I remember as a child in the early 60's the joy of getting a toy in each box. It was something you could actually play with, not throw away stuff like today. I miss those days, it was a magical time.

Let’s get one fact straight: NO corporate buyout owner changes a recipe unless it’s to rip off the consumer or save money. Rarely does it improve taste. Ever.

It's not the same without the actual toy prize.

I think we can all agree that Cracker Jack was an integral part of our collective childhoods.

I knew as soon a large company got involved they would start short changing the customer.Funny how some things dont change.

I remember digging deep down to the bottom of the box to find the prize... now, kids dig deep down to the bottom of the box... to find a peanut.

My mom and dad would bring us kids boxes of Cracker Jack home from the grocery store when they went to town to shop for the week's groceries. It was fun to eat the popcorn and peanuts and work our way down to the prize inside. Thank you for the great memory!

I'd save the peanuts for last ,they were so good. They used to have cool little cars with trailers and other cool prizes until it just went to crappy paper crap. And the peanuts seemed to almost disappear completely.

Remember the jingle?! "Candy-coated popcorn, peanuts and a prize, that's what you get in Cracker Jack!"!

Take me back to my childhood Cracker Jack Days, those were the best of Cracker Jack

I remember the ads with Jack Gilford. Iconic.

I had a big glass jar on a lower kitchen shelf that I kept all my treasured and much loved Cracker Jack toys in. I would spread all those toys out on the living room rug and play with them for what seemed like hours. Such good childhood memories.

Born in '57, once the "hard to open" wax box was discontinued, the product suffered greatly. but it was magic till it happened! It was so worth the price, pure quality~!

I Loved those snacks, a few months ago I bought 4 of the larger bags they make of them and their was not one peanut in any the bags. For me the peanut is what makes the product. I contacted them and all they did was apologize for the issue, I explained to them I wasn't trying to create an issue just wanted to let them know they have a problem with how they were packaging them and no peanuts were being put in the product when it was advertised as so. Like I said the peanuts makes the product.

A concrete memory for me. I'm a child of the 50's and that was always a special treat for me. Glad I was an adult in the 60's when all the changes took place. I always remember how it just wasn't the same anymore. "More profit, less nuts" ! Too bad !

BRING THE ORIGINAL BACK!!

There is NOTHING like the ORIGINAL!!

Too bad the old-fashioned Cracker Jack is just a memory.

When frito-lay got Cracker Jack They found a new way to make it and that ruined it.

Sailor Jack and HisJack terrier Bingo was and still is an iconic symbol.

I remember my dad shouting out of the car window "Did you get your license out of a cracker jack box"

I'm 68. What I remember about Cracker Jack was that there was NEVER a simple way to open the box. It always involved trying to jam a finger through the side of the box and then tearing the top off. Unwrapping it - there was a cardboard box wrapped in a wax-paper wrapper - didn't help because the cardboard box was glued shut. For a little kid, this took some time getting the box open.

Just once I'd like to see a product from my childhood stay "As Is" how sad my kids and Grandkids will not know how Crackerjack tastes with it's full measure of peanuts and popcorn and the delight of a ring or car you were wishing for, for a prize, I would not mind if they went back to how it was and charge a few more cents.

I think Cracker Jack had an advantage in the South. In the summer the heat would melt chocolate candies. This was sweet and wouldn’t melt. Many local stores didn’t have air conditioning until the fifties.

I used to get in trouble with my mom or aunt for pouring out the caramel corn onto the kitchen table just to get to the Prize! What a memory!

Give me some peanuts and crackerjacks, I don’t care if I ever get back🎵🎼🎶

I have kept a tiny metal spoon, kissing dolls, and a small pocket knife from late 1950s boxes my parents bought me when I was a kid. The Cracker Jacks tasted great.

Because of the toy; eating a box of Cracker Jack (back then) was like opening a present on Christmas no matter what time of year. Happy to experience it when I used to be a child, but alas now, no more, no more.

