Favorite cereal of yore

[Tab]

This is mine...


 

[beac]

1. JUST the one I was thinking of!

Tasty, bad for you and complete with a whacked-out alien pitchman. I can't believe my parents EVER let us eat it.* Hurrah for the seventies!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w45vEwl2FyU&feature=related





* It was a rare and treasured treat when my mother managed to override my dad's All-Ralston-All-the-Time breakfast torture routine.

[Warpy]

2. My mother got into Kellogg's variety packs for a while in the 50s

because it was something she could get on the table semi comatose before she'd had her coffee.

I was always bummed out when it was down to those nasty Sugar Corn Pops.

The rest of it, not so much, as long as I could get them down without milk before she noticed.

[Tab]

3. I didn't mention it, but there was the "Great Sugar Shift"

It used to be "Sugar Smacks", "Sugar Pops", etc.

Overnight, as sugar became "baaad", they magically became "Corn Pops", and whatever Sugar Smacks became.

[Warpy]

9. I vaguely remember the shift going both ways

and "sugar" in the name was a huge selling point in the early 50s since people had endured years of WWII sugar rationing. All of a sudden, they could have it in everything, and they did.

When tooth rot started to catch up to us kiddies, the labels went back.

[eleny]

4. Puffed Wheat - It was shot from guns!

[Mind_your_head]

5. Yup ---- I voted Quisp

Remember the "Quisp vs. Quake" contest?

They were both the same cereals only different shapes.

On the cereal box it showed Quisp or Quake 'winning' something like 158 to 146 votes! :rofl:

We were soooooooo gullible! (and STILL are, aren't we? ... as a nation, I mean ;-) )

[hippywife]

6. All of them!

I don't think I ever met a cereal I didn't like. I think the Sugar Pops, Froot Loops, and Sugar Smacks were my top choices back then. Sometimes I still look longingly at them when they are on sale. Sigh.

How are you feeling today, my friend? :hug:

:hi:

[japple]

7. We were toast eaters. We also had a mean mother who wouldn't buy

anything except Rice Krispies, Corn Flakes or Raisin Bran. No Froot Loops, Apple Jacks or Kix for us.

[hippywife]

8. Here's the thing with unsweetened cereals and toast.

You add a little sugar and then when you get down to the bottom of the bowl you take your buttered toast and dip it in that lovely sweetened milk that's left. :9

[Why Syzygy]

10. lol. mean mother

We only had shredded wheat, my dad's favorite. Now it's my favorite :shrug:

[japple]

11. I just remembered that sometimes she would buy the variety

pack. This must have been in 1957 or so, probably when they were first introduced. We would carefully cut the scored lines on the boxes, pour in the milk, and eat out of the box! What an adventure! She wasn't so mean after all.

[hippywife]

12. I remember doing that, too! LOL

We didn't get the variety pack very often since it cost more and with six kids there would be scuffles over who got which box, so it was easier if everyone was getting the same thing. :rofl:

[japple]

15. My mother did all of her grocery shopping at the base commissary.

I don't ever remember going into a grocery store until I was about 13 or so. As a former Army brat, I am very thankful to the Dept. of Defense for excellent dental/medical care, cheap groceries, and 3 years living in Germany. What a wonderful childhood.

[kestrel91316]

26. Same here, but USAF, and the three years were in Japan, lol.

Oh, and Cocoa Krispies are still my old fave. I rarely eat cold cereals anymore, though.

[elleng]

13. I Want my MAYPO!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBvoWr2kUUY

[ginnyinWI]

14. Crispy Critters!

[hippywife]

16. OMG, ginny!

I had totally forgotten those. :rofl:

[ginnyinWI]

17. do you remember the jingle?

"The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals!" At least that was the one in the 60s. ;)

[hippywife]

18. I think I do!

Wow! What blasts from the past this thread has brought up. Funny thing was even with all the sugar in all this cereal, it was probably healthier back then than it is now with all the chemical additives and preservatives they put in things these days.

[gauguin57]

19. "The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals..."

Remember that ad?

[gauguin57]

20. Linus tells us all about "new" Crispy Critters ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG949NeSDPk

[ginnyinWI]

21. that was a great ad!

It really got kids wanting that cereal bad--just so they could sing that song while eating!

[mtnester]

28. OMG I LOVED Cripsy Critters

[Arkansas Granny]

22. One of my favorites was Grape Nuts Flakes. I think one reason was that

when I was just a kid Roy Rogers and Dale Evans used to advertise them and I thought quite highly of Roy and Dale.

[Tab]

23. Not to be outdone...

"Quisp - the kwazy energy cereal"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bUSt-JQdPg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w45vEwl2FyU

And my personal favorite with no "margerine for error...": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgElYPFcvrc

[Tesha]

24. How 'bout dis....

[Fire1]

25. I'm still coo coo for coco puffs. n/t

[japple]

27. What about "the cereal that's shot from guns!" Quaker Puffed Wheat

and Puffed Rice cereals. My favorite commercial was the one featuring the 1812 Overture with cannons shooting puffed wheat & rice.

Here's a much earlier ad.

http://www.vaughnmonroesociety.org/resume/ADquaker2.htm