You know what I haven't had in a while?

[monster]

Originally Posted by DanaC

*frowns* now I need to know.....what's inside the whoppers?

Well they look just the same...... but taste like barf and aren't crunchy enough and the chocolate is, well... h**sheys.....

[monster]

Originally Posted by DanaC

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[eta] They ain't what they used to be in fairness....more like what has a piece of hazelnut in every other bite?

Squirrel shit

[DanaC]

lol haven't heard that one in years Monster haha. Thanks for the quick trip back:P

Zero bar.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

Along the same lines, the so-called prizes in Cracker Jack these days are beyond lame. The last one I got had a couple US President Trivia Questions. Oh, besides that, I don't think there was more than one peanut in the whole damned box.

I am not troubled by the peanut deficit, as I was always in it for the caramel covered popcorn. For years I've thrown my candy-coated peanuts to the squirrels so that they will get cavities, their teeth will fall out and they will die. I consider it a public service.

I agree on the toys. I got a "pencil topper" and some thing with really crappy folding instructions that was supposed to make a mouth for a ducky on one side and a moo cow on the other. I didn't get it. I want the compass and the dragonfly viewers back! Even those little packs of food dye tattoos and the little goofy notepads were better than the current version. And whatever happened to the fortunes on the toy packet?

[Clodfobble]

It's because freaking everything comes with a kids' toy these days--seriously, a pack of AA batteries recently came with a random-ass little promotional toy car (that wasn't even battery-powered!) They can't compete without seriously upping the toy budget, so they've stopped trying.

You, as adults, think that a compass or dragonfly viewer would be cool. I can tell you with certainty that my stepkids would, at best, just sort of stare indifferently at something like that, and at worst would outright scoff at how it didn't even move or make noise.

On the other hand, I don't know any kids that eat CrackerJacks anymore, only adults. So maybe they're aiming at the wrong market after all.

[wolf]

I bought a pack of Duracell Batteries (I prefer Eveready) because it came with an adventure whistle.

I'm a sucker for free toy inside this box.

(I am guessing that Cracker Jack lacks good toys today because of the choking potential, although not one of my friends died because they were stupid enough to inhale the mini compass in a tire.)

Your step children must be in some way damaged that something as cool as a dragonfly viewer would not excite and entertain them. I bet they don't like kaleidoscopes either. Or that ping-pong paddle thing with the ball on the long piece of elastic attached to it.

[Perry Winkle]

I had Cracker Jacks as a kid, but they always tasted like shit, so I'm not sure what the big deal is. Maybe they're like Twinkies. Or maybe I'm just spoiled by homemade carmel popcorn.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Perry Winkle

homemade camel popcorn.

I mis-read and the mind boggled.

:we need a camel smiley: I'll just have to use a different type of hump meanwhile

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by wolf

Your step children must be in some way damaged that something as cool as a dragonfly viewer would not excite and entertain them. I bet they don't like kaleidoscopes either. Or that ping-pong paddle thing with the ball on the long piece of elastic attached to it.

Correct on all three counts.

[bluecuracao]

This could just be an urban legend, but I seem to remember someone telling me that when he was a kid, he once had a box of CrackerJack that was missing the prize. He was so disappointed that his mother wrote to the company, and they responded by sending him a whole package full of prizes.

[SteveDallas]

Why not? It probably put the company out what, 15 or 20 cents?

[Sundae]

My parents found what they thought was a piece of bone in their croissants from Sainsbury's (one of our Big Four supermarkets). Apparently testing revealed the hard object to be a piece of fruit stone, not bone, and they didn't accept that the object necessarily came out of the croissant. But as a gesture of goodwill my parents received vouchers totalling far more than the croissants cost.

These days people would probably just sue

[BigV]

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

Why not? It probably put the company out what, 15 or 20 cents?

HIGHLY unlikely. I can remember being told by our operations manager at a different company that it costs them (the company) about $140 to pay a bill, by the time you add up what it takes for each employee to handle their part of the process.

I found that number unbelievably high, but it did point out to me that it costs a lot of money to run a big company. Their cash flow is like a river compared to my babbling brook.

[LabRat]

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