Posted on 04/07/2013 6:24:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 2011 article in Pediatrics magazine found that children who had been asked to taste a "new" cereal reported liking the same cereal more if there were a popular character depicted on the box. "The use of media characters on food packaging affects children's subjective taste assessment," the study concluded.
Little surprise, given the long history of breakfast cereal manufacturers marketing their wares with the help of colorful cartoon characters or figures already familiar from TV, movies and comic books.
The following gallery shows some of the more famous (and infamous) breakfast cereal mascots.
Left: Quisp, introduced in 1965 by Quaker Oats, was discontinued in the 1970s, but in recent years has returned to Earth via online outlets.
“Have you tasted Trix lateley??? O...M...G. It tastes like fruity cardboard.”
Our old family favorite, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, was ruined about three years ago when it got a fiber boost to the point where it tasted like cinnamon coated old cardboard.
Such a bummer. Surely their sales plummeted? I kept hoping they’d wise up and go back to their old recipe.
Who in their wildest dreams would have predicted he'd wind up as a Kardashian manservant....
Growing up, mom made us poached eggs on toast or oatmeal or citrus sections every morning for breakfast... we had cereal, but it was corn flakes, raisin bran, grape nuts, or shredded wheat. It was very rare that she would allow us to pick the "Coacco Frosted Sugar Bombs"... It was a rare treat to get Alpha Bits... or anything with a toy in the box or blasted on TV during kid primetime... Saturday morning cartoons.
Makes me wonder if all the "problems" that kids have these days with ADHD/Asthma/Aspergers/Learning Disabilities/Childhood Obesity/&c. is merely diet related... and that rather than the discpline of a traditional family where one parent works and the other does "everything else"... clean, make beds, laundry, ironing, gardening, child rearing, family meal planning and preparation, grocery shopping, paying bills, balancing the checkbook, taking the kids to hockey practice, and somehow managing to have fabulous hair while doing all that... well, it makes one wonder where everything went wrong and what players were involved to destroy the basics of healthy childhoods...
I have no doubt that it's an aggregate result from the combined assault on the family by the Feminist Movement, Big Food, Big Pharma, the ABCLBGTXYZ anything goes agenda, Public Education, and the Democrat Party.
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In this case, the writer is suggesting that IF there WERE a character on a box of cereal, children would be more likely to like it.
I don't say "If I was President, I would..." The proper form is "If I were President, I would..."
-PJ
That one went over much better than 'Nut and Bits'...
OK, the last one is a joke.
But there WAS a cartoon character on the box they gave the children.
If they had presented the childre with only plain gray boxes, it would then be correct to ask the children, “Would you like this cereal more if there WERE a cartoon character on the box?”
Since there WAS a cartoon character on some of the boxes, it was incorrect to say that “children liked a cereal better if there WERE a cartoon character on the box.”
If Obama were to be asked, “Are you responsible for the lousy economy since 2009?” it would be grammatically correct for him to say, “Even if I was President starting in 2009, it’s all Bush’s fault.” It would be grammatically incorrect for him to say “if I were President” precisely because he was (the putative) President.
Was that a real ad—and then they got the guy to play a part on “Seinfeld”? Or, was the ad shot just for “Seinfeld”?
"I pity the fool that don't eat my cereal!"
Monsters cereal boxesThey were an innovative pair when they debuted in 1971.
Count Chocula was the first chocolate-flavored cereal with chocolate-flavored marshmallow bits.
And Franken Berry was the only strawberry-flavored cereal on the market.
In 1972, along came Boo Berry, the first cereal that tasted like blueberries. (Wiki)
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