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Oaties

The Breakfast of Gumshoes
ToastedFortifiedInvestigated
"I eat 'em, and I'll say this much under oath: Oaties taste like sawdust that went to night school and made somethin' of itself. You get used to the crunch. The crunch does not get used to you."
β€” a working detective, chewing

What's In the Box

Contents, Sworn

Iron
YES
Courage
FORTIFIED
Oat
TRACE
Crunch
PERMANENT
Prize
ONE (1)

Contents certified by the Corporation. The oat was present at weighing. Serving suggestion: milk, nerve, and a case you can't put down.


The Official Oaties Secret Decoder

Found a coded message? Suspicious note? Mysterious telegram?
The Oaties Decoder cracks them all.

Cipher Apparatus No. 1Patent Pending, Confidently

Real Detective Equipment β€” Free*

Send ten box tops and one thin dime to the Amalgamated Sundries Corporation and receive the OFFICIAL Junior Detective Kit:

The Tin Badge

Genuine tin. Genuine badge. Deputizes the bearer in matters of missing sandwiches.

Shield-shaped, mostly

The Regulation Magnifying Glass

Professional handle. Professional rim. Everything the working eye requires.

Glass sold separately

The Secret Decoder Ring

Decodes one (1) word with total reliability. Never wrong. Never surprising.

The word is Oaties. We know.


Enlist in the Junior Detective Auxiliary

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