70s Childhood: This or That?

[sprytel]

Actually, instead of Hershey or Nestle -- I was always a Chunky guy

My mom called me "husky"... but I know what you mean.

[EmergencyIan]

1) Brady Bunch or Partridge Family? Brady Bunch
2) Chips Ahoy or Oreo? Neither
3) Cap'n Crunch or Freakies? Cap'n Crunch
4) Happy Days or Welcome Back Kotter? Happy Days
5) Wacky Packages or Star Wars trading cards? Star Wars
6) Bike or skateboard? Bike
7) Six Million Dollar Man or GIJoe action figures? GI Joe
8) Star Trek or Planet Of The Apes Megos? Star Trek
9) Pro-Keds or Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers? Chuck Taylor
10) Creamsicle or Fudgesicle? Fudgesicle
11) Hershey's or Nestle's Crunch candy bars? Nestlé's Crunch
12) Garbage Pail candy or Fun Dip? Fun Dip
13) Superman or Batman Ben Cooper costumes? Batman
14) Baloney or ham and cheese sandwiches? Ham and cheese
15) Superfriends or Jonny Quest cartoons? Superfriends

- Ian

[thunderbolt]

1) Brady Bunch or Partridge Family? Bradys
2) Chips Ahoy or Oreo? Oreo dunked in milk
3) Cap'n Crunch or Freakies? Cap'n
4) Happy Days or Welcome Back Kotter? tie
5) Wacky Packages or Star Wars trading cards? tie
6) Bike or skateboard? Bike
7) Six Million Dollar Man or GIJoe action figures? GI Joe and still to this day.
8) Star Trek or Planet Of The Apes Megos? Trek
9) Pro-Keds or Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers? uhh, don't remember, whatever KMart had
10) Creamsicle or Fudgesicle? Fudgicle
11) Hershey's or Nestle's Crunch candy bars? Hershey with nuts
12) Garbage Pail candy or Fun Dip? Garbage pail or any of its clones, coffin, mailbox
13) Superman or Batman Ben Cooper costumes? Batman
14) Baloney or ham and cheese sandwiches? the ham with the built in cheese
15) Superfriends or Jonny Quest cartoons? Jonny Quest could not stand the Wonder Twins or the Juniors, so I had a really hard time watching them.

[knight errant00]

1) Brady Bunch or Partridge Family? Brady Bunch
2) Chips Ahoy or Oreo? Oreo
3) Cap'n Crunch or Freakies? Freakies
4) Happy Days or Welcome Back Kotter? Close, but Happy Days
5) Wacky Packages or Star Wars trading cards? No question, Star Wars trading cards!
6) Bike or skateboard? Bike
7) Six Million Dollar Man or GIJoe action figures? AT GI Joe
8) Star Trek or Planet Of The Apes Megos? Dedicated Trekkie from 1st grade on!
9) Pro-Keds or Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers? Whatever my Mom found cheap
10) Creamsicle or Fudgesicle? Fudgesicle
11) Hershey's or Nestle's Crunch candy bars? Hershey's paticularly the minis
12) Garbage Pail candy or Fun Dip? Fun Dip
13) Superman or Batman Ben Cooper costumes? Batman. Several times.
14) Baloney or ham and cheese sandwiches? Baloney
15) Superfriends or Jonny Quest cartoons? I wanted to love Superfriends, but was always disappointed. Jonny Quest always delivered!

[Klosterheim]

1) Brady Bunch or Partridge Family? Neither
2) Chips Ahoy or Oreo? Oreo and fudge stripes.
3) Cap'n Crunch or Freakies? Cap'n Crunch
4) Happy Days or Welcome Back Kotter? Neither Barney Miller, maybe.
5) Wacky Packages or Star Wars trading cards? Star Wars
6) Bike or skateboard? Bike
7) Six Million Dollar Man or GIJoe action figures? GIJoe action figures
8) Star Trek or Planet Of The Apes Megos? Star Trek Both.
9) Pro-Keds or Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers? Converse
10) Creamsicle or Fudgesicle? Creamsicle Scooter Crunch, really.
11) Hershey's or Nestle's Crunch candy bars? Hershey's
12) Garbage Pail candy or Fun Dip? Neither Swedish Fish, maybe.
13) Superman or Batman Ben Cooper costumes? Batman Later, Boba Fett.
14) Baloney or ham and cheese sandwiches? ham and cheese Chipped, not stirred.
15) Superfriends or Jonny Quest cartoons? Superfriends Certainly Both.

