Dandy, Handy and Candy were later replaced by Sugar Bear.
Sugar Crisp is now known as Golden Crisp, because that’s much healthier.
Continue readingFee-fi-fo-fum bear meat’s always yummy-yum!
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You can really taste the mole asses.
Three ingredients: roasted wheat bran, wheat and molasses.
Postum was developed by C. W. Post, the Grape-Nuts guy.
Continue readingPlease don’t slug the excavator.
How Wheaties Became the ‘Breakfast of Champions’
Art by Irwin Caplan (“Cap”), illustrator/painter/designer/cartoonist. Wanna see his house?
Johnny Mize was a left-handed Hall of Famer. At last check, some of Johnny Mize’s baseball cards go for over $7,700 on eBay.
Continue readingWould you like to buy a monkey?
What was it like to get a monkey in the mail? Find out here!
Continue readingDon’t forget to burp’m.
A little bit on Fairman Wallace “Wally” Taber here and here. Dude studied photography with Ansel Adams.
The history of Tupperware parties. Did you know about Earl Tupper and his savior, Brownie Wise?
Continue readingObnoxious Advertising
Thank you, Ann and Bismarck Antique Mall, for thinking of me when you found this gem.
Johnny Gasparini would’ve gotten his two dollars on one of these.
Snow Bikes have been around in one form or another for 100 years or so.
The conversion kits cost a little bit more these days.
Continue readingSit on it.
Magazine ad for Hart Schaffner & Marx found in a December 5, 1960 issue of Sports Illustrated
Great art direction for this menswear ad, oozing style and confidence, but now I want to find out more about the cool chair the suited dude is sitting in. Somebody thought it could be a Lucite chair but I’m not sure. Anyone know?
You can’t go wrong with veggie shapes and a creepy baby.
The Jujyfruits shapes are asparagus, tomato, grape, banana, pineapple, raspberry and pea pod.
You absolutely must be curious about the etymology of jujube.
Heide Candy Company was founded in 1869.
Heide was sold to Hershey Foods Corporation in 1995.
Hershey sold Heide to Farley’s & Sathers Candy Company in 2002.
Farley’s & Sathers merged with Ferrara Pan Can Candy Company in 2012, becoming the Ferrara Candy Company.
What’s a pastille? It’s for when you don’t want to say “lozenge”.
Continue readingGoing Hollywood
Some Western movies from 1972.
The Robert Redford Jeremiah Johnson gif many of you are familiar with is, like this ad, from 1972.