A memory of growing up my dad bless his heart he would bring us cracker jack every week when he got paid we were happy to get one cuz what prize was inside we wondered what we got we would eat our CJ then see what we got as a surprise was fun opening them still a remembersnce of CJ & my Dad who I miss so much with ❤️ of A great memory

As a kid in the 70s, Cracker Jacks were my favorite. For a few decades, I had a box of the prizes I had accumulated.

Those were the days with half of it peanuts!

When I was a kid I remember good toys like whistles, toy cars, and yo yo's. Then they switched to cheap prizes like decals and tattoos. Popcorn and peanuts are good but without a good toy children have no reason to beg their parents to buy Cracker Jack.

Yep ,,, my childhood was way more awesome that I remember it being !!!!!

In the sixties and seventies whenever we visited our Grandma's house we always got a box of Cracker Jack. Just something you never forget....

I remember looking forward to getting cool prizes. Now all we get is some cheap paper not worth keeping. Life back then was better. Had more stuff for the price and better quality. Now they give you much less and charge you much more.

I was a Child in the 70s to the 80s and I so remember Cracker Jacks:)!! The prizes back then were alright and we always enjoyed the surprise element, but I would LOVE to have had one of those 1912 animal figurines or better yet, a small Periclean Doll:)!! And although I do love Bears, the Sailor Jack with his Dog Bingo is just more adorable:)!! My Late Cat, Mr. Spratt was a Tuxedo Cat and he would have also made a very adorable pet on the box too:)!! Thank you for sharing this fun piece of Americana from the past and Cracker Jacks is so nostalgic for me too:)!!!

Could you please do a segment on the old "Chicken Delight? - Don't Cook Tonight Call Chicken Delight! Love Recollection Road! Wonderful old memories of a bygone era.

How exciting to get a box of Cracker Jack when we were kids!!! I can remember a lot of the prizes but one of my favorites was the magnifying glass. Held just right in the sunlight I would be able to burn holes in dried leaves. We would write our names or make a design out of the burn marks. The tattoos were cool too. Just lick your arm and slap the tattoo on! Life was good...

1872 wow ! Cracker Jack, everybody liked Cracker Jack... yes, and that little prize, oh my. It was good all the way around. Haven't had it in years. thank you!

My favorite prizes were the whistle and the plastic magnifying glass. On the show Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius, Jimmy's dad's favorite soda is a Purple Flurp. The writers must have seen the old Cracker Jack commercial where a trio of witches are making up a batch of the treat. One ingredient is a purple Flurp. I was about five or six when that commercial aired. When I heard the purple Flurp line on Jimmy Neutron, it made me laugh, and think of my childhood days.

These are all just done so well! THANK YOU for providing these for us to enjoy! Not only are they done well cinematographically, but they are very well researched.

And that's why there are so many folks my age that were Jack Guilford fans!

what a great little documentary. thanks. :)

I was born in 1962. this brings back a lot of good memories. Thank you!

I stopped eating Cracker Jack years ago because of the lack of peanuts.

I remember a whistle, a compass, a plastic car, tatoos, and this one I'm not sure I'm remembering, but didn't they have Banana Splits stickers in about 1971?

Cracker Jack was still good when i was a kid in the 70's and the prizes were so much better than they are today(my favorite prizes were the fake tattoos and magnifying glass). I rarely eat cracker jack now. In my teen/young adult yrs(80's) i started eating crunch-n-munch and from the 90's onward i only eat poppycock(my favorite flavor is caramel/cashews)

I just tried a bag recently. This was not the CJ of my youth. Instead of the candy coating the popcorn, it was just drizzled on, there were only two peanuts in the whole bag, and the "prize" was this tiny little half-inch sticker.

Only the people that grew up in the 50's and 60's can relate to this channel.

I loved the little fortunes that used to be printed on the prize packets. I miss them almost as much as the peanuts.

As a kid in the 60's, and the 70's, I remember the Cracker Jack prizes as being pretty darned cool, and so were cereal box prizes! Later, in the 80's, they got lame! LOL Oh, and as a side note, I was in the Navy in the 80's, and want to tell you, Girls LOVED our "Cracker Jack" Uniforms, both Dress Blues, and Dress Whites! :)

I don’t miss the excess peanuts, but I do miss those wonderful prizes. I grew up in the ‘70s. RIP Jack Gilford.

