[nickcarraway]

[Arthur McGowan]

Correction:

“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 WAS a popular character depicted on the box.”

[ZinGirl]

have breakfast with the King

[ConservativeStatement]

Is “Froot Loops” considered incendiary speech today?

[null and void]

Shoulda pinged him...

[ilovesarah2012]

I have bought a box of cereal for no other reason than a picture of Capt. Jack Sparrow on it!

[qam1]

Xer Ping

Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effects Generation Reagan / Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.

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[dfwgator]

How did I know that would be #1.

[fieldmarshaldj]

[GSWarrior]

I yearn for a honeycomb hideout.

[dfwgator]

[Paladin2]

"Breakfast Cereal Mascots"

They're GREAT!

[dfwgator]

[VeniVidiVici]

Wow! Go figure! Mean old advertising works!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Anyone remember the cereal called Kaboom (with the clown)? I loved that stuff.

[dfwgator]

Seriously, if I saw this when I was a kid, I would have been scarred for life.

[ConorMacNessa]

On seeing this thread I was instantly reminded of the iconic Wheaties box of my youth, featuring the Olympian pole vaulter Bob Richards. I just ran a search and could not find that box. I found some images of Bob Richards, but not of the famous box I remember from so many breakfasts during my boyhood in the 50's.



"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Squawk 8888]

[Kirkwood]

Forget the mascots. I loved sending away for great promotional toys like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEGtHxTEMAI

One of the coolest ones I got was an F-100 fighter that had spring loaded missles. I also got several different kinds of submarines and rockets.

[dfwgator]

[Rodamala]

They sell Quisp cereal in the Bi-Lo grocery store in the town I live in in NW PA... even odder, it's adjacent to the health food section... away from the assault on the senses of the cereal aisle.

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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