Philliteracy!

[David47Jens]

Canada Dry Ginger Ale? Find a way to get a Lucky in there and you've got the ultimate Jack Benny dessert!

Recipe contest anyone?

Naturally Canada Dry. After you're done eating your meal with the Jell-o Salad (maybe we could have a chocolate sundae sprinkled with Post Grape-Nuts for dessert), you can light up a Lucky.

All of this "mixing" of Benny sponsors reminds me of a topic thread from the old Forum. In fact, that two-day thread began on Jack's birthday, 2004. A few of us (myself included) got a little goofy, and ended up claiming that we'd sprinkled Lucky Strike tobacco over either Quaker Puffed Rice or Quaker Puffed Wheat (both of which sponsored the Dick Tracy radio show rather than Jack's, as many of you out there no doubt know already), or eaten the tobacco "straight." Supposedly the addition of the tobacco was to improve the taste of the Quaker cereals, which I had compared to styrofoam...

Wow, as Yogi Berra would say, "deja vu all over again."

[Maxwell]

Canada Dry Ginger Ale? Find a way to get a Lucky in there and you've got the ultimate Jack Benny dessert!

Recipe contest anyone?

Naturally Canada Dry. After you're done eating your meal with the Jell-o Salad (maybe we could have a chocolate sundae sprinkled with Post Grape-Nuts for dessert), you can light up a Lucky.

All of this "mixing" of Benny sponsors reminds me of a topic thread from the old Forum. In fact, that two-day thread began on Jack's birthday, 2004. A few of us (myself included) got a little goofy, and ended up claiming that we'd sprinkled Lucky Strike tobacco over either Quaker Puffed Rice or Quaker Puffed Wheat (both of which sponsored the Dick Tracy radio show rather than Jack's, as many of you out there no doubt know already), or eaten the tobacco "straight." Supposedly the addition of the tobacco was to improve the taste of the Quaker cereals, which I had compared to styrofoam...

Wow, as Yogi Berra would say, "deja vu all over again."

Comparing Quaker Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice to Styrofoam is doing Styrofoam a great disservice. You'd think that after being shot from guns, you'd at least taste some gunpowder.

Wasn't Sgt. Preston of the Yukon sponsored by Puffed Wheat/Rice, if not on radio then at least on television? I still remember the '60s TV commercials, mainly on "Bewitched," for that stuff with the exploding cannons with the 1812 Overture playing on the soundtrack. BTW, if you're looking for the closest thing in taste to Puffed Wheat/Rice, Quaker makes rice cakes that have the same flavor.

Another product with similar flavor is the starch-based packing material some companies have used to replace styrofoam packing peanuts because the starch based product is water soluble.

(If I ramble too much, just tell me to shut up. I have a tendency to do that.)