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08/28/2005: Mountain Berry Punch Kool-Aid! (Cereal, too!)

Buncha buncha updates. First up, the Kool-Aid Section inducts Mountain Berry Punch, one of the true powerhouses of the lot. I can’t say it’s a must-have favorite of mine, but I appreciate that it is for many of you. Dig the package art, though. Also, finally got around to doing a few updates to the Cereal Prize Project, and now that I’m over that hump, perhaps it can return to a more regularly updated glory. Group 013 and Group 014 have been posted!


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Discussion Thread: 61 comments

cereal prizez really brought back the memories…I had quite a few of them. and yes, the tony the tiger mini-frisbees, though omnipresent-SUCKED

i also remember apple jacks giving out whistle pops. good times.

and of course i still have my kelloggs characters (incl. tusk the elephant)sleeping bag. it holds a special place in my heart

Ghosted by mm @ 08/30/2005 10:41 AM EDT

During the Nick Arcade days, there were kids that thought the Chroma-Key games at the end were lame. Now they, or their kids, are going out and getting the Sony Eye Toy for the PS2 and saying, "Why didn’t they think of this before?" Remind me to hit them in the head with a week-old baguette sometime.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 08/30/2005 11:28 AM EDT

My grandma whom I lived with occasionally got new foods because she had coupons for them. Cereal was the main one, if there was a cereal we wanted, we had to hope and pray we got it. It was very random. Once there was a deal on safeway brand raisin bran so she had like 4 boxes of them!! It was an endless steam of mushy raisin bran goodness. Augh. I am finally ready to try another bowl of them.

Anyway sprinkly spangly or whatever it was called, appeared in our kitchen. Guess why!! Coupon!! But anyway lol my sisters and cousins and I had this fetish I think it was for eating cereal until there was a half of a bowl or a bowl left in the box and then letting it sit there. We had this rule where you could only have two boxes open and you had to finish a box before you could open another and stuff, and I remember asking before I opened another box. But one time my grandma got upset and sat my cousins down (my grandma hated wasting food, I hate doing it too now) and made us finish boxes off.

Well, when it got to sprinkly spangly my cousins refused to eat them because they were extremely stale. They started to get little holes in them? Tiny ones. My grandma was like all right I’ll throw away THIS ONE but all the other ones you have to eat. Then my cousin a little younger then me, he took a little ziplock bag of them because he had this story about the pieces eating themselves from the inside out because they were so old but I think they were just deteriorating. Stupid, stupid 12 year old logic.

I hope this wasn’t too long but that’s my springly spangly story. Heh

Ghosted by Goob @ 08/30/2005 12:18 PM EDT

kidneyboy: Sweet. Did you end up with the same damn one EVERYONE had back in the day (Bambo)? :D

Ghosted by Night_Trekker @ 08/30/2005 1:42 PM EDT

If anyone is actively looking for Wacky Packs and lives in the Minneapolis area, go to Fudruckers on France ave in Edina. There’s a silly arcade game there where you could win a huge box of them, and winning was really easy. As of Saturday, there were still several left.

Ghosted by kb @ 08/30/2005 1:53 PM EDT

phunqsauce: Thanks for the link! That really took me back :)

Ghosted by Night_Trekker @ 08/30/2005 2:04 PM EDT

Kingklash- I agree! My friend has me over to his place last year to show me his PS2 Eye Toy thing, and as he was jumping around, hitting fake bugs on his screen, all I could think was "…but- this is Nick Arcade!"

Magic Middles! I forgot about those, but they were great.

Off topic, but I HAVE to share my biggest impulse buy since returning to Canada….last night my friend and I got together and went online and bought tickets to THE ROLLING STONES! Plus, we went nuts and got VIP tickets. Ouch. (For the Canadian folk – The Tragically Hip are there too! As well as Our Lady Peace and Maroon 5!) Yes!

As Finch says, "God Bless the internet!" XE AND last minute Rolling Stones tickets.:)

Ghosted by Muppet Baby @ 08/30/2005 5:42 PM EDT

Trekker: I got a "Mr. Coffin" (Mr. Coffee) and a "Coach Motel" (supposed to be a Roach Motel for f.ball and b.ball coaches?) That one sucks, but the Mr. Coffin is pretty cool.

Wacky Packs look almost like MAD-ish. I wonder who the illustrators are, and if they do work for both companies?

Ghosted by kidneyboy @ 08/30/2005 7:38 PM EDT

He Ben: i don’t know about the video game show, but yea, they have brought to you by, and some of the prizes are awesome. One kid won he grand prize.. A NEW VCR!!!!!! sooo sweeeet.

Ghosted by BetterThanFew @ 08/30/2005 11:44 PM EDT

I fear how much Kool-Aid I ingested in the 80s, but it sure was tasty.

Ghosted by nilblogette @ 09/02/2005 7:11 PM EDT

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