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Originally Posted by Misterpants
Not a food I miss, but let's talk about cereal boxes. I remember the most exciting thing about going grocery shopping was hitting up the cereal aisle and seeing which brand was giving away the best trinket as a prize inside. I would always have to do a cost/benefit analysis on the type of cereal and prize being offered. On one hand, you didn't want to buy a gross cereal because you would have to eat all of it before you got new stuff. On the other hand, there was no way I could convince my mom to get choco-anything. The next morning, opening up the cereal box and digging your little mitts to the bottom of the box trying to find your treasure was magical.
I remember the pinnacle of free cereal box prizes was when some cereal had free Wacky Wall Crawlers. Oh man, that was a BONANZA!
Cereal I miss? C3PO's.
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I know what you're saying, even now I look and do a cost/benefit analysis but it's not for a toy it's for a t-shirt or $5 gas card. But I still look to see what the toys are, and there aren't any! What the heck happened? No toys in the cereal, no prizes in the chips, no free pop's under the cap of the 600mL (not 591mL) you just bought.
I kinda feel bad for kids these days, where are these simple joys?