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Breakfast Cereal Mascots: Beloved and Bizarre
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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.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: mascot
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To: nickcarraway
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.”
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posted on
04/07/2013 6:26:56 PM PDT
by
Arthur McGowan
(If you're FOR sticking scissors in a female's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
To: nickcarraway
have breakfast with the King
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posted on
04/07/2013 6:28:52 PM PDT
by
ZinGirl
(kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
To: nickcarraway
Is “Froot Loops” considered incendiary speech today?
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posted on
04/07/2013 6:30:37 PM PDT
by
ConservativeStatement
(Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
To: nickcarraway; Quix
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posted on
04/07/2013 6:31:54 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them.)
To: nickcarraway
I have bought a box of cereal for no other reason than a picture of Capt. Jack Sparrow on it!
To: ConservativeStatement
Don’t come between me and my Cocoa Puffs, just saying.
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posted on
04/07/2013 6:33:16 PM PDT
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: ZinGirl
Looks like a cross between Biden and Sandusky....
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posted on
04/07/2013 6:33:51 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: ZinGirl
The King creeped me out but that was some good cereal
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posted on
04/07/2013 6:34:15 PM PDT
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: Arthur McGowan
Now, come on, today’s writers can’t be expected to understand subject/verb agreement, can they?
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posted on
04/07/2013 6:34:24 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
To: null and void
I believe old quix got banned?
To: nickcarraway
How did I know that would be #1.
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posted on
04/07/2013 6:35:32 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
Comment #14 Removed by Moderator
To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
Yes, but to speak of the dead banned is to bring them to life...
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posted on
04/07/2013 6:36:45 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Have you tasted Trix lateley??? O...M...G. It tastes like fruity cardboard.
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posted on
04/07/2013 6:36:58 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
To: ConservativeStatement
"They are always after me Lucky Charms."
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posted on
04/07/2013 6:37:11 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: nickcarraway
To: fieldmarshaldj
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posted on
04/07/2013 6:38:31 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: nickcarraway
I yearn for a honeycomb hideout.
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