{"product_id":"1992-usa-olympic-team-sponsor-pin-lunch-combinations-gymnastics-oscar-mayer","title":"1992 USA Olympic Team Sponsor Pin ~ Lunch Combinations ~ Gymnastics ~ Oscar Mayer","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 1992 U.S. Olympic Team sponsor pin from Oscar Mayer's Lunch Combinations line, the packaged lunches better known as Lunchables. A yellow gold enamel panel framed in brown carries \"USA\" above the Olympic rings in brown outline, with a brown gymnast balanced on one leg on the balance beam, the other leg raised high, and \"LUNCH COMBINATIONS\" on a tan bar along the bottom. Gold tone metal, rectangular, with a single post and butterfly clutch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Lunch Combinations and Lunchables:\u003c\/strong\u003e \"Lunch combinations\" was Oscar Mayer's own name for a new kind of product: sliced meat, cheese and crackers packed side by side in one tray, ready for a lunchbox. Oscar Mayer registered its trademark for \"lunch combinations consisting of crackers with meat and cheese or crackers with meat and poultry,\" with a first use date of September 1987, and sold them under the Lunchables name. The line was developed by an Oscar Mayer team led by Bob Drane, test-marketed in 1987 and introduced in 1988. By January 1990 Lunchables were already sold in about 70 percent of the U.S. market, and Oscar Mayer went to court that month to defend them against a rival lunch kit from Sara Lee. Lunchables became one of the best-selling products in Oscar Mayer's history and started the company's whole lunch combinations category; the packages still carry the words \"Lunch Combinations\" today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Oscar Mayer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oscar F. Mayer and his brother Gottfried opened Oscar Mayer as a meat market in Chicago in 1883. By the early 1960s it was the leading U.S. maker of processed meats, and it later added Claussen pickles (1970) and Louis Rich turkey (1979). Oscar Mayer was bought by General Foods in 1981; General Foods was bought by Philip Morris in 1985, which added Kraft in 1988 and merged the two into Kraft General Foods in 1989 (renamed Kraft Foods in 1995).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn Olympic sponsor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oscar Mayer Foods and its Louis Rich turkey company were sponsors of the U.S. Olympic Committee in the run-up to the 1992 Games, and Oscar Mayer also issued pins marked \"Official Sponsor 1992 U.S. Olympic Team.\" The Oscar Mayer family of brands shared one matching series of USA Olympic sport pins, covering both summer and winter sports, each with an athlete on an enamel panel and a brand name on the bottom bar: Oscar Mayer, Louis Rich, Claussen, Lunch Combinations or Louis Kemp. This pin is part of the Oscar Mayer family USA Olympic sport series made for the 1992 U.S. Olympic Team.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Gymnastics design:\u003c\/strong\u003e The gymnast holds a one-leg balance on the beam, standing leg straight and the other leg lifted high overhead, the kind of controlled hold judges look for on a beam only four inches wide. Gymnastics was part of the first modern Olympics in 1896, and the women's balance beam has been an Olympic event since the 1952 Helsinki Games.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe \"36 USC 380\" stamp:\u003c\/strong\u003e The back is stamped \"36 USC 380,\" the section of the U.S. Code created by the Amateur Sports Act of 1978. It gave the U.S. Olympic Committee the exclusive right in the United States to the Olympic rings and the word \"Olympic,\" so a company needed the USOC's permission to use them on merchandise. The stamp turns up on the backs of many licensed U.S. Olympic sponsor pins from the 1980s and 1990s. In 1998 the law was renumbered as 36 U.S.C. 220506, so the old \"380\" stamp is a sign of a pin made before then.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYear: 1992 U.S. Olympic Team\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSponsor: Lunch Combinations (Oscar Mayer Lunchables), Oscar Mayer family of brands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeries: Oscar Mayer family USA Olympic sport series, summer and winter sports (Oscar Mayer, Louis Rich, Claussen, Lunch Combinations, Louis Kemp)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSport: Gymnastics (balance beam)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesign: \"USA\" and the Olympic rings above a brown gymnast in a one-leg balance on the beam, \"LUNCH COMBINATIONS\" on the bottom bar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStyle: Yellow gold enamel panel, brown outline, gold tone frame, rectangle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSize: approx. 5\/8\" x 1\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBack: Gold tone, stamped \"36 USC 380,\" single post with butterfly clutch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePackaging:\u003c\/strong\u003e All orders shipped in corrugated box for extra protection, we don't use bubble mailers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShipping:\u003c\/strong\u003e U.S. shipping is $4.95 flat per order, and free on orders of $35 or more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Pinpal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68011686527264,"sku":"W380","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1021\/1252\/6624\/files\/s1_8235352e-bb0b-49a6-8392-25f08a8d1ffa.jpg?v=1793101673","url":"https:\/\/pinpalpins.com\/products\/1992-usa-olympic-team-sponsor-pin-lunch-combinations-gymnastics-oscar-mayer","provider":"Pinpal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}