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 Posted - April 09 2023 : 01:23:25 AM
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Pasted from the HO Collector:
The Consolidated Foods Era
Consolidated Foods purchased TYCO in 1970, and manufacturing was shifted from New Jersey to Hong Kong. Consolidated Foods would later change its name to Sara Lee, though Norman Tyler remained as an executive with the new company. This change in ownership ushers in the “brown-box” period for collectors. Prior to 1970, TYCO offered models that reflected fairly accurate prototypes. After 1970, TYCO’s offerings wander into a fantasy world of unprototypical models. It is this interesting period that provides modelers and collectors with such items as a Popsicle and StarKist Tuna box cars and various Bicentennial locomotives. Looked down upon by serious hobbyists, these items none the less have found favor among those who enjoyed them as kids and now enjoy collecting them as adults.
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Posted - April 09 2023 : 10:10:10 AM
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Aunt Jemima - changed to Pearl Milling Co. June 2021
Ken-L-Ration - last used in 1996 Sold to Retro Brands in 2002
Puss'n Boots Cat Foods - discontinued in the 1970s Relaunched in 2011
Quaker Cereals are still made! 
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