Cereal With Prizes

Remember when..
Cereal boxes actually had tangible prizes in them? Remember anything cool you got? Let's see... I fondly remember color changing spoons from Trix cereal...

 

You used to get a plastic Submarine in cornflakes when I was a kid

 

wowza

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baking_powder_submarine

 

they don't do that anymore? i haven't eaten cereal in years, and i was never really a fan of any of the cereals that had to bribe you with toys to get you to eat it. but i assumed it was still going on.

 

Stinkbug..

 

i miss the prizes :'(

 

i just remember oatmeal and rice cripies...and corn flakes

sometime weetabix (i still love that stuff)


we were poor and never got the fancy sugar cereals with prizes

 

No prize for you! lol

I remember cracker jack prizes, we didn't eat store bought cereal back in my day.

 

My brother would dig his hand in the cereal to get the prize.

 

I remember having to eat the cereal first before getting whatever prize was in the box... No digging allowed. Naturally the toy would be at the bottom of the box. I don't remember what any of the toys were though.

 

Does crackerjack still have prizes?? - For that matter..does crackerjack still exist??

 

absolutely remember getting a package of Chiclet's gum in cereal.....the captain crunch had those charactars but finding an actual captain was hard


http://image.timepassagesnostalgia.com/watermarked/imagesf6/f603crunch2x10.jpg

 

This is emotional for me to recall...

When I was about 7, I got a molded plastic Winnie The Pooh out of a box of cereal. I loved that little bear!

I had to change to a new school that I felt very alone and scared in so Mom let me take the little bear to school with me.

At recess, I was standing on the playground clinching the little bear in my hand, all alone. Suddenly, a neighborhood dog ran up the hill to the playground and came to see me! I was so happy to have a friend that I put the little bear under the dogs collar to give it a ride...

The damn dog ran down the hill with my precious little bear on it's collar! He ran down the street and never came back with my bear.

I cried and cried.

It left a scar.

I'm going to buy a replacement bear for myself.

 

awwwwwwhhhhhhh

 

Crcker jacks boxes used to have prizes, too. I wonder if when they first started, they were real bronze tiny things and stuff like that...
Now, you have to get kids happy meals at McDonald's to get prizes. a neighbor kid I once had used to go to all of the MacDonald's in a 30 mile radius to try to get the full sets of prize things.....

 

got some mighty fine plastic treasures right there

 

This reminds me. I don't remember if I got in a box 'o cereal or sent off for it, but I had an Atom Bomb ring. An actual ring to wear. Wish I still had it. Late 40s, I think.

 

had one of those several times when i was little. cornflakes or whatever it was they came in. that was like wow, almost 60 years ago i remember playing with that in the bathtub.

i remember the little plastic magic decoder rings, and there a little reeses puffs stock car,
i think i've got two of them. made in china, 2008 tcb, mfd for gmi it says on the bottom.
oh and it says cheerios on the back.

so i guess they still make those things and do that. i don't usually get the stuff with sugar in it. i really don't like the taste of most of them.
i prefer to put my own chocklet and coffee and get the large bags of generic kinds, when i can find the unsugared ones.

 

I totally remember these spoons! I LOVED my color changing spoon. I used to keep it in the freezer...