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Cracker Jack, the Glossary

Cracker Jack is an American brand of snack food that consists of molasses-flavored, caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts, well known for being packaged with a prize of trivial value inside.^[1]

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Albert Von Tilzer

Albert Von Tilzer (born Albert Gumm, March 29, 1878 – October 1, 1956) was an American songwriter, the younger brother of fellow songwriter Harry Von Tilzer.

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Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

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Borden (company)

Borden, Inc., was an American producer of food and beverage products, consumer products, and industrial products.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, written by George Axelrod, adapted from Truman Capote's 1958 novella of the same name, and starring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, a naïve, eccentric café society girl who falls in love with a struggling writer while attempting to marry for money.

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Caffeine

Caffeine is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant of the methylxanthine class.

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Caramel

Caramel is an orange-brown confectionery product made by heating a range of sugars.

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Caramel corn

Caramel corn or caramel popcorn (toffee popcorn in the UK) is a confection made of popcorn coated with a sugar or molasses based caramel candy shell that is normally less than 1mm thick.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Ceremonial first pitch

The ceremonial first pitch is a longstanding ritual of baseball in which a guest of honor throws a ball to mark the end of pregame festivities and the start of the game. Cracker Jack and ceremonial first pitch are baseball culture.

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Charles F. Gunther

Charles Frederick Gunther (March 6, 1837 – February 10, 1920) was a German-American wealthy confectioner, politician, and collector.

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Chicago Cubs

The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago.

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Coupé de ville

Coupé de ville — also known as town car or sedanca de ville — is a car body style produced from 1908 to 1939 with an external or open-topped driver's position and an enclosed compartment for passengers.

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Crunch 'n Munch

Crunch 'n Munch is an American brand of snack food produced by Conagra Brands consisting of caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts. Cracker Jack and Crunch 'n Munch are popcorn brands.

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Detroit Free Press

The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, US.

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Expansion team

An expansion team is a new team in a sports league, usually from a city that has not hosted a team in that league before, formed with the intention of satisfying the demand for a local team from a population in a new area.

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Federal League

The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs, known simply as the Federal League, was an American professional baseball league that played its first season as a minor league in 1913 and operated as a "third major league", in competition with the established National and American Leagues, from to.

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Fiddle Faddle

Fiddle Faddle is candy-coated popcorn produced by ConAgra Foods. Cracker Jack and Fiddle Faddle are brand name snack foods and popcorn brands.

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Freeport, Illinois

Freeport is the county seat and largest city of Stephenson County, Illinois, United States.

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Frito-Lay

Frito-Lay, Inc. is an American subsidiary of PepsiCo that manufactures, markets, and sells corn chips, potato chips, and other snack foods.

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Google Play

Google Play, also known as the Google Play Store or Play Store and formerly Android Market, is a digital distribution service operated and developed by Google.

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Hank Gowdy

Harry Morgan Gowdy (August 24, 1889 – August 1, 1966) was an American professional baseball player, manager and coach.

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Jack Gilford

Jack Gilford (born Jacob Aaron Gellman; July 25, 1908 – June 4, 1990) was an American Broadway, film, and television actor.

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Jack Norworth

John Godfrey Knauff (January 5, 1879 – September 1, 1959), known professionally as Jack Norworth, was an American songwriter, singer and vaudeville performer.

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Jim Steinman

James Richard Steinman (November 1, 1947 – April 19, 2021) was an American composer, lyricist and record producer.

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Junk food

"Junk food" is a term used to describe food that is high in calories from macronutrients such as sugar and/or fat, and possibly sodium, making it hyperpalatable, but with insufficient dietary fiber, protein, or micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals.

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Lamb Chop (puppet)

Lamb Chop is a sock puppet anthropomorphic sheep created by the puppeteer and ventriloquist Shari Lewis.

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List of popcorn brands

This is a list of notable popcorn brands. Cracker Jack and list of popcorn brands are brand name snack foods and popcorn brands.

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Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs

Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs are an Australian snack food made by the Greens food company. Cracker Jack and Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs are brand name snack foods and popcorn brands.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.

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Marion, Ohio

Marion is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, Ohio, United States.

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Mascot

A mascot is any human, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, sports team, society, military unit, or brand name.

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Meat Loaf

Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday; September 27, 1947 – January 20, 2022), known professionally as Meat Loaf, was an American singer and actor known for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows.

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Miami Marlins

The Miami Marlins are an American professional baseball team based in Miami.

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Mobile app

A mobile application or app is a computer program or software application designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone, tablet, or watch.

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Molasses

Molasses is a viscous byproduct, principally obtained from the refining of sugarcane or sugar beet juice into sugar.

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Monopoly (game)

Monopoly is a multiplayer economics-themed board game.

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New York Yankees

The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx.

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Northbrook, Illinois

Northbrook is a suburb of Chicago, located at the northern edge of Cook County, Illinois, United States, on the border of Lake County.

