Cowboy Crunchies

This Toy Story postcard is designed to look like an advertisement for breakfast cereal. The detail is accurate to the teeniest bit to make this look like a real ad. There is one detail that does depart from the usual, though. In the upper right, under the "Woody's Roundup," there is a label that reads, "Pixar Farms Digital Food® Diamond Calif." Yum ... digital food.

Kristin adopted this postcard because of its relationship to a friend's worked in an old-time radio program called "Rick Luger: Private Dick," a hard-boiled detective series for kids. I can't figure out if the radio program really did exist in the 1940s (the era in which it is set) or if it the on-stage production that tours in western USA is just a play on the radio programs of that time.

Whatever the case may be, "Rick Luger: Private Dick" also includes realistic advertisements for products aimed at children, like breakfast cereal. Kristin notes one particular "ad" that features one child playing a cowboy telling his friend, who is playing the Indian,  "only real Americans can enjoy Snappy's Crunch & Wheat." The audience's laugh is a painful one, because it is a reminder of 1940s race relations in the US. Or perhaps, a reminder of how attitudes are starting to return to those days.