Remembering Breakfast Cereals...

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

 

I absolutely remember those! Great link btw! lol...

 

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.

 

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

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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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colon blow cereal?

 

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

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

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



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Boo Berry

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...oo+berry&start=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=1



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Frankenberry.



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Cookie Crisp​

 

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

 

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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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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