General Forum

Some of my most prized and sought after are the Morrell Meats and Bell Brand Dodgers cards of the late 50's and early 60's. Even beat to heck, they're hard to come by at a decent price.

I feel like today's hoarding society would kind of ruin it. I used to love picking out a different Drake's snack each week to get the whole set. Today some jabroni would definitely go to my local market and buy them all out before it hit the shelf. But definitely a great era and a cheap way to potentially get a kid into the hobby. I used to love the mini box sets too like KMart. 

A local bread company (Aunt Millie's) did a Cubs set in 2013. One plastic wrapped card in each loaf of bread. I don't know how many loaves I bought where the card was gone. I fed all the bread to the birds because obviously someone was opening them and taking the cards out and then returning them to the shelves. Gross.

I've only recently (within the last 2years or less) gotten involved with collecting some oddball/food issue sets but I've really enjoyed them.  They provide an opportunity to collect more cards of favorite players/teams from a time (pre-1981) when Topps was really the only name in the game.  For my PC there are several Cleveland Indians players who were not featured on Topps cards but made appearances in Post, Kahns, Red Man, Hostess, Kelloggs, Milton Bradley, or other oddball sets. 

The Vachon set was one of my favourites back in the 80s (although I didn't complete it until 2016), and was perhaps the inspiration for the base O-Pee-Chee/Topps design two years later.

I love the food / regional sets. I have a binder with various corporate logos on the card. Seems like almost every major fast food chain has done at least one set.

NGL, I was at the grocery store today and looked through the cereal aisle hoping that Post had cards...

I miss the days of cards being everywhere and made from any subject. 

I remember having everyone in my family saving milk cartons because there were cards on the sides.  I'd buy snacks that I didn't even like because they had random cards in them.  And Wonder Bread having Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica... that was amazing!

And then you'd find cards for sale everywhere from department stores, to drug stores, to even ice cream shops, and they would have sets from every movie and TV show you could think of. 

The closest odd ball glory I've seen in recent years was the 2017 Little Debbie Star Wars Rancho Obi Wan set where the cards were made of collectable items of each character, so instead of a picture of Chewbacca on the card, it was a card with a picture of a Chewbacca mug.  That was about as odd an odd ball set as you could get.  I probably put on 10 pounds buying more little Debbie snacks than I should have, and I'm not even close to having that set complete.