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R/neopets: r/neopets is the place to be without fear or scorn by TNT! Press J to jump to the feed. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Nov 19, 2019 In a world catered to youth, it made sense that the highest currency was expressed in the form of highly fat-saturated, cutesy food items, many of which children fantasized about but were not allowed to have. So, as Neopets turns 20 and transitions from desktop to mobile, I’ve taken on the challenge of recreating some of its iconic food items.

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By Category: Pets/Petpets

There are 31 avatars in this category.

Robot Vandagyre / Guide

Visit the pet lookup of a Robot Vandagyre with a Robot-coloured petpet attached to your active Neopet.

Released: June 19, 2019

Good Day at the Bank / Guide

Deposit Neopoints into your bank account on your active Neopet's birthday. You will receive a Neomail notifying you of receiving the avatar instead of seeing an event. As a shortcut, you can create a Neopet, as the day its created will also count as its birthday.

Released: August 29, 2018

Wocky - Snow Day

Own a Snow pet that is 100+ days old and visit its lookup.

Released: December 12, 2005

Draik - Hatched / Guide

Take your Draik (as your active Neopet) to the Draik Nest.

Released: September 9, 2005

Blumaroo - Fire!

Own a Fire Blumaroo with a fire painted petpet that is 30+ days old, and then view its lookup.

Released: August 8, 2005

Ruki - Mummified / Guide

Own a Halloween Ruki with a 30+ day old Mummy Baby and view its lookup.

Released: July 29, 2005

Tuskaninny - Spotted / Guide

Have an item in your inventory with the word 'spotted' in its name and visit the lookup of your tuskaninny.

Released: July 12, 2005

Quadrapus / Guide

Have a Quadrapus attached to your pet for 60+ days and then view your pet's lookup.

Released: June 29, 2005

Ghost Krawk / Guide

Have a Krawk as your active pet and go to the Fungus Caves.

Released: April 15, 2005

Lenny - Wicked / Guide

Feed your Lenny any Spooky Food.

Released: February 11, 2005

Snicklebeast / Guide

Have a Snicklebeast attached to your pet for 61+ days and then view your pet's lookup.

Released: February 9, 2005

Huggy / Guide

Have a Huggy attached to your pet for 99+ days and then view your pet's lookup.

Released: February 8, 2005

Harris - Hi / Guide

Have a Harris attached to your pet for 99+ days and then view your pet's lookup.

Released: January 24, 2005

Drama is not tolerated. Mark NSFW posts/links accordingly. Be excellent to each other. Que e neopets.

Island Quiggle

Own an Island Quiggle that is 30+ days old and view its lookup.

Released: June 14, 2004

Grundo - Forever Orange

Own an Orange Grundo and visit its lookup.

Released: May 5, 2004

Grey Wocky - *sigh*

Own any Grey pet and visit its lookup.

Released: April 14, 2004

Gruslen / Guide

Have a Gruslen attached to your pet for 99+ days and then visit your pet's lookup.

Released: April 7, 2004

Bless you, Shoyru. / Guide

Bless your pet Shoyru with a Weak Bottled Faerie.

Released: April 2, 2004

Mazzew / Guide

Have a Mazzew attached to your pet for 221+ days and visit your pet's lookup.

Released: March 10, 2004

Pink! / Guide

Feed your Pink pet anything with the word 'popcorn' in it.

Released: March 9, 2004

Kacheek Swim / Guide

Have a Kacheek as your active pet and take it to the Beach.

Released: January 29, 2004

Elephante Surprise / Guide

Feed a Bag of Peanuts to your Elephante.

Released: January 16, 2004

Whee! / Guide

Have a Snowbunny attached to your pet for 364+ days and then view your pet's lookup.

Released: December 3, 2003

Slorg / Guide

Have a Slorg attached to your pet for 100+ days and visit your pet's lookup.

Released: November 24, 2003

Mootix / Guide

Own a pet with a Mootix attached to its petpet and visit your Quick Ref.

Released: November 12, 2003

Werelupe

Own a Halloween Lupe and visit its lookup.

Released: October 27, 2003

Jetsam Chomp! / Guide

Feed your Jetsam an Aquatic petpet. (Ghoti, Kelpflake and Dartail are some cheap ones.)

Released: October 16, 2003

Coconut Jubjub / Guide

Own a Coconut Jubjub and feed it a Tropical Food.

Released: October 1, 2003

Feed Me / Guide

Feed a skeith any item with the word 'skeith' in it. (A Skeith Juice Cocktail is a cheap one.)

Released: September 25, 2003

Angelpuss

Have an Angelpuss (or a Devilpuss) attached to any of your Neopets and refresh at the Quick Ref page. This avatar is random.

Released: September 4, 2003

Meowclops

Have a Meowclops attached to your Neopet and visit the Quick Ref page.

