Food writer opens vintage Cracker Jack box, finds McGraw

packs · #1 06-13-2025, 03:12 PM

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 · #2 06-13-2025, 03:35 PM

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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.

GasHouseGang · #3 06-13-2025, 03:52 PM

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

ASF123 · #4 06-13-2025, 04:09 PM

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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.

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