Doctor Who: 11 Utterly Bizarre Toys & Merch You Probably Missed
5. Doctor Who Food
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When a TV show that has probably only featured anyone eating a handful of times in 50 years (not including Jelly Babies) manages to generate branded food, you know its sold out. Fortunately there are only two instances of this that I am aware of: the first is Doctor Who Spaghetti shapes, which I can live with, as even I have memories of consuming vague representations of characters' heads in pasta form as they swim within a sea of orange tomato sauce. And secondly was Doctor Who Frubes. A Frube for those who dont know is yoghurt in a squeezable tube. How on earth did they manage to put a Doctor Who twist on a yoghurt in a tube? After all, it is just fruity viscous fluid? Cant shape it in any way? What on Earth did they change? Nothing! The Doctor Who Frubes were exactly the same as normal Frubes except it had a Dalek, David Tennant and a Weeping Angel on the box. They could have potentially coloured the yoghurt green and called it Dalek slime or something, but no, they went with Sonic Strawberry or Strawberry to give it its proper name. Whats amazing is that these Frubes generated a 32% increase in sales - that said, Weetabix made a similar marketing ploy in the seventies, so what do I know?