[C.H.O.A.M.]

1) Brady Bunch or Partridge Family? as a kid, probably the Bradys. but after watching both on retro tv, the Partridge family. it's really funny, not just corny. and oh yeah, Susan Dey!
2) Chips Ahoy or Oreo? Chips Ahoy
3) Cap'n Crunch or Freakies? Freakies (I still have a few of the magnets!) but as someone else said, Quisp!!!
4) Happy Days or Welcome Back Kotter? both, but probably Kotter as I got older. plus Marcia Strassman!
5) Wacky Packages or Star Wars trading cards? wacky packs. my old bedroom door is still covered with the stickers!
6) Bike or skateboard? bike. as a kid, if you had no bike, you were nowhere, man. how could you get around?
7) Six Million Dollar Man or GIJoe action figures? had both, but the 12" Joes were so much more usable!
8) Star Trek or Planet Of The Apes Megos? had a few of each, but probably apes.
9) Pro-Keds or Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers? Buster Brown!
10) Creamsicle or Fudgesicle? fudgesicle
11) Hershey's or Nestle's Crunch candy bars? nestle crunch
12) Garbage Pail candy or Fun Dip? fun dip (or lick 'm aid!) jeez, powdered sugar with a solid sugar stick
13) Superman or Batman Ben Cooper costumes? Bats. my mom also made me a custom batman halloween costume that was awesome!
14) Baloney or ham and cheese sandwiches? baloney (and chickenroll)
15) Superfriends or Jonny Quest cartoons? Superfriends. yes, I hated the Wonder Twins. Can you imagine if we had cartoons of today's quality? JLA, Batman Beyond, BTAS, STAS, X-Men... animated feature length movies? an entire cartoon network??? cartoons not just on saturday mornings but 24/7????

[TRDouble]

1) Brady Bunch or Partridge Family?
2) Chips Ahoy or Oreo?
3) Cap'n Crunch or Freakies?
4) Happy Days or Welcome Back Kotter?
5) Wacky Packages or Star Wars trading cards?
6) Bike or skateboard?
7) Six Million Dollar Man or GIJoe action figures? ...at least until G.I. Joe: RAH figures in the 80s
8) Star Trek or Planet Of The Apes Megos?
9) Pro-Keds or Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers?
10) Creamsicle or Fudgesicle?
11) Hershey's or Nestle's Crunch candy bars? ...prefer Hershey's as an adult
12) Garbage Pail candy or Fun Dip?
13) Superman or Batman Ben Cooper costumes?
14) Baloney or ham and cheese sandwiches? ...neither! Fried salami... mmmm!
15) Superfriends or Jonny Quest cartoons?

[jwyblejr]

Let's see.....

1. I'd go with the Bradys.
2.Oreo.
3.Neither. I usually had Raisin Bran.
4.Kotter. I always thought Horshak was underrated.
5.Neither. Did have a bunch of Empire Strikes Back cards when they came out.
6.Bike.
7.Neither. My uncle who was 10 years older than me did have G.I.Joe though.
8.Trek. Was a bigger Trek fan back then.
9.Neither. It was whatever I got from either Ames or Jamesway.
10.Neither. I prefer Good Humor's Strawberry Shortcake ice cream.
11.Hershey's.
12.Neither. I liked Pop Rocks until the whole rumor of Mickey from Life cereal died from having them with a Coke.
13.Neither. More than likely a Star Wars one.
14.Baloney. What I use to do was take a slice of baloney and a slice of cheese,break up the cheese,put it on the baloney with some ketchup and call it a 'pizza'.
15.Superfriends.

[Captain Big Trousers]

* UK/Australian childhood here.

