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Nathan’s Famous, which is famous for their hot dogs and annual Fourth of July spectacle of gluttony Joey Chestnut show hot dog eating contest, has teamed up with Inventure Foods to offer crunchy snacks inspired by Nathan’s menu board.

If Inventure Foods sounds familiar, they should be since they’re the same folks who made these and all the T.G.I. Friday’s snacks.

The Nathan’s Famous snack lineup includes cheddar cheese, chili cheese, and honey mustard flavored crunchy crinkle fries. It also includes crinkle cut potato chips. Surprisingly, there aren’t any hot dog flavored snacks, so you can’t hold a Nathan’s Famous hot dog-flavored snack eating contest next Fourth of July or whenever you like.

The Crunchy Crinkly Fries come in two- and 3.5-ounces bags and will retail for $1.99 and $2.19, respectively. Nathan’s Crinkle Cut Potato Chips will be available in 1.25-ounce bags and have a suggested retail price of 99 cents to $1.29.

Are you frustrated you can’t get three stars on a particular level of Angry Birds? Well, you could vent by punching an Angry Birds plush doll, tackling someone dressed up as an Angry Bird on Halloween, or you could violently chomp on the new Angry Birds Fruit Snacks and Gummies from Healthy Food Brands.

The naturally and artificially flavored chewy treats are shaped to look like the characters from the Angry Birds game and each character has their own flavor.

The cherry flavor is shaped like the basic, useless red Angry Bird, the lemon flavor is the yellow Angry Bird that’s great for destroying wood, the raspberry one is shaped like the small blue Angry Bird that splits up into three birds and is great at destroying ice, the apple one is shaped like those damn pigs who keep stealing the eggs, the grape flavor is the black Angry Bird that turns into a bomb, and the strawberry flavor is the larger red Angry Bird.

Angry Birds Fruit Snack and Gummies are made with fruit juice and are fat-, nut-, and gluten-free. Angry Birds Fruit Snacks come in 2.25- and five-ounce bags. Angry Birds Gummies are available in 3.5-ounce theater boxes and five-ounce bags.

Update: Click here to read our Pumpkin Spice Eggo Waffles review

I hope the new Kellogg’s Limited Edition Eggo Pumpkin Spice Waffles aren’t good. Because if they are, I’m going to WANT them throughout the year, just like I’ve been YEARNING for the Limited Edition Pumpkin Pie Pop-Tarts ever since I ate my last one over 365 days ago.

The new limited edition Eggo waffles have a “flavor inspired by autumn.” Those inspirational flavors are pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger. Each box comes with 10 waffles and they’re a Target exclusive available at Target and other fine stores. Here’s someone’s review of these seasonal frozen waffles.

A serving of two waffles has 210 calories, 9 grams of fat, 2 grams of saturated fat, 3.5 grams of polyunsaturated fat, 2 grams of monounsaturated fat, 380 milligrams of sodium, 60 milligrams of potassium, 29 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 6 grams of sugar, 22 grams of other carbohydrates, 4 grams of protein, 20% vitamin A, 10% calcium, and 25% iron.

If you’ve tried them, let us know what you thought about them in the comments.

Yoplait’s Smoothies have been around since 2009 and I gave them a extremely positive review. Although it wasn’t my intent, I thought the high scores would’ve encourage Yoplait to send me yogurt for life or, at least, a beautiful woman in a French maid outfit armed with a Swiffer to clean my place, but that didn’t happen.

Anyhoo, Yoplait expanded their smoothie line with a Chocolate Banana flavor. Each package contains chocolate flavored frozen yogurt pieces and bananas. Just pour everything into a blender, pour some skim milk, blend, and in no time you’ll have a refreshing chocolatey smoothie filled with live and active cultures and 50% of your daily recommended amount of calcium.

Each package makes two 8-ounce servings and have a suggested price of $3.49. A serving using skim milk has 130 calories, 10 calories from fat, 1 gram of fat, 0.5 grams of saturated fat, less than 5 milligrams of sodium, 80 milligrams of sodium, 23 grams of carbohydrates, 15 grams of sugar, and 6 grams of protein.

When I first heard about self-serve butter dispensers at movie theaters I thought, “Finally, I can grease up my popcorn like they’re the bare chests of Chippendales dancers.” With these dispensers, I could use a little butter or I could drown pieces of popcorn like I’m celebrating Lobsterfest at Red Lobster.

Orville Redenbacher’s is also allowing popcorn lovers to flavor their microwaveable popcorn with as much seasoning as they want with their new line of Orville Redenbacher’s Flavors.

The new variety is offered in individually wrapped bags of microwave popcorn with a separate powder seasoning packet, and come in three flavors: White Cheddar, Extra Cheese, or Sea Salt and Vinegar.

Orville Redenbacher’s Flavors retails for $1.19 to $1.29 for individually wrapped, single 3.24-ounce bags and are now available at selected retail outlets.

Source: Orville Redenbacher’s website