Forgotten cereals

[RetroTrish]

PS - Also, what was the cereal with the dehydrated blueberries? It was
another one I liked a lot in the 1970s.

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[David Ballarotto]

They did begin to make Quisp again a year or so ago. Also, if you just want
the cereal, but not the actual blue box with Quisp on it, there's a Quaker
bag cereal that I think actually is Quisp under a different name.
You know what, these days you can probably order Quisp off the web
somewhere!

[azure]

i was totally devasted when they did away w/ pink panther flakes

azure

[Teu...@webtv.net]

The only cereals I can recall are Blueberry Morning and the older
Boo-Berry cereal... but these arent the right ones?

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[Oil Impressionist]

In article <stvqa49...@corp.supernews.com>,

"azure" <kinc...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> i was totally devasted when they did away w/ pink panther flakes
>
> azure
>
>

Awwwwwww . . .

Nobody but me seems to recall Pink Elephants. I LOVED those things!!
I remember them from about '68 or '69 in Canada. They tasted like
Lucky Charms, as though the marshmallow taste was mixed in with the
O's.

Dawna

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[Teu...@webtv.net]

How about Nabisco Oo-bop-a-roos blueberry cereal... with the blue
kangaroo mascot (circa 1974)? Is this it?

[Teu...@webtv.net]

Trish,

You can buy Quisp from www.quisp.com

[Raphael]

<Teu...@webtv.net> wrote in message
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> How about Nabisco Oo-bop-a-roos blueberry cereal... with the blue
> kangaroo mascot (circa 1974)? Is this it?

Which one had the "Get along little blueberry critters" ad? I seem to
recall it was a cowboy sorta theme....

Erin ">

[andy749]

I can remember one called OKs...this may have been defunct by the
70s...I think it was sorta like Cheerios but had Ks too.
I know there was a Pink Panther cereal once...that probably was in the
70s.

[Dixon Hayes]

Personally I always liked the following:

King Vitaman
Cap'n Crunch (especially the crunchberries)
Quisp (my sister preferred Quake)
Frosty-O's (basically Frosted Cheerios for you young 'uns)
Honeycombs
Count Chocula
Boo-Berry
Lucky Charms
Cocoa Puffs
Sugar Pops
Apple Jacks
Super Sugar Crisp (back when they still called it that)

Anyone remember any of the Cap'n Crunch experiments, like vanilla and peanut
butter flavoring??

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[Dixon Hayes]

Here's one I almost forgot...*the* classic cereal of the 70s...

The Freakies, who lived in the Freakies tree! The all-time coolest cereal
mascots...I showed my daughter the characters as they now appear on a website
(sorry I lost the URL) and she instantly fell in love with them...I think the
site said each character represented a typical personality trait most children
have, that's why they were so well loved...

Remember those Freakie magnets? Try buying one off eBay now!

[WiNK]

Isn't that nuts?? A lot of the cereal premiums are SKY HIGH on
Ebay.............

....we are the Freakies and this is our Freakies tree!!!!!!! My favorite
was Snorkledorf....the one with the long snout. So what personality does
that represent, Dixon? :-)

Nadine

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[Marlene Blanshay]

> >
>
> Awwwwwww . . .
>
> Nobody but me seems to recall Pink Elephants. I LOVED those things!!
> I remember them from about '68 or '69 in Canada. They tasted like
> Lucky Charms, as though the marshmallow taste was mixed in with the
> O's.
>
> Dawna
>

I remember pink Elephants! I'm in Canada too. I don't think we ever
bought them, or if we did I don't remember. They didn't appeal to me that
much. Which company made them?

I also liked Team Flakes- they were just plain flakes but very tasty. Long
since gone.

[Ay Fongul]

Anyone remember Hawaiian Rice? It tasted just like Rice Krispies (only I think
it had more sugar).

I can remember there were three little island kids in a canoe on the front of
the box.

Our Safeway carries Quisp and it tastes as good as I remember!

Ang

[LizzieZ]

My personal fave is also long gone... Post Oat Flakes. The best thing about
them (for me) was that they weren't too sweet, but still tasted fantastic. I
probably had just as many bowls with milk as I did dry to snack on. Have never
found anything to quite take their place...

Liz

[Sparki]

>Super Sugar Crisp (back when they still called it that)

A childhood fave of mine -- whole grain wheat with a glaze of sweet. Always ate
'em straight up, no milk, whether for breakfast or a snack. For TV munching, I
ate 'em straight outta the box, why bother with a bowl? Just hand-to-mouth
munching, cunchy, sticky sweetness to sustain me while I watched ARCHIE and
POPEYE (my two fave cartoon shows. In fact, I used to dream about having a
stepdad who looked like a combo of Big Moose and Bluto -- was I the only little
girl who thought Bluto was handsome?)
Golden Crisp is the same stuff called something different, is just as
delish, and I learned it has NO FAT AT ALL!!!! So I "rediscovered" the stuff
and it has become a standby in the Sparki Shopping Cart
***SPARKI***
"By the way, I'm real, and I'm SPARK-tacular!"

