Comments on: The Stories Behind Your Favorite Cereal Mascots

By: Breakfast Bowl

Breakfast Bowl — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:36:20 +0000

Great walk down memory lane!

By: tinkerschnitzel

tinkerschnitzel — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:30:39 +0000

I just realized that the pink heart is the only marshmallow that was original to Lucky Charms that is still there. They’ve all been replaced. I still remember when the purple horseshoe was introduced. I’d still rather eat the crispy cereal pieces than the marshmallows.

By: Sara in Al

Sara in Al — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:52:20 +0000

I read somewhere that there was a fourth Rice Krispie Elf- Kaboom. He represented Rice Krispies’ highly nutritional value.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:20:14 +0000

Check out this archive of everything breakfast cereal! http://www.lavasurfer.com/cereal-generalmills.html

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:43:46 +0000

I seem to remember in the early, early 90s a campaign where kids got to vote on the Rabbit getting a bowl of Trix. You could cut out the “Yes” or “No” from the box and send it in. I was pretty sure he got a bowl on one of the commercials.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:05:49 +0000

There was a cartoon commercial in the mid-70s, I think it ran over a minute long. I’m not sure but I think it was for Peter Pan Peanut Butter.

I just know it used to run during the game show High Rollers (with Alex Trebek).

Anyone else remember this one, or knows of a clip on youtube or elsewhere–I can’t find it at all.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:59:51 +0000

My favorite cereal jingle and collection of animated characters is from the cereal “Freakies.” I still get a kick out of their attempt to rhyme “we never miss a meal/ ’cause we love our cer-e-eal”

By: Henna

Henna — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:42:26 +0000

Cookie Crisp used to have a bulldog (I think) for a mascot and now they have a wolf. Give it up for all the other cereal mascots!

By: CHUCK

CHUCK — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:20:24 +0000

REMEMBER CORN POPS OLD NAME AND IT’S CHARACTORS NAME?………
SUGAR POPS…AND SUGAR POP PETE

By: Matty

Matty — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:36:01 +0000

I guess you are not old enough to remember Quisp and Quake.

“Quisp and Quake were two sugar-sweetened breakfast cereals originally released in 1965 in the U.S. by The Quaker Oats Company and generally advertised together (during the same commercial) as products competing against each other. The very successful ads were cartoons created by Jay Ward of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame, and used some of the same voices, including Daws Butler as the voice of Quisp (an alien) and William Conrad as the voice of Quake (a miner).

In 1970, a contest was held by Quaker Oats to see whose cereal was the more popular of the two. In 1972, Quisp won, and Quake retreated underground. Quake, the cartoon character, reappeared in a new cereal called Quangaroos where he obtained an orange kangaroo as well as putting his mining helmet down in favor of an Aussie motif.

In the late-1970s, Quisp was removed from grocery stores due to low sales. It re-emerged in the mid-1980s, and finally was re-introduced in the 1990s as the “first Internet cereal” and is still in limited distribution.”