Enemies for your army men.

[labworm]

I remember the toy was always at the very bottom of the cereal box. Our home was such that I was never allowed to reach to the bottom to retrieve the toy, but had to eat the cereal on several successive Saturdays until the toy would appear. I remain bitter about this...

Kaaskop49
Shield #5103

My Mom was hooked on buying Duz soap powder to get the free wheat dishes with gold trim. We really were poor.

 

[ladder13]

Kellogg's had some great ones in their cereal in the 50's.

I was woofin' down the cornflakes to get the complete collection of 5 (I think that was how many) they were nice.

Haha, haven't heard that in years.

 

[labworm]

Haha, haven't heard that in years.

Must be East Coast slang, just looked it up and that isn't what it meant a long time ago.

A little more research:

North-West English slang meaning to eat something fast.
He loves that ice-cream, he's woofin' it down!

 

[arjay]

We used to woof our food out here too lol

 

[labworm]

We used to woof our food out here too lol

I wouldn't mind a 2 week visit to your state, I could try to set a world record for the most whoopie pies ever eaten in one day.

 

[arjay]

What's a whoopie pie ?

 

[labworm]

What's a whoopie pie ?

Try one, I think you may like them.

 

[gunfighter48]

I was born in 1948 and had a few bags of them in the mid to late 50s. i used to set them on fire and drip balls of fiery plastic onto my battle fields in the yard. Made great bombs to take out the enemy troops!!!

 

[GatorFarmer]

In the third Toy Story movie, Sarge - voiced by R. Lee Ermey - laments that when the trash bags come out, the Army men are always the first to go.

I think that even up through recent times that toy soldiers suffer attrition in the hands of most boys. Fire crackers, bottle rockets, magnifying glasses....lost in dirt piles and on the beach... etc.

As late as 1986 small plastic divers who bobbed up and doqn via baking soda were in cereal boxes. If you simply flipped the box over and opened it from the bottom you would now find the toy on top.

 

[zzzippper]

Must be East Coast slang, just looked it up and that isn't what it meant a long time ago.

A little more research:

North-West English slang meaning to eat something fast.
He loves that ice-cream, he's woofin' it down!

I believe it is a regionalization of "wolfing down".

As the third of three boys I rarely got the cereal box prize. The best I might do is to cut the baseball cards off the back of the box.

 

[the ringo kid]

I usedto put firecrackers between their legs--arms etc. Sometimes they got shredded,and sometimes nothing at all happened except powder burns. Those that survived, got nailed tothe top flt board on the back yard fence--then got shot with a BB gun.

 

[kaaskop49]

In the third Toy Story movie, Sarge - voiced by R. Lee Ermey - laments that when the trash bags come out, the Army men are always the first to go.

I think that even up through recent times that toy soldiers suffer attrition in the hands of most boys. Fire crackers, bottle rockets, magnifying glasses....lost in dirt piles and on the beach... etc.

As late as 1986 small plastic divers who bobbed up and doqn via baking soda were in cereal boxes. If you simply flipped the box over and opened it from the bottom you would now find the toy on top.

I had those divers back in the 50s. And the little grey submarines that worked similarly. I mean were SUPPOSED to work similarly. As to simply flipping the box over, nothing was simple in my home.

Still appreciate the great post!

Kaaskop49
Shield #5103

 

[labworm]

I had those divers back in the 50s. And the little grey submarines that worked similarly. I mean were SUPPOSED to work similarly. As to simply flipping the box over, nothing was simple in my home.

Still appreciate the great post!

Kaaskop49
Shield #5103

I sent away for the large frogmen, the small ones were in the box, the sub was one great little item.

 

[kaaskop49]

I sent away for the large frogmen, the small ones were in the box, the sub was one great little item.

But it didn't bob up and down! It just sat on the bottom bubbling a little. These memories just brought a dark cloud in front of the sun. Never knew about the large frogmen; not in the 50s, IIRC.

Appreciate your reply!

Kaaskop49
Shield #5103

 

[perrazi]

in the late 50's after I got my first bb gun, daisy of course, we used to set them up and shoot them with the bb gun in the basement.