relive the gold old days of getting baseball cards in cracker jacks...sort of
 

http://cgi.ebay.com/12-SEALED-CRACKE...pt=US_Baseball

how gross would these be?

Funny story... last girl i dated, i showed her a picture of the old cracker jack cards... couple days later we were out and about and she buys a box of cracker jacks.... she was pissed she didn't get a baseball card! ignorance is bliss.... i ended up having to give her a nice card to shut her up and quit her complaining.

I put together two or three sets of those little guys...it was fun.

Me to
 

I put a set together and even remember taking 64 boxs to make up the 24 card set. My Dentist is the only one to come out on this one. Even know I don't like REPRINTS it is a nice little set and was a fun chase. But the $24.95 start bid is a little high for a $15 full set.

:D all still there!!!

In my garage...
 

...I have a case of unopened "Derek Jeter Flakes" cereal that was produced in the late 1990's. Each box is encapsulated in a plastic cereal box case. But I am still nervous about opening it up. I believe there is also a box or two of 1998 Wheaties, with either the Yankees championship or David Wells' perfect game on them, too. Unopened.

I was inspired by a friend who kept the original Drakes Cakes boxes with Mattingly and McGwire unopened in his house in the 1980s. No idea where those are now, and what state they're in. Probably have a shelf life of 500 years.

When the new Star Wars movies came out, I bought a Pepsi can with each character at the local grocery store. Had the whole collection on a shelf. One day I thought my radiator had a leak because I heard a hissing noise and saw a fine mist near it. Turns out, if you keep a can of mountain dew long enough, it will eat the can that's holding it. The first hole was on the bottom ring, and was just big enough to let a mist of dew out and cover my floor with its sticky awful goodness. I threw the whole collection out.

Fun with food collectibles!