A reader donated over seven hours’ worth of Christmas specials, all taped off television back in 1987… with every commercial left intact. Yes!

(Thank you, Robin!)

Everything in this edition of Classic Christmas Commercials is from that tape, so imagine them breaking Rudolph and Frosty’s adventures into manageable chunks.

KFC’s Holiday Meal Deal! (1987)

Whenever a TV commercial blended fast food with Christmas, I lost it. I’ve loved that pairing for as long as I can remember. To this day, I still consider ordering pizza and eating McDonald’s as inherently Christmassy things… so long as you do them in December.

Given that, I’m all about this Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial, wherein the notoriously-thrifty Ebenezer Scrooge sees merit in KFC’s Holiday Meal Deal. In fact, Scrooge is so smitten with the Holiday Meal Deal that he seems barely coherent. He’s like Alfred by way of Bulworth.

Scrooge collects enough empty fried chicken buckets to build a Christmas tree out of them (!!!), which sounds amazing until you remember than an “empty” bucket of fried chicken is never truly empty. So yeah, this whole situation is kinda gross, even if I will admit that it does make me want chicken. Read More…

I want you to think of this month’s Funpack as “Christmas morning in a box.”

From collectibles to candy to reading material to classic stocking stuffers, Dino Drac’s December Funpack is guaranteed (well, the fake sort of guarantee, anyway) to make your month merrier. (And also guaranteed to get there before Christmas!)

For those who don’t know the score, I sell monthly Funpack subscriptions. The boxes are $25 a month (including shipping), and for as long as you stay subscribed, you’ll keep receiving them! You can cancel at any time without penalty, too!

Remember, your Funpack subscriptions are literally the only thing keeping Dino Drac alive! Without you, there’d be no me!

Scroll down to the bottom for more info, or keep reading to see everything you’ll receive in this month’s box! Read More…

Below: Five of this year’s hottest holiday junk foods, from punny M&M’s to THE BEST POSSIBLE SLURPEE.

Nutmeg & Cinnamon Triscuit!

I love Triscuits but I hate writing about them, because deep down I know that you shouldn’t pluralize them that way. If I want to refer to several Triscuit crackers, I have to do it just like that: Triscuit crackers. That’s so annoying. We’re calling them Triscuits.

These are good, but mostly in a “they taste enough like regular Triscuits for the love to keep piercing” sort of way. Call me a Scrooge, but I believe Triscuits should always be predominantly savory. These taste like normal Triscuits made babies with Cinnamon Chex, and like, I don’t want to think about Triscuits fucking.

But maybe I’m missing the point. Thanks to their cinnamonness (even less of a word than “Triscuits”), the crackers pair well with many things that normal Triscuits struggle with, like apple slices and steaming gobs of yams.

GRADE: B, which stands for Because They’re Christmas Triscuits And That’s Enough. Read More…