Tender Vittles was a brand of semi-moist cat food manufactured by Nestlé under the Purina name. The cat food was previously made by Ralston Purina Company, which was purchased by Nestlé.</p>
As of March 2007, the Tender Vittles product line was discontinued and abandoned by Purina in the United States but was relaunched by Retrobrands USA LLC. Tender Vittles is currently for sale in Wal Mart.
In popular culture
1987 - Tender Vittles Cat Food - Try a Little Tenderness Commercial - A well-dressed cat performs during a formal dinner. The feline adapts Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness to confront the difficulties endured by "can opening cat owners". Fortunately, he...
- In the Futurama episode 3ACV11 "Insane in the Mainframe", Bender suggests that Fry retire on Tender Vittles after Fry spends all but $6 of his retirement fund on scratch and sniff lottery tickets.
- In the Futurama episode "That Darn Katz," the leader of the hyper-intelligent cats says that when they first came to earth, during the time of the Egyptians, they became domesticated because the Egyptians provided them with "feasts most fancy, and vittles most tender," in reference to Fancy Feast cat food and Tender Vittles.
- In the Venture Bros episode "Operation P.R.O.M." Sgt. Hatred states that he got his previous tattoo removed, except for the area over his equatorial region, stating that it's "Tender Vittles down there".
- In Berkeley Breathed's comic strip Bloom County, the character Bill the Cat was described as being addicted to getting high from snorting and free basing Tender Vittles.
