Nintendo And Lunchables Are Giving Away Nintendo Switch Prize Packs (US)

You get pizza Lunchables over there? I was lucky to get a couple of crackers with crap ham and cheese on them.

Lunchables... sugar filled processed garbage, just what kids need to get them through the day.

@kingbk HEY! It gets me through day. Them fightin' words.

Main catch is you have to buy Lunchables.

@nessisonett As someone who grew up on the pizza ones through the first half of elementary school, let me assure you: you aren't missing much.

Nintendo: promotes health and well being with wii fit!

Also Nintendo: partners with food company of questionable quality!

MYSTERY MEAT NINJA APPROVED (that sounds a little weird, sorry)

How to start the road to obesity and diabetes early...

@OstianOwl I have to admit, even the ‘appetising’ photo on the front of the box isn’t selling it.

The alternative is Doritos and/ or Mt Dew. I guess Lunchables is healthier.

@kingbk You clearly have never had a pack during your childhood...

“Win 1 of 750” does not mean you have a 1 in 750 chance of winning. It means there is 750 prices and you can win one of them, but there might be tens or hundreds of thousands of boxes with this promotion. So there’s a way smaller chance of winning than 1 in 750.

Today I learned that Lunchables are still being made and sold.

UK: Cool Amiibo and other merch in their My Nintendo Store.
Japan: RPGs in their Switch Online (which I was able to download with a Japanese account, but still. It's in Japanese.)
US: lUnChAbLeS sWeEpStAkEs

Contests like these are always weird, because (in the U.S. at least, aka contests like this one) they're legally required to allow free, non-purchase raffle entries to skate around gambling laws (the ways to obtain the free codes clearly outlined on the contest site, as it usually will be).

So you're competing just as much, if not more, against the hordes of coupon clippers and bots than the people actually putting in codes from the boxes.

I won't say no one ever wins these sorts of things, though. One of my relatives once won a chain restaurant promotion for a free Playstation VR headset for entering codes on the food receipt (they didn't have a PS4 at the time, so that actually prompted them to get one so they could use their prize).

@CactusMan CACTUS NINJA CACTUSMAN APPROVED

While it looks like absolute garbage that is likely to be hideously overpriced relative to the quality of its contents (and should be deemed unfit for consumption, especially by the children it is marketed to), I would have killed for something like this during my primary school days. Most days, I only had a "fun size" portion of chips, a popper (US: Juice box), and a Nutella sandwich (which I especially hated), and when we were having our house rebuilt, we opted for even cheaper, no-name equivalents to save some dosh. Needless to say that most of my Nutella sandwiches went in the bin, as guilty as I felt each and every time (but I didn't have the face to ask for anything else ).

@Poodlestargenerica : "Naturally and artificially flavored!"

A very common combination of words that I see on the packaging of imported American "food".

At least they're forthright about that, I suppose, but I find that, generally speaking, the U.S. equivalent of processed foods available in Australia are vastly inferior and contain far more synthetic chemicals.

I also noticed that the pictured Lunchables box contains a Crunch bar, which is owned by the especially revolting Nestlé. I must question Nintendo's judgement in collaborating with awful "food" companies (such as McDonald's) and media personalities whose ethos are not aligned with Nintendo's family-friendly image, especially with respect to products aimed at children.

I’ve never had a lunchable, am I lucky or missing out?

@Poodlestargenerica I’ve never had bologna actually, I was on the lookout for some recently in the UK and we don’t seem to do it at all. Think the closest is polony which is a Polish version of it.

I remember when Lunchables were new.

And appealing.

Ok, mostly just new.

@nessisonett I don't remember pizza ones existing. I'm not sure I'd like to know about them. The ham and cheese ones tasted like I imagine a hairball coughed up by a cat tastes though, so that may serve as an indication of what the pizza ones taste like.

Imagine making hot dog patte. That's basically bologna.

@Silly_G What could you possibly have against a chocolate hazelnut spread you sub-human animal! It's pure bliss in a jar!

@NEStalgia : But EVERY day?! On stale bread?

I often forgot to eat (or discard) my sandwich before the summer holidays, only to be greeted by a pile of mouldy sludge at the bottom of my backpack 6 weeks later. Noice.

During our no-name brand phase, we were opting for a supermarket-brand Nutella imitation, which I recall being significantly oilier (and I disliked even more than I had already disliked Nutella). I certainly don't miss my childhood lunches, EXCEPT the highlight of my week (usually on a Thursday, from memory) where I would sometimes be given lunch money to order chicken nuggets. I can still remember the smell and crunch like it was yesterday. THAT was my childhood bliss.

It's not that I hate Nutella per se, but my childhood memories induce a wee bit of post-traumatic stress at the mere sight of it, however yummy a Nutella cake or frappe might be, if only I could bring myself to break the mould (pun fully intended).

Now go away, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper!

Time to start eating Lunchables for a switch I can sell for $200….haha jk….unless?

@Screen You are absolutely NOT missing out.

Lunchables are horridly unhealthy...taste like crap...can you imagine eating cheese, cold cuts, and crackers that have been sitting on a shelf for months or yearn? SHUDDERS

@Baircade you left out "hypertension."

Have you ever seen the sodium content of one of those so-called "Lunchables?"

By the time you win, you would of already paid for the prize if you bought it alone incl the 1k prize..

I don't know what you guys are talking about, but I still enjoy a pizza lunchable. They're still delicious and taste of nostalgia.

These things are still made? Wow.

I kinda feel bad for the west, I genuinely cannot imagine eating this processed *****

I have never felt as much joy as I felt when I saw a Splatoon 2 Lunchable at Walmart yesterday.

I've hated Oscar Meyer as long as I can remember for some reason.

Never tried Lunchables, I'd give it a go.