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Novelty item

A novelty item is an object which is specifically designed to serve no practical purpose, and is sold for its uniqueness, humor, or simply as something new (hence "novelty", or newness).

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Old-Timers' Day

Old-Timers' Day (or Old-Timers' Game) refers to a tradition in Major League Baseball where a team devotes the early afternoon preceding a weekend game to honor retired players who played for the organization during their careers.

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Peanut

The peanut (Arachis hypogaea), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), goober pea, pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.

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PepsiCo

PepsiCo, Inc. is an American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation headquartered in Harrison, New York, in the hamlet of Purchase.

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Popcorn

Popcorn (also called popped corn, popcorns, or pop-corn) is a variety of corn kernel which expands and puffs up when heated; the same names also refer to the foodstuff produced by the expansion.

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Poppycock

Poppycock is a brand of candied popcorn. Cracker Jack and Poppycock are popcorn brands.

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Prize (marketing)

Prizes are promotional items—small toys, games, trading cards, collectables, and other small items of nominal value—found in packages of brand-name retail products (or available from the retailer at the time of purchase) that are included in the price of the product (at no extra cost) with the intent to boost sales, similar to toys in kid's meals.

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QR code

A QR code (quick-response code) is a type of two-dimensional matrix barcode, invented in 1994, by Japanese company Denso Wave for labelling automobile parts.

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Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium

Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, commonly known as RFK Stadium and originally known as District of Columbia Stadium, is a defunct multi-purpose stadium in Washington, D.C. It is located about due east of the U.S. Capitol building, near the west bank of the Anacostia River and next to the D.C. Armory.

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Scientific American

Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.

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Screaming Yellow Zonkers

Screaming Yellow Zonkers was a popcorn snack food, produced and marketed by Lincoln Snacks in the United States from 1968 to 2007, with subsequent limited editions. Cracker Jack and Screaming Yellow Zonkers are brand name snack foods and popcorn brands.

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Secret decoder ring

A secret decoder ring (or secret decoder) is a device that allows one to decode a simple substitution cipher—or to encrypt a message by working in the opposite direction.

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Shari Lewis

Shari Lewis (born Phyllis Naomi Hurwitz; January 17, 1933 – August 2, 1998) was a Peabody-winning American ventriloquist, puppeteer, children's entertainer, television show host, dancer, singer, actress, author, and symphony conductor.

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Shoeless Joe Jackson

Joseph Jefferson Jackson (July 16, 1887 – December 5, 1951), nicknamed "Shoeless Joe", was an American outfielder who played Major League Baseball (MLB) in the early 1900s.

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Snack

A snack is a small portion of food generally eaten between meals.

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Standard (music)

In music, a standard is a musical composition of established popularity, considered part of the "standard repertoire" of one or several genres.

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Super Bowl XXXIII

Super Bowl XXXIII was an American football game played between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion and defending Super Bowl XXXII champion Denver Broncos and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Atlanta Falcons to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1998 season.

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Take Me Out to the Ball Game

"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of North American baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game before writing the song. Cracker Jack and Take Me Out to the Ball Game are baseball culture.

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Tattoo

A tattoo is a form of body modification made by inserting tattoo ink, dyes, and/or pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to form a design.

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The Washington Star

The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C., between 1852 and 1981.

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Tiffany & Co.

Tiffany & Co. (colloquially known as Tiffany's) is an American luxury jewelry and specialty design house headquartered on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Cracker Jack and Tiffany & Co. are American brands.

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Toffee

Toffee is an English confection made by caramelizing sugar or molasses (creating inverted sugar) along with butter, and occasionally flour.

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TootsieToy

Tootsietoy is a manufacturer of die cast toy cars and other toy vehicles which was originally based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Trademark

A trademark (also written trade mark or trade-mark) is a type of intellectual property consisting of a recognizable sign, design, or expression that identifies a product or service from a particular source and distinguishes it from others.

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Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

"Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" is a power ballad performed by the American musician Meat Loaf.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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World's Columbian Exposition

The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.

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World's fair

A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition or an expo, is a large global exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations.

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Wrigley Field

Wrigley Field is a ballpark on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.

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Wyandot Snacks

Wyandot Snacks is a privately held and family owned American contract manufacturer of snacks and other packaged foods, headquartered in Marion, Ohio, a part of the Columbus, Ohio Combined statistical area.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_Jack

Also known as Bingo, the Cracker Jack Dog, Bingo, the Cracker Jacks Dog, Cornball, Cracker Jack Sailor, Cracker Jack'D, Cracker Jacks, Cracker Jacks Sailor, Cracker Jill, Sailor Jack, Sailor Jack & Bingo, Sailor Jack and Bingo, The Cracker Jack Company.

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Cracker Jack, the Glossary

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See also

Cuisine of Chicago

Frito-Lay brands

Popcorn brands

Products introduced in 1896

References