What happened to the prize inside?
By raychill
@raychill (6525)
United States
June 10, 2007 2:07pm CST
Does anyone notice that cereal rarely has prizes inside anymore?
I remember when I was a kid you could buy things like Lucky Charms and Trix and Frosted Flakes and all those sugary good cereals and find a nice prize inside. Nothing spectacular, but still a prize! It was always so much fun.
Now a days as I walk down the cereal aisle in the grocery store I'm amazed at the lack of prizes. Mostly they are mail in prizes (5 UPC's plus 6.95 s&h) or there is no prize at all!
Just like Cracker Jacks. You used to get a real prize, now you get a piece of paper with a joke on it.
Where did all the prizes go?
1 response
@Flight84 (3048)
• United States
10 Jun 07
For real. If you do get a prize now it's lame. My husband got a water squirter the other day and the head popped off when he squeezed it. He wanted an XBox 360 beanie hat but he had to send in a ton of those UPC things. Bring back the real prizes!!
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@raychill (6525)
• United States
10 Jun 07
Was it a spiderman water squiter? I got one of them from rice krispies and gave it to my 4 year old nephew. I got a shrek light that you can put over your ear from...I think rice krispies also! It just amazes me that cereals cost soo much money and yet the prizes probably cost 2 cents to manufacture. Why am I paying close to 5 bucks for a box of cereal with no prize.
