Even as an adult I learned that the company who made these never meant for kids to get a free sucker if you turn this in.
Yet when I was a kid our local convince store did honor this. If you got the Native American with the star I could turn it in for a free one.
I never heard about the Native American bit, but as a kid in the early '90s, we always looked for the star. Rumor around school was that you could win a prize if you found a wrapper with a star, but no one knew how to redeem it.
Well for us it was the star and the native, but the star was always next to the native so some would say to find “look for the indain with the bow”
When I was growing up in the late 90s, we’d walk to 7/11 and buy tootsie pops for a quarter and bazooka gum for a dime. They would honor tootsie pop wrapper for a free one
We’d wear one glove on our hand and put our trousers on backwards, which was the style at the time.
Kris Kross’ll make you JUMP, JUMP!
I missed the bus. And that is something that I’ll never ever do again. 🎶
Yep I never had a store that didn’t honor that as a kid. Wonder if any store would still honor that today?
I’ve seen the story many times that the company never intended for the star to mean you won a free sucker, but I have yet to see an explanation for why the star is there on some, but not on others.
The printed pattern is larger than individual wrappers. You could say the same about any of the graphics only appearing sometimes.
I didn’t learn that it was something the store were doing until saw it on Reddit in my late 30’s. It true even then no one had an explanation for that.
