Posted on 08/21/2018 4:12:50 AM PDT by Daffynition
BOSTON (CBS) – Animal crackers are being released from their cages after 116 years.
You may not recognize the packaging of Nabisco’s classic treat Barnum’s Animals crackers the next time you’re in the grocery store.
The exotic animals – a zebra, elephant, lion, giraffe and gorilla – pictured on the box are no longer behind bars, but featured roaming around grass and trees.
The package redesign comes after pressure from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The group called for a change saying the outdated boxes showed the exploitation and cruelty animals are subjected to in the circus.
Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus shut down because of slow ticket sales in May 2017.
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I remember when the box turned into a circus wagon. The wheels were perforated.
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That’s right! I forgot about that!
i hope they are leaving the ones with pink frosting alone.
>>You get them BECAUSE they are old-fashioned.<<
Good point. I wonder if Boomers/Gen-X,Y will subconsciously eschew them with the new packaging.
I don’t buy them b/c they taste like packed sawdust.
If you look closely at the box in post 1, you can see there is a fold-up holder with finger holes. In the photo it is folded down for shipping.
If you look closely at the box in post 1, you can see there is a fold-up holder with finger holes. In the photo it is folded down for shipping.
Like you, we anticipated to
he annual arrival of the circus to town.
It was wonderful and I brought my own children to RB & BB circus. It was part of our custom and heritage. Gunther Gebel-Williams was such a fabulous showman.
The great Hartford circus fire, still lives in the memory from my childhood. So tragic... and Little Miss 1565.
https://connecticuthistory.org/the-hartford-circus-fire/
As fate would have it, I taught at the school that was built on the site of the tragic circus fire. Custodians tell of hearing *screams* in the hallways of the school at night.
>:D
Aren’t we *supposed* to ask them first?
Chinese handcuffs! or is that “reicis” now. Going the way of the Chinese fire drill.
Probably.:p
only the monkey wears pants.
“I mock you with my monkey pants.”
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