Comments on: Cracker Jack Surprises Suck

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 01 May 2012 01:39:26 +0000

Just consumed my first and last Cracker Jacks in twenty years. As far as I’m concerned, they don’t make them any more.
1. They came in a bag. Used to love those boxes. I hope Animal Crackers still come in a box. Please don’t tell me if they don’t…
2. Two bags contained a grand total of three peanuts. They were hiding at the bottom, all in one bag.
3. The prizes were paper scraps with historical figures on them. Seriously, how much could a paper tattoo have blown your profit margin? I may have even forgiven the bags.
Really, sell off the brand. You’re almost infringing on your own trademark by marketing this stuff with the Cracker Jack name.

By: nate

nate — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:23:31 +0000

I have been eating crackerjacks for 30 years or more and the prizes and lack of penuts really suck any more

By: Shrubberer

Shrubberer — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:09:11 +0000

at least you got a surprise in your’s, my bag had only corn and no peanuts
oh well I think I’m over it

By: JP

JP — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:42:36 +0000

I’m half Larry’s age but just like him today I’ve had my last Cracker Jack “bag” for the rest of my life…

1) There are more peanuts in a Nestlé chocolate bar than a bag of Cracker Jack.
2) Cracker Jack prizes make children cry! Bazooka Joe comics are national treasures compared to Cracker Jack’s shit.
3) Worst product ever! It ruined a childhood memory!

A stale bag of plain popcorn without peanuts and no prize would be infinitely better than what I had!

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:04:26 +0000

I’m eating my last box of Cracker Jacks for the rest of my life. The super-crappy prizes are depressing compared to what I got in each box as a child (I’ll be 60 yr old next month).

Please Cracker Jack company, close your factories. I;m done with you and the Cracker Jacks in my final box for life are soggy and not very good either. Your product is soggy and your prizes sure are poor.

Raise you prices if you must, but stop this nonsensical paper prize mania. I keep getting the same 5 or 6 stupid paper prizes and I sure am sick of your pencil topper, which is probably the best of a really bad lot.

Get out of this business. You are a sham company!

-Larry

PS My final crap-prize was another paper President Abe Lincoln repeat. I’m finished with Cracker Jacks no matter how long I live!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good bye foever.

By: Ken C.

Ken C. — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:34:04 +0000

It’s August 2011 and I just had a bag of Cracker Jack for the first time in 20 years. My bag has the exact same pencil topper and NO peanuts as well. This is a travesty!

By: Ben Rogers

Ben Rogers — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:22:32 +0000

I just put my ant pencil topper prize up for sale on EBay for $10,000. It is entitled. Worlds Worst Cracker Jack Toy ***posted in protest*** Thanks.

By: HYO

HYO — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:45:49 +0000

Couldn’t they just charge more money and come up with some GOOD prizes. I think if they include little pieces of plastic crap like whistles or key fobs it would do the trick. Now it’s like they’re laughing at you every time you open the prize packet

By: Stacy

Stacy — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:27:18 +0000

Wow this really takes me down memory lane. I haven’t had a Cracker Jack since like forever! Kinda surprised to hear about all the sucky surprises now. I used to love those rub on tattoos. Man, we surely had it great back then!

By: MadSnacker

MadSnacker — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 07:37:58 +0000

I also googled “cracker jack prizes suck now” and found this blog. I got the $2 bag. It tasted way too fresh and all 12 peanuts (large bag) had settled to the bottom. I bought popcorn AND peanuts, I got popcorn THEN peanuts. The old boxes were so cramped the nuts didn’t ALL settle. Also, the prizes in the boxes were wedged in there a bit, the new prize was on top. Struggling for the prize or having the patience to eat my way to it, built character and made a simple sticker seem so much more. Before I bought the last bag, I read something written on it saying something like “All new surprises!” I thought to myself “Man, the stuff made me happy the way it was… this is gonna be awesome!” No luck. Same goddamn pencil topper with mountain climbers. Not even a frickin sticker… paper with slits in it. I tried to spin it to see if it looked like they were moving… nope. Same on both sides. What a load of crap. I was surprised all right. Surprised I fell for that BS. Cram that @#%$ in a cardboard box, so it is stale and tastes like the box. Never got a lot of nuts anyway, but sprinkle em in so I get one every now and then, not all at the end. All I buy this crap for is the prize. The popcorn is only a means to that end. What happened to flat plastic trinkets, puffy stickers, stickers that move when you tilt em, skill games with the little metal ball, and tats? Can’t someone at least get creative with the paper “toy”? Maybe optical illusions? Hey, I know………………maybe they can put an extra peanut in the envelope. That’d make my Friggin day. Kids can’t be falling for this, they are taking advantage of us folks that remember Jack from back in the day. I wonder if kool-aid tastes like pee now too.