Cracker Jack Surprises Suck
Just on a quick break at work and decide to pickup some Cracker Jack's out of the vending machine. Admittedly it's been years since I've tasted the sweet popcorn and nuts, but my has the product itself changed. I'm not just talking about the packaging, which instead of a box is in a chip bag for dispensing, I'm referring to the product and Cracker Jack Surprise.
If my memory serves me right, not only was Cracker Jack full of carmel covered popcorn, but also plenty of peanuts. Well my friends, if there were 3 peanuts in the entire bag they would have been lonely. Seriously, a complete lack of peanuts, which basically meant they robbed me of the Jack in my Cracker. But teh salt in the wound came in the form of the shitty Cracker Jack Surprise.
Usually I remember getting super cool rub on tattoos in my Cracker Jack boxes or maybe some little x-ray tool, mini coloring book, or something interesting. Today I was greeted with a pencil topper, that's it, a crappy paper cutout pencil topper.
This Cracker Jack experience basically ruined my entire day, thanks to a $.50 snack.
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- No Peanuts
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- Crappy Pencil Topper
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- Surprise In Action
I have been so bummed to see another damn pencil topper that I googled “crackerjack pencil toppers suck” and I found your blog
I cracked up,I agree totally 
I know, isn’t it frustrating.
Good luck with that next box, hopefully you will get something good.
I just got a cracker jack bag yesterday and got a decently cool piece of paper with a crab on it that, when folded along the perforated lines properly, turned into a crab with a mouth that actually talked! Not bad. I have fallin victim to the pencil topper though.
I’m eating cracker jacks right now and you are right!!!! The prizes SUCK. I remember the mazes, tattoos, etc. The prizes now are pencil toppers and fold-able faces of presidents! LAME!!!
Yes! I got this last night and searched “Cracker Jack prizes suck now” and got this blog! All the prizes are PAPER now days! I remember getting the plastic glass a lot as a kid, or the maze and if you found Tats it was like GOLD
So, My 3 year old son just learned the song “take me out to the ballgame”, and I bought him a few boxes of CrackerJacks. I was hoping the surprise would be a sticker or something (I remember when I was a kid in the 80′s, they used to be something tangible, like a plastic top or airplane or SOMETHING) There were 3 peanuts in the box (ugh) and the ‘prize’ was a foldable Susan B. Anthony. UGH. I’m gonna swap out the ‘prizes’ with cheesy things from the machines at the local supermarket – CrackerJacks are overrated, nostalgia prevents us from seeing that…I think he’d rather have a plastic spaceship or something. Better then “Surprise- it’s a picture of an old lady! WHEEEEE!
I got a box the other day. When I saw the prize was so flat i was happy as hell because I thought it was a tattoo. It was some fold up pic of Ben Franklin – yippee! they cut a page out of a history book! And lets face it, unless its on a $100 bill no one wants to see Ben Franklin. They could do a lot better – even if it’s cheapo paper. A tiny airplane or helicopter – or play money – if nothing else say its a sticker you lick – even with no glue it’d stick if you get enough spit on it. Despite the sucky prize i did enjoy the 3 peanuts in box.
I just bought 3 boxes of cracker jacks today and all I got was a stupid pencil topper,I remember good prizes back in the day.What a bummer
I have been buying 3 packs and lost count of how many I have eaten. Can’t say I care about the peanuts but the prize. Pencil topper. Each and every…damn…time.