Split a Bowl of Halfsies with Me?

Published Tuesday March 27, 2007 by Elliot

kinghalfHalfsies: An unassuming word with many meanings.

In Pizza-Land: Halfsies refers to the division of cost and quantity of a pie between two friends. This is the holy-grail of best-friendship.

In Vinyl-Toyland: Halfsies are cute characters that split in two. Puff, Waddles, Meekers and Ooka were designed by Roman Dirge; most well known for creating Lenore, The Adventures of a Cute Little Dead Girl and as a staff writer for Invader Zim.

The Cereal Dish: Halfsies was a very short-lived cereal put out by Quaker Oats, with animated characters from the wizards of Jay Ward Studios (Cap’n Crunch, Quisp, Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.) Halfsies featured a ragtag team of nobodies including the King of the Land of Half, his sons Half Prince and Half Pint, Count Awfulot, and the Jester. The cereal, which had half the sugar of most cereals in the early 80s, didn’t make it. (A time capsule from the 1980s reveals that people were going Halfsies on boxes of Ice Cream Cones, Nerds, and Dunkin’ Donuts cereals. The King was simply a man before his time.)

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