Comebacks we'd like to see: #19 -- Screaming Yellow Zonkers

I agree with this one I Loved Zonkers, but you can still find it every now and then at a 7-11 or the .99 cents store. Fiddle Faddle does not even come close.

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I have to agree with this one, I Love Zonkers but you can still find them now and then at a 7-11 or a .99 store. I refuse to eat fiddle faddle or craker jacks, if I want nuts in my popcorn i'll put them in my self.

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These look good I better hit up the dollar store.

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I got my first taste of Screaming Yellow Zonkers in 1971 when I was six. Oh, how I loved them. There is nothing at all irrelevant about their taste. Those big, fluffy kernels of popped corn happily bathed in glorious yellow corn syrup. Wow! They even made kid favorite Cracker Jack seem not so special. My whole family fell in love with Screaming Yellow Zonkers.

Too our unhappy amazement, Zonkers soon went away. Since then, our hopes have been raised and dashed several times. Those heavenly Zonkers will reappear at some store. In our glee, we'll go through a sort of religious experience. We'll buy a box or two, go home, and eat till our hearts' content. But after a few weeks or months, our beloved snack will have disappeared again. A few years later, we'll find that Zonkers are back, often under the ownership of another food company. The cycle will repeat itself: celebration, indulgence, then the unhappy news that our Zonkers have been taken away again.

I believe the main problem with sales of Zonkers is that they haven't been advertised enough, especially on television. So I urge Con Agra, or whatever company now owns the rights to them, to time their next release with a big national TV campaign. Once the great masses go out and by our beloved Zonkers, they will keep coming back for more, and we will never again have to endure those agonizing five-year breaks in production. We will be able to feed our need for the greatest popcorn snack in history whenever we want.

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It is, indeed, ConAgra that now owns the rights to Screaming Yellow Zonkers, having bought Lincoln Snacks Company from Ubiquity Foods, Inc on September 5, 2007.

ConAgra, however, is not the entity that nixed Zonkers. It had previously been nixed by the now defunct Ubiquity Foods, Inc in yet another one of their "brilliant" business decisions. There is, however, talk of re-introducing Zonkers as an 'effect' product at some point in the future.

An 'effect; product issomething similar to energy drinks. Anyone who has eaten Zonkersa will tell you that you do get a bit of an energy boost, albeit short lived.

Incidentally, Fiddle Faddle is made at the same location that Zonkers are/were made. Crunch & Munch was introduced as a competitor to Fiddle Faddle but has a much lower quality candy syrup. ConAgra now owns rights to both products and it is likely that Fiddle Faddle will also see the end of its days as well in the future. This is not an issue of quality or flavor, as stated before fiddle Faddle has a much higher quality candy syrup, but an issue of sales. ConAgra is a much larger corporation than Ubiquity Foods, Inc was, and therefore, controlled the snack aisle display. They effectively relegated Fiddle Faddle to the bottom shelf and killed the sales. In yet another 'brilliant" move by the marketing "brain trust" at Ubiquity, Fiddle Faddle became destined to appear at Walgreen's, Rite Aid, CVS, etc. as a $.99 value. It is still much better tasting than Crunch & Munch and will be until conAgra pulls the plug on it.

If you really enjoy a 'top shelf' adult indulgence popcorn snack, I urge all to try any one of the Poppycock branded products. Also a ConAgra product produced at the same plant as fiddle Faddle and Zonkers, just a higher level and quality product. It includes almonds & pecans, cashews only and in varieties with just the nuts inthe candy glaze. It is an incredible product.

I know all this as I work at the facility that makes all these products.

Write, email or phone conAgra. Screamin Yellow Zonkers are not dead yet. We can resurrect them!!!

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They were the greatest snack a stoner could get,Don't brush the zonkers or they might make you sick.........

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I looked up Zonkers on Wikipedia and the guy who created and wrote the boxes, Allan Katz, went on to write and produce several huge TV series including M*A*S*H. It seems to me that he should be easy to find to see if he'd be interesting in resurrect the brand. After the first several boxes and commercials Katz did, others tried to take over and absolutely ruined it. While I enjoyed eating Zonkers, I loved the boxes even more. Did anybody see the Screaming Yellow Zonkers Circus poster? Wacky, amazing and inspired.

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I only tried it once when I was a kid and I spent the night running to the bathroom suffering from what I can only describe as THE Screaming Yellow Zonkers. Needless to say, I stayed far from them ever since.

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I sure remember the Screaming Yellow Zonkers. It was the perfect snack food and product especially of the 70's! I have in my posession two Screaming Yellow Zonkers hats that I am going to list on ebay later today. The hats are black and have a yellow bird head on the front of the cap and a yellow tail on the back with Zonkers! written on the bill of the hat. There will be pics available. If anybody is interested in them, check us out on ebay. Just look for Screaming Yellow Zonkers hats in the search being sold by moonvalleyproducts. Thanks!

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