First food issue in a long time

Bigdaddy · #1 08-05-2020, 08:09 PM

Picked up two 12-packs of chips with the cards here in VA this week. Three cards/pack, wrapped in clear cellophane with enough room that you can thumb through the cards. First pack had Trout in the middle and the second pack had Harper in the middle. Nice looking cards.

You know, I've eaten/drank my fair share of M&Ms, Quaker bars, Frosted Flakes, Slurpees, Ho-Hos and Twinkies. I guess a few bags of 'tater chips won't hurt at this point.

#2 08-07-2020, 11:05 AM

I found them today at a Food Lion in Farmville, NC bought two family packs. Plus getting six more packs from NJ compliments of my Mom and daughter

#3 08-08-2020, 01:17 PM

I got them today The packs included Dustin May, Mike Trout, Acuna Jr and Yordan Alverez

#4 08-08-2020, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Bigdaddy

Picked up two 12-packs of chips with the cards here in VA this week. Three cards/pack, wrapped in clear cellophane with enough room that you can thumb through the cards. First pack had Trout in the middle and the second pack had Harper in the middle. Nice looking cards.

You know, I've eaten/drank my fair share of M&Ms, Quaker bars, Frosted Flakes, Slurpees, Ho-Hos and Twinkies. I guess a few bags of 'tater chips won't hurt at this point.

I did the same over dosed on Frosted Flakes in 70's , Hostess but our Dalmation did the same with Milk Bone Biscuits back in 1993

steve B · #5 08-08-2020, 10:51 PM

Picked up a couple more bags this week, Last time it was the ones with all regular chips, this time only the ones with mixed chips.

6 more cards, not nobody. Maybe a rookie? At least I'm 6 cards closer to having the set and have plenty of chips.

Now to eat them quick enough to not take ribbing form my wife is I buy more. (She says I'm a slave to marketing... and might be right. Stick a ballplayer on the package and I'll probably buy some)

Gary Dunaier · #6 08-16-2020, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Bigdaddy

You know, I've eaten/drank my fair share of M&Ms, Quaker bars, Frosted Flakes, Slurpees, Ho-Hos and Twinkies. I guess a few bags of 'tater chips won't hurt at this point.

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Originally Posted by steve B

Now to eat them quick enough to not take ribbing form my wife is I buy more.

You know, nobody actually has to eat the product. The manufactures know we just want the cards... and I'm sure they don't care what we do with the chips, as long as we buy 'em.

steve B · #7 08-16-2020, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Gary Dunaier

You know, nobody actually has to eat the product. The manufactures know we just want the cards... and I'm sure they don't care what we do with the chips, as long as we buy 'em.

But I like the chips.

picked up another bag today. Target just had one multi flavor bag and that was all. Between the kids and I we like everything except the barbecue flavor. So they go pretty quick anyway.

Gary Dunaier · #8 08-17-2020, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by steve B

But I like the chips.

Nothing wrong with that!

But I'm sure there are many of us out there - I'm one of them - who, as kids, struggled with a cereal we begged our mothers to get, even though we...

...but we wanted the toy that came with it.

And, of course, our mothers wouldn't get a new box of cereal until we finished off this one. So in that sense we really had to earn that toy.

Of course, now that we're grownups, mommy's not around to make us eat all of the cereal, or the chips, or whatever the food product is, that we bought just to get the cards, so those of us who don't like the chips are free to dump 'em and just dig the cards.

(But just to be safe, let's not tell the wife.

)

steve B · #9 08-18-2020, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Gary Dunaier

Nothing wrong with that!

But I'm sure there are many of us out there - I'm one of them - who, as kids, struggled with a cereal we begged our mothers to get, even though we...

...but we wanted the toy that came with it.

And, of course, our mothers wouldn't get a new box of cereal until we finished off this one. So in that sense we really had to earn that toy.

Of course, now that we're grownups, mommy's not around to make us eat all of the cereal, or the chips, or whatever the food product is, that we bought just to get the cards, so those of us who don't like the chips are free to dump 'em and just dig the cards.

(But just to be safe, let's not tell the wife.

)

I was lucky that the toys I wanted came in the cereals I liked*. And that mom only went on an "only healthy cereals" kick much later.
Healthy was defined by her as being in consumer reports top 10 healthy cereals. So mostly grape nuts and cardboard flakes.
Then after two years..... froot loops made the list!

She eventually caved and let us get whatever cereals we wanted.

I still miss Quisp. And Quake... best toys, and they almost always actually worked. Captain crunch and frosted flakes were my other favorites.

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