Paulmcall Member Username: Paulmcall
Post Number: 39 Registered: 05-2004 Posted From: 68.40.119.216
| Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 8:14 pm: | |
Anyone here old enough to remember being able to get a stick of gum in a loaf of bread? I think it was Silvercup but I could be wrong. |
Gannon
Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 6622 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 70.236.198.22
| Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 8:17 pm: | |
I remember when you could MAKE bubblegum out of Wonder Bread... |
Detroitej72 Member Username: Detroitej72
Post Number: 227 Registered: 05-2006 Posted From: 66.184.3.44
| Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 8:50 pm: | |
I vaguely remember the gum. Kind of like the lousy pink stick you'd get in baseball cards. I really remember the cool Star Wars cards in Wonder Bread in the 70's though. |
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm
Post Number: 658 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.189.188.28
| Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 7:18 am: | |
I remember vaguely Bond Bread offering baseball cards, but I couldn't tell you if they were full backs (with gum) or not. |
Bvos Member Username: Bvos
Post Number: 1974 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 134.215.223.211
| Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 10:39 am: | |
Maybe the Bond(s) bread came with steriods instead of gum? |
Gannon
Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 6657 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 70.236.198.22
| Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 11:51 am: | |
BIG grin. Helps build strong bodies in THIRTEEN ways... |
Magnasco Member Username: Magnasco
Post Number: 159 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 71.159.22.100
| Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 3:00 pm: | |
I remember getting the trading cards in the Wonder Bread, but no gum. Can't remember what was on the cards. Probably not the Charlie's Angels pics, especially Cheryl Ladd, that I also remember when I think of the trading cards of the time. |
Tokennojokin Member Username: Tokennojokin
Post Number: 13 Registered: 08-2006 Posted From: 66.178.220.86
| Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 3:02 pm: | |
They were trading cards and stickers. Kind of like Garbage Pail kids but they were name brand product spoofs. |
Rustic Member Username: Rustic
Post Number: 2799 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 128.36.14.220
| Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 3:51 pm: | |
wacky packs? |
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1
Post Number: 7887 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 198.208.159.19
| Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 4:02 pm: | |
I remember they had a 'Close Encounters of the 3rd kind' Series a long time ago. |
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1
Post Number: 7888 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 198.208.159.19
| Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 4:09 pm: | |
http://www.gasolinealleyantiqu es.com/celebrity/images/StarWa rs/sw-bread.jpg |
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1
Post Number: 7889 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 198.208.159.19
| Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 4:12 pm: | |
http://www.usfreeads.com/25861 3-cls.html |
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1
Post Number: 7890 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 198.208.159.19
| Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 4:13 pm: | |
http://cgi.ebay.com/Star-Wars- 1977-Wonder-Bread-Vintage-Prom o-Card-Set-MINT_W0QQitemZ16002 4843660QQihZ006QQcategoryZ9998 9QQcmdZViewItem http://reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com/2005/10/retro-toy-flashback-15-movie-and-tv.html (Message edited by jt1 on September 13, 2006) |
D2dyeah Member Username: D2dyeah
Post Number: 2 Registered: 09-2005 Posted From: 69.234.64.165
| Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 11:33 pm: | |
Yes, Silvercup bread had the bubblegum on the end of the loaves. My mom and dad would buy the bread, give me the gum, and then we would go feed the ducks the bread on Belle Isle. This was about 1955. Wasn"t there a big old fashioned oven near Belle Isle advertising Silvercup? |
Thecarl
Member Username: Thecarl
Post Number: 956 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 69.14.124.225
| Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 11:47 pm: | |
quote:Anyone here old enough to remember being able to get a stick of gum in a loaf of bread?
in prison, if you are lucky, your wife might stick a gun in a loaf of bread. maybe silvercup could resurrect with that strategy? |