This unusual treat was mailed to us over 13 years ago by a fan of our group. This is how it looks today. If anyone knows anything more about the story of Creme Filled Boopers, let me know. Are they still being made?
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This unusual treat was mailed to us over 13 years ago by a fan of our group. This is how it looks today. If anyone knows anything more about the story of Creme Filled Boopers, let me know. Are they still being made?
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14 users commented on " Creme Filled Booper "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackDon’t eat it!!!!
I don’t know, but Googling the name brings up dirty pictures. Come to think of it, Googling nearly any word brings up dirty pictures.
Does that thing look like a flattened Twinkie, or what?
I say, draw straws and make someone in the ‘band’ eat it, then make them write down the resulting thoughts, feelings and sensations.
I hear a concept album!
After some research, I discovered that BeeBo Creme Filled Boopers are now known as Blue Bird Creme Bingles, made by Flowers Foods (NYSE FLO.)
This seems to be the only known photo of the Booper.
An exerpt from Wikipedia:
Flowers also has a large snack cake operation, which is also distributed by other bakeries and snack distributors under many brands. Many of the cakes are similar to Hostess and Dolly Madison. Formerly, its main snack cake brand was BeeBo, whose mascot was a teddy bear. Teddy bears or dolls were at times made of both BeeBo and Miss Sunbeam as promotions. Cakes were sold in many areas beyond where Flowers itself operates, under brands such as “Aunt Hannah” and “Mountain Farm”, and several brand names purchased from acquired companies. Cakes were also distributed with a Sunbeam cake label Flowers printed for other bakeries who held the Sunbeam franchise in their respective regions. It was also used by Flowers itself before the BeeBo brand was created). Local distributors often used their own brand names, such as “Lady Linda” or “Betty Jane” in the New York City area. Today, Blue Bird is the main company cake brand, and Mrs. Freshley is the widespread third party distribution brand, which can be found in many vending machines across the country.
More recently, the company has entered the Hispanic foods market, with the Mi Casa tortillas and Tesoritos snack cakes.
This is the greatest picture of anything that I’ve ever seen on the entire internet (including pornography).
I saw a creme-filled booper back in 1993 in some gas station in the South, and my friends and I have been making jokes about it ever since. We’ve all been on the lookout for one, but maybe we’ll have to turn our attention to Bingles instead.
I cannot tell you how happy you have made me. Please, do not eat it – save the beauty for future generations.
I was with Jim from above on said roadtrip. 15 years of searching for some reference to the Creme Filled Booper have come to fruition. You’ve made our year.
Please, please, if you wind up opening and/or sampling the delicacy, you _MUST_ let us know immediately. We have been speculating on the consistency and other properties of the “Creme” for so long.
Hey, this is Mark from Negativland. I am so glad this has made your year. The Creme Filled Booper was in my office on a shelf, sitting undisturbed, for most of the 13 years we have had it, before it was posted here. It’s so old and cheap that the plastic wrapper actually has deteriorated, letting air into the CFB package. But fear not! The CFB is made from so many synthetic materials that it will outlast its wrapping and has not gone moldy at all. It has only crumbled a bit, as you can see in the pic. It has, however, become completely solid, so any sampling of the CFB at this time would not give us much of an idea as to its actual taste and consistency. I hope you are not too sad about this. But if you find a Bingle and eat it, let us know what it tastes like!
BTW, I am quite proud and excited to learn that we have the only known picture of the CFB on the entire web! Truly, this is another parakeet feather in our many feathered Negativland cap.
Beebo!!!
hahaha! I, too, have been searching for this thing ever since I sampled one in the early nineties. I cannot believe that something has finally come up!
This was so long ago, but I remember it very vividly because both my friend and I shared in this experience and laughed about it for years after. Upon initial visual inspection, it came across to me as a “crème-filled, twinkie taco-like pastry” (you know, resembling a hard-shell type taco shell made from corn), which appeared quite inviting, but boy was it ANYTHING but after I tasted it. It actually tasted pretty decent upon first bite, but every bite thereafter compiled into a horrid, NASTY taste that I cannot even begin to describe. I expected the twinkie-like outer shell to taste as such, but it didn’t. I don’t know what was different, but I do know it didn’t have that moist, foamy-like, tasty consistency that one has come to expect from the outer portion of a twinkie. The crème was the same story as well. The main reason I ate one was because I, like millions of others, find twinkies pretty tasty. It only made sense at the time that this seemingly larger, crème-filled twinkie taco-like pastry was going to be HEAVEN. WRONG!!! It was so bad that I ended up spitting out the 2nd or 3rd bite and threw the rest away. I then made my buddy try one, and what a MESS that was! hahahaha .. I think he drew the same conclusion as me from his experience. Guess this is why the Booper never lasted and why we haven’t heard much about it since. I think the odd-ball nature of this pastry, and of course the name, are the only things that have given this “train wreck†staying power. Thanks for the post!!
I can smell that tight weave blue pile in the background, is that swatch lining the CFB’s permanent shrine, or is it a temporary centerfold backdrop?
I don’t mean to rain on your parade Efram, but you could use a healthy shot of Windex on your monitor. Make no mistake about it, the CFB is obviously nestled on a fine example of royal blue Terrycloth which matches the regal font on the label.
For others wishing to quell their rightful curiosity as to the taste of the CFB, I personally invite you to visit Noah’s Cafe in the Creation Museum Cafeteria Zone. At Noah’s Cafe, we serve the best in stay-fresh pastries while providing an all-to-rare look into the actual brief history of the planet we call “Earth”.
Anyone who would like to receive a free CFB at Noah’s Cafe need only quietly approach a waitress and say:* “Eat this in memory of me”. It is not necessary to kneel and open your mouth, as the Creation Museum is not really a church.
God Bless you,
Dr. Relf Seferencing,
Safety Docent, and newly appointed Cafeteria Curator.
The Creation Museum
Petersburg, Kentucky.
*This offer is valid for a limited time only.
amazing i ate a booper out of a snack vending machine while working late night in a psychiatric hospital in galveston texas in 1991.
we liked the name and soon used it to describe/name underage teen mothers.
i.e.
“we’ve got a booper in room 3, her water has broken and she is crowning, we need to take her to the delivery room”
Geez, I sent you that back in ’95 I think. I was camping in Sherando, Va. and found it at a local store. I either mailed it from there or back home in Arlington, Va. I’ve been a fan since the 80’S. Just watched the Hitchcock episode with Darren from Bewitched and the infamous “Tommy” sample from Big 10-8 Place. I’m a ham and there is a guy from lower VA on 40M who goes by Booper.
Earl Thomas
Oh and the Booper by BeeBo is no longer made. BeeBo was a trademark used by Flowers Family Bakeries. Here is a link to a trademark site showing a similar product with the Beebo trademark. 1-2 stupid, 3-4 dumb 5-6 idiotic 7-8 setpe sate?
Earl-W3SQE
http://www.trademarkia.com/beebo-bear-paws-73615462.html
I would like to see a clear picture of the bear on the wrapper as my sons nickname was because of this bear…His nickname is Beebo and to this day we still call him that & he’s 22 yrs old. His dad who has passed on is the one who came up with the nickname because my son had soft hair on top of his ears and it reminded him of the bear on the wrapper because of his fuzzy ears.
Finally! Someone has heard of this product! I worked in a grocery store, and remember this snack as being kind of a stale pancake, filled with an imitation banana flavored white fluff. I believe that the name on ones that we sold was Beebo’s Banana Boopers. So, now I know that this wasn’t merely some dream or hallucination from those days.