Favorite kids cereal

[Doc Creed]

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.

 

[muskrat]

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

Well, derf, we don't use it down here anymore, either (unless we're talking about a baseball team). Nor do we use the word 'Sugar' in the title of a children's breakfast cereal (although most of em are just lousy with it). And...if memory serves, our 'Smacks' were always endorsed by a cartoon frog named Dig'Um.

Anyhoo, I always dug Fruity Pebbles.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

As a kid I had a rotation each time a box was emptied. Special K, Frosted Flakes and Raisin Bran. Special K with sliced bananas is still my go to cereal.

 

[Doc Creed]

Well, derf, we don't use it down here anymore, either (unless we're talking about a baseball team). Nor do we use the word 'Sugar' in the title of a children's breakfast cereal (although most of em are just lousy with it). And...if memory serves, our 'Smacks' were always endorsed by a cartoon frog named Dig'Um.

Anyhoo, I always dug Fruity Pebbles.

I remember eating Sugar Smacks, too. They looked like horse feed, lol. Tasted good, though.

Check out his shirt, Muskrat...ya dig?

 

[Sundrop]

Sugar Corn Pops, Honeycomb, Coco Puffs, Trix, and Frankenberry

 

[pegasus216]

I remember Cherios that came in a tin container. That was the only cereal we had as a kid.

 

[Neesy]

Well, derf, we don't use it down here anymore, either (unless we're talking about a baseball team). Nor do we use the word 'Sugar' in the title of a children's breakfast cereal (although most of em are just lousy with it). And...if memory serves, our 'Smacks' were always endorsed by a cartoon frog named Dig'Um.

Anyhoo, I always dug Fruity Pebbles.

As my son would say "It's all good"

That picture of the cereal box was probably from the 60s!

When my Mom first came to Canada back in the 1940s from Scotland, any immigrant was called a 'displaced person' which led to the abbreviation "DP" - eventually this was a nickname for anyone from another country. (Wow - I hardly ever even go in the Politics or Hot Topics threads anymore - sorry if anyone took my post the wrong way)

So muskrat - are you in the Wilma camp or the Betty camp?

Here is my current guilty pleasure:

I bought a box last night

 

[arista]

My favorite was also Quisp..I also loved Cocoa puffs. I was cuckaoo for cocoa puffs.

 

[not_nadine]

Lucky Charms!

Trix

 

[ghost19]

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.

I'm pretty sure you could use this stuff as sheet rock once you mixed it with with milk....even if expired by 5 years....lol

 

[Moderator]

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

I actually liked that as a kid but the only way I can eat it now is as a hot cereal. I pour honey and milk over it and nuke it in the microwave so it's softened and won't chip a tooth on it like when it's cold.

 

[ghost19]

I actually liked that as a kid but the only way I can eat it now is as a hot cereal. I pour honey and milk over it and nuke it in the microwave so it's softened and won't chip a tooth on it like when it's cold.

That's the main thing I remember about it, that it was like eating rock pebbles...lol

 

[Spideyman]

Anyone remember Maypo?

 

[Moderator]

Anyone remember Maypo?

I remember its existence but I don't remember ever eating it.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Despised Grape Nuts, liked Euell Gibbons, though. Got to admire a guy that can live off the land by eating grass and bark.

 

[Cowboy]

Sugar Smacks or Fruity Pebbles.

 

[danie]

Wikipedia says 1964, which is the same year I was born!
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Man, you're old.

 

[mjs9153]

Man, you're old.

You're telling me!!

 

[danie]

You're telling me!!
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Did you see my age on my profile?

 

[mjs9153]

I'm pretty sure you could use this stuff as sheet rock once you mixed it with with milk....even if expired by 5 years....lol

That's funny I had heard that elements of sheetrock were incorporated in Poptarts crust..