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For today's post I'm showing off some more food issues. Here are nine dairy related cards from my collection.

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1973 TCMA Reprints Ruth Fro Joy #1 Babe Ruth (This is one of many reprints of the original 1928 set designed to showcase the advertising potential of Babe Ruth. Each of the six cards explained a baseball technique in addition to advertising Fro Joy ice cream and ice cream cones.)
1976 Buckman Discs #44 Jim Palmer (The reverse of this disc is an advertisement for Buckman's Ice Cream Shop in Rochester, New York. Produced by MSA, it is nearly identical on the front to the Crane Potato Chips discs.)
1982 Red Sox Coke #22 Carl Yastrzemski (This set was issued locally in the Boston area as a joint promotion by Brigham's Ice Cream Stores and Coca-Cola. The cards were initially distributed in three-card cello packs with an ice cream or Coca-Cola purchase.)

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1988 Mets Fan Club #8 Gary Carter (Cards in this set were produced by Topps for the New York Mets and were distributed in perforated sheets as a membership for joining the Junior Mets Fan Club. The set was sponsored by Farmland Dairies Milk whose logo appears on the back.)
1992 MooTown Snackers #20 Nolan Ryan (Also produced by MSA, these cards were inserted inside packages of cheese snacks. My friend's fiancee gave me the first one I ever saw and there was a mail-away offer on it to send away for the complete set, which I did. Cards included in the packages were fold-outs with the send-away info attached. Cards from the mail-away set did not have that attached and are therefore single cards.)
1993 Kraft #12 Cal Ripken (Each of these Kraft Singles Superstars were pop-up cards that were inserted in specially marked packages of cheese slices. I collected enough proof-of-purchase points to send away for the complete sets of AL and NL players. The AL set has blue borders and the NL set has green borders and each card pictures the same player on each side.)

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1994 Griffey Dairy Queen Gold #1 Ken Griffey Jr./The Spider Man Catch (This 10-card set, authorized by Griffey, was distributed in 5-card packs at Dairy Queen. This card is a gold parallel that was randomly inserted in the packs.)
2002 Nestle #6 Ichiro Suzuki (Topps produced this 6-card set that was inserted in various Nestle's Ice Cream products.)
2014 Panini Golden Age Mini Croft's Swiss Milk Cocoa #32 Zack Wheat (In 1909 the Croft & Allen Company of Philadelphia issued tobacco size cards with purchases of their jars of Croft's Swiss Milk Cocoa. This card, produced by Panini is in homage to that rare set.)