Remembering Breakfast Cereals...

[Hacker]

What are some you remember as a kid?

Nerds... Nerds Cereal. Little pellets... The box was split down the middle with red on one side and blue on the other. And they sold a Nerds bowl that had a divider in it that you could take out so they would all mix together if you wanted.


How about the Chocolate Cow, Strawberry Cow...

OOOOOO!!!!

Anyone remember the Wolfman Cereal that was like CountChocula and Frankenberry and BooBerry?

It was called Fruit Brute or something like that. It had a Werewolf on the box.

OOOHHHHH!!!

Check this out!!!

http://www.inthe80s.com/cereal.shtml

[hippychickmommy]

Oh yes! I remember Booberry, Frankenberry and CountChocula!

[Hacker]

Scroomptious Croonchy Stars
This cereal was inspired by the Swedish Chef from the Muppets. It was a puffy,star shaped, cinnamon flavored cereal. The commercial showed the Swedish chef in a kitchen, and a pot exploded and Croonchy Stars flew all over the place. The box was even funnier. It read This product does not contain: (among other things) Venetian Blinds and Pachederms. I kid you not.

[hippychickmommy]

My kids love the Apple Cinnamon Cheerioes, Multi-Grain Cheerios and Alpha-Bits; I hadn't realized that they had been introduced way back in the 80's! Obviously, I never had them then because here I was thinking they were more recent!

[Hacker]

I definitely ate alphabits when I was a kid.

[hippychickmommy]

*pouts* I'm going to go call my mother and ask her why she never bought me any! http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif

[hippychickmommy]

That site is really cool by-the-way. What a trip down memory lane!

[Hacker]

Oh yes! I remember Booberry, Frankenberry and CountChocula!
AND Yummy Mummy too?

I don't remember that one either!!!

I want some!!!!!

[Hacker]

That site is really cool by-the-way. What a trip down memory lane!It's awesome! And not just the cereals but toys, and games, and tv shows, and all of that!!!

Check out the slang and jokes pages on there too... wow...

[hippychickmommy]

Yummy Mummy, yeah, I guess I do kind of remember that one!

[jerry420]

i liked the ghostbusters cereal:D

[themnax]

i remember dry cerials BEFORE the started to have tons of sugarfied crap in them.

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[silent]

what about the rainbowbrite cereal?? at least the girls here HAVE to remember it... all colorful and made your milk like a rainbow, until you mixed it up and turned brown haha
well i remember it, it tasted really good too

i used to run to the cereal box in the morning to be the first to open a new box and get the SURPRISE toy... will it be a repeat??? will it not have one?? :(
oh they joy of breakfast as a kid!
well at least it used to be, now you have to order it and pay shipping and handeling http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/confused.gif
cheap!!

[hippychickmommy]

now you have to order it and pay shipping and handeling http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/confused.gif
cheap!!
Yeah, what's up with that? That really ticks me off! I already paid enough for the cereal as it is, and then they want me to send them even more money to get the prizes for my kids that they'll play with for one day and forget about the next? No way!

[Boogabaah]

mr T cereal.. mmmmm

i pity the fool who don't eat my cereal

[wrat]

how about quisp

[MikeE]

Kellogs corn flakes with many spoons of sugar is much better than that Sugar Frosted Flakes no matter what that Tiger says. The cereal is OK, but the pool of milky sugar at the bottom of the bowl was the best.

Grape Nuts (with plain yogurt) is nice. And I liked Special K, probably cause that's what Dad ate.


(Damn, I feel old. People are "remembering when" stuff from after I started voting.)

[Love Fest1969]

King Vitamin was a good cereal but I never knew any one else who ate it.

[shaina]

nerd cereal sounds awesome wish that stuff was still around

[Skip]

Rice Chex, Wheat Chex & Corn Chex! Rice cripsies stay crisp even in milk!

Wheatabix, wheaties (breakfast of champions - guess I never ate enuf to have that effect!)

Can't believe what cereals cost nowadays. The product inside still costs less than 10 cents!

I wuz so happy when someone invented granola! (I wunder who?)

[wyldwynd]

grapenuts has been around as long as i could remember. i wonder which is the oldest cereal??

[cerridwen]

Nerds... Nerds Cereal. Little pellets... The box was split down the middle with red on one side and blue on the other. And they sold a Nerds bowl that had a divider in it that you could take out so they would all mix together if you wanted.

How about the Chocolate Cow, Strawberry Cow... I absolutely remember those! Great link btw! lol...

