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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Sunday, April 19, 2020

K is for Kellogg's Krazy Kanines

Except they were spelt properly! Cluck tells us the Crazy Canines were issued in November 1972 as premiums for Ricicles and Coco Krispies, we must have had Ricicles, as we definitely got one or two at the time, but we weren't allowed Coco Krispies as they were 'sugary American pap', which was a perfect example of adults proving to be terrible hypocrites (and lacking consistency) as we were allowed both Frosties (corn flakes with sugary pap all over them) and Sugar-Puffs - the name is the clue"!

Boxer; Boxer Dog; Cereal Givaways; Cereal Premiums; Cereal Toys; Coco Crispies; Dogs; Freebies; Giveaways; Guarddog; Gun Dog; Gundog; Hounds; Kellogg's Coco Crispies; Kellogg's Premiums; Kellogg's Ricicles; Plastic Dogs; Police Dog; Racing Dog; Ricicles Premiums; Sheepdog; Toy Dogs; Working Dogs;
Cluck also gives the colours as being Red, Blue, Navy (our childhood 'gun dog' was dark blue), Yellow or Brown, which is pretty much my memory, so I don't know where the purple one has come from, but Tito, Olá and others seem to have carried a lot of the same premiums in different colours, and we know some Kellogg's stuff also found its way into Tom Smith's Christmas crackers, so - on this one - your assumption is as good as mine!

Note that the Boxer is an 'odd one out', as the other five are word-plays on the working-dog's job title, while he is a word-play on his breed's name. The Racer does look like a greyhound/lurcher type though, and while the Police is very British 'Bobby' the Guard is more French-Imperial than Royal-Household!

There's better imagry on the Cereal Offers page here.

4 comments:

Paul´s Bods said...

!! I used to have those!!

PS..interesting reading
https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/

Hugh Walter said...

Yes, I agree with most of it, but however small the C-19 death-rate, and however high the rate we have accepted as 'normal' has been; the Covid rate is 'in addition-too', not 'instead-of'!

H

Paul´s Bods said...

Good, though Coronaviruses are present every year, nothing new so, not this year an addition to.
This;
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/227820-overview
updated July 2019 table shows the seasonal dauer of virus´s in 2018...and what appears? Or is covid not corona? ;-)
Here, 2017/18 There were some 25,000 people who died with Corona/flu/other respitory viruses and nearly 4 million took sick leave. Then, No-one batted an eyelid.
Odd is all I can say.

Hugh Walter said...

Yes, but that statistic will be for twelve months; October 1st to October 1st or something like that, this one strain is killing more . . . in a few weeks! It's all about the maths!

H