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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.
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Saturday 05 April
By mary
king vitamin was once a cartoon before he was replaced by a human. quisp is still on the market i saw it in a dollar store oh yes, you forgot "crispy critters" i think it was from general mills or post. maybe kelloggs i'm not verry sure. anybody remember that?
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Saturday 05 April
By felicia
MAYPO......... you forgot MAYPO. It was definitely better than just plain old oatmeal or cream of wheat.
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Saturday 05 April
By T
WHAT ABOUT COOKIE CRISP! The box was blue and had a magician as its mascot. They had regular and Chocolate Chip!
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Saturday 05 April
By Chris
C'mon, what about Pink Panther Flakes?
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Saturday 05 April
By Matt
I saw Kaboom in the store today.
Bi Lo Charlotte, NC.
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Saturday 05 April
By bm1556
Matt,
From Charlotte, NC., I would love to get a box of KABOOMS. Is there anyway to do this?
Chris
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Sunday 06 April
By George
You can still find Quisp in the store. I still get it at a sore called Marc's. This in Ohio. don't know if Marc's has stores in other states. It's like 2.50 a box.
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Sunday 06 April
By Mike
when I was little we had Post Grape Nuts & Nabisco Shredded Wheat.....one looked like gravel and the other like a little bale of hay....
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Sunday 06 April
By Brian
My favorite was Peanut Butter Captain Crunch.
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Sunday 06 April
By DebbieC
You can still buy Quisp at it's website, Quisp.com. I buy a couple of boxes for my brother every year. It was both our favorite cereal when we were growing up.
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Monday 07 April
By Phil
Recently saw a brand of oatmeal at Wal-mart...uniquely called "Monkey Brains".... original anyways.
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Wednesday 09 April
By Jo
When i was a kid growing up i use to eat puffed rice cereal, shredderd wheat, weaties ,sugar pops, frosted flakes, which i loved and they had them in the 50's to 60's. then my children use to eat a cereal called Kaboom which they no longer make but sold in the 70's, that was their favorite cereal then.
Back then you use to get prizes in your cereal like cars and different toys.Those were the good old days.
They use to sell duz laundry detergent and that also came with a free glass in each box, then they had a book that you would fill up with green stamps and gold stamps and when full you would trade them in for great gifts of all kinds.
they also use to give out glasses with each fill up of gas at the gas stations to.To bring back some of these things would be Great don't you think?
Every 10 years they should do that again just for the great memories we all use to share.
Call it i remember back when.
We had a rag man, a ice man, a milk man, and a icecream man that use to push his cart and ring his bell. Those were all the good old days. :)
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Sunday 06 April
By Skip Hartley
What about Pink Panther cereal?
Turned your milk pink
Basically corn flakes with pink sugar coating
looked very POST nuclear
all pun intended
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Sunday 06 April
By The Bobster
Quisp was one of the finest cereals of all time. Almost forgot all about it (sugar induced memory loss). Vanilla Crunchy sounds great. Most of the rest seem like they were products of LSD bad trips....some of the finest pot in the world wouldn't get me to eat them.
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Sunday 06 April
By Fairlin
One I thought for sure to make the list was Crazy Cow made by General Mills...One of my favorite cereals as a kid back in the 70's..It was pretty much like Kix cereal but came in Chocolate and Strawberry flavor. Another one I thought would make the list was the remake of General Mills Monster cereal Fruit Brute called Yummy Mummy.
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Sunday 06 April
By heather
These cereals are definately weird, but i would like to know whatever happened to Nerds cereal?? I used to love it. You could get 2 flavors in one box!! I sent away for the official nerds bowl for my cereal, but i never got it.....still makes me mad!!!
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Sunday 06 April
By Debbie C
How about those Space Food Sticks? My brother and I used to eat them by the boxful! The chocolate ones were absolutely the best! I have absolutely no idea what they contained or even what kind of food they were, but back in 1972 or 73 who really cared?
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Sunday 06 April
By sweets3940
Ohhh how I remember when mom went shopping on Friday nights after dad got out of work. My brothers wanted Quisp and my sister and I wanted Quake. The anticipation of which one mom would buy and the disappointment over her not getting the one we liked. The funny thing was they were both the same just different shapes.
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Sunday 06 April
By Dan Erech
Wonderful article! I haven't thought Moonstones or Fruit Brute in years! Now, I have sudden withdrawal symptoms for them. I'll make a deal with their former manufacturers: Bring these great cereals back and I'll eat them, even at my ripe old age of 42.
And why shouldn't they? If what I read here is true, even King Vitaman (sp?) has returned to the shelves...Not that it was a bad cereal, but I seriously question the monarch's appeal to this generation's rebellious crop of kids. Remember the commercial & jingle?: "King Vitamaaaan! Eat Breakfast with the King! King Vitamaaaaan!" And I seem to remember this old guy (well, he looked old to me at the time), adorned with some white outfit and a crown on his head, atop a horse of the same colour. The next scene showed hardly the stuff of childhood fantasy: The King, sitting down at the table, in league with youngsters, all happily eating his cereal.
Were I still of age, I'd much rather partake of sweet, space stones and multi-coloured, werewolf-inspired oats and marshmallows than have to wake up every morning to a breakfast session with the grade-school disciplinarian.
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Sunday 06 April
By Brianna
Um...Freakies? That sounds sorta - wierd?! Creepy! Akward! Most peeps say they like it, but it is one step away from crazy. Who eats cereal that is considered a mini-meth lab?! I agree with Ali - you guys are old!
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