Random thought driving home

[jwgh]

Today's college students probably don't realize that there was a time when you could get a prize that wasn't made out of paper in a box of Cracker Jacks.

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[jwgh]

I don't really remember what the cheap plastic prizes were, just that they existed.

The cheapest prize in existence for at least a while was the lick-and-stick tattoo. My recollection is that the proportion of boxes that contained a plastic prize decreased over time and the proportion containing tattoos increased, until finally there were no more plastic prizes and like 90% of the prizes you got were lame tattoos of some kind.