1) Brady Bunch or Partridge Family? Both but only for Marcia and Laurie. I was an early developer.
2) Chips Ahoy or Oreo? Jaffa Cakes and Tim Tams.
3) Cap'n Crunch or Freakies? Toast.
4) Happy Days or Welcome Back Kotter? Both.
5) Wacky Packages or Star Wars trading cards? Wacky Packages.
6) Bike or skateboard? Both. And roller skates.
7) Six Million Dollar Man or GIJoe action figures? Action Man.
8) Star Trek or Planet Of The Apes Megos? Star Trek.
9) Pro-Keds or Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers? Dunlops and Desert Boots.
10) Creamsicle or Fudgesicle? Is this a sex thing? Kidding. Splices.
11) Hershey's or Nestle's Crunch candy bars? American chocolate is horrible. Tastes like baby poop. Old Jamaica Rum n' Raisin.
12) Garbage Pail candy or Fun Dip? Sherbet Fountains.
13) Superman or Batman Ben Cooper costumes? Pass.
14) Baloney or ham and cheese sandwiches? Ham & cheese.
15) Superfriends or Jonny Quest cartoons? Superfriends.

[Rallygirl]

1) Brady Bunch or Partridge Family? Brady Bunch
2) Chips Ahoy or Oreo? Chips Ahoy
3) Cap'n Crunch or Freakies? Cap'n Crunch
4) Happy Days or Welcome Back Kotter? happy Days
5) Wacky Packages or Star Wars trading cards? Wacky Packages
6) Bike or skateboard? Bike
7) Six Million Dollar Man or GIJoe action figures? GI Joe
8) Star Trek or Planet Of The Apes Megos? Planet of the Apes
9) Pro-Keds or Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers? Whatever was on sale at the farm store
10) Creamsicle or Fudgesicle? Fudgesicle
11) Hershey's or Nestle's Crunch candy bars? Nestle' Crunch
12) Garbage Pail candy or Fun Dip? Fun Dip
13) Superman or Batman Ben Cooper costumes? Batman
14) Baloney or ham and cheese sandwiches? Boloney
15) Superfriends or Jonny Quest cartoons? Superfiends

[nvmbrsdoom5]

1) Brady Bunch or Partridge Family? Brady Bunch all the way!
2) Chips Ahoy or Oreo? Chips Ahoy! Though these days if I do occasionally eat cookies, it's Oreos
3) Cap'n Crunch or Freakies? Cap'n Crunch, especially Crunch Berries!
4) Happy Days or Welcome Back Kotter? Happy Days, but I love Kotter too
5) Wacky Packages or Star Wars trading cards? So tough to choose! Wacky Packages narrowly wins
6) Bike or skateboard? Bike. I never could master the skateboard.
7) Six Million Dollar Man or GIJoe action figures? SMDM by a very slight margin
8) Star Trek or Planet Of The Apes Megos? Trek Megos, all the way!
9) Pro-Keds or Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers? Pro-Keds as a kid. Taylors as an adult.
10) Creamsicle or Fudgesicle? Creamsicle
11) Hershey's or Nestle's Crunch candy bars? I don't really eat either these days, but if I did it'd be Nestle's Crunch, I loved those
12) Garbage Pail candy or Fun Dip? One of my happy memories was getting Fun Dip at the concession stand after my little league games!
13) Superman or Batman Ben Cooper costumes? Superman was my first Halloween costume so I'll go with that
14) Baloney or ham and cheese sandwiches? Ham and Cheese wins. But if the baloney is fried it'd probably win
15) Superfriends or Jonny Quest cartoons? Another toughie, but I think I'll go with Superfriends

[huedell]

I'm taking this list from my "childhood" POV...

