Jolly Green Giant Doll

When I was little, I was so excited to save the can wrappers from our Green Giant vegetables so that I could mail away for a Jolly Green Giant Doll.  The Jolly Green Giant was a pretty popular dude in the mid-70’s.

I saved the labels and got the doll in the mail!  Yippee!  I loved that stupid stuffed green toy.  Maybe because it took me a lot of work to get it.

And then, the unthinkable happened.

One night I woke up and threw up all over my bed.  The pillow, the sheets, and yes, my Jolly Green Giant doll.

My mom didn’t seem to have a problem washing my pillow and my sheets.  But my Jolly Green Giant doll?

She threw it away.

I’m 51 years old and I still remember that stupid stuffed green doll.  Ho, ho, ho, Green Giant.