Wrestling Memories: WWF Food

Wrestling Memories WWF Food

The talk of these new WWE Ice Cream Bars has really got me thinking about the wrestling-related food I used to enjoy back in the day. I know that many people have fond memories of the WWF Ice Cream Bars, but I never had them as a kid and to be honest, I am not even sure you could get them in the UK, if you could I never had them. I always remember seeing advertisements for them in the WWF Magazine and wishing I could have one! While I never had those, I did have some other WWF food as a kid.


The first one I want to talk about is the WWF Crisps/potato chips. My school actually sold these in the tuck shop and I bought a packet every single day they were available. I loved the Undertaker ones and also enjoyed the Macho Man ones, but I never even tried the Bret Hart ones as I hated pickled onion Space Raiders so no way in hell, I was trying those! This would have been around 1992 time that these were available if I remember right.



There was also this WWF SuperStars Cereal around the same time which was freaking amazing! When I was looking online for pictures, I noticed that there were many different boxes, but the only ones I ever got as a kid (or remember) had Hulk Hogan or Ultimate Warrior on the box. You got a free mask on the back of each box and if I remember rightly there were two different masks to collect. This cereal was not only cool because it was WWF cereal it also tasted great! My mum would never in a million years eat something like this, but she would always comment on how nice it smelled. It was this caramel flavor and as I write this, I can just picture the taste right now!



The next thing I am going to talk about is this WWF Bubblegum that was available for what seemed like forever where I went to school. You got a little piece of bubblegum that would lose its flavor after about three seconds. However, each piece came with a WWF Sticker. I had these all over my school books and would trade them with my friends at school. While the picture I found online has British Bulldog on the wrapper, I remember there being many different wrestlers. These were super cheap at the time so I would usually stock up whenever I saw them.



There very well could have been wrestling food-related items here in the UK after this, but I never experienced them. Actually, it was not until I went to work in the USA in the summer of 2001 that I would get my next bit of WWF food. Now my memory is kind of fuzzy here, but I got these nuts that were BBQ flavor and they had some kind of WrestleMania promotion on them. I looked and I looked, but I could not find a picture online the fact I cannot remember what brand they were or anything like that. In 2002 I was in a comic/collectible store here in the UK called Forbidden Planet and they had WWF Chocolate Bars. They had a few different characters, but the one I bought was Chris Jericho, the chocolate was super cheap tasting, but it sure as hell was not cheap to buy as it was £1.50!



Also in 2002, Burger King did a promotion with the WWE here in the UK. I do not remember what all the stuff was, but I do know that I got this plastic cup that had The Rock on it. I used it to keep my toothbrush in until one day I noticed it was starting to get moldy and gross so I had to throw it out. Burger King also did a promotion many years later where you got this little wrestling buddy thing, I have an Undertaker one somewhere when you press it, you can hear a 2-second clip of his music.


The last two wrestling food items I remember are biscuits. One I cannot find any information about these anywhere! This had to have been around 2002-2004 and they were sold in a store called Tesco. They were WWE chocolate biscuit bars and they were called WWE Snack Down. If I remember right, each packet had a different wrestler on it. Wagon Wheels also did a promotion where you would buy a pack and each one would have a different wrestler on it.



I really regret never keeping the packaging for these food items. I kept that Chris Jericho Chocolate Bar for years and then it just vanished! I would love to know what WWF/WWE food-related items you had over the years. I bet you guys in the USA have had tons of stuff over the years not to mention many fast-food tie ins!