In the golden age of breakfast cereal, manufacturers weren't wasting their time promoting health benefits or movie-marketing tie-ins. Back then, it was all about combining sugar, grain, fructose syrup, and corn, and topping it all with a little powdered sugar. Basically, breakfast cereal was the most delicious mini-meth lab you could find in a cardboard box.
Add a few psychedelic monsters on the front with some purple marshmallows inside, and you had the recipe for a sweet breakfast addiction. Our memories are still fond ... At least the memories that weren't lost in the glucose haze.
Here are some of our favorites. Let us know if we missed any.
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Friday 04 April
By Kris
OMG!!! This was my favorite cereal when I was 6!!! I loved, loved loved it and was so bummed when it was no longer available! Ahhh the sweet taste of sugar
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Friday 04 April
By ms
You can't list Qwisp without Quake. It was the same cereal shapped differently. Loved both as a kid.
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Friday 04 April
By Paula
This was my favorite too! I even had a couple of the t-shirts!! I didn't think anybody else would remember it until a few years ago at work, I mentioned it to a co-worker about my age...the guy next to us started singing the Freakies song! Haha, I loved it!
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Friday 04 April
By Ali
omg i've never heard of that.... OLDIES!!
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Friday 04 April
By LGS
We are the Freakies, we are the freakies, this is our freaky tree. We never miss a meal, cuz we love our cereal...
The song is still in my head after more than 30 years. That was some cereal!
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Saturday 05 April
By Kenneth Barr
How about "Crispy Critters," a '60s era cereal which were "the one's that are shaped like animals!" In my family, the term crispy critters is used when somone burns the cooking.
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Saturday 05 April
By Colin
I grew up on a lot of those. About half though I've never heard of. I remember QUAKE initially used some miner with one of those flashlight helmets ... then, he became a Cavalier? Man, what little garbage cans we are when were kids. But, at least they kept it real then. Super SUGAR Crisp; SUGAR Pops; SUGAR Smacks. Now, unless your actually selling sugar, that word is taboo. I loved King Vitaman. I didn't realize until just now that vitaman was mispelled. I'm not illiterate ... I just never noticed.
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Saturday 05 April
By James
Some of these are still in production, albeit with major changes to the boxes, lol. I'm pretty young, born in '86, so I missed most of these I think, but one that they made fun of that I would have liked to try is 'Punch Crunch'. I'll admit, fruit punch doesn't sound too appealing in a cereal, but I have yet to taste a Cap'N'Crunch cereal that I didn't like. Also, some of the explanations of the cereals are exaggerated, like the Post Sugar-Corn-fetti, it was just Post's version of Frosted Flakes, nothing that crazy.
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Saturday 05 April
By James
Also, King Vitaman isn't misspelled. They miraculously spelled it right in the description of the cereal on the front of the box, saying it was 'vitamin' enriched. Vitaman was a play on the word vitamin, because he was a king. Trademarked names are whatever they are, it's impossible for them to be misspelled; obviously that's what the manufacturer wanted.
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Saturday 05 April
By MM
Post Crispy Critters ( pink elephants, lots of pink elephants..put 'em on your spoon!) and Kellogg's Puff Puff Rice
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Saturday 05 April
By Roxanne
Freakies was my favorite as a kid.... I was upset when they stoped making it. And remember the refrig magnets....
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Saturday 05 April
By Bil Smith
You've lost the "concept" of Mikey: he didn't like anything. Not he didn't eat everything.
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Saturday 05 April
By juniperbryonie
By Roxanne
Freakies was my favorite as a kid.... I was upset when they stoped making it. And remember the refrig magnets....
Oh my gosh, I had ALL the fridge magnets. I LOVED that cereal. What's really weird is just yesterday I was thinking about it, trying to remember the name of it. No one knew what I was talking about when I described the front of the box!
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Saturday 05 April
By KH
There's also "Croonchy Stars" The Swedish Chef from The Muppet Show" was on the commercial.Yep..believe it or not..it was an ACTUAL cereal.I think Post made it.
Think "Cinnamon Toast Crunch" shaped like little stars.
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Saturday 05 April
By fourthedogscards
I loved Freakies, every now and then I mention them to someone and they look at me like I am nuts. In fact I still the fridge magnets, that came in the boxes when I was I kid, until just a couple months ago when my house burned down.
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Saturday 05 April
By carolynn
Whoever wrote these discriptions is HILARIOUS. Boy I Started my day out on a very funny foot after reading about these cereals. One I feel should have been included was Dunkin Donuts cereal , what a healthy taste treat that was. Cereal shaped like little donuts and loaded with sugar. I wish I could remember what was on the box. Wonder if it was the guy who said "time to make the donuts".
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Saturday 05 April
By nancy
WOW~~~~somebody else out there remembers crispy critters. They were my favorite growing up. Alot of people don't remember them.
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Saturday 05 April
By debra
Wow im 48 now and my little brother and i ate quisp back in the 60's.I often wondered what happened to it.I wish they would still make some..PLEASE QUAKER IF YOU SEE THIS MAKE ME SOME MORE.LOL.i'LL BUY IT.i SWEAR.
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Friday 02 May
By retireddoc
Eating some Quisp now as I read. They are still or back around.
Randy, MD
Saturday 05 April
By cassie
the dog in the cave looks so cute. i have 4 dogs at my house. i have 3 silky terriers and 1 poodle. but... i dont like cats. their mean an i am alegice to them.but who do's not like dogs.2 weeks ago my dogs were barking at 2 abandon dogs...AND ONE WAS PREGNANT!!!!
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