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New Article: The Amazing Bag O’ Crap!

Well, this one is different. The latest article reviews one of my recent finds, the infamous Bag O' Crap. Found at a thrift store a few weeks back, it's a giant Ziploc bag filled to the top with cereal premiums, toys, candies, and other novelties from the 70s and 80s. A lot of the stuff was cool enough to be worth mentioning, but still too small for their own reviews. This article lumps it all together -- 49 different mini-reviews and pics, all trapped in one giant picture. You'll see what I mean, enjoy! I will never try this again! Enjoy! The next article hopes you're hungry.

Posted by Matt on 01/07/2004. E-mail me!

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The Burger King "Aladdin" toy that you have no clue about was a "Magic 8 Ball" for the poor kids. What you did was stick the stickers on the smooth side of the spinner, giver ‘er a twirl while you ask the Genie your question, and with the warmth of your hand or breath or whatever is handy, his lamp will reveal the answer to your question much like the "Magic 8 Ball." Provided many answers to the questions of the universe concerning a 5th or 6th grade kid (such as, "Does he like me?" and "Will I pass this stupid test I can’t study for cuz I’m playing with this toy?"). Yeah, great fun, fond memories. Ah, how I miss my fortune telling Genie.
I hope that helps, Matt! Thanks for letting us explore your bag o’ crap with you!

Chestnuts roasted by Alycia @ 01/09/2004 12:27 PM

How many more people are going to say that’s the Fortune Top? The Top was a cereal giveaway, not a Burger King giveaway. I think it was in Golden Crisp, or Honey Comb or whatever. I have the ad itself on tape to prove this. It’s on a Garfield and Friends tape, to bring the subject back to Garfield. ^_^

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 01/09/2004 2:54 AM

I am no longer able to chew Big Red Gum. I chewed it so much as a kid that I developed an allergy. If I try to chew it now the inside of cheeks swell up so much that it’s difficult to close my mouth. It sucks, because I REALLY REALLY like Big Red Gum. It took me a while to realize that it was the gum that was doing it, too. Kinda sad on my part. Kinda sad that I thought I needed to share that.

Chestnuts roasted by KodaK @ 01/09/2004 12:23 PM

wow , i remember at least half of whats there
its incredible man ,
kudos on the article matt

Chestnuts roasted by Xhay @ 01/09/2004 2:27 PM

Matt, absolutely fabulous bag ‘o crap you got there! I remember having some of that junk. Loved reliving it

Chestnuts roasted by Dana @ 01/09/2004 3:56 PM

Wow. That "Who’s the real Capt. Crunch" contest brings back many memories. I won a Game Boy from that contest. Thing is, I didn’t even know I won until one night when I found a package in front of my back door of my house. I wonder how long it had sat there for…

Dean

Chestnuts roasted by Dean @ 01/10/2004 12:25 PM

Is the blue thing the Chik-Fil-A chicken?

Chestnuts roasted by TEd @ 01/10/2004 2:51 PM

About the Chiclets, there aren’t a "multitude of languages" on there as Matt said. Just one language: Spanish. So the Chiclets probably came from Mexico, meaning they’re not as old as they look. A lot of fairly new Mexican packagings look straight out of the 50s; it’s weird.
Anyway, the boxes pictured just say Chiclets Chewing Gum. One is Tutti Frutti flavored. The other one I’m not sure but it looks like the pack says "Sabor Yerbabuena."

If that’s the case, Congratulations Matt, you now own a pack of Mexican Marijuana flavored Chiclets. Hold your head high and be proud.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 01/10/2004 6:12 PM

Where can I get some Marijuana flavored Chiclets?

Chestnuts roasted by OtherMatt @ 01/11/2004 3:51 AM

I’m probably to late for anyone to read this, but yes crowbar, I remember the candy spachship containers of powdery death that connected together. Purple, red, blue and such. Wierd spaceshipy designs with "male" and "female" parts to plop them together and a black screw on cap. They also had fruit shaped ones that didn’t connect. The plastic chewed really well. My favorite was the one that seemed like a typical saucer, but it only had like two points of conectiness.

