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Lip-smackin’, whip-crackin’, paddy- whackin’, Cracker Jack! (1080 views, 8 replies)

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"Take Me Out To the Ball Game" - Dan Dailey & The Andrews Sisters - 1949



"Celebrating the Hidden Child In Us All"

"Wha-dda you want

When you gotta eat somethin’
And it’s gotta be sweet
And it’s gotta be a lot
And you gotta have it now

Whadda you want? ...

Lip-smackin’, whip-crackin’, paddy- whackin’, knickin’-knackin’, silver-rackin’, scoundrel-whackin’, cracker-jackin’

Cracker Jack!"


Homemade Cracker Jack

Ingredients:

10 cups of freshly-popped popcorn (or a 3.5-oz bag of microwave popcorn, plain)
1 & 1/2 cups light or dark brown sugar (they both work)
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted
2 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon salt
1 & 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup lightly salted peanuts


Directions:
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<br> <br> <br> A Little Cracker Jack History <br> <br> In 1893, popcorn makers Frederick and Louis Rueckheim were determined to give the puffed kernels a new twist. The two brothers threw molasses and peanuts into the mix, and unveiled the sweet and salty treat at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. <br> <br> A few years later, they developed a special formula to keep the ingredients from sticking together that remains a secret to this day. <br> <br> A satisfied taster pronounced the new and improved snack “crackerjack,” using a slang term of the era that roughly translates to “awesome.” The Rueckheims trademarked the expression. <br> <br> A decade later Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer immortalized it in the classic song “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” Amazingly, it would be years before the two songwriters saw an actual game of baseball. <br> <br> <br> Fun Cracker Jack Facts <br> <br> Boston’s Fenway Park sells roughly 1,200 bags of Cracker Jack per game. <br> <br> During World War II, the Cracker Jack company produced thousands of non-perishable, ready-to-eat meals known as K-rations that troops could easily carry and store. ...
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@caseyanne Man o man I wish I'd saved mine!

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Loved the cheap little prizes. Now you get a stupid little paper with a tattoo on it. Cracker jacks is a tradition!

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@fortunate1 Yep, I remember when I was a little kid, you actually had little plastic toy things you could put together.... was so much fun.... now just junk basically... smiley smiley And not only that, you might get five whole frickin peanuts in the box and that's it? It' not like peanuts are expensive, are they? smiley

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@𝓜𝓸𝓾𝓼𝓮*🐭 The peanuts are the best part! Peanuts are very expensive around my area.

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@fortunate1 All nuts seem to be pretty pricey! And they never put enough of the peanuts in my opinion!

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All of the prises in that picture, except for the knife are static toys, they dont do anything, but I still have some from the 60's that actually did things. little train circus cars with an animal and when you roll them the giraffe goes up and down. Mini squirt guns, little compasses, cool stuff, and i agree with a commment above, what happened to all the peanuts?

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