#spaghettios

Homemade SpaghettiOs with Mini Meatballs

Off To See The Wizard of O's! Recently, I was with my mom buying groceries, and she just marveled at all of the microwavable food and how easy food prep had become. It used to be that even TV dinners had to be cooked in an oven. When we got to the car, I asked her what she fed me when I was little. Macaroni and cheese, grilled cheese sandwiches, spaghetti, and goulash all immediately came to mind, and then she paused for a second and said, "You really liked SpaghettiOs." My love of forgotten corporate mascots immediately had me thinking who or what might've been on the SpaghettiOs can label at the time. Some cursory research, and voila, enter The Wizard of O's, his hat and bow tie adorned with noodles. He was even a mail-away toy that I now have on my shelf, similar to a soft pet chew toy, also available as a cast-iron bank -- unusual for a mail-away premium -- and even appeared on a collectible mug as well as his own coloring/activity book. His colorization seemed to vary depending on the format (I'm personally partial to the white-haired style). It's fanciful, I know, but I like thinking that there's a magical otherworld where nothing good, true, and fun is ever really forgotten.

Homemade Spaghetti-O's

what do you mean? i'm clearly the straightest person alive

Geogaddi - Boards of Canada + SpaghettiOs

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