Two bucks for a fruit pie that will put out doesnāt sound so bad.
Hostess going toes up a bit ago opened things up for all the local bakeries.
I get either the Safeway store brand or Franz both of which are way cheaper and just as tasty. The hostess ones last I had them were quite devoid of filling and a letdown anyway.
Well, thatās it, then. It might as well be Fiddle Faddle!
It has been so long since Iād had Cracker Jack that I had no idea it was mainly sold in plastic bags now, rather than boxes. There is more to this than nostalgia. The idea of packaging a snack in a disposable plastic wrapper is no longer something that I can support. My need to snack is never so great that it outweighs the problems caused by introducing yet another plastic product into the waste stream.
Itās really hard to avoid coming across as somewhat preachy by saying this, but this is the first thing I look for when I buy something, especially something as ephemeral as food. How is it packaged? The less plastic the better.
In 2027, the prize will be a barcode which unlocks your own personal virtual world the size of Neptune with 18 highly detailed intelligent races and continents full of exotic ecosystems and ancient ruins but FUCK THAT I want a plastic ring with a fake emerald.
As a collector of āthingsā and a lover of travel, I can honestly say that I agree with you regarding which is superior.
But still ā¦ as a collector of things, I wish I still had the tiny plastic aircraft carrier that shot even tinier jets via rubber band launcher that I got from a package of sugary cereal circa 1969. 
Oh, man.
We visited our Aunt Gloria one summer, and she bought sugary cereal for us, and THAT was the prize. I figured out how to put it together and she called me an engineer. Promptly lost one of the planes in a hot air register.
Hobbits? Wait, no.
HA! I remember getting that same joke book.
Count yourself lucky. I blinded my mom with a jet, and my little brother choked to death on the aircraft carrier.
I once got a little plastic submarine that would dive and resurface from a box of cereal.
The makers of Playboy and Cracker Jack will have something to talk about while they polish their resumes.
And then Chex dropped the mic of digital prizes by including a CD of Chex Quest, the greatest adventure ever known. A total Doom conversion, it was far and above the most entertaining of the digital prizes I ever got.
Captian Crunch, and the baking soda submarine
I never understood how CrackerJack was allowed to have stuff in it but Kindereggs were banned for sale in the USA because of that exact reason long ago
My grandmother collected those for years, and I started my own little collection a while back when I noticed Red Rose was still doing it, since I like to drink tea at work.
They quit didnāt they? You can still send away for them with proof of purchase but no longer in the box.
Pretty sure the box Iām going through now had a figurine in it, and the one before it definitely did; maybe my grocery store has some old stock (yikes)? Itās honestly not the greatest tea, so if I have to start mailing in for the figures Iāll probably give it up.
