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The best of these sugary cereals? (Original Post) True Dough Jan 2022 OP
Cookie Crisp. I remember the first time I saw it 😲 underpants Jan 2022 #1
Peanut Butter Crunch LonePirate Jan 2022 #2
Yep! Lunabell Jan 2022 #33
I still like fruit loops. Haven't had it for several years though. captain queeg Jan 2022 #3
WTF? No Frosted Flakes? highplainsdem Jan 2022 #4
Lucky Charms 😋 sprinkleeninow Jan 2022 #5
Cap'n Crunch 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2022 #6
I enjoyed Cap'n Crunch too True Dough Jan 2022 #7
Every few years I get a craving for Peanut Butter Capn Crunch AZSkiffyGeek Jan 2022 #8
Your comment is the same as mine would be. Diamond_Dog Jan 2022 #21
My favorite is not on there. Sugar crisp. Chipper Chat Jan 2022 #9
Frosted Mini Wheats! Dave in VA Jan 2022 #10
That's pretty mild stuff True Dough Jan 2022 #13
Yeah, I know, but Dave in VA Jan 2022 #25
Oh, in that case True Dough Jan 2022 #36
+1 second that on Frosted Mini Wheats Emile Jan 2022 #23
Glad to find a fellow traveller! Dave in VA Jan 2022 #26
I like them to TexasBushwhacker Jan 2022 #38
I've never had any of them, or even heard of most of them. Shrike47 Jan 2022 #11
Cocoa Krispies is my fave as and adult. Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2022 #12
Easy! Count Chocula Shermann Jan 2022 #14
I figured True Dough Jan 2022 #15
A respectable choice Shermann Jan 2022 #16
Count Chocula Claire Oh Nette Jan 2022 #17
+1 Shermann Jan 2022 #30
Cocoa Pebbles makes the best chocolate milk. Claire Oh Nette Jan 2022 #31
Cap'n Cruch Berries Docreed2003 Jan 2022 #18
They're not produced year round like they used to be TlalocW Jan 2022 #19
You know, True Dough Jan 2022 #20
How dare you not recognize Mentok... TlalocW Jan 2022 #22
Fruit Loops StarryNite Jan 2022 #24
Super Sugar Crisp but haven't had any for years. My favorite when I was a kid was doc03 Jan 2022 #27
Where's the honey nut Cherrios? MiniMe Jan 2022 #28
That's my current favorite. (nt) Paladin Jan 2022 #40
Apple Jacks! I'll get a single serving of it for a snack Phoenix61 Jan 2022 #29
Ummm... Fruity Pebbles ruet Jan 2022 #32
I've never tasted the vast majority of them. Buckeye_Democrat Jan 2022 #34
PB Crunch AKwannabe Jan 2022 #35
My pancreas hurts just looking at the pictures. NNadir Jan 2022 #37
I don't remember what it was called Shrek Jan 2022 #39

underpants

(182,769 posts)
1. Cookie Crisp. I remember the first time I saw it 😲
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 04:50 PM
Jan 2022

I thought - I can have milk and cookies for breakfast 💥

50 Shades Of Blue

(9,975 posts)
6. Cap'n Crunch
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 04:53 PM
Jan 2022

It's been my favorite since my family got a small sample box in the mail in 1965! But these days it's plain old bran flakes or Cheerios for me.

True Dough

(17,302 posts)
7. I enjoyed Cap'n Crunch too
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 04:55 PM
Jan 2022

but I remember it doing a butcher job on the inside of my mouth. Those little nuggets were sweet and tasty, but they were like sharp-edged rocks!

AZSkiffyGeek

(11,008 posts)
8. Every few years I get a craving for Peanut Butter Capn Crunch
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 04:57 PM
Jan 2022

Then I buy a box, shred my mouth and remember why I don't get it often.
But damn, it is tasty.

Diamond_Dog

(31,979 posts)
21. Your comment is the same as mine would be.
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 06:15 PM
Jan 2022

I also remember getting a sample box in the mail.