1) Brady Bunch or Partridge Family? Brady Bunch... Partridge Family was a bit over my head, I think.
2) Chips Ahoy or Oreo? Oreo... Chips Ahoy was too "normal" for me to compete with the "sandwich" cookie
3) Cap'n Crunch or Freakies? Cap'n Crunch... I saw his commercials more... plus he had Smedly and the Crunchberry Beast and all that
4) Happy Days or Welcome Back Kotter? Happy Days... but only because, like the Brady Bunch, the show's cast drew you in more w/it's more organic tone... Partridge Family was TOO organic for me, I think (like Eight Is Enough)
5) Wacky Packages or Star Wars trading cards? Star Wars cards... I woulda taken most anything SW first... I'd always have Mad, Cracked & Crazy for my parody fix
6) Bike or skateboard? Bike... I couldn't do the skateboard thing... *sniff*
7) Six Million Dollar Man or GIJoe action figures? Six Million Dollar Man. Sci-fi over military.
8) Star Trek or Planet Of The Apes Megos? Trek... just like the previous answer, I'd go for the thing with more diversity to the characters be it species, race, gender or clothing
9) Pro-Keds or Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers? Begrudgingly, I accepted that my Mom picked my clothes. Nowadays, my Mom has passed, I pick my own clothes, and often I dress like the guys from the era I was indoctrinated to: Hello, velour and polyester! That said: In junior highschool I used to wear two different color Chucks
10) Creamsicle or Fudgesicle? Creamsicle... not that I didn't like chocolate... but given the choice between traditional fudge chocolate taste and orange... I went with orange every time
11) Hershey's or Nestle's Crunch candy bars? Nestle's Crunch, because it has more than just the chocolate!
12) Garbage Pail candy or Fun Dip? Fun Dip, because you could eat the dipper!
13) Superman or Batman Ben Cooper costumes? 'Round these here parts, when Batman is vs. Superman, there's only one winner that can be chosen EVERY time: The Last Son Of KRYPTON, baby!
14) Baloney or ham and cheese sandwiches? Ham and cheese, I tells ya! My Mom never bought ham! Never! Plus: The cheese! Swiss cheese, baby!
15) Superfriends or Jonny Quest cartoons? Superfriends... I'm ashamed to say, the most I experienced Quest as a child, was seeing him and Bandit in promo illustrations on Hanna-Barbera merch that I had

[Allie Fox]

1) Brady Bunch or Partridge Family? Brady Bunch
2) Chips Ahoy or Oreo? Chips Ahoy
3) Cap'n Crunch or Freakies? I never really like Cap'n Crunch. I loved Freakies. Although at this point I don't remember what the cereal tasted like.
4) Happy Days or Welcome Back Kotter? Kotter, but I love Happy Days too
5) Wacky Packages or Star Wars trading cards? Star Wars cards are far far away my choice
6) Bike or skateboard? Bike. It was the primary mode of transportation from age 6-15
7) Six Million Dollar Man or GIJoe action figures? SMDM by a hair over the 12 inch Joes. Never got into the little ones.
8) Star Trek or Planet Of The Apes Megos? POTA
9) Pro-Keds or Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers? Pro-Keds were my pre-Nike shoes
10) Creamsicle or Fudgesicle? Creamsicle
11) Hershey's or Nestle's Crunch candy bars? I used to love Crunch but these days they don't seem as appealing as the original Hershey bar.
12) Garbage Pail candy or Fun Dip? Neither.
13) Superman or Batman Ben Cooper costumes? I was a Star Wars kid after 1977. Before that Ben Cooper POTA
14) Baloney or ham and cheese sandwiches? B-O-L-O-G-N-A
15) Superfriends or Jonny Quest cartoons? Too difficult to choose.

[Jorge Galvan]

Hey guys which one would you pick?

1) Brady Bunch or Partridge Family?
the Partridge's blow away the milksops!

2) Chips Ahoy or Oreo?
neither.

3) Cap'n Crunch or Freakies?

neither.

4) Happy Days or Welcome Back Kotter?

Kotter! Better theme song and funnier, HP had CHACHI! UGH!!!

5) Wacky Packages or Star Wars trading cards?
STar Wars

6) Bike or skateboard?
bike

7) Six Million Dollar Man or GIJoe action figures?
six just for the BIGFOOT and GI for the Atomic man & Bullet man!

8) Star Trek or Planet Of The Apes Megos?
Both!

9) Pro-Keds or Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers?
chuck taylor

10) Creamsicle or Fudgesicle?

FUDGESICLE!! :D

11) Hershey's or Nestle's Crunch candy bars?
Hershey!

12) Garbage Pail candy or Fun Dip?
neither!

13) Superman or Batman Ben Cooper costumes?
either!

14) Baloney or ham and cheese sandwiches?
Bologna/Baloney! Has too be KOSHER!

15) Superfriends or Jonny Quest cartoons?

JLA!

Have fun!

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