fruit Snacks  - -  Iron Man 3 Fruit Snacks

Captain America Fruit Snacks  - -  Superman Fruit Snacks  - -  Super Hero Squad Fruit Snacks

Amazing Spider-Man Fruit Snacks  - - Batman Fruit Snacks  - -  Avengers Fruit Snacks

Remember when summer was when the big super hero movies flooded the cinemas?  I guess that still happens but now the fall is a contender too.  While the Hulk and Thor are bro-ing out in the MCU, the DCEU is still gasping along with their latest "this is a movie" movie: Justice League!

While the reviews aren't great, the film does have one thing that Thor: Ragnarok doesn't have:  Fruit Snacks!

Spoiler Warning: Superman is in the movie...but we all pretty much knew that already so this isn't a case of Kellogg's going "broken arrow" on the candy loving movie audience.  In a way, you have to admire the lack of any effort to conceal the Man of Steel's presence in the the film because even when you crack the box open, guess who's front and center:

I also can't help but notice who's not there.  It looks like Cyborg has taken over for Martian Manhunter in every way since J'onn usually got shafted on these type of endeavors as well.  But at least he gets his own gummy.  Let's see the chewy goodness:

Seven for seven, not bad.  They went the symbol route with everybody which is probably for the best.  I also appreciate that they didn't include a "Batman head" shape along with a "Batman symbol" shape at the expense of another character.  Very balanced...just the way a breakfast should be.

So when things look dark, overly bleak and with excessive amounts of CGI, just remember you can always find sweet relief in the grocery aisles. 

Sweet & Power

Previously:

 Batman v Superman Fruit Snacks - - Amazing Spider-Man 2 Fruit Snacks

Iron Man 3 Fruit Snacks - - Captain America Fruit Snacks - - Superman Fruit Snacks

Super Hero Squad Fruit Snacks - - Amazing Spider-Man Fruit Snacks - - Batman Fruit Snacks

Avengers Fruit Snacks

 The DC Super Hero Girls franchise has released plenty of merchandise.  In fact, Santa brought a ton of it to my daughter this past December.  But among the dolls, costumes and play sets there was a serious lacking of any food products.  I don't know what caused the delay but I'm glad it's over because I'm pleased to announce that we now live in a world with Super Hero Girls Fruit Snacks!

DCSHG has a huge cast of characters.  At one point or other, a big chunk of the DC Universe has ended up in the web series or at least in the background of the first movie.  But the main group usually consists of Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, Bumblebee and Katana with some occasional assists (for some reason) by Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn.

And it's that Fab Five that made the cover of the box and who also got bios on the back:

Each one is written in first person and does a pretty good job of introducing character traits and super powers while being personable.    Of course, they include the tried and true dotted lines for cutting out your favorite characters and staging battle scenes while snacking...this kind of thing is not done NEARLY enough.

Let's crack open a box and take a gander at the goodies:

Now I've been documenting novelty fruit snacks for a while now and it seems like lately they're making them harder to photograph/scan.  When I have time, I'll get my conspiracy theory thoughts organized.

Until then we've got the faces of Supergirl, Wonder Woman and Batgirl as well as the logos of Supergirl, Bumblebee and, I believe, Katana.  Not bad but, once again, we run into my pet peeve of doubling up on a character instead of including an additional one.  Sure, it would have been great to see Star Sapphire or Starfire or Fire but for now these will do fine.

You may also want to check out: 

Super Hero Girls Cupcake Wars!

War Rations

(Previously):

 Batman v Superman Fruit Snacks - - Amazing Spider-Man 2 Fruit Snacks

Iron Man 3 Fruit Snacks - - Captain America Fruit Snacks - - Superman Fruit Snacks

Super Hero Squad Fruit Snacks - - Amazing Spider-Man Fruit Snacks - - Batman Fruit Snacks

Avengers Fruit Snacks

 War, what is it good for?  In this instance a brand new box of Fruit Snacks.  Summer is coming and the season's theme is "heroes fighting heroes."  We've covered some Batman v Superman nosh but now it's Marvel's turn.  In preparation for Captain America: Civil War the movie, we get Captain America: Civil War the fruit snacks!

Much like Cap's last foray into the fruit snack genre, he must share the billing.  Not only does his antagonist Iron Man join him, but a few other characters show up and some even make their fruit snack debut.  Let's check out the team line ups:

Team Cap: Captain America, Ant-Man & Hawkeye
Team Tony: Iron Man, Black Widow & Black Panther

While Black Widow and Hawkeye have been on a package or two and possibly on some actual food, this is (to my knowledge) the freshman effort by both Ant-Man and Black Panther.  Welcome aboard guys!

Sequelitis

Iron Man 3 Fruit Snacks - -  Captain America Fruit Snacks - - Superman Fruit Snacks

Super Hero Squad Fruit Snacks - - Amazing Spider-Man Fruit Snacks - - Batman Fruit Snacks

Avengers Fruit Snacks

Summer is coming and with it comes the inevitable onslaught of super hero movies.  Some will be good.  Some will be bad.  Many will wisely choose to adapt their story into the media of the "fruit snack."  And the first fruit snacks of the year have arrived:

Unfortunately being the first doesn't necessarily make you the best as I'm forced to take umbrage with the lack of creativity with the shapes they chose, many of which are just repeats from the last Spider-Man movie's fruit snacks.

Despite the appearance of approximately 8,000 different villains in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, none of them made the cut and, as usual, Spidey has to pick up the slack.  Two poses, one face, two spider emblems and a web are all we get this go 'round.

If X-Men: Days of Future Past, with it's huge cast of characters, pulls this crap there will be whining!  This I swear.