it's cracker jack day for whimsical wednesday! this date marks the first time a prize was placed in cracker jack boxes. to celebrate munch cracker jacks, tell a story about cracker jacks, share your favorite prize from the cracker jack boxes you've eaten, make homemade cracker jacks.
to celebrate cracker jacks day, i made homemade cracker jacks to share with others. because some people who read the whimsey project blog might be receiving some of my homemade cracker jacks i cannot describe them until they have been shared. more later.......
when we were children our parents had friends that we visited frequently. the lady of the house collected cracker jack prizes. her husband installed a narrow shelf around the walls of the kitchen. there she placed her cracker jack prizes collection. the first time we saw these treasures, displayed as they were, my siblings and i was enthralled. she had prized from many, many years of collecting. many of the prizes we had never seen before. she was thrilled that all of us were so interested in her collection and told us all about them. we rode home in the car talking only of those cracker jack prizes. from that moment, that was the cracker jack house and we are always excited to return!
how did you celebrate cracker jack day?
I never liked the taste of Crackerjacks when I was a kid. I remember they tasted 'burnt' to me, which is odd. But that's how it was. I always looked forward to the prize and was nearly always disappointed except when I got one of those little pictures with a textured plastic front to produce two different images when you tilted it. That made the image seem to move.
ReplyDeleteha! i didn't like the popcorn part cause i didn't like the flavoring. i did like the peanuts. i liked those little pictures too. i'm old enough to remember when the cracker jack prizes were really really something!
DeleteI am so with you! I thought they tasted burnt too and those were my fav's!
ReplyDeleteyou like the burnt tasting bits? i love the burnt bits of regular popcorn! lol......
Deleteno, didn't like the burnt taste, but liked the prizes that looked like they were moving. ha
ReplyDeleteok then!
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