[Sparki]

Remember Great Honey Crunchers? Like Super Sugar crisp but a LOT stickier! I
also ate 'em straight up, no milk (I eat most cold cereals that way, or else
I'll mix in some yogurt) and they were EXCELLENT, if sticky.

[Sparki]

They should have revived PINK PANTHER FLAKES in the 80s under the name MOLLY
RINGWALD'S PRETTY-N-PINK FLAKES.

[Sparki]

>Anyone remember any of the Cap'n Crunch experiments, like vanilla and peanut
butter flavoring??

The peanut butter one is still around, AFAIK

[SuspectDevice]

I played on a soccer team that had the Freakies as our mascot. One guy's
dad worked for General Mills and he scored a bunch of Freakies t-shirts for
us to wear as jerseys. I was Snorkeldorf. It sure got some weird looks
from our opponents.

[Oil Impressionist]

In article <blanshay-091...@192.168.0.3>,

blan...@total.net (Marlene Blanshay) wrote:
>
> > >
> >
> > Awwwwwww . . .
> >
> > Nobody but me seems to recall Pink Elephants. I LOVED those
things!!
> > I remember them from about '68 or '69 in Canada. They tasted like
> > Lucky Charms, as though the marshmallow taste was mixed in with the
> > O's.
> >
> > Dawna
> >

> I remember pink Elephants! I'm in Canada too. I don't think we ever
> bought them, or if we did I don't remember. They didn't appeal to me
that
> much. Which company made them?
>
> I also liked Team Flakes- they were just plain flakes but very tasty.
Long
> since gone.
>

I don't recall the pink elephants company. Hey, it's great to know I'm
not hallucinating, thanks, Marlene!!

[Jeff Troutman]

"Sparki" <siss...@aol.comIH8Spam> wrote:
> >Anyone remember any of the Cap'n Crunch experiments, like vanilla and
peanut
> butter flavoring??
> The peanut butter one is still around, AFAIK
>

I still see Cap'n Crunch but I haven't seen Peanut Butter Crunch in a while.
I never saw the vanilla-flavored.

Jeff Troutman

[Mike Canzoneri]

Sparki wrote:

> >Anyone remember any of the Cap'n Crunch experiments, like vanilla and peanut
> butter flavoring??
> The peanut butter one is still around, AFAIK

Yeah, and they also came out with one that had some weird artificial red berries
in it too. I can't remember what they called the berries, though. I think they
were called Crunch Berries.

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[Dixon Hayes]

>Yeah, and they also came out with one that had some weird artificial red
>berries
>in it too. I can't remember what they called the berries, though. I think
>they
>were called Crunch Berries.
>

They still have those around here and I have always *loved* them.

Dixon
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[Tiny Dancer]

And so the word went out from Oil Impressionist <oil_impr...@my-deja.com>:

>Nobody but me seems to recall Pink Elephants. I LOVED those things!!
>I remember them from about '68 or '69 in Canada. They tasted like
>Lucky Charms, as though the marshmallow taste was mixed in with the
>O's.

Dawna, the only Pink Elephant thing I can recall is that awful pink popcorn,
wasn't there an elephant on the box? Cheap and nasty sweet popcorn ...
that I ate by the fistful, of course! The cereal sounds like before my time
in Canada (got here in '72), did it last long?

Cheers,

TD

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[The Wanderer]

I remember Pink Elephants. Never ate the stuff, but I remember.

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[Oil Impressionist]

In article <39e7a66a...@news.idirect.com>,
ti...@idirect.com (Tiny Dancer) wrote:
> And so the word went out from Oil Impressionist <oil_impressionist@my-

What a GREAT quote, Tiny!!

Pink E's were gone pretty quickly, as I recall. By 72, they were
gonga. Hey, we moved to the US in 73. Veddy Intuh-destink!!

And who could forget pink, sweet, tastes-like-the-cardboard-box
popcorn!!!

Dawna

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[Oil Impressionist]

In article <e7OF5.392$7N....@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,

"The Wanderer" <rosieon...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> I remember Pink Elephants. Never ate the stuff, but I remember.
>

I didn't know they marched all the way to the US!

:-)

Dawna

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[doug holverson]

How about "Grins&Giggles&Smiles&Whatever" that was briefly made around '76?
The gimmick was that the cereal was produced whenever their main machine was
tickled. Sure.....

