Food of the Seventies, Wacky Packages

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Your wacky Packs entry should be Wacky PACKAGES, which began in about 1967 as a baseball card/bubble gum product-like item. These were cartoon stickers which parodied everyday consumer products, however. The drawings were weird and frantic (almost like Jack Davis of MAD Magazine), and they reached their peaki in about 1973-74, when several major newspapers did feature stories about the product. I, myself collected wacky packages for several years as a middle schooler, and did not stop until about 1978 when high school intruded. Some of the more memorable product satires were Grave Train Dog Food, Hurts Tomato Paste, Tied Laundry Detergent, Pure Hex Detergent, Dopey (Dream) Whip, Kook Cigarettes, 8 Lives Catfood (made from fish bones), Choke (Chung) King Chinese Dinner, Hungry Jerk Pancake Mix, Poopsie Cola (later they changed it to Burpsie Cola - "Six belches to the ounce"), 6 Up ("You Hate It, It Hates You"), Koduck Film, Mutt's Apple Juice, Liptorn Soup, Hipton Tea (for hippies), Minute Lice, Hawaiian Punks Juice (Bloody Nose Red), Fink (a parody of Wink), Jail-O Brand Dessert, Land O' Quakes Butter, Gadzooka (Bazooka) Bubble Gum, Hostage (Hostess) Cupcakes (filled with mud), Camel (Jerkish Blend cigarettes), Spit & Spill Cleaner, Commie (not Vomit) Cleanser), Ajerks (The Blue Blot) Cleanser, Botch Tape, Boo Hoo Tear-Flavored Drink, Canadian Clod Whiskey, Bloodweiser (beer for vampires), Hostage (brain-filled) Thinkees, and Kook-Aid Soft Drink Mix, among many, many others.
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amy b - October 26, 2007 - Report this comment
my husband still has 2 photo albums filled with his collection of these wacky packs-they are cool.
Lindy - August 28, 2008 - Report this comment
To this day I still call rice-a-roni "rice-a-phony" and kool-aid as "kook-aid".

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