Food writer opens vintage Cracker Jack box, finds McGraw

[ASF123]

A “food content creator” decided to try to eat/drink vintage products from each decade of the last century. Scroll down to the 1930s, where a photo offhandedly mentions that the Cracker Jack package he opened contained a McGraw card (so he obviously mis-dated the package).

https://creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle...181229365.html

I wonder if anyone will tell him it’s valuable.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

or it's a 1990's pack and it's a mini McGraw that he REALLY misdated

[sbfinley]

He has to be really stretching the truth because that card is a late 80's early 90's reprint.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by sbfinley

He has to be really stretching the truth because that card is a late 80's early 90's reprint.

"Stretching the truth".

Remember when we called it being a liar?

[ASF123]

Originally Posted by sbfinley

He has to be really stretching the truth because that card is a late 80's early 90's reprint.

Oh, that’s hilarious! Clearly I’m not a CJ expert . So you’re saying that the self-described “world’s top food content creator” might be full of shit?

Or maybe there was actually an original CJ card in the box, but someone at Yahoo just pulled a stock photo to illustrate it and unknowingly landed on the reprint.

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by sbfinley

He has to be really stretching the truth because that card is a late 80's early 90's reprint.

Yep, they’re from 1993.

https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid...-1915-Replicas

[Arazi4442]

Originally Posted by ASF123

“world’s top food content creator”

Just, Wow.

[ajjohnsonsoxfan]

Wow what a total scam. Calls into question the legitimacy of everything they do.

That would have been MASSIVE hobby news if it was real. To my knowledge no one has ever found an intact box with card inside from 14/15. I think I've only seen 2 or maybe 3 open boxes from that period (with the big red PRIZE on the outside).

I've got one that I think predates the 14/15 box.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by ajjohnsonsoxfan

Wow what a total scam. Calls into question the legitimacy of everything they do.

It's the internet. Believe everything is fake/a scam and be surprised when it isn't.

[Eric72]

This story is quite surprising to me, at least on one level.

I’m shocked people would actually spend their time watching someone eating out-of-date food.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Eric72

This story is quite surprising to me, at least on one level.

I’m shocked people would actually spend their time watching someone eating out-of-date food.

I am shocked you are shocked. Heck I hear older men will pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for mass produced pictures of young athletic men in uniforms. To make it even more shocking they form groups to discuss those young athletic men.

[sbfinley]

Originally Posted by Eric72

This story is quite surprising to me, at least on one level.

I’m shocked people would actually spend their time watching someone eating out-of-date food.

There is literally a guy that’s become internet famous for eating and rating MRE’s from as far back as WWI.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EjZicBu_2Y4

[JollyElm]

OT: In case anyone wondered what the origin of the name was, this is what appears on Wikipedia...

Naming and packaging
In 1896, the first lot of Cracker Jack was produced, the same year the product's name and tagline "The More You Eat, the More You Want" were registered.
It was named as if someone tasted it and remarked: "That's a crackerjack!" (Crackerjack is a colloquialism meaning "of excellent quality").

[packs]

I would urge you guys to read the article. Nowhere in the article does the author claim to have found a Cracker Jack card. It's a reference photo for what was included in food packaging in the past and nothing more.

The article's tasting begins in the 1920s with some honey.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by packs

I would urge you guys to read the article. Nowhere in the article does the author claim to have found a Cracker Jack card. It's a reference photo for what was included in food packaging in the past and nothing more.

The article's tasting doesn't even begin until the 1920s.

If anybody watched the video at the bottom, he has the 1993 Cracker Jack box, that he thinks if a 1930's Cracker Jack box, and they pull that exact card from the box when they open it.

I'm not sure it's nefarious, I think somebody just sold him a a Cracker Jack box with a throwback design, and told him it was older then it actually was.

They didn't seem to think much of the card when they pulled it from the box, or had any idea who John McGraw was. They DID think they were tasting Cracker Jacks from the 1930's...and not the 1990's.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by bnorth

I am shocked you are shocked. Heck I hear older men will pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for mass produced pictures of young athletic men in uniforms. To make it even more shocking they form groups to discuss those young athletic men.

Collectors of all ages will shell out money for cards. That has been going on for decades.

Spending time watching somebody eat old food? Sorry, I don't see the appeal.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by Eric72

Collectors of all ages will shell out money for cards. That has been going on for decades.

Spending time watching somebody eat old food? Sorry, I don't see the appeal.

For the record:

I never got into the whole "reality TV" craze. Watching ordinary people doing stupid stuff never resonated with me.

[GasHouseGang]

In the video they actually show the side of the box clearly indicating it isn't from the 1930's.

[ASF123]

Originally Posted by packs

I would urge you guys to read the article. Nowhere in the article does the author claim to have found a Cracker Jack card. It's a reference photo for what was included in food packaging in the past and nothing more.

The article's tasting begins in the 1920s with some honey.

Yeah, I guess that's right: "Cracker Jacks still had a toy inside – a vintage baseball card, no less."

I had originally interpreted that line to mean "this vintage CJ box still had a card inside it," but it can also be read "like now, back then CJ boxes had a toy." Although the former copy editor in me would revise it, because that's not really what "still" means.

EDIT: Or what Dave said above LOL. Those guys aren't real bright, apparently.