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Even as an adult I learned that the company who made these never meant for kids to get a free sucker if you turn this in.

Yet when I was a kid our local convince store did honor this. If you got the Native American with the star I could turn it in for a free one.

Just bit of an edit. I have 65 pack of these an so far if the star not there neither is the Native American on the wrapper. Which just goes back to for what reason the two are connected.

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[โ€“] Xyre@lemmus.org 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I heard this as a kid too. I remember saving up ~10 of them to mail in.

I did get back a letter explaining that it wasn't a thing and a few coupons for buying more. So, still a win?

[โ€“] Carrot@lemmy.today 12 points 3 days ago

I never mailed mine in, my local grocery store would trade them for a free tootsie pop