Released: August 18, 2003

In the beginning, there was Adam. This is true for two things: the Earth, according to the Old Testament, and the website Neopets. In November 1999, Adam Powell and his college friend (and future wife) Donna Williams launched the animal-based gaming site, Neopets, which he says he first conceived of as a way to “keep university students entertained.” Over time, Neopets morphed into the vivid, twee universe that allowed its all-ages users to adopt pets, dress them, play arcade games with them, and interact on forums. At its peak, it boasted over 44 million users. Today marks the platform’s 20th anniversary.

Some years after its inception, 11-year-old me created a Neopets account on my family’s home computer. Under its whimsical facade, Neopets offered a trial run for life, allowing its users to act out caring for a pet, running a shop, and building connections. Through chat rooms, users were able to interact as if we were all adults, no matter our real ages. As a pre-teen, singing up felt a bit like biting into the forbidden fruit, a post-lapsarian pursuit. Immediately, I became consumed. I exchanged real-life playdates for the chance at earning one million Neopoints, waved away birthday parties to submit to The Neopian Times, and wholesomely catfished an unassuming British woman (for friendship!). The experience left its mark: I spelled the word “fairy” wrong for years because the website stylizes it as “faerie.” My parents were concerned enough by my latent hobby to take me to a hypnotherapist. It didn’t work.

These days I vaguely—almost dreamily—remember scrolling through Neopets forums, playing slot-machine-like games for luminescent prizes. What holds, what sticks to my brain like pasta on a ceiling, is one of the most inconsequential yet quietly-present elements on the website: its food. Neopets’ gastronomy was essential to the game. Users often made a pilgrimage to a massive cheesy omelette situated on a prehistoric plateau, collected glazed doughnuts from hanging trees, and waded through ice cream formations. In a world catered to youth, it made sense that the highest currency was expressed in the form of highly fat-saturated, cutesy food items, many of which children fantasized about but were not allowed to have.

So, as Neopets turns 20 and transitions from desktop to mobile, I’ve taken on the challenge of recreating some of its iconic food items. Each one could all be labeled grotesque—a term that appropriately encompasses the mysterious, fantastic, and incongruous all at once. But what follows is a tribute to the bizarre and ill-fitting Neopets food, commemorating a time of pubescence during which many of us held similar characteristics.

The Chocolate Corndog - r86 (Rare)

For this one, I double-boiled chocolate and slathered the goop onto a store-bought corndog. After it had settled, I gave in and took a bite. The texture was like a french fry left out in humid, hot air..left a lot to be desired.

Apple Tree Broccoli - r92 (Very Rare)

It’s basic-looking, but somehow this one evoked a kind of Americana nostalgia. The cherries bopped around like tire swings under a tree. I didn’t try it, since the broccoli was raw and the cherries were held up by glue gun strands.

Blopple - r101 (Special)

The Blopple was incredibly hard to make. It required pushing apple slices into slime and pressing herbed pizza dough into the base of the 'sculpture.' If anyone ever wants to Phantom Thread me, though, I give you permission to feed me bits of Blopple.

Marshmallow Omelette - r101 (Special)

The omelette is a piece of Neopets iconography ingrained in any early Neopians’ mind. The website offered over 103 different varieties of omelette, all based on its prehistoric-style world, Tyrannia. I ended up trying this one. My friend joked that I was underplaying the experience, shrugging “It’s not that bad, I guess,” while casually shoveling bites into my mouth. Whatever. Most desserts are egg-based anyway.

Checkered Carrot - r62 (Common)

This one was the party trick of the bunch. It looks cool, but just involves a painted a carrot and some spinach leaves.

Neopets Food List

The Bullseye Creme Pie - r68 (Common)

I thought the creme pie would entail the fairly simple task of layering on whipped cream and food coloring on a crust. A turkey baster later, my kitchen was splattered in a thick hot sauce-milk-dye concoction. Would not recommend.

Faerie Floss Cocktail - r101 (Special)

Neopets Food List

Finally, my giant martini glass found its true purpose. The Floss Cocktail was the easiest of the “faerie” foods to make, which is why I chose it. It’s comprised of sparkling mineral water, glittery food dye, and a Trolls Doll tail.

The Aquaberry - r160 (RARITY 160)

I would be remiss if I omitted the Aquaberry from this series. One of the rarest pieces in Neopian lore, its worth has ranged from 390,000 Neopoints to 142,000 Neopoints over time. Its real-life iteration was made it by freezing a sprig tucked inside a water balloon. The description reads, “this beautiful berry is actually considered a parasite to many farmers because of its tendency to steal water from other berries.”

Immersing myself into a universe I’d long forgotten was disorienting, like re-learning the rules of an old card game. At the same time, making these foods brought me squarely back to a space of giddy joy, similar to what I imagine I must have felt playing Neopets. There was an innocence and ease to dropping globs of chocolate on a corndog, or swirling glitter inside a giant martini glass.

Neopets has always been a reflection of our “real” world (though much more colorful and forgiving). It was where many of us first learned social contracts, figured out how to exist in the world. Doing the opposite and physically manifesting pieces of Neopets into my regular life felt unusual. Bringing these odd foods to life made me want to engage in purposeless curiosity more often—and also might have given me a slight stomach bug.

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