Hey people who are old enough to remember these ads in the back of comic books,

@DrWatson there was also garlic gum and that stuff Peewee Herman gave to Francis(?) on Peewee's Big Adventure. It has some kind of black dye in it that makes it look like youre chewing ink.

@Jayciedubb Yes ! That’s what I remember that gum was about, as a practical joke.

@bijouxbroussard yes. My sister sent away for 2 packs of it. ..it came like Wrigley's doublemint in a feneric wrapper and you were supposed to rewrap it in whatever wrapper you were trying to pass it off as. ..but it was rock hard. Lol and the black ink stuff had too much powder on it trying to hide the dark spot on the gum. Idk if she ever got anyone to fall for it.

My thing was those little cigarette loads that looked like chunks of toothpicks that would explode when burned. They came in a little, round, red and white tin. But i never had to send away for them. ..they could be found at basically any corner store. ..especially the ones that sold those hot cinnamon toothpicks..

@LadyGrace good childhood memories!

@ServantOfTheGoddess yeh

@badminton yes, those ones!!
Surely somebody must have actually bought a pair... ?

@badminton 😄where are mine ?

@ElwoodBlues cool, thank you!

@Luckylu yeah, How is the writing going?

@BLP11520 You now gave me another subject to write about. 🤣

@Luckylu I did??

@Degbeme any regrets?

@saragoodtimes nah ... I was pretty sure they didn`t work.

@Jayciedubb that handycam sounds evil!

@ServantOfTheGoddess yea. . The thing about Sony is that they make some amazing lenses. They bought Minolta years ago and took their lens technology to another level. That's why their cameras aren't so high with their megapixel count because they dont need to because of their lens quality.

@sarabee1995 It was actually advertised, this I can attest to. According to some of the replies here it did actually exist, sort of!

@sarabee1995 It was, although of course it didn’t really work. But I’m sure some boys spent their pennies hoping !

@bijouxbroussard I always wondered about those too!!

Were they alive? I'm sure they didn't look anything like the humanoid creatures in the pictures in the ad!

@ServantOfTheGoddess They were alive, basically. But they were nothing at all like what was expected I don’t remember how they lasted, but it wasn’t that long.

@bijouxbroussard It's so weird when I think about it. What genius had the idea of packaging shrimp and shipping them to kids under the pretence of being interesting monkey-like pets? The mind boggles.