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A few weeks ago, the folks over at MrBreakfast.com proposed this little quiz about pop culture-inspired cereals. Can you figure out which is an actual cereal, and which ones they made up?
Take the Quiz: Was This Really a Cereal?
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70%!!!
I remember come of these cereals, but I feel I was robbed–there was an ET cereal, just not ET’os: http://www.mrbreakfast.com/cereal_detail.asp?id=133
knew I remembered that one.
posted by Wayne on 9-28-2009 at 2:37 pm
Wayne — That’s a fair point. Tack an extra 10 points onto your score, which brings you into the respectable “B” range. Both ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ are now acceptable answers to that question.
posted by Jason English on 9-28-2009 at 2:47 pm
70% – and I got the ET cereal question right!
posted by Steve from San Diego on 9-28-2009 at 3:23 pm
Ha, I remember sitting down to a bowl of delicious Croonchy Stars once upon a time.
posted by holly on 9-28-2009 at 5:13 pm
80% I remember having Croonchy Stars too! And C-3P0s. heh.
There was also a Bart Simpson cereal – think it was PB&Chocolate flavored.
Disappointed that you didn’t use the hilarious Mr. T cereal though!
posted by Nerak on 9-28-2009 at 8:44 pm
Wow 90%. That’s way too much to know about cereal–and I waffled about the Urkel-O’s, too.
posted by Kate on 9-28-2009 at 8:47 pm
90% also. And may I say, with total gratitude, that I never swallowed a mouthful of any of the ones that turned out to be legit? That ‘green slime’ one sounds especially vile……
-”BB”-
posted by Bicycle Bill on 9-29-2009 at 9:00 am
I ONLY got the ET one right… Womp. Womp. 10%?
posted by C on 9-29-2009 at 10:15 am