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marnweb	Crazy American Breakfast Cereals	Lead	[-]
Posts: 130 (04/05/08 5:29 PM) Globetrotter Cravin' Kasem Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Oh My! - what horrible stuff some kids ate way back when and even now. I think I recall Kaboom on this list, but nothing else. Take a look at these, gang! Anyone here remember some of these other ones? I think Puffa Puffa Rice should have made it as it was a very strange name, not sure of its flavor, but we see it in the ads preserved on the Monkees' DVDs. http://www.asylum.com/gallery/20-vintage-breakfast-cereals-that-would-disturb-todays-youth/691432/
Mare55		#1	[-]
Posts: 389 (04/05/08 5:47 PM) Whoosie Finder Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I definitely remember Quisp cereal and a couple of the others look familiar. I'm sure my parents just wouldn't buy them. Some are pretty funny! Mare
NoraLou		#2	[-]
Posts: 8674 (04/05/08 5:56 PM) Rev. Nora Paperback writer Amazing Grace Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Oh some of those look just awful! In spite of my sweet tooth, I've never been a fan of sugared cereal-and I think I'm glad!
25or6to4		#3	[-]
Posts: 4176 (04/05/08 8:57 PM) Mr. Smarty Pants Treasure Chest Rock of Gibraltar Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I remember Franken Berry and Boo Berry...can't say that I remeber Fruit Brute, though. I do admit to a box or two of Kaboom in my youth. Shane Keep an eye out for Public Enemies!
Monkeegroupies		#4	[-]
Posts: 2186 (04/05/08 10:47 PM) Mauler-Catcher Rosie Mod Squad Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I remember Kaboom-I used to love that PS1 WORDS OF WISDOM Everyone seems normal until you get to know them You can't have everything. Where would you put it? I don't get even, I get odder. Stupidity got us into this mess - why can't it get us out? If it ain't broke, fix it till it is. My Reality Check bounced Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool
theory536		#5	[-]
Posts: 8246 (04/06/08 2:52 AM) elxxxx doolittle bright pink stripey sock Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	A few years ago, they introduced Lucky Charms which were exciting because they were exotic and American. They didn't last though - as much as we love our sugary cereals here (like Frosties, Ricicles etc) I think the idea of eating marshmallows with cereal just didn't appeal to many people. Sugary cereals (yum!!) used to have toys in as free gifts, but annoyingly they don't do that any more in an attempt to get kids to eat healthily (ha-ha)!! elxxx ******** Every man is a fool in some man's opinion
The Big Dogma		#6	[-]
Posts: 603 (04/06/08 3:20 AM) GOMOTB Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I ate a lot of those when I was a kid. Probalby why my brain is fried today. I didnt think it was so horrible... Then anyway *"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how* the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt..."Citizenship in a Republic," Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910 "They call me the Bandit without any Pants." BD the GOMOTB(Grumpy Old Man of the Board.....Yeah thats me! whatcha gonna do about it?) "Weasles! They're not just for breakfast anymore!"
theory536		#7	[-]
Posts: 8250 (04/06/08 3:39 AM) elxxxx doolittle bright pink stripey sock Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Actually, you know I've just looked through them all - aren't there a lot that taste of like fruit and stuff? We just don't really get that here. Some of those look disgusting! elxxx ******** Every man is a fool in some man's opinion
Actrs12B		#8	[-]
Posts: 316 (04/06/08 11:15 AM) Ken Konnect Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I don't remember any of those at all. LOL
Molly Divoon		#9	[-]
Posts: 2194 (04/06/08 11:41 AM) The Divoon Miss M nutty-buddy "not Peg" Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I remember a few of those! (Although either the folks who did the marketing on the cereal or the folks writing the critiques needs Freudian analysis.) ^^^^^^^^^^^^ My fansite: The Monkees @ FashionState.Com Can you dig it?
