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Sonic the Hedgehog Food of the USA
The USA had a pretty good collection of Sonic the Hedgehog related food items. Well, technically, most of them were candies or gums. They also (mostly) had the benefit of good flavors and wise choices. As usual, a lot of these were tied in with various promotions or contests. But some were just for fun.
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3 Franco American Pasta Cans of the Ages
Probably the most noticed, and longest running Sonic food was a pasta...product. These canned non-noodles and meat substance were made by Franco-American. They were sold for years, and were widely available at almost any super market in the canned items isle. As you can see, the label evolved THREE times over the course of Sonic's design! The design of the cans did not vary much with the meatball/non-meatball content. The noodle shapes did not change, only the labels differed. I only own the can on the left. Photo credit to Juni.
2 Pasta Can Labels with Contest & Comic offer For most of the run of the pastas, they had a contest of some kind. The earlier one had "Sega Scratch N' Screamstakes" where you could win games, game systems, money or large arcade consoles.

The later pastas carried an Archie Comics offer for a limited time. Look how the meats are flying around on the speedway!

Wish you could taste some of this Sonic pasta, but missed the run in the stores? Just buy a regular can of someone's Franco American pasta shapes and eat that. They all taste exactly the same.
Sonic Hedgehog Shaped Bubble Gum Display Box These Sonic Bubble Gums were available in 2 different containers, as you can see. They were sold seperatly, or you could buy a 2-pak later on. These were by Topps, and available at places like Blockbuster Video, and other places with minor "Candy Counter" type areas.
Gum Containers & Bag Package
The Sonics are full of little rattly pink gum pellet like things. They only came in Bubble Gum flavor, and the pellets are a hard-type gum. Look at the art on the package...that is a distinctly Japanese type style of old-fashion Sonic. You can still run across these guys on Ebay, but not frequently.
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Sonic Life Savers Packs with Knuckles Promo Around the time of Sonic & Knuckles on the Genisis, Sega had a contest, and Life-Savers candy, as well as Fruit Stripe gum got in on it with their candy wrappers. Not sure what the contest was...if you remember, write in. This event also contained a re-release of the above-mentioned rattly gum holders.
Life Savers Sega Sonic 3 Contest Packs At the time there were several kinds of life-savers candies, including "Hot Rings" which are shown here. These were cinnamon flavored. If you think about it, it's actually pretty logical to have a Sonic/Sega contest on a ring-shaped candy! You can read the package, it says "Win Sega Now" which...tells you really nothing about the contest because it is impossible to 'win sega'. Merchandise though, is the best guess.
Photo by Alessandero.
Sonic X-Treme Ice Cream Blue Bunny Bar This is a Sonic Ice cream bar or pop. It is extremely rare, because it was made to honor a game that never came out, Sonic X-Treme. It is not known whether this is a re-packaging of the previous "Sonics head shaped Ice cream bar", or a totally different item.

Naturally, you can't buy one, as it would be impossible to ship a frozen good. This also renders them nearly impossible to collect. These were made by Blue Bunny Ice Cream. It says "Bubble Gum" but then it also says that it is "Blue Raspberry & Cherry". Bit of a conflict there. Somewhat like Sonic attempting karate or whatever "x-treeeem" thing he's doing on the wrapper.
Artists Rendering of Sonic Ice Cream Ooooh here is a picture of the head-onna-stick! I bet you were intensely curious as to just how goofy it looked. Well now you know. This is not an actual photo of the item, but the artist's pic they use to advertise the bar on trucks/freezers etc. If a real photo arises, it will appear here as well. Wonder what the eyes are made of...Thanks to a fan, we know they are sweet bubblegum balls! (I guess you're supposed to eat them last)
Sonic X Ice Cream Packaging
Once Sonic X arrived, they changed the packaging.
The bars that you can get now, are wrapped like this. As you'll see, the gums are now green to reflect the change since Sonic Adventure 1. They've also made the flavor list a bit more accurate, with "Blue Raspberry & Cherry"--though it only really tastes blue raspberry--so say reports. Photo credit: Rae_Logan
Sonic Ice Cream Head Photo Ah, and here's the actual bar itself.
Not quite like the above picture, is it? Actually, it is a bit scary! The eyes are not on the white, the spikes are completely missing, his nose is smoohed and the color is 'bleeding' onto the wrong areas. I guess it must be hard to create good likenesses in ice cream...so what prompted them to try Sonic? He's a bit difficult just by nature. Still, perhaps the quality varies depending on melting etc...?
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The ice cream trucks had them ever since the animated series started in the States and had them till Summer 2007 A note: it's usually the older ice cream trucks that carry stuff like the Pink Panther ice cream and the Great Whitesickle, as well as candy, that has the Sonic ice cream. The new trucks, like Schwan, don't have it. Submitter is from California, so you can be positive at least CA has a ton of those Sonic ice creams still for sale.
The previous ones (as in the art) had black gum-ball eyes to be accurate to early-Sonic. It is reported that these did not taste good. The ice cream has always tasted like blue-raspberry, not bubble gum or cherry. Photo by Rae_Logan
Is this a caramel?
More to come! Be sure to watch this space for photos of the Game Gear gums & cards, the original Sonic ice-cream pop, chocolates and more!
Original Sonic Game Gear Gum Box Black Game Gear gums! Yes, they were sort of an ad for game gears, but they all had something Sonic on the 'screen'. These are moulded plastic boxes, with flip up lids (see the dotted line?) The first ones were just black, (Like the real system) but later they branched out Game Gear Gum & Cards Set
Purple Game Gear Gum Box Sonic Knuckles and did a whole variety of colors, such as purple, aqua, greenish and pink. As you can see, they updated the graphic to Sonic & Knuckles as well. Thanks goes to MCRG for the purple photo here!
A collectible inside a collectible! Each GG Gum came with some cardboard trading cards, made to look like game boxes. Each one had tips for the game on the back.
But what about the gum? This is the food page, after all. It is a plain bubble gum, of good quality. The gum was actually in large sheets as shown above, about the size of the cards. They were not wrapped, and so were heavily powdered. This also causes the cards to smell like gum. The card at the top says there are 14 different cards in the set, representing 4 different games. Does anyone have a photo of all the cards?