I think you are a few years younger than some of us and I think I'm younger than some others so we will all have some certain pinpoint products that we really remember. However, every one of these products was on the shelves alongside all the products that were spoofed in the 70s so nothing here is obscure. A bunch are still around today. It's like I said before; none of us knew most if not half of the products in each series as kids. As adults we have such a memory of the stickers and have figured out the products through the hobby that they are stuck in our heads by now. I was 4-7 years old in the Wacky heyday and I can honestly say like you I probably only knew toys and candy, some cereals and anything that could relate to me as a kid like Wonder Bread or Skippy peanut butter. Stuff like that. Cigarettes? Cleaning products? Pet food? Etc, nope. I don't think it's a big deal if you don't know some of them. The nice thing now is the Internet is ripe with info on them so a quick Google search will educate anyone on the product and maybe jar some memories.
The 80s will come...
Well, for what it's worth, I am 51 years old. When I looked through the OS2 titles there was just the one I could not identify the corresponding product (the TV dinners). I thought maybe it was a regional thing not
available here in the Midwest but my wife remembered it. So in my eyes, you hit a home run in terms of product familiarity. Along with that, we all have products we either enjoyed or felt some type of kin-ship with for whatever reason. There were certainly several of those in this release as well. I was a big Mr. Salty pretzel fan.
I was 14 when WPs started hitting the stores where I lived. Perhaps I am showing that I watched way too much TV, but I only remember a few times where my friends and I were stumped as to the actual product being spoofed in the original series. Even at 14, we knew all the cigarette and liquor brands from the television commercials and magazine ads (don't under-estimate the power that magazine advertising had back then). I would skim through my Mom's GOOD HOUSEKEEPING magazines when bored just to look for pictures and at adverts. For example, I didn't even dream of ever wearing dentures at that age, but we were exposed to all the commercials for denture adhesives and cleansers and knew the brand names. The ones more likely to stump us were food items we were not familiar with... maybe foodstuffs for "older folks".
So perhaps I was the dream child of Madison Avenue and absorbed all the advertising thrown out there, but Wackies always seemed to be very tuned into my knowledge sphere of products. You have done an excellent job in keeping with that tradition with the OS2 release.
