Poll: Most ridiculous breakfast cereals

[AvengeKingTut]

OK, I just had a serious flashback to some of the ridiculous sugary breakfast cereals that were on the market when I was a kid in the 80s. So, I want to see who can come up with the most ridiculous, over-the-top sugary cereal marketed to kids over the years.

My vote: Cookie Crisp. Essentially, little chocolate chip cookies bathed in milk. For breakfast. Good God.

Any others?

 

[Brisketexan]

Smurfberry crunch. Red balls of dye, sugar, and a generic and sickly sweet "fruit" flavor. Made crunchberries look like health food.

It was freaking AWESOME. I mostly ate it in high school. After 2:00 a.m. While I was completely hammered. I bet it woulda been even better if I had smoked weed.

 

[TheFied]

I agree with the OP. I mean, since when has breakfast been cookies and milk???

Hilarious. That has been a joke that I've used before with some friends one of which eats that. And fruit rollups. And he's over 30.

 

[Beau Vine]

I used to regularly buy the chocolate chip Cookie Crisp and eat it as a snack.

Of course, I also did that with Froot Loops.

 

[Cap33]

Cookie Crisp is a great call. A close second has to be Cap'n Crunch. That stuff is pure sugar/corn syrup and food coloring.

 

[MirrOlure]

The addition of "new blue diamonds" to the tried and true lineup of pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars and green clovers was completely unnecessary, and did nothing for me.

 

[bozo_casanova]

 

[Tex Pete]

 

[Gen. Applewhite]

little chocolate donuts. the donuts of champions

 

[Fanny McLonghorn]

Nintendo Cereal and Ninja Turtles cereal are the ones that stand out in my memory. Both were awesome.

 

[Mack Tripper]

Sugar Smacks. It had 8 essential vitamins and minerals, iron, and sugar as its first name.

 

[idigTexas]

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[CaptainEd]

sugar smacks were awesome.

 

[Praise of Folly]

Well, my parents mostly bought bran flakes, grape nuts, and raisin bran but occassionally we had:

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[El Sapo]

Yes, another vote for King Vitamin and big props to your sig Tut.

 

[Brubricker]

Back when I was a teenager in the 80's I used to eat Nutri-Grain Wheat cereal morning, noon and night. They tasted like Wheaties only with less sugar. Wheaties just never even came close to the taste of Nutri-Grain Wheat.
Call me crazy but back when I was a small kid my favorite cereals were always the ones with LESS sugar. I always had a huge sweet tooth for sugar in almost every kind other of food you can imagine but I never liked it in my cereal.

I loved that Nutri-Grain stuff to death but they stopped making it long ago. I would KILL to find a box of it today (no luck).

 

[ldogg53]

hell the Mini-Cinnabuns were awesome and a change of pace from cookies for breakfast... ohh.. and Cinnamon Toast Crunch....

and what about Peanut Butter Cap't Crunch... not like the regular was bad enough...

 

[AvengeKingTut]

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[HornGrandioso]

That is the best cd ever. I drunkenly wrote a gushing review of Waylon Live on Amazon and it started showing up when people ever googled my name. It took forever to finally get all that deleted.

 

[washparkhorn]

 

[l00p]

Cinnamon Toast Crunch was a sugar high waiting to happen and soooo good. King Vitamin was a staple for me growing up. Then my parents got healthy and we had Grape-Nuts which I promptly learned to sneak copious amounts of sugar into the bowl. This concoction made for a longer lasting and stronger sugar/energy high. It was like eating a sugary tree in every bite, right Yul Brenner?

 

[UT Spring Branch]

Frankenberry - close friend of Count Chocula
Frosted Flakes - Theerrrrreeeee GRRRRRRReat!!!!!
Honeycomb - I am still looking for the Honeycomb hideout
Sugar smacks
Rice Crispies
Apple jacks - A is for apple J is for Jacks - A and J makes apple jacks
Lucky Charms - they are magically delicious

But remember for kids a bad breakfast is better than no breakfast

 

[UT Spring Branch]

Does anybody remember the records that you used to get with the cereal - it was part of the box - very low quality sound

 

[FlyinHorn]

Although my father was a D.D.S., I've eaten every cereal listed on this thread. Even today when my wife says what's for dinner; I'll say cereal?

 

[Lat22]

King Vitaman and Cap'n Crunch are the same damn cereal!

 

[UTEE]

I grew up through the 70s and 80s and I've never even heard of King Vitamin.

All of the others were of course regulars at my house, but as I hit junior high I, too, started preferring the less sugary stuff. To this day, Grape Nuts with just a little bit of honey is my favorite breakfast cereal.

 

[HookemDanno]

Holy Crap Wash...where did you find that?!?!? It brings back memories of HR Puffenstuff and Wacky Racers...I remember begging my mom for that cereal because I had a Huffy BarnStormer bike and thought they were the same character.

That was forever-ago...

Danno

 

[Napoleon]

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[AvengeKingTut]

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[UTEE]

Well, unless you consider Austin a port city, this still doesn't explain why I have heard of Cap'N'Crunch but not King Vitamin...