Favorite Monster Cereal

[saoirse]

Which of these is/was your favorite? Yummy Mummy was gone almost as soon as it appeared, and Fruit Brute didn't last long either, but I'm including them in case there are any aficianados I would otherwise offend.

[Wolfman 11]

1. Meueslix

[saoirse]

2. Given your handle, Wolfman...

If you say it's a monster cereal, it's a monster cereal!:D

[tridim]

3. Gawd I miss BooBerry

General Mills makes the best (tasting) kids cerals, period.

[trotsky]

4. Miss it?

Come to Minnesota, land of General Mills. All the monster cereals are still available at pretty much every grocery store. Want me to mail you some?

[wtmusic]

7. Boycott GM cereals

On sides of boxes they hype a website called "You Rule School" where you make the rules, such as no homework, no studying, and never having to return library books (no joke).

To parents that's pretty reprehensible.

[BloodyWilliam]

10. That's pretty typical children marketing.

The idea behind sugary crap like this isn't to get parents to think, "Hey, good stuff!" It's to get kids to whine, "We gotta get this! We gotta get this!" to their parents.

[wtmusic]

14. Haven't seen a message that blatant

When I emailed GM about it their reply was very Bushy: "GM appreciates and takes very seriously the suggestions of parents. We are merely trying to be relevant to kids."

WTF? By encouraging them to be bad students?

[saoirse]

13. Even Fruit Brute?

Maybe that's where they got the box you can see next to Eric Stoltz in "Pulp Fiction."

Count Chocula is my fave, but they've given the Count himself a complete makeover and now he doesn't look nearly as cool. General Mills should make a "limited edition" retro box with the old Count on it - they'd probably make a fortune off nostalgic Gen-Xers like me...

[Mikimouse]

5. You left out the ever-popular Scooby Doos

Our granddaughter left half a box of that stuff here when she went home after vacation. as a good granddad, I felt compelled to not let it go to waste. WOW, what a sugar high! Now, I know where the kiddo gets her energy. They are pretty good; I even thought about buying my very own box, but grandma gave me one of her patented looks, so I grabbed the cheerios instead. Sigh!

[saoirse]

12. Scooby Snacks!

I wish they made those for real!

[wtmusic]

6. Frankenberry

Actually I just like the way they say "Fraaaankenberry!" It's so...Don Pardo meets Lon Chaney.

[CanuckAmok]

8. Weren' there more at one time?

I remember when I was a kid, there was a GF "Wolfman"-based cereal, wasn't there?

Most of them, like BooBerry, weren't available in Canada for some reason (probably some law against international export of isotopes, or something).

It was a big treat at my place to drive over to NY State and grocery shop for the really good cereals. The US is hand over fist above Canada in the sugar-based cereals department. I think we're even behind the UK, now.

Oh, the humanity!

[wtmusic]

9. Maybe that's why the Canuck murder rate is so low

[trotsky]

11. Fruit Brute

was the "werewolf" variety, don't know why that never caught on.

[mitchum]

15. Zombie Crunch