Pluggers by Rick McKee for September 19, 2024

I have, but I believe I need to switch to oats.

Didn’t go for the ‘decoder rings’, went for the boxes that had the parts to build a bridge on them—I think they were ‘Nabisco Shredded Wheat’, the big ones not the ‘spoon-size’ ! ! !

I ate A LOT more cereal when I was very young. Being a sucker for creative advertising aimed at kids, I just had to try almost everything new that came along. Soon after learning to read, I read the back of cereal boxes while eating, much as adults read newspapers.

One cereal, with sufficient number of box-tops, gave me a property deed of a plot, 1 inch by 1 inch, of Yukon Territory.

I could not keep it though. Taxes were too high.

Nopes. No steenky over processed slow poisons for me.

If you eat the same cereal now that you did as a kid, you’re possibly a plugger.

Might eat cereal one day a week …

I eat lots of cereal. I’m a cereal killer.

Shredded Wheat was my bedtime snack last night.

Unfortuanately, Decoder Rings never came in Bran cereals. Just Ovaltine chocolate mix, adn maybe Cracker Jacks. I got Scuba Divers from Sugar Crispies I think it was.

Plugger doesn’t mind the bran muffin once per month.

Leaves me out. I ain’t giving those bästards seven bucks for box of Special K.

I tend to avoid cereal.

You have to SEND for the decoder ring. Duh.

As a kid Mom would never buy me Captain Crunch. Now my doctor won’t let me buy Captain Crunch.

Plain old oatmeal for breakfast, save the sugary kid’s cereal for the occasional dessert.

Hmm, I don’t think that would be possible without eating it sometimes for lunch and/or dinner.

I can still eat nuts because my incisors keep growing.

I only eat “bran name” cereal. It does the job and costs less.

Do they even give decider rings in cereal boxes anymore?

oh man… those were the days!! …(I used ta just stick my hand in the bag and dig til I found the treasure!)

I hope he didn’t swallow it like Judge Harry

Get about 10 boxes of Cracker Jack and see if you get one.

my mom was great at sending in box tops for things. I remember getting a model of a Boing 747 she sent out for

Mom bought me Keds “tennis shoes” for the school year once, and they came with a decoder ring. Red plastic, iirc, and I think it had a secret compartment under the dial. My dad told me he once sent off for a premium — a decoder ring from the radio show “Melvin Purvis: G-Man”. Always wanted to find another one for him, but never could.

The “prizes” inside the boxes of cereal weren’t always durable.

I would, but I can’t have milk anymore and none of the substitutes taste even remotely right.

I ate Cheerios (no milk – dry) as a child for breakfast. Now I have them for late night snack same way. How late? Just ate them and it is 2:50 am.

Husband has instant grits (my apologies for mentioning same to those of you from the south) for his late night snack.

Having finished our healthy snacks – we have moved on to ice cream cones. (Both Diabetic and need to eat before bed or might drop low overnight as we will not eat again until around 1 or 2 pm tomorrow when we have our first meal of the day – lunch, well, we have already had breakfast before we went to bed.)