Prize in cereal

[twes36]

Growing up, I remember buying a specific brand of cereal just for the prize. I miss that. I have 5 different boxes in my pantry an no prize. I also miss having 都ugar in the name of my favorite brand - except Lucky Charms.

 

[oosik]

Growing up I had hot Oatmeal. Not many prizes. Surprisingly, I still like it. As a kid I don't remember kids cereal nor prizes. Different times, different places.

 

[spitter]

Bring to mind scene from 1941 when hollis p woods [slim pickens] found a compass in a box of cracker jacks and swallowed it so a lost jap sub couldn't attack Horry Wood.:laughing::laughing::laughing::drink:

 

[Thomas]

twes36
Growing up, I remember buying a specific brand of cereal just for the prize. I miss that. I have 5 different boxes in my pantry an no prize. I also miss having 都ugar in the name of my favorite brand
................................
Your ageing yourself.

 

[MossRoad]

My kids are 21 and 26. They both had cereals with prizes in the box. They still do that. The prizes aren't like pocket knives or handguns like they used to be, though.

 

[Alan W.]

Growing up I had hot Oatmeal. Not many prizes. Surprisingly, I still like it. As a kid I don't remember kids cereal nor prizes. Different times, different places.

We got plastic glasses in our oatmeal packages when I was younger. I think I still have one of them.

And also I remember the prize would be in the cereal itself so ya had to dig into it or pour it out to find it. They call that a choking hazard today, mom just called it a mess.

Come to think of it there were a lot of prizes other places, whistle with the Keds shoes and every service station offered sumthin with a fillup.

 

[DrRod]

I remember getting little Nike missiles in Trix [I think]. They had a spring loaded launcher and really worked well -- better than a lot of toys you might pay for. They had a couple of segments and came in a random mix of red, white, and blue pieces. Hard to believe that there was a time when you could get operating military hardware in your cereal. There is a Nike in front of the VFW in Orbisonia and I think of those toys every time I go by it.

 

[fried1765]

Growing up I had hot Oatmeal. Not many prizes. Surprisingly, I still like it. As a kid I don't remember kids cereal nor prizes. Different times, different places.

You don't remember prizes in cereal boxes?
I sure do!
Are we in a wildly different age group?
I thought not.
78 here.

 

[oosik]

EEEKKK - my God, there is actually somebody older than I. fried 1765 - I'm 76. There PROBABLY WERE prizes in the cereal boxes. My folks simply wouldn't buy the stuff for me. No kids cereal, no soda pop, VERY little candy. I never had a meal of "junk food" till my senior year in High School. I was playing football at an away game. We won- the coach treated the team to a meal at the local hamburger joint. There WAS another life......... My dad was a biologist/scientist - he always said - most of that "stuff" is not good for you. Too much sugar, too much stuff with names we can't even pronounce, etc.

My folks weren't mean - just 50 years ahead of their time regarding kids nutrition.

 

[RobS]

I grew up with 3 sisters. To keep things fair, our mother would put all the prizes into a "prize bag". On rainy days, or whenever she needed to control us, she'd let us pick from the prize bag. Pretty ingenious if you ask me!

I also remember saving box tops and sending away for premiums. My favorite was a plastic model of the Boeing 747 at the time of its original launch (and now I'm dating myself).