The product is too cheap to be associated with!
I remember opening something, because the prizes were always a surprise until you opened the little package inside the box.
I also remember getting one of those ring-whisltes that when you blow into them they make a siren like sound.
Just had a bag as well. The 10 or so peanuts were all at the bottom of the bag. Oh, and the prize? It was a picture of two mountaineers that you’re supposed to slip onto a pencil. Sound familiar?
I was born in 1958 too. The best cracker jack prize I got was a little plastic puzzle box that, when put together properly, became a little plastic car. That was a great prize. But there came a time when you would always get that crappy fake moustache that would clip into your nostrils. It seemed like that was in every box. I think that started happening in the late 60’s some time.
Your parents were liberal. My mom took a Crackerjack prize away from me once. It was a plastic, one-piece, non-functional gun, the size of your thumb, but she disapproved of weapons of any kind. Talk about your reactionary gun control!
Years ago I read some article on why, as a matter of basic materials and physics, pecans always wind up on the bottom of mixed nuts containers.
A very SD question. Wish I had it handy.
Perhaps it would offer you some solace.
The plastic whistles were cool. They were loud if you blew them hard enough. I remember the only time I ever ate a lot of Cracker Jacks was at church camp one summer. The strangest prize was a paint set- a paper affair about one inch square. It had tear-off paper “brushes”, spots of paint colors, and a picture to paint into.
Moved to Cafe Society.
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I think you’ve got the answer. Also, some kids (And adults) have a peanut allergy.
Maybe they should put on some kind of edible toy. And instead of nuts, maybe something like dried fruit. (Sweetened of course) 
Along these lines, but VERY SCARY:
i read recently that cracker jacks is going to introduce a new product in a few months, call it C-JACK or something similar- it’ll contain more caffeine than an energy drink and marketed to the Red Bull Crowd…
Now that would be a cool toy… especially with the mustache obsession that’s been going on!
No, they sucked…the little clips were not comfortable at all!
They don’t still make Screaming Yellow Zonkers, do they?
(I first became aware of those when one of my hippie friends came back from the store with some, and another chided her for having “fallen for crass commercialism.”)