[Kinky Ramona]

Crispix. Okay, so I'm only 19...and my cereals aren't exactly nostalgic. Hehe. But Crispix really frustrated me because I'm a fan of soggy cereal and it just took too long...afterall, it's slogan was, "Stays crispy to the last bite" or something of the sort. Bah. Hehe.

[lucyinthesky]

Jesus christ this thread is amazing.

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE CEREAL!!!! I was so so wee when it got cut off. But i still remember what it tasted like. I used to get a box for christmas. I can't believe it's on the list on that website!!! I've never known of anyone else who had this cereal.....and yes, it does come up on many occasions :rolleyes:

what the god damn hell ever happened to Apple Jacks? Those were incredible.

I did a huge project on cereal and the Kelloggs company; they are in fact the oldest cereal company who first introduced the concept. Their original start was toasted corn flakes. I went to the Kelloggs factory in London, ON...i didn't get a tour, but i saw some neat, super old boxes of ceral and some collectables.

[denimstar]

Grape Nuts cereal was the only name brand cereal in our house growing up. It was the only one I would eat and still do to this day with blueberries on it.

I just found this: http://www.fitnessandfreebies.com/health/cereal.html

[shaggie]

There used to be a trio called Count Chocula (the Count), Boo-Berry (a ghost), and another one that was strawberry that had a Frankenstein character on the box.

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[themnax]

(Damn, I feel old. People are "remembering when" stuff from after I started voting.)

people are "remembering when" stuff from after i turned 30! (and i remeber "never trust anyone over 30!)

we weren't big on 'breakfest' cerials when i was growing up. we considered them 'junk food' and i mostly still do. i like them for desert. unpresweetened ones (which incidently still really have a ton of sugar in them anyway) with instant chocklet instead of white death.

cheerio's, rice krispies, were and are my favorites. there was something called something or other puffs. or not puffs but something like that. that i don't think i've seen for a number of years. they were lightly sweetened.

i remember rice puffs too, shot from cannons, supposedly, according to the ad campaign of their day. but these were something else.

generic cornflakes, we still get. a corn flake is a corn flake is a corn flake. there's some mexican brand that has a big rooster on it, on the order of look but don't look too close, don't i look like a certain name brand?

well i don't care too much about name brands. i remember the generic cheerios, toasty ohs i think they were/are called. and likewise the generic 'crispy rice'. well that's one. anyone remember the 'generic' craze?

shredded wheat. those still arround?
we don't get wheatabix in the states but something wheat chex and rice chex. purina products. the animal feed folks. which is why i call them purina people chow. like em though. again all of these only as deserts with powdered chocklet. now way sweet OR fried stuff for 'breakfast' on my stomic. hamburger and noodles is breakfast for me.

my wife likes eggs and sweet rolls, that sort of thing. but no thanx for me. but as a light desert, yah. for that dry cereal with a little milk and chocklet and even a little cold coffee added if i happen to have some in the fridge. just right.

i think it was actualy purina, them or whoever made that puritan brand, who actualy made those 'generics'.

i remember in the 70s glop and trail mix and granola. we still get those occasionaly too. and then of course the hot cerials. oat meal mosly. but i remember something called malt-o-meal. most of these, i really wouldn't know what's still arround and what isn't. just not really something i've paid that much attention to. we get them once in a while, but that's about it.

never did care much for marshmellows either, so all those cerials with brightly colored dehydrated marshmellow chunks in them. argh! no thanx. well those are mostly the ones that you might as well just be eating pure sugar or shooting up with glucose or something, that i don't much care for anyway (and never did, even as a little guy).

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[shaggie]

Remember when 'sugar' used to be in the name of every cereal?

Sugar Pops
Sugar Frosted Flakes
Super Sugar Crisp
Sugar Smacks

The sugar is still there but the names are now the politically correct:

Pops
Frosted Flakes
Super Golden Crisp
Honey Smacks

Just be sure you put in a microgram of honey so that you can legally call it 'Honey Smacks' instead of 'Sugar Smacks', otherwise you might get sued.

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[Relic]

I remember s'mores and smurf berries. I still eat captain crunch: crunch berries and peanut butter crunch

[Relic]

King Vitamin was a good cereal but I never knew any one else who ate it.It is still around he in Missouri saw it in my sisters cabinet the other day couldn't believe it. It was ok but not my favorite.

[shaggie]

i remember in the 70s glop and trail mix and granola. we still get those occasionaly too. Yeah. Yule Gibbons for Grape Nuts and John Denver for Post something or other. The original SNL did a spoof on the nature cereals where Jane Curtain is pouring her family cereal and its gravel. The name was 'Quarry'. :)

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[Boogabaah]

colon blow cereal?