The lack of peanuts is what I began to hate about the new Cracker Jacks.

I still love Cracker Jack. Now you're lucky to get even a few peanuts. The "prizes" are also a pathetic crock now. Cheapskates! I'd sure like to have those old baseball cards.

I remember visiting my grandpa and nana, back in the 50's. They had a curio cabinet full of prizes from Cracked Jacks. They always amazed me. I think because over time the prizes really changed. Nothing like the ones they collected. There's were very nice and unique. I've often wondered whatever happened to them.

As a boomer, tricked into buying a current box to relive my childhood, I was sorely disappointed that the new version did not match my youthful experience with Cracker Jacks.

In honor of Mother's Day, mine would like it when we saved her some of the peanuts out of our boxes we got on Saturday night to snack on while watching Big Time Wrestling and other shows!

I remember the toy was temporary tattoos when I was young in the early 70’s

My brothers and sisters and I were treated to Cracker Jack every weekend. We then gathered around the TV to watch Gilligan's Island. It's one of my most favorite memories of childhood and family. My Dad always made sure to get some at the store.

My friend got a miniature record as a Cracker Jack prize. He put it on a turntable; put the needle on, and intelligible sound actually came out of the speaker. As I recall it was a short song to the effect, " I kiss your hand, madam."

Surprise no prize inside 😥 maybe the peanut is the prize

Congrats on (almost) 50K subs! I just wanted to say how much I love all your videos on this channel. They always feel nostalgic and relaxing. Keep them coming!

Cracker Jack's were part of my childhood. My dad used to buy me a box, everyday, after picking me up from kindergarten, back in 1974-75. I used to collect the prizes. I'd get a box, here and there, up to the early 80's. After that, I never had another box ever again.

I had my first box of CJ in 1964 (I was 5 years old)..I still have some vintage prizes from CJ..a tin whistle..a plastic whistle..a spin top..& a mini word puzzle..

My mom absolutely hated the whistle I don't understand why😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

I don't know about you, but I gave up on Cracker Jack when Borden bought the company, the price went up and the peanut count went down. Nowadays there are all kinds of gourmet flavored popcorns out there. I think many of those companies started because the demand for quality wasn't being met by chintzy Cracker Jack. It was an American icon wasted by corporate greed once the founders sold the company.

*I've noticed for many years, 64 and a New Yorker, that product went the way of the Do-do-bird, and I loved it!* 💖

I loved this as a kid. My favorite prize was the little storybooks. I didn’t like peanuts when I was young so I would give them to my brother who was happy to get the extra peanuts. I don’t know if anyone else remembers campfire marshmallows that came in a small single use package. We used to get them at a picnic grounds we used to frequent where they had grill set-ups and wooden picnic tables.

I remember pre-64 when us kids all got 25 peanuts per box!!!😅

i remember there used to be great prizes...compass..working watches..tiny camera ..key chain puzzles

I don't remember ever eating them as a child but I do remember my step-grandfather loving him and had a big giant glass bowl full of the toys that came in it

I was born in 1950.Cracker jacks were great.In early 2000s I bought 2 boxes. They both had for a prize, a little sticker about the size of a stamp,&one peanut per box.That was it for me.

Awesome video, thank you for the memories

Can you do a video about TANG???

My Grandmother always gave us crackerjack when we came to visit! loved it.

Man I feel old now. I grew up having this all the time as a kid. You weren't cool unless you had these, sunflower seeds or candy cigarettes during practice. Great memories.

Here's another fond memory from my childhood... back when my teeth could actually handle some Cracker Jack's! Getting to the bottom of the box to reveal the "BIG little PRIZE" was a treat in itself.

I used to open the down side of the box just to get to the prize faster.

