Wacky Packages, the hilarious and sharply illustrated trading cards which parody popular American consumer goods, celebrate their 45th year in existence this month. Produced by the Topps Chewing Gum company, best known for their sports card lines, especially the Baseball series, Wacky Packages remains, a popular favorite to this day.

The cards skewer everything from Rice-A-Roni, (dubbed Rice-A-Phony), Cheerio’s (dubbed Cheapio’s), Minute Rice (dubbed Minute Lice), Kool-Aid (dubbed Kook Aid), and even itself (dubbed Wormy Packages). The series also takes on cigarette ads, magazines, fast food, home cleaning products, and everything in between. The original series sets are highly collectible, and the cards remain valuable and nice individual works of art as well. The comedy style applied to the sets are of the Mad Magazine and National Lampoon humor mold and always hilarious and spot on with its uproarious take on the original products.