
This YouTube medley features Rainbow Brite cereal (why did RB wear epaulets? was she in the British Navy?), Cap'n Crunch Peanut Butter cereal (yeah, it's part of a balanced breakfast if the rest of your breakfast is broccoli), Cookie Crisp (with the Cookie Crook!), Crispy Critters (this looks like animal crackers to me), a hellishly screechy cereal for a Cocoa Pebbles variant called Dino Pebbles, Marshmallow Krispies, Sugar Smacks (back when it was OK to use "Sugar" in a cereal name), and "Breakfast Bears," which appears to be just Teddy Grahams in a bowl.
What cavity-causing cereal did you eat as a kid? My mom bought Kaboom (remember the clown?) and I think she thought King Vitaman was some kind of compromise between sugary cereal and bran, so she bought a lot of that.
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I loved me some Vanilla Wafer Cookie Crisp cereal - it was in a blue box. Don't know why they got rid of it and kept the nasty Chocolate Chip Cookie Crisp. But I'm not still bitter 25 years later. Nope, not at all.
I had no idea there was VANILLA WAFER COOKIE CRISP! Now I even found a photo: http://www.wacky-packages.net/images/cereal-wackys/vanilla-cookie-crisp-box.jpg
Any cereal that gave away Wacky Packs is right up my alley.
However, real vanilla wafer cookies are so small, you could almost just pour them into a bowl and add milk. Um, not that I said that.
Loving the idea of broccoli negating the effect of sugar-coated ADHD-O's. Well done you xx
OMG, Marshmallow Krispies were awesome! Do they still make them? They weren't invented when I was a kid and my Cheerio-buying mom would never have bought them for us anyhow, but I totally ate the hell out of those things in college. That, and the peanut butter Cap'n Crunch, in fact. Right out of the box. Whoever thought that a salty breakfast cereal could be so very awesome?
I distinctly remember being about 5 (so this was like 30 years ago, just to illustrate the strength of this memory) and being at a babysitter's house, and my eyes widening at her pantry full of Lucky Charms and Boo Berry. I was gravely disappointed. Those chalky little marshmallows! It's my first memory of disappointment, in fact. I sound like Proust, but it's true. Magically delicious, my ass!
I have no memory of actually eating the Critters cereal, but my husband has been known to call something "indubitably delicious" on occasion - finally know where he got that! I do miss that PB Cap'N Crunch though!
We had Morning Funnies, which was nothing but sugar coated colored smiley faces, but there were COMICS PRINTED ON THE BOX. Totally cool and I wish they still made them!
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