{"id":1027,"date":"2014-02-10T20:39:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T01:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2014-02-13T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T15:53:13","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-super-mario-mac-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1027\/retro-scan-of-the-week-super-mario-mac-cheese","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Super Mario Mac &#038; Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/super_mario_macaroni_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/super_mario_macaroni_small.jpg\" alt=\"Kraft Super Mario Bros. Macaroni and Cheese flier flyer Advertisement 1994\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>The princess has lost her floatation powers&#8230;and Yoshi loves bongs.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My mom saves everything.  Case in point, I ran across a mountain of mid-1990s coupon flyers &#8212; the kind that arrive stacked in an envelope through the mail &#8212; at her house this afternoon while I was looking for some old papers.  This particular 30-cents-off coupon for Kraft&#8217;s <em>Super Mario Bros.<\/em> Macaroni and Cheese  from 1994 caught my eye.  It measures 4.5&#8243; x 7.5&#8243; (for those of you at home keeping notes).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never eaten <em>Super Mario Bros.<\/em> mac and cheese, but I bet it was every bit as delicious as the regular noodle variety.  And besides &#8212; there was an adventure in every bowl.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From a coupon flyer mailing pack, ca. 1994]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Have you ever eaten any food products based on licensed video game characters?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The princess has lost her floatation powers&#8230;and Yoshi loves bongs. My mom saves everything. Case in point, I ran across a mountain of mid-1990s coupon flyers &#8212; the kind that arrive stacked in an envelope through the mail &#8212; at her house this afternoon while I was looking for some old papers. This particular 30-cents-off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22,27,26,9],"tags":[166,150,155,751,749,750,174,143,60,694],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-nes-famicom","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-166","tag-advertisement","tag-flyer","tag-food","tag-kraft","tag-macaroni-and-cheese","tag-mario","tag-nintendo","tag-retro-scan","tag-super-mario-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}