| August 16, 2002 |
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Wacky Packages
If  the product names Cap'n Crud, Clammy Soap, and Plopsickle ring a bell, you most likely grew up in the '70s and are familiar with Wacky Packages, the trading cards that lampooned corporate America's advertising campaigns. This exhaustive site recalls a time when kids collected cards that urged them to get drunk on whiskey-flavored Wheeze-It Crackers or smoke eraser-tipped Truant Cigarettes, the choice of "kids who cut class." Okay, so the artwork was disgusting and rudimentary, and the humor lacked political correctness (even for the '70s), but there is something wonderfully subversive about trading cards for Putrid Cat Chow or Hawaiian Punks Bloody Nose Red Juice, a beverage that will beat you to a "fruit juicy pulp." Jump in and relive this repulsively entertaining blast from the past. (in Collecting) |
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