Sugar Bombs

 are food items found in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
Sugar Bombs are packaged in a white and blue box with a red ovoid logo at the top. They are fully labeled as "Sugar Bombs breakfast cereal." Numerous promotional posters can be found posted on walls about the wasteland, touting Sugar Bombs' "explosive great taste!" Some posters also state that a "free Captain Cosmos decoder ring" is inside select boxes, but no such item exists in either game.

The cereal pieces themselves are modeled after Mini nukes.

Fallout 3
In Fallout 3, Sugar Bombs are one of a number of mildly useful food items found throughout the Capital Wasteland which provide only a small amount of both health and radiation when consumed. Compared to other food items, Sugar Bombs are somewhat rare, something which factors into the unmarked quest Murphy's Bombing Run.

Murphy's Bombing Run
In Fallout 3, Sugar Bombs can be traded to a ghoul named Murphy in Northwest Seneca Station for use in crafting Ultrajet. He will pay you 15 caps for each box of Sugar Bombs that you bring him, and an extra 15 (for a total of 30 caps) with a speech check. For each 8 boxes of Sugar Bombs brought to him, Murphy will also sell the player one Ultrajet.

Fallout: New Vegas
Within Fallout: New Vegas, Sugar Bombs are now individually distinct from most other "basic" food items. The most obvious difference is that they now provide a limited boost to the player's maximum action points, similar to chems like Jet or Rocket. Comparatively this boost is small, but stacks with other similar effects while not carrying any risk of addiction.

Come Fly With Me
Chris Haversam at the REPCONN Test Site can be convinced to sabotage the plans of Jason Bright and his followers. If he is, he will ask the Courier to obtain a number of ingredients to use in sabotaging Bright's supply of rocket fuel. One of the three types of items the Courier is asked to obtain is a number of boxes of Sugar Bombs.

Other uses
Sugar Bombs are used as ingredients in several crafting recipes:


 * Mushroom Cloud
 * Trail mix
 * Flamer Fuel, Homemade

Locations
Apart from appearing randomly in refrigerators and similar containers, there are numerous fixed locations where Sugar Bombs are certain to appear:

Purchasing
Sugar Bombs are available for purchase from the following vendors, in varying quantities:

New Vegas:
 * Cliff Briscoe of Dino-Bite Gift Shop in Novac. (9 Boxes)

Fallout 3:
 * Doc Hoff after you invest caps for his caravan.
 * Eclair and Knick Knack in Little Lamplight.
 * Gary Staley of Gary's Galley in Rivet City.
 * Jenny Stahl of The Brass Lantern in Megaton.
 * Joe Porter of Dot's Diner in Canterbury Commons.
 * Margaret Primrose of Cafe Beau Monde in Tenpenny Tower.
 * Karl of The Family in Meresti Station.

Appearances
Sugar Bombs appear in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas

Behind the scenes

 * The words "sugar bomb" is a pop culture phrase meaning a food with little or no nutritional value.
 * Sugar Bombs are probably a reference to "Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs" from the popular comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. It is Calvin's favorite cereal and it is mentioned that there may be a marshmallow flavor as well.
 * Sugar Bombs are also seen in episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, usually when someone is eating breakfast.

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