I probably haven’t eaten any in several decades, though!

Chipper Chat

(9,677 posts)
9. My favorite is not on there. Sugar crisp.
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 04:58 PM
Jan 2022

It was so sinfully sweet and delicious.
In the 80s they changed it to Golden Crisp but didnt taste the same.

True Dough

(17,302 posts)
13. That's pretty mild stuff
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 05:15 PM
Jan 2022

on the sugar scale, Dave. Decent fiber content, too.

A little too healthful for many of us!

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,833 posts)
12. Cocoa Krispies is my fave as and adult.
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 05:10 PM
Jan 2022

As a kid, I probably ate any of those that were around prior to 1975 but my fave was classic Captain Crunch and I've got the scars in my mouth to prove it.

Shermann

(7,412 posts)
14. Easy! Count Chocula
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 05:19 PM
Jan 2022

I found that at Walmart last October. Score! Donkey Kong gets the honorable mention. Too bad they don't make it any longer. It's basically Cap'n Crunch.

Quisp should be on any retro sugary cereal list.

Shermann

(7,412 posts)
16. A respectable choice
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 05:27 PM
Jan 2022

Fruit Brute though? That was the red-headed stepchild of the monster cereals. Nobody ever ate that.

Shermann

(7,412 posts)
30. +1
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 07:48 PM
Jan 2022

Love me some Count Chocula!

A guy I used to work with would eat Count Chocula with chocolate milk. For me, that's a bridge too far.

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
31. Cocoa Pebbles makes the best chocolate milk.
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 08:10 PM
Jan 2022

But Count Chocula is Nostalgia in box. I usually buy four every fall at Walmart. The only time I ever go to Walmart.

TlalocW

(15,380 posts)
19. They're not produced year round like they used to be
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 06:04 PM
Jan 2022

But the Monster Cereals are the best - Frankenberry, Count Chocula, and Boo-Berry. Every Halloween they put them back out, and I'll grab a box of each and save Boo-Berry for last because that was hard to find as a kid. We never found Fruit Brute or Yummy Mummy as a kid, but they reissued them in 2013 or 2014, but they changed the recipe for Fruit Brute from lime to cherry and Yummy Mummy was orange creme.

TlalocW

True Dough

(17,302 posts)
20. You know,
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 06:13 PM
Jan 2022

it's easy to stereotype based on people's DU avatars. Acknowledging that, you sorta seem like the type who might find monster cereals to be appealing.

TlalocW

(15,380 posts)
22. How dare you not recognize Mentok...
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 06:21 PM
Jan 2022

THE MINDTAKER!

From the original Birdman cartoon in the 60s and then Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law.



TlalocW

doc03

(35,325 posts)
27. Super Sugar Crisp but haven't had any for years. My favorite when I was a kid was
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 06:53 PM
Jan 2022

a hot cereal Coco Wheats don't know if they still make it.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
34. I've never tasted the vast majority of them.
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 09:07 PM
Jan 2022

I liked Count Chocula a lot when I had it as a kid, though, after spending the night at a friend's house.

My mother refused to buy those cereals, and now I don't want to spend the money on them either.

When my childhood friends would spend the night at my place, they seemed thrilled by the big spread of scrambled eggs, bacon, oatmeal, and the other old-style breakfast foods offered by my mother.

One kid ate the ENTIRE inside of a half-grapefruit while the rest of us talked, leaving nothing but the outer skin! It was like a dry, empty bowl made from grapefruit skin when he was done. It was pretty amazing to me that he did it so fast too.

I asked him why he ate all of the bitter parts too, and he replied that he never had a grapefruit before. Mom asked if he wanted another one, and he happily said that he did. Then she showed him how to use a serrated spoon to eat only the pulp and juices.

Shrek

(3,977 posts)
39. I don't remember what it was called
Sun Jan 30, 2022, 09:18 AM
Jan 2022

But it had the Flintstones on the box and was kind of like sugary Rice Krispies with artificial fruit flavoring.

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