The Wombat File Is Yours to Keep

Toblerone and Lithium molecule

There is an alternate universe where, delightfully, that is the correct answer. But you wouldn't want to live there, because by U.S. law, everyone has to wear coulats.

Swedish fish and kippers.

Quicker Oats

That 'cork that's shaped like a sponge' package

...because there's lots of sea-harvesting industry in Terre Haute

Some clues: You have, in all likelihood, consumed the product.

What a great question, but I have no idea. Coca cola bottles and kelp?

And thanks for the shout-out. Hey, at least you have the Friday quiz - right now, I got nothin'!

i wanna be wombat's dog, but i'm stumped (after wracking my brain trying to come up with longlost bizarre American food packages). I'll say Gummi Worms or Gummi Bears (just plain anything Gummi really).

Gateway computers/Guernsey cow.

Rice Krispies/Krishna

Scotch tape/chambered nautilus

yum yum yum, tape!

Candy Canes? (confusing sugar cane and the walking stick?)

by the way, they're called "rice bubbles" here

>>yum yum yum, tape!

The kids at my daughter's school eat at lunch a mutant descendent of fruit rollups, a cross between masking tape and cotton candy. Sweden being home to only lingonberries after that fallout with the Finns, I'll take art's hint that this is not a 'fruitful' avenue of inquiry, but I fail to see how 'rice bubbles' could adhere to anything.

With regard to not being
anybody's dog,
there's a lot of that going
around.

Bob Hope/Strom Thurmond, just so nobody else has to say it.

Rory takes the main question - it's the "classic" coca-cola bottle that we were on about. The botanicals he was aiming for were the coca leaf and the kola nut. However, he supposedly looked up "cocoa" instead, and so the undulated ridged shape is evocative of the wrong plant...

Sorry I'm so long getting to this. I will shortly point my excellent excuse for just that. Update tomorrow.

That's great, but can I skip the sea lice? That picture gives me cold sweats.

ehhhh, I don't mean to sound like a no-it-all here, but...
first of all, Alexander Samuelsson did not design or invent the famous contour Coca-Cola bottle. Yes, his name was on the patent, naming him as the inventor. But if you knew how the company dealt with patents, you would know that they never put the actual designer on the patent. In the case of the Root Glass Company, Chapman J. Root in almost every case put his son's name on the companies bottle patents. Why he did this...no one is sure. Ironically, out of the four people who were part of the bottle project, Samuelsson had the least to do with it. Samuelsson was not hire on as a bottle designer. He was the plant superintendent. Chapman's decision to put Samuelsson's name on the patent has caused the true designer to not get the recognition he deserved. Rumor has it that Samuelson was never even a glass-blower, but a blacksmith. The actual designer of the bottle was my grandfather, Earl R. Dean. Google his name with quotes and see for yourself. Also, the answer to your quiz wasn't completely accurate. It was the "cocoa pod" that inspired my grandfather. And yes, Cocoa is not an ingredient of Coca-Cola. But if they would have figured it out sooner, Hershey's, Neslies or Carnation Chocolate milk would have probably acquired the famous package...lol.

So...where's my anklet made of sun-dried sea lice, lovingly hand-crafted by the family of Capt. Obed Marsh of the Innsmouth Ecological Preservation Institute? ;)

Oh yeah, in case anyone cares and wonder how I know all this stuff...I'm the grandson of Earl R. Dean.