for holidays. Flavors may include: Spooky Nerds, a Halloween variety featuring fruit punch (white) and orange flavors. Frosty Nerds, a Christmas variety featuring watermelon (green), cherry (red) and fruit punch (white) flavors. Valentine Nerds, a Valentine's Day variety in a miniature box featuring mixed strawberry (pink) and fruit punch (white) flavors. Hoppin' Nerds, an Easter variety featuring pink rainbow and blue rainbow flavors. Nerds Cereal, a now-discontinued breakfast cereal that, like the candy, featured two separate flavors in a box (Orange and Cherry/Grape and Strawberry). The cereal came with a mail-in offer for a Nerds cereal bowl, which also could be divided in two, like a standard Nerds box. Nerds Gum consisted of pieces that looked like regular Nerds, but were actually bubble gum. The box featured a Nerd floating away with a bubble gum bubble coming out of its mouth. Dweebs, now discontinued, were a soft, chewy version of Nerds. Released in the early 1990s, Dweebs contained three separate flavors rather than two. Dweebs were available only for a very short time, however. Neon Nerds were introduced in 1996 and came in Pinktricity, LightningLime, and Electro Orange flavors. They are still sold in Australia and New Zealand. The LightningLime flavor was only sold in the UK, according to candy expert Jason Liebig. Nerd Jelly Beans, produced for Easter, are jelly beans with a coating of carnauba wax, which makes them taste like Nerds. Wonkalate, a UK-only chocolate bar, which, aside from its purple color, contained snozzberry-flavored Nerds. Nerd Blizzard, a Nerd milkshake offered from Dairy Queen. Now discontinued, Nerds plus soft serve ice cream was not a popular match (this combination can still be found at DQs throughout Minnesota, however). Candy Nerds Slushes, a variety of the Candy Slushes offered by Sonic that feature Nerds. Nerds Gummy Clusters, bite-sized gummy balls coated in Nerds. Throughout the 1980s, several new flavors of Nerds were introduced from time to time; for example, "Hot and Cool" Nerds (cinnamon and wintergreen flavored), blueberry and raspberry, banana, lemon and lime, and Cherry Cola. Trivia According to Laurnie Wilson, "Some say that [Nerds were] named after a reference in the Dr. Seuss Book, If I Ran the Zoo, where a 'nerd' is mentioned as one of the creatures the narrator would collect for his zoo." Wilson also mentions the invention of the now-discontinued Nerds cereal. He points out, however, that "you can eat Nerds pretty