My Mom had a set of glasses that she ‘earned’ by buying groceries at a local store. She may have had some dishware as well.
I hadn’t thought of those in a long, long time!
This popped up in my utube feed today. Very enjoyable blast from the past.
I remember those juice tumbler jars having pimento cheese spread or old English cheddar spread in them rather than Cheese Whiz. Cheese Whiz was/is sold in a larger jar.
The Kraft pimento cheese hasn’t disappeared though, it’s still made but is hit or miss to find, so it (cheese spread in juice 5 oz glass jars) doesn’t qualify either.
So cheese once was sold in glasses in the US? I’ve never seen that…
Well, Cheez Whiz, which is not necessarily what Europeans would call actual “cheese.” It’s a “processed cheese sauce and spread.”
A few examples of such glasses; it looks like a lot of the examples I can find in Google Images are from a relatively recent (2004?) promotion they did with the NHL.
“One ringy-dingy,” [snort] “Two ringy-dingy…”
I’m sure it is a specialty… 
Could be. They were pretty small glasses, with 5 or 6 flat facets on the bottom edge of the glass. Welch’s Grape jelly containers were used as drink glasses too. Supposedly, Shampoo used to be supplied in glass bottles, probably not the greatest idea in a bathroom/bathtub.
They’re still going strong at Brazilian steakhouses like Fogo de Chão.
In the late 1970s Gulf 76 Oil started the fad of car radio antenna toppers. Theirs was a round orange ball with 76 on it. The advertising was that in a sea of lookalike cars in a big parking lot, you’ll easily find your car if its antenna has an orange ball on it. It was a good gimmick, and a great way to get people to advertise your product for you. (Sometimes there was more than one orange ball visible, which just shows how well the advertising was working.)
Later on others jumped on the fad, some for advertising and some just for fun. The funny sagurro cactus was quite common. They don’t exist much anymore, since so few cars actually have radio antennas.
I wanted (but never managed to get) a Jack antenna ball. I’m sure JitB will bring them out again in the future. I hope.
Cars absolutely still do have radio antennas, but they are smaller and much less obvious than the old vertical aerials of the past.
Homer Simpson: “You know those balls that they put on car antennas so you can find them in the parking lot? Those should be on EVERY CAR!”
Do you mean Union 76?
Our small, rural no-stoplight town in Minnesota had a Gulf gas station, so that’s where I first saw it. Their logo was a bright orange ball, and they certainly gave out the toppers. However, only Union 76 toppers show up on eBay, hence my confusion.
Our family didn’t normally shop there, but they had some great promotions. When they advertised their wonderful We Came in Peace Apollo book, I was able to convince someone in my family to buy it for me. They also had a really cool lunar module model kit made out of punch out cardboard. Maybe space promotions or other gas station promotions is another thing that we no longer see (like the glasses you could get with every fill up as mentioned earlier).
Plus, the Union 76 and Gulf logos were both round, and both had similar color schemes.
Gulf stations particularly gave those away during the Apollo 11 mission. I was 4 years old, and already obsessed with the space program, and I wound up with three of those kits, built up: one made for me by my dad, and two more given to me by neighbors.
Not Cheez-Whiz in my location, but the same idea. For us, it was some brand of peanut butter, and when you were finished the jar, you had a nice glass with a picture of a horse on it. There were different breeds of horses pictured; I think our family eventually collected the entire set.
I also remember gas station giveaways; usually drinking glasses, but sometimes other things. Buy over a certain amount of fuel, and you got a free glass Problem was, that I drove a Honda Civic with a small tank, and I had to be practically running on fumes before I could fill the tank with enough fuel to get a glass,
At least in California, my folks got a lot of stuff from Shell gas stations. The things I remember most are a truckload ( more than 20, I think?) of steak knives and two different designs of smokey gray drinking glasses. I think my mom still uses the knives, and she has a few of the glasses, too, but probably only 3-4 of each design. At one time, my parents had at least eight of each.
And the Kraft cheese glasses were repurposed as juice glasses at home. I miss those cheeses. Except for the pineapple cheese. That shit was horrific.
Vinyl LP Christmas albums from Firestone, steak knives for a fill up. And the Sinclair dinosaur, which eluded me. Thanks a lot, Mom and Dad. It’s a good thing I didn’t know anything about psychology in those days, or I would have been scarred for life.
I want some!