Modern food issues!

[Balticfox]

Little Baseball cards in cellophane packets were included in bags of Humpty Dumpty Potato Chips that were sold in Canada from the spring to the early fall of 1993. Here are some samples from the set of 50 I just acquired:

[Bigdaddy]

In 2019 and 2020, Topps teamed up with Utz to put packs of cards in bags of chips. I got a couple of the 2020 packs, but you had to by a big bag of smaller bags to get a single pack of three (I think) cards. Two of the packs I received:

[OhioLawyerF5]

1987 Kahn's



1984 Purina Dog Food



1982 Squirt

[Balticfox]

Hey, wow, I love Squirt! Pity it's not been available here in southern Ontario for sixty years or so.

Were those Squirt cards distributed in and around Detroit or were they more widely distributed?

[REG1976]

Here are a few

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

Hey, wow, I love Squirt! Pity it's not been available here in southern Ontario for sixty years or so.



Were those Squirt cards distributed in and around Detroit or were they more widely distributed?

I grew up in Southwest Ohio. We had Squirt here. I live in Northwest Ohio now and we still have Squirt. I guess I never realized it wasn't in some places anymore.

[Zach Wheat]

Squirt originally came 60 3-card packs to a box for a special promo. You got a pack when you bought a Squirt product. Had them in MI, but you could see the top card so packs were cherry picked

[Smanzari]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

1984 Purina Dog Food

These were in Cereal, not Dog Food

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by Smanzari

These were in Cereal, not Dog Food

Good catch! I was thinking the ones that said "cereal series" were from cereal and these were from dog food (we bought a lot of Purina dog food at the time and I remember getting prizes out of the bag). I was clearly misremembering this card since it says what cereal it came from on the back. !

[REG1976]

1982 Roy Rogers Yankees lids got these in person when they came out I knew a person who worked there and 1986 Keller's ugly Baseball Cards

[nat]

They did put cards in with dog food though! (Or at least with dog treats.)

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by nat

They did put cards in with dog food though! (Or at least with dog treats.)

Haha! I almost posted that set. I have the Larkin.

But here's my favorite dog food issue, even though it doesn't fit the time frame of this board:

[REG1976]

Here is a complete set of 20 Milk Bone Super Stars, the card packs were issued in certain Milk Bone Biscuts boxes

[Zach Wheat]

In general, for player specific collectors, are food issued cards as desirable to collect as their mainstream cards? I know some of the 50's issues are seen as highly desirable, but no sure if this trend carries over to the 80's + onward food issues

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by Zach Wheat

In general, for player specific collectors, are food issued cards as desirable to collect as their mainstream cards? I know some of the 50's issues are seen as highly desirable, but no sure if this trend carries over to the 80's + onward food issues

In general, food issues are printed in large quantities and are are of relatively low value. There are a few exceptions (like Larkin's 1987 Kahn's), but most are not as desirable as the mainstream cards. But for a player collector like myself, eventually you start running out of mainstream cards to collect, so snatching up food issue and other "oddball" cards becomes necessary.

[REG1976]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

In general, food issues are printed in large quantities and are are of relatively low value. There are a few exceptions (like Larkin's 1987 Kahn's), but most are not as desirable as the mainstream cards. But for a player collector like myself, eventually you start running out of mainstream cards to collect, so snatching up food issue and other "oddball" cards becomes necessary.

Here is one of the few exceptions 1984 Nestle set

[Musashi]

FBI discs (by MSA). The Cromartie is a1981, Rogers is 1982

[REG1976]

Canadian 1987 Hostess Potato Chips Super Stars complete set of 30

[REG1976]

Squirt in the original state and some others except for French's Mustard

[Zach Wheat]

1968 Bubblegumless Detroit Tigers edition (not mine)

[steve B]

Early 90's Pepsi Red Sox carton.

One card per carton glued inside with some rubbery stuff that came off easily.

I kept one empty and one with the card still inside.