If you opened up social media this morning and got jumpscared by an April Fool’s product, you would not be alone. April 1 has got to be the most creative day of the year, because these food brands are coming out with the most imaginative (and ridiculous) prank products. Some of which are actually real, much to my horror. Don’t let these brands make a fool out of you though — not all of these creations are coming to life, and that is absolutely for the best. Tread carefully as you take a look at our favorite and best food pranks from this year.
Panda Express’ Milk Machines
If you have ever thought, ugh, the carbonation of my soda really doesn’t work well with my orange chicken, then you might be sad to hear Panda Express’ announcement that they will be replacing all of their soda dispensers with milk is simply their first ever April Fool’s prank.
The soda machines aren’t going anywhere. But they are actually giving away milk! If you buy their Dynamite Sweet and Sour Chicken in store, you can get a complimentary bottle of milk.
Crumbl’s Everything Bagel Cookie
Get your breakfast and your dessert all in one place with Crumbl’s April Fool’s release: the Almost Everything Bagel Sandwich cookie. The flavor might be a joke but the release isn’t. The cookie (if you can even call it that) will be in shops today only. Whether it will be a treat or a trick for your tongue, well. That’s up to you.
OLIPOP x Goodwipes Soda-Scented Wipes
Want to freshen up your bathroom routine? Now you can’t! OLIPOP and Goodwipes have jokingly teamed up to bring you “Peaches and Cream” scented wipes that are “a revolution for your gut and butt” for April Fool’s Day.
Pickle Oreos
It wouldn’t be an April Fool’s Day without a pickle-flavored prank, so feast your eyes (and your tongue?) on Oreo’s pickle-flavored fudge-covered cookies. That’s a mouthful, as will be these cookies because they are in fact real and available to order today only. Now, whether that mouthful is good or not is a different story altogether.
Baskin Robbins’ Ice Cream Soup
Baskin Robbins is saving you the trouble of waiting for your ice cream to turn into a puddle with their (pretend) release of a revolutionary product: ice cream soup. While you won’t actually be seeing this product on the shelves, honestly, we’d try it. Ice cream is ice cream, just saying.
Carbone x Califia Coffee Creamer
What is coffee creamer but breakfast pasta sauce? Said no one ever. Savory coffee creamers might just be my next greatest nightmare, brought on by Carbone and Califia’s April Fool’s coffee creamer — Spicy Vodka Almond Creamer. Salty, spicy, tomato-y. What more could you want in your morning cup of caffeine? Thankfully, this one is just a joke.
DOLE Scented Air
Forget DOLE Whip, because DOLE Whiff is(n’t) here! Less is more, right? Why buy a can of fruit when you can buy the smell — the mere essence — of Dole’s fruit? That’s the essence of their April Fool’s Day prank product, anyway.
Butterfinger x Top Ramen Noodles
Sweet and savory is the name of Butterfinger and Top Ramen’s April Fool’s Day prank: Butterfinger flavored noodles. “Complete” with a peanut butter sauce and chunks of the candy bar to stir your noodles in, this prank sounds like something Buddy the Elf would be really into.
Cane Sauce Coke
Coca Cola and Raising Cane’s heard you Cane’s Sauce lovers say you want to drink the sauce and created Cane Sauce Coke — bottled Cane’s sauce, available in multiple sizes — just for you! April Fool’s. The Mckenna Grace cameo almost had us convinced though.
Cup Noodles Curling Set
Cup Noodles knows we’re jealous of her curls, so they’ve decided to tease us and our lesser-than hair game with a heatless curling set for April Fool’s Day. It’s just not fair, Cup Noodles.
Almond RAGE
If any of these pranks made you mad, maybe what you need is an Almond RAGE, Almond Joy’s April Fool’s candy bar filled with a spicy, nutty mixture. Because how can we be Almond Joy-ful when pickle-flavored Oreos exist?