CinniLuWho		#10	[-]
Posts: 2049 (04/06/08 12:18 PM) FVB Glitter Guhl iPod Chick Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	With the possible exception of Quisp, I don't remember any of them. Could be in part because my mother would NEVER have bought any of them (which really only affects those that were around in the 60s) and that I pretty much stopped eating cereal in high school. The fanciest cereal we ever got was Trix! Cindi "Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) "Without music, life would be a mistake." Friedrich Nietzsche
Jonesounds		#11	[-]
Posts: 25036 (04/06/08 12:26 PM) Maharishi of Music Chopped Liver Magnum, PA Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	When I was little,the cereals I remember most were Kelloggs K (now it's Special K),Wheaties and Rice Crispies. When we would get sweetened cereal,I remember Frankenberry or Count Chocula. I was born in 1967,but some of those cereals like Puffa Puffa Rice I never heard of except in watching old Monkees episodes where they list it in the end credits.
theory536		#12	[-]
Posts: 8259 (04/06/08 12:50 PM) elxxxx doolittle bright pink stripey sock Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I only really ever eat Frosties or porridgefir breakfast anyway elxxx ******** Every man is a fool in some man's opinion
Molly Divoon		#13	[-]
Posts: 2195 (04/06/08 1:01 PM) The Divoon Miss M nutty-buddy "not Peg" Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Puffa Puffa Rice commercials!! (The JINGLE might shake a couple of memories loose out there...) Black and white commercial. (This one is on the hilarious side of politically incorrect.) Color commercial. (So I keep expecting Steve McGarrett or Greg Brady to show up...) ^^^^^^^^^^^^ My fansite: The Monkees @ FashionState.Com Can you dig it?
marnweb		#14	[-]
Posts: 139 (04/06/08 1:10 PM) Globetrotter Cravin' Kasem Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Yea, the Freudian comment is pretty funny, Molly. Anyway, I quit eating most cold cereal on a daily basis in high school. Now it is rare that I do and when I do it is definitely not pre-sweetened much. I dug peanut butter Capt'n Crunch though when I was about 10, but I didn't see it on the list.
Molly Divoon		#15	[-]
Posts: 2198 (04/06/08 1:32 PM) The Divoon Miss M nutty-buddy "not Peg" Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The Cap'n has endurance in flavor and marketing, Marnie. I found an article from the Sun (U.K.) about breakfast cereal concerns. Cereal 'sugary as chocs' But never mind that...what's a "McBacon Roll" from McDonald's? What else do the folks in the U.K. have at their world-franchised fast food restaurants that we don't? ^^^^^^^^^^^^ My fansite: The Monkees @ FashionState.Com Can you dig it?
Jonesounds		#16	[-]
Posts: 25042 (04/06/08 2:07 PM) Maharishi of Music Chopped Liver Magnum, PA Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I usually don't eat breakfast at all.
The Big Dogma		#17	[-]
Posts: 609 (04/06/08 5:13 PM) GOMOTB Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Although I have seen most of those boxes, I spent majority of the 70s & 80s overseas where I did not see these offered in the base commissaries. If I did see an odd one I was usually on leave. A lot of different cereals (as many other products) were marketed regionally also so if some were available in New England, they were necessarily sold in the south or the midwest. *"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how* the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt..."Citizenship in a Republic," Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910 "They call me the Bandit without any Pants." BD the GOMOTB(Grumpy Old Man of the Board.....Yeah thats me! whatcha gonna do about it?) "Weasles! They're not just for breakfast anymore!"
Jonesounds		#18	[-]
Posts: 25045 (04/06/08 5:52 PM) Maharishi of Music Chopped Liver Magnum, PA Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Waffles or Pop Tarts were more of a favorite as a kid.
The Big Dogma		#19	[-]
Posts: 610 (04/06/08 6:03 PM) GOMOTB Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	the Cap'n Crunch Character as was Quisp & Quake, were creations of Rocky & Bullwinkle creator Jay Ward Jay Ward Productions continued turning out fabulously inventive cartoons for the next few years. While its following was enthusiastic, it was not, by network television standards, very large. Series proposals such as "Fang the Wonder Dog" and "Hawkear" (about an Indian scout of the Old West) went unproduced, because the networks wouldn't accept them without emasculatingly massive changes. The studio came to rely more and more on its commercial work, particularly for Quaker cereals - first, with its regular characters acting as spokestoons for existing products, and later with new products based on Ward-designed characters (such as Quisp, Quake and Cap'n Crunch). *"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how* the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt..."Citizenship in a Republic," Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910 "They call me the Bandit without any Pants." BD the GOMOTB(Grumpy Old Man of the Board.....Yeah thats me! whatcha gonna do about it?) "Weasles! They're not just for breakfast anymore!"
Jonesounds		#20	[-]
Posts: 25053 (04/06/08 6:09 PM) Maharishi of Music Chopped Liver Magnum, PA Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I used to love peanut butter Cap'n Crunch. That was one of the best back then.