in the run up to Christmas 1983, no toy was more popular than Cabbage before Christmas. What made them so desirable, besides the fact that they were huggable, was both their supposed uniqueness and their “adoptability.” Inside each Cabbage Patch Kids box was a “birth certificate” with that kid's first and middle name on it, making the dolls as individual as the child who wanted to adopt them. Which was, seemingly, every child in the world.
