Cereal With Prizes

I remember the Oscar Meyer Wiener Whistle!

 

I'd like to go back to a time when potato scallops weren't as small as my palm and when I asked for 3, I'd get 5.

 

i remember the plastic records and the frogman ..and the baking soda submarine ..

 

yup i remember and remember getting both of those. the frogman of course worked the same as the submarine. there was like a cup being the base of one foot and you put baking soda in it to make it work. the record, if i remember right, was so thin it was like a piece of plastic paper, was square until you cut off the corners, and only had groves on one side.

 

i actually remember when more then half the boxes of cereal in the store were not over sugerfied with gimicy kid toy names to them.

i'm not saying those didn't exist yet, but they weren't the majority and they weren't the majority of what anyone bought either.

 

They still had prizes when I was a kid but they were pretty lame. Even as a kid I knew it was cheap crap.

 

Cracker Jack doesn't have Prizes anymore. They have Surprises instead

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cracker_jack

 

It is funny you mention cracker jacks today. I bought a 3 pack of them this weekend, and it is the first time I have had them since a child......I remember plastic cute toys as prizes......now, they are a sticker that isn't even pretty that you can register on the internet.......wow......I heard when there were little metal prizes.....went to plastic and now there is paper ugly stickers.....

taste of cracker jacks is still good, though.

 

Correction...now cracker jacks is just the caramel coated popcorn and no peanuts.....at least in the box I opened so far........even though the box still says caramel coated popcorn and peanuts......and I have a box in front of me and it says cracker jacks has been around for 120 years. I wonder what the very first prizes were....gold?

it says now on the box about the prize...."and, now the fun you can carry to your smartphone"......so I don't even understand that.......do i put the stickers on my smartphone? or register them somewhere? I would not put these stickers on anything....

 

my little portable monaral record player had all three speeds; 33.5, 45, and 78.

 

And there were the Proof of Purchase seals you could collect and send away for a prize.
It wasn’t as much fun as the instant gratification you get with the prize inside.

You'd wait endlessly for the prize to arrive in the mail; then think WTF I waited this long for this cheap piece of crap.





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