[shaggie]

Colon Blow. That was a good one. About as good as 'Quarry'. :)

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[shaggie]

A page about Count Chocula. Frankenberry was the other one I was trying to remember.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Chocula

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/49/Countchoculabig.jpg/200px-Countchoculabig.jpg

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[shaggie]

Boo Berry

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Boo-marvel.jpg/200px-Boo-marvel.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo_Berry&h=290&w=200&sz=21&tbnid=yr_X4jhA7gvIFM:&tbnh=115&tbnw=79&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dboo%2Bberry&start=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=1

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Boo-marvel.jpg/200px-Boo-marvel.jpg

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[shaggie]

Frankenberry.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Frankenberry.jpg

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[maryjanegirl_2005]

http://www.nestle.com.ni/productos/images/XXCookie%20Crisp.jpg


Cookie Crisp

[Freekowtski]

I missed my Kellogg's a lot when they aren't in the cupboard...! They're my food for breakfast!

[shaggie]

Can't believe what cereals cost nowadays. The product inside still costs less than 10 cents!
Yeah. Congress started investigating it years ago when oat bran was hitting about $5 a box. It's basically raw grain. The three major cereal companies in the U.S. immediately dropped the price about a dollar a box. I don't remember what happened with the investigation after that, but cereal is still expensive now. The cereal companies must be making a huge profit.

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[shaggie]

Remember the days before political correctness when so many cereals used to proudly put the word 'sugar' on the box. Super Sugar Crisp, Sugar Smacks, Sugar Pops, Sugar Frosted Flakes, etc.

Now they use the nicer sounding words such as 'honey', 'golden', etc, even though they all have the same staggering amount of sugar in them. :)

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[mitten_kitten]

I liked Pac-Man cereal...
http://www.zutco.com/pictures/food_cereal_us_front.JPG
Wayne Gretzky cereal....my brothers used to eat this...
http://www.jefferysimpson.net/photos/on_the_move/image02.jpg

[bellystar]

I always liked Alphabets, Cap'N'Crunch and Lucky Charms. BUT, the absolute most important factor in my cereal selection was the toy in the box!! I remember making deals with my mom, like agreeing to eat Shreddies for a week strait if it meant I could get the toy, even when I hated Shreddies. Ah, yes...those were the days ;)

[bellystar]

Do you guys remember Strawberry Shortcake cereal? Nasty as hell, but it made your milk pink!

[breacrestdude]

In the early 1980's the PAC-Man cereal was my favorite along with Frankenberry and Count Chocula.

[hannahannahannah]

I love Life cereal. But it tends to make me choke. So, I'm taking that as a sign. "Give it to Mikey! He'll eat anything!" Remember that?

[xexon]

Remember opening a box of cereal from the bottom to get the prize out?

That way, you didn't have to dig through it.

One sleepy morning, I made the mistake of pouring orange juice on my Captain Crunch.

I couldn't believe how good it was. :)



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[breacrestdude]

I remember doing that to get the bicycle license plate out of the Honeycomb cereal.

[gesone]

My faves were Frankenberry, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Pops and Honey Smacks. Fo' Sho'!

[toke1234]

x2 on the split boxes and the toys. haha

[shaggie]

My faves were Frankenberry, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Pops and Honey Smacks. Fo' Sho'!'

That was already after they changed the names to the politically correct and more nutritional sounding 'Honey Smacks' and 'Pops'. They used to be called Sugar Smacks and Sugar Pops.

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[cogliostro]

I thought this was gonna say Remebering the Breakfast Club, I love that movie! But my fave was, is and probably always will be Cap'n Crunch Peanut Butter!

[shaggie]

Whatever happened to the Honeycomb Hideout? Now that was a real hippy hangout. :) Beads, bandanas, bell-bottoms.

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[Spirit Wynd]

Yeah, I used to love Kaboom(looks like honeycomb with colors), also Smurf Berry Crunch and Pac-man cereal. Boo Berry and Frankenberry were good too.

[Bonkai]

waffle crisp, love this cereal but i haven't been able to find it in years.

[Olympic-Bullshitter]

The hacker known as Cap'n Crunch, who discovered that a whistle packed in breakfast cereal would let him fool the phone system, later wrote the word-processing program that was bundled with the first IBM PCs.

[dazedandc0nfused]

what about barbie cereal? does anyone remember that, i'm trying to find a picture. But i do remember i absolutely loved that stuff!