Loved these since I was a kid (still do) I actually worked @ Minute Maid Ball Park in Houston, TX 2012-2020. I loved stocking & handing these out. During Take me out to the ball game. song 97th inning stretch) During the Cracker Jack part. I was armed with several bags I'd "hurl" to the crowd! I miss those times.

3:39 for Huggbee: "they even put asbestos figurines in the boxes"

Where did you get your drivers license? Out of a box of Cracker Jacks! In the 60s and 70s Cracker Jacks had much better toys, not any more.

Candy Coated Popcorn, Peanuts and a Prize! That's what you get in Cracker Jack !! ingrained in the brain.

I ate a lot of Cracker Jack back during my childhood in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. It was never a favorite, but my mother loved it and always kept boxes of it in the pantry. The peanuts were my favorite part. I loved fresh caramel popcorn at fairs and amusement parks, though. Cracker Jack always had a sort of bitter, burnt taste to it that fresh caramel popcorn didn’t have. Our family got a microwave oven in 1973 and there wasn’t much you could do with it back then besides heat water or melt butter. We got a microwave cookbook that had a recipe for microwave caramel popcorn and it turned out to be a great recipe! We started making our own version of Cracker Jack with as many peanuts as we wanted. SO much better than the stuff in the box. I wish I still had that particular recipe. It worked perfectly every time. Of course, that recipe was made specifically for the Amana Radarange so it probably wouldn’t work the same way in a different microwave. Those Amana Radarange were like home thermonuclear accelerators…

I thank this channel for all the memories~

I was born in 1964 even though I liked Cracker Jacks growing up my parents both said how much better it was before 1964 which until this video I had no idea what they meant. it was just a coincidence that it was sold and I was born in 64 but I was like WTF? lol

Iconic product. We always ate the box of Cracker Jacks from the bottom. We'd open the box...get the prize first. We were hedonists. Life.😎👍👍

My mother, born 1925, told me about getting a real Kodak camera in a box of Cracker Jacks. She took photos with the camera and when all the film was spent, the entire camera was returned, with a dime, to have the film developed and prints made - the camera was not returned. With the prints and negatives was a coupon for a discount price on a Kodak camera - probably a 'brownie' style Kodak.

I used to love the Cracker Jack prizes that were inside, mostly the cute little miniature books. The rings inside usually broke within the same day of wearing them.

"When You're the Best..They call You a Cracker Jack" their slogan read.

Dad loved cracker jack dad ring the great depression mom n dad were walking down the street they found a dime dad said let's save it mom said we have 7dollars so we're ok so y don't u go n the store n get some crackerjacks dad loved crackerjacks so he did and the prize was a plastic ring so right there in front of the store and people walking about he got on one knee and proposed people all around urged her to say yes she did and they found a magistrate who married them, about 1975 we all went together and bought a gold band for mom she was livid she said take it back I have a real wedding ring worth more than gold it's made of love and when I'm dead it better b on my hand and it was, thank you for bringing mom and together god bless you

What a great historical overview! Very well done, sir!

Jeff, you are doing an excellent job... keep it going great memories

Every time a company is sold, the product is not the same. Does anyone eat Cracker Jacks anymore? I don’t see them in the store. Must be at ball games.

Still love them today! 💜 Except for the loss of peanuts ...

I have always enjoyed them when our mom brought them home after work. I was even more excited about what I was going to get out of the box,and wow how happy I was being the youngest of two older siblings and I was definitely spoiled...I still love them and others alike them.

Screaming Yellow Zonkers were tasty as well. Compared to Cracker Jacks, they were a flash in the pan, though. I still fondly remember the plastic trinket prizes, which often required some assembly.

You won't find a diamond in a Cracker Jack box.- Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad, by Meatloaf.

Surprise a peanut.

for some reason the music makes me yearn to go back in time to hug my loved ones.

My aunt was a Cracker Jack freak! She always kept it around up until her death at 90. She had saved the prizes from the early days (back to the 20's) when they were still made of metal. She would pull them out and show us from time to time, she had about 60 or so, some of which were valued around $200-$300 each. We never knew exactly where she hid them and searched all over for them after she passed away but never did find them.