Super Mario Bros. 3 Fruit Snacks

I cleaned out my closet a few years ago and found this box of Super Mario Bros. 3 fruit snacks that date back to around 1990/1991.  As bizarre as of a find as the box was, there was even an open package of fruit snacks inside of it!

The fruit snack pieces have shrunk over the years and turned into amorphous blobs, which is why I didn’t include any close-up shots of them here.  Instead, here is the side panel of the box that shows the various pieces that were included:

There also was a “save the princess” game that ended in 1991 where, if you found a blue princess Toadstool fruit snack and mailed it in, you could earn an “I Saved the Princess”  t-shirt.  Or, you could just cheat and send in 4 UPCs.  Remember the days when S&H was 75 cents?

I wonder how many people actually had blue princess pieces and ate them in the dark, in a big handful of fruit snacks, or were unaware of the promotion.  Any candy contest where variations of the pieces are the winning determanants makes me wonder.