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I like the oddball sets if they look cool to me 

2 years ago Eggo waffles had Star Wars Mandalorian cards on them.  I ate a lot of waffles.

Yes!

I really miss food issues, and other oddball sets. They were so much fun to collect back in the day, and they've all but dried up now. The designs these companies came up with were good, bad, and sometimes ugly, but always different than what you'd get from the big manufacturers.

I loved them, and I wish more companies would return to cards as a form of marketing.

Sigh.

My favorites were from Mother's cookies. The cards were plain looking, the cookies were ok tasting, but put them together and it was the greatest thing ever to come home from the grocery store.

I have binders of many of these sets, complete and partially completed. Companies that only issued sets for one or two years are in binders by alphabetical order of the companies. Companies such as Post, Kelloggs, Drakes, Denny's & McDonald's have their own binders. As with all cards, the vintage sets are still my preference, e.g. Post 1961-1963 and the 1970s Kelloggs sets.

Those mini cards you used to get inside a bag of potato chips (Humpty Dumpty & Fritos-Lays) wrapped in cellophane to protect them. Good stuff.

Do you remember the Vachon hockey cards? Do you have any of those left?

I have both the Humpty Dumpty and the Hostess sets. I only collect baseball so I don't have nor am I familiar with the Vachon cards.

I do remember the hockey cards on the boxes of the Lipton chicken noodle soup back in the 1970s. The good thing there was that you could actually buy the boxes with the cards you needed as the cards faced outwards. I think there were also Kraft Dinner cards in similar fashion.

The only hockey set I put together since was the two years where Post cereal had Gretzky on seven different boxes. I have both the sets of cards and the sets of boxes. Again there, the card you got in the box was the one pictured on the box. Easy to complete.

We had a lot of food issues in New Zealand during the 90s when I grew up. They covered both sport and non sport.

We often referred to them as Weetbix cards, as Sanatarium NZ was the most common distributor in the breakfast cerals and Weetbix was the most common.

In recent years I have noticed Sanatarium has started producing some card sets again, predominantly (exclusively?) rugby.

I must admit I didn't get too excited by collecting these, likely because we didn't eat enough cereal to build complete sets! I do have a scattering of random cards floating around though and should track down checklists to include them here. One day...

Member @Rugby36 has done a great job of entering the rugby sets.

Petrol stations, usually Shell from memory, were also in on the 90s card binge. They had rugby, cricket and "Cars of the World" releases. I have good stacks of the original rugby release, cricket and Cars - when they got near the end of the promotion stations would just give away stacks of the cards so my brothers and I made the most of that!

My favorite set was 1993 Hostess. If I remember right, they were only available with the baseball shaped cupcakes. At least that what I ate boxes and boxes of that summer to get the set. They re-released the cupcakes again a couple years ago, but with no cards. I tried one. It was not as good as I remembered lol

https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/48416/1993-Hostess