1988 Break Cake Olympic Cards

I don't have time to post all the 1991 Olympic cards I want, so instead I have an obscure one for you all tonight. Really obscure. As in I can't find any info at all on this card. I have it though, so I might as well share.

Break Cakes were kind of a Hostess or Tastykake kind of snack cake company. They might have been owned by Earthgrains, or maybe Sara Lee, but you'd think there would be a web page or something for them if they were still around. I think they sold cupcake snacks and as you can see from the logo, there was a sports theme involved. You know, go out and do some strenuous physical activity and then take a break with a sugary pastry sort of thing. I do remember clear as day a commercial with Spud Webb beseeching the viewer to have a Break Cake. I can't find the commercial online, but this agency page may have a reference to it. There's practically nothing online about this company, but I know it existed at one time because I'm holding this card in my hand.

As you can see it's a nice looking card with the Break Cake logo up top and an Olympic poster underneath that is surrounded by a red and blue border. This card is of the infamous 1936 games in Berlin. Here's some helpful details on the back:

Break Cake, proud sponsor of the 1988 U.S. Olympic team has created this set of 21 trading cards to commemorate the 1988 games. There is one card free inside specially marked boxes of Break Cake Family Packs.
Collect all 21 cards and enjoy the great taste of Break Cake snack cakes.

Thank God for boilerplate or I'd know absolutely nothing about these cards. So it was a 21 card set with one card included in a family pack. So at one point in my life, I ate a family pack of snack cakes (possibly at one sitting, who knows) and I got a card commemorating the Triumph of the Will games. It's a pretty card though, bold colors on the front and nice fluffy clouds on the back.

This may very well be the only licensed card set from the '88 games other than the Topps Team USA cards. A quick search on eBay shows pretty much nothing from 1988. Kind of strange considering how the games are marketed to hell nowadays, but then again, I haven't seen any Olympic card sets for the Beijing games either. Break Cake also inserted Stuart Little cards into boxes of snacks in 2000, but who knows if they are even the same Break Cake. The logo is different at any rate. If anyone else out there has one of these cards or any more info on Break Cakes, please let me know in the comments. This strange little card has me curious now.

Sticky Saturday - Thrown Together at the Last Minute Edition

I wasn't going to forget my Sticker for the week, I've just been lazy today. Here's another 1988 Fleer Sticker that puts the whole package together. Braves logo on the front in what is probably supposed to be a ball on a display stand:

And the picture of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium on the back.

Finally! A matching set! I bought scads of '88 Fleer plus a factory set to boot so I had a ton of these green bordered stickers. Fleer kinda got lazy with these, they are basically the exact same as the '87 stickers, just with a green border and the stadiums on the back. I have more of these with the large logo floating around now since I used a bunch of the smaller logo stickers for team sets. I never stuck stickers of this design on anything, the baseball stand motif never did anything for me. It sort of looks like a Crystal ball, and the future for the Braves looked pretty murky in 1988. Actually, I think I did stick these large stickers on a couple of notebooks, but I ripped off the base at the bottom before doing so. Oh the terrible sticker abuse!

Now I need some audience participation for my sticker fans. I was posting each sticker as the came in the package from Fleerfan, but he ordered them more or less in chronological order. This means we're about to hit a month's worth of '87 Fleer. Let me know if you want me to mix 'em up or sneak in a few stickers of my own in the comments. Otherwise, prepare for the attack of the blue stickers..........