Favorite kids cereal

[mjs9153]

After The Walking Dead the other night, they had a show called Comic Book Men, and they were talking about Saturday morning cartoons.. Which is a whole nother topic. But one of the guys mentioned that he would slop down a bowl of cereal while watching his Saturday cartoons as a kid, and it got me thinking,what was your favorite cereal? There are a million,from way back when to today,I wonder what is your favorite.. For me it was Quisp, and I actually just ordered some from Amazon and am looking forward to enjoying a bowl again sometime soon..

 

[mjs9153]

Quisp is basically a sugary corn-based saucer-shaped cereal from the good folks at Quaker Oats..but as I remember it was delicious, can't wait till I get my boxes..

 

[danie]

Oh, how I loved my cereal and Saturday morning cartoons. I really loved Quisp too, mjs, which tasted like Cap'n Crunch, but didn't shred the roof of your mouth with its cereal shards like the ol' Cap'n. I loved Freakies too. That was when you would get free stuff in the cereal, and I collected all the little Freakies characters. Count Chocula and Frankenberry were yummy. Sometimes I would eat plain Cheerios and put brown sugar on top. When all the cereal was gone, that brown sugary milk was so sweet and good. Apple Jacks, Trix, Super Sugar Crisp; I loved them all. I'm surprised my brother and I weren't rabid from eating all those sugary cereals. But they contained 8 vitamins and minerals, and were part of this complete breakfast....

 

[skimom2]

Oh, how I loved my cereal and Saturday morning cartoons. I really loved Quisp too, mjs, which tasted like Cap'n Crunch, but didn't shred the roof of your mouth with its cereal shards like the ol' Cap'n. I loved Freakies too. That was when you would get free stuff in the cereal, and I collected all the little Freakies characters. Count Chocula and Frankenberry were yummy. Sometimes I would eat plain Cheerios and put brown sugar on top. When all the cereal was gone, that brown sugary milk was so sweet and good. Apple Jacks, Trix, Super Sugar Crisp; I loved them all. I'm surprised my brother and I weren't rabid from eating all those sugary cereals. But they contained 8 vitamins and minerals, and were part of this complete breakfast....

AAH! I forgot about Freakies! I LOVED those We collected the nasty smelling rubber toys, too.

 

[Doc Creed]

Spoiler

 

[Spideyman]

Yes, Sugar Crisps. And Kelloggs Corn Flakes with the baking powder submarine. Save box top and send in for de coder rings.

 

[mjs9153]

I realize this is a very trivial kind of thread, but thinking about your childhood I think is not so trivial and in fact a pretty good thing.. Yes Danie, I loved Frankenberry and Count Chocula too, and then there was Sugar Crisp, etcetera...

 

[mjs9153]

Oh! Does anyone remember the little boxes of cereal that you could cut open and pour in a little bit of milk and eat the cereal right out of the box?

 

[skimom2]

Oh! Does anyone remember the little boxes of cereal that you could cut open and pour in a little bit of milk and eat the cereal right out of the box?
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Those were 'for special'--my dad bought them when we went on long car trips, and we only got them then.

 

[Dana Jean]

I've always been a Lucky Charms girl. How long have they been around?

 

[Spideyman]

Oh! Does anyone remember the little boxes of cereal that you could cut open and pour in a little bit of milk and eat the cereal right out of the box?
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They still sell them at my grocery store. It was always a special treat to get up on a weekend and "make your own Breakfast" using one of those boxes.

 

[ghost19]

I remember no one liked grape nuts. Those were the ones always left over..

 

[mjs9153]

I remember no one liked grape nuts. Those were the ones always left over..

That doesn't even sound appetizing at all.. Grape nuts!? Would have to take Cocoa Puffs every time over that..

 

[mjs9153]

I've always been a Lucky Charms girl. How long have they been around?

Wikipedia says 1964, which is the same year I was born!

 

[Dana Jean]

Wikipedia says 1964, which is the same year I was born!
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Yep. Okay. That was my kid cereal then. Cereals come and go, but this one is old school goodness. PRobably filled with dust and shavings and asbestos and tobacco and gin. All that really good sh*t the doctors back in those days assured us was good for us.

 

[Dana Jean]

I remember no one liked grape nuts. Those were the ones always left over..

Yep. Every time someone in the house gets on a health kick, we buy a box of Grape NOTs. One bowl gets eaten out of it, and I bet dollars to donuts, most of it was poured down the sink.

Two years from now, when someone else decides to eat healthy, they will reach for that box, because yes, we forgot it was there, and wonder -- hmmm, how long has this been here. Then we go searching on the box for that expiration date stamp that's probably sweated off like old dynamite.

 

[mjs9153]

Yep. Okay. That was my kid cereal then. Cereals come and go, but this one is old school goodness. PRobably filled with dust and shavings and asbestos and tobacco and gin. All that really good sh*t the doctors back in those days assured us was good for us.

Nowadays I mostly like oats like they have been showing on TV, in a small jar with some milk, and I put in a tablespoon of honey and perhaps raisins or some other type of dried or fresh fruit.. Chilled overnight in the refrigerator, to me it is delicious, I never was much of a one for warm oatmeal, but this method of preparing it is really good.

 

[Dana Jean]

Nowadays I mostly like oats like they have been showing on TV comma in a small jar with some milk and I put in a tablespoon of honey and perhaps raisins or some other type of dried or fresh fruit.. Chilled overnight in the refrigerator, to me it is delicious, I never was much of a one for warm oatmeal, but this method of preparing it is really good.

That actually sounds good.

 

[Neesy]

Here is an old cereal - you'd never see that word used up here anymore - we don't use the word "Indian" anymore to refer to First Nations or Indigenous people in Canada

this one reminds me of the cereal in "Cujo"

My memory of a breakfast treat were those little boxes of cereal - the variety pack and yes it was quite the careful operation to open the boxes just so, so that the milk could go in and not leak out

 

[mjs9153]

That actually sounds good.

Yeah there are a million combinations you can try..