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Wacky Packages

October 31, 2009 By Jay Brooks

halloween
I kept looking at those four spoof beer labels that I posted earlier today for Hoppy Halloween because they reminded me of something, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Then it hit me: Wacky Packages, those weird parody stickers that Topps debuted in 1967. Like most eight-year olds at the time, they were quite popular with me and my friends. What I didn’t realize is that they’ve continued to make them almost ever since. The Wacky Packages Website has a complete listing of all the Wacky Packages put out over the years and Topps even continues to maintain a new “official” Wacky Packages website. Not surprisingly, there have been several beer spoofs done, the first one being the very first year. It was a spoof of Schlitz, then one of the most popular beer brands.

wp-schlitz

Later ones included most of the other popular national beer brands and a few originals, like Long Line Beer, from 1981. A search of the website revealed nine different beer brands, with some variations of Pabst and a few additional beer-related ones for other products.

wp-long-line

Below is a slideshow of all of the beer-themed Wacky Packages I found, including one of port wine just because I liked it and a few that are only beer-related.

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers, Just For Fun Tagged With: Halloween



Comments

  1. Bill (It's Pub Night) says

    October 31, 2009 at 3:22 pm

    But the Schmutz one was never issued back in the day. A couple months ago I blogged about a book that has the first seven series of Wacky Packages (1973-74). Even though there were 19 cigarette/cigar parodies, the only beer one in those first batches was the Pabst parody (Blast Blew Ribbon).

    I wouldn’t be surprised if fear of MADD and other Just-Say-No agitators would keep them from doing any beer/liquor ones nowadays.

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