Chestnuts roasted by spooky @ 01/13/2004 4:26 AM

You dated the article 2003.

Chestnuts roasted by Incorrrect year observer @ 01/16/2004 12:31 PM

The other one I’m not sure but it looks like the pack says "Sabor Yerbabuena."

Minty flavor.

I still have that Capt’n Crunch spinner laying under the corner of my bed. Yeah, I guess I should clean under there…

I also used to have the plastic Batmobile, but I have no idea where it went

Chestnuts roasted by marril159 @ 01/20/2004 10:11 PM

The mystery bird/turtle thing is an inexpensive Japanese charm which you can find at Asian curio shops, grocers, malls, etc. You can find them pretty easily where I live (Hawaii). The two large kanji in black read "choju" ("long life"), and it’s not actually a swan but a crane. Both cranes and turtles are Japanese symbols of longevity. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle!

Chestnuts roasted by Just A Lurker @ 01/25/2004 11:56 PM

I used to have a gazillion of those Krispie poppers. How I loved them- I distinctly remember playing with them for hours (although I would much rather not remember). I also had the Krispie’s Truck. And I love Matt- who but he would actually buy AND write about a bag of crap?

Chestnuts roasted by Ryah @ 01/26/2004 10:47 PM

Killer Duck is right; the playing cards with the General Mills characters on ‘em came from a promotional deck with Old Maid rules. My grandma had the deck in that ubiquitous Games Closet that all good grandparents would keep for their grandkids when they came over to visit.

There was another deck with numbers on the cards, too, so you could play Crazy Eights.

Chestnuts roasted by Spatch @ 01/27/2004 3:31 AM

Matt, great article. I wonder how some people have so much luck in finding treasures like your bag o’ crap. In regards to the Chiclets, those are the packages that the homeless street waifs in Mexico try to sell you as they besiege your car right before you cross the border. The package translations are: Goma De Mascar=Chewing Gum, Sabor Yerbabuena=Spearmint Flavor, Sabor Tutti Frutti=Tutti Frutti Flavor. The vendors are actually rather ruthless in the hawking of their wares, so those tiny packages of chewing pleasure probably cost 100 waifs their lives. So now you know that the burden and stigma of bloodshed taints your bag o’ crap.

Chestnuts roasted by shinymetallic @ 02/05/2004 11:04 PM

That "mohawked tyrannosaurus" is in fact a herbivorous dinosaur belonging to the "ornithosichian family" and it’s called corythosaurus. The mohawk is actually a crest made of bone. I was outraged that you actually thought it was a T-rex with a mohawk!! Have you tried chewing it? It looks like it would taste like orange – orange the colour, not to be mistaken with orange the fruit.

Chestnuts roasted by Machinegun Willy @ 02/22/2004 12:43 PM

Your Garfield pencil toper is not the only kind they have made i have a garfield orange standing up and when you push its tail its mouth opens!

Chestnuts roasted by Some Guy @ 04/21/2004 4:51 PM

You can still get those "Six Pack" soda sand thingies. My sister buys them all the time and gives me the lemon and grape ones. The bottles look identical to the ones in the bag, exactly the same. Also, I should go through my garage sometime and mail some crap to Matt. A 50 gallon roughneck tub filled to the top with old mcdonalds/burger king/KFC ect toys. I’m not kidding.

Chestnuts roasted by EhhEff @ 06/05/2004 2:12 AM

Hey that hose guy

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0856/junk/2.html

was a fire fighter I think, I had some when I was a kid and there were red and white ones in various poses (like the little green army men).

Chestnuts roasted by Mr King @ 06/21/2004 9:01 PM

i think whoever owned this bag first was a roots version of whoever runs this site … collecting the best (worst?) of pop culture crap … except he/she had no place to share all his/her glorious proof of american consumerism gone awry …

Chestnuts roasted by drasticDub @ 06/25/2004 5:23 PM

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