DGH

[Jeff Troutman]

"Oil Impressionist" <oil_impr...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <e7OF5.392$7N....@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
> "The Wanderer" <rosieon...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> > I remember Pink Elephants. Never ate the stuff, but I remember.
> >
>

> I didn't know they marched all the way to the US!
>

Great. Now I'm never going to be able to not think of them.

:P

Jeff Troutman

[Mark McNeil]

"Sparki" <siss...@aol.comIH8Spam> wrote in message
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> Remember Great Honey Crunchers? Like Super Sugar crisp but a LOT stickier!
I
> also ate 'em straight up, no milk (I eat most cold cereals that way, or
else
> I'll mix in some yogurt) and they were EXCELLENT, if sticky.

> ***SPARKI***
> "By the way, I'm real, and I'm SPARK-tacular!"

I can't remember if anyone mentioned this, but do you remember a
pre-sweetened version of Chex cereal called Sugar Chex? It had a picture of
Casper on the box.

Mark McNeil
mdwm...@teleclipse.net

[yachtboy]

grins and giggles and laughs.
i named a pet pigeon after it back in '80 or so.
dont ask, i had an interesting life...
lol!
thanks, yachtboy!

On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 10:32:55 -0500, doug holverson
<dhol...@netins.net> walked right in,sat right down, and screamed in
a very nice way:

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[yachtboy]

how about buckwheats?
i loved them, and haven't seen them for years.
thanks,
yachtboy!

On Sat, 7 Oct 2000 18:15:59 -0400, "RetroTrish"
<retr...@bellsouth.net> walked right in,sat right down, and screamed

in a very nice way:

>x-no-archive: yes
>
>Do they still make any of these?
>
>CW Post (granola type cereal, I loved this stuff)
>Mueslix
>Alpin
>Quisp (have heard this is still mfgd. but can't find it locally)
>
>Trish * 1961
> Trish in Atlanta
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[LPecucci]

does anyone remember (& forgive me if its been mentioned already) one with a
weird monster/machine on the box called"

Laughsandgigglesandsnorts..

or something like that?

now its driving me nuts!

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[Mark McNeil]

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It was called Grins & Smiles & Giggles & Laughs. I remember in the
commercials they tried to get the machine to laugh. His laughing would
produce the boxes of cereal.

Mark McNeil
mdwm...@teleclipse.net

[Dick Long]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 22:24:33 -0500, in alt.culture.us.1970s another
self-styled hero wrote:

>It was called Grins & Smiles & Giggles & Laughs. I remember in the
>commercials they tried to get the machine to laugh. His laughing would
>produce the boxes of cereal.

Check out Topher's site for tons of cereal info:

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/3278/cereal-usda.html

Lots of great info and pictures.

DL

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[Tiny Dancer]

And so the word went out from Dick Long <dickl...@hotmail.combo>:

>Check out Topher's site for tons of cereal info:
>
>http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/3278/cereal-usda.html
>
>Lots of great info and pictures.

Thanks a lot, Dick, there goes another hour or so of my life! Great fun
site, excellent layout with small graphics, I smell a link in the making :-)
Never knew Tony the Tiger was married:

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/3278/cereal-kelloggs.html

I always fancied him back then *sigh* All the good ones are taken.

Cheers,

TD

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[Dustin Petersen]

Grins & Smiles & Giggles & Laughs. I think the machine's name was Cecil.

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[Dustin Petersen]

The "lost" Cap'n Crunch Cereals:

Jean La Fitte's Cinnamon Crunch (He was the Pirate)
Nilla Crunch (White frosted puffs, shaped like Peanut Butter Crunch)
Punch Crunch (Fruit Punch flavored, had a parrot on the box, I think, or a
pink elephant)
Choco Crunch (From the 80's)

That's all I can remember, except the following seasonal versions:

Home Run Crunch (With Baseballs)
Christmas Crunch (Red and Green Crunch Berries)
Ooops! All Berries!
And all new Space Cosmic Crunch, with some green powder to put in the milk.

Anybody remember any others?

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[Dustin Petersen]

They also had Fruity Freakies for a while.

"Dixon Hayes" <dixon...@aol.comspamless> wrote in message

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> Here's one I almost forgot...*the* classic cereal of the 70s...
>
> The Freakies, who lived in the Freakies tree! The all-time coolest cereal
> mascots...I showed my daughter the characters as they now appear on a
website
> (sorry I lost the URL) and she instantly fell in love with them...I think
the
> site said each character represented a typical personality trait most
children
> have, that's why they were so well loved...
>
> Remember those Freakie magnets? Try buying one off eBay now!
>
> Dixon
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>