I actually have a collection of flattened boxes from this era. Some of them are worth hundreds of nickels. (Although I think my "Breakfast with Barbie" box might actually be worth re-evaluating.) And while branded cereals were certainly huge in the 1980s, those of us of a certain age remember that the 70s had some craziness as well. I still fondly remember when you could cut-out a playable Bobby Sherman record printed on the box.
I was a child of the 80s and I’m always so grateful I was able to enjoy the 80s craziness in all its glory. 😊 My favorite cereals were Honeycomb and Frosted Flakes. Mmmmm, mmmm, mmmmm! They were pure sugar and so unbelievable tasty. The best part was the leftover puddle of super sugary milk after the cereal was gone and you got to enjoy one last blast of sugar before getting back to your cartoons. ❤
@@robertpettus6037 random but I moved into a new place and for some reason the hall closet has a maple syrup smell too it. 2 years later and when open it has the same smell. They must have loved their waffle crisp.
The fact that Purina, a DOG FOOD company owned cereal at one point, is very mind-boggling. Then again, Purina did own Jack In The Box during the 70s, and Hostess Snack Cakes for a brief period of time during the 1980s.
Do you have any idea how much Dupont owns?! Every giant company has their fingers in everything. It's so disgusting when you see what these companies do. Make everything from simple plastics to agent orange, amongst other things.
Still can’t stop laughing about the funny faces and actions of Kellogg and co. at the beginning. 😂 Remiinded me of good old Monty Python’s Flying Circus. I only know about 10% of these cereals, maybe because I grew up in Europe. My favorites used to be Rice Krispies which are no longer sold here. I also liked Smacks with the frog mascot.
This is funny, nostalgic and informative! I used to love the cereal aisle when I was a child in the mid 1980's and early 1990's all those cool cereals and prizes they would include in the box was awesome to me!
Between the toys and the cereals (among other things), the 80s was definitely one of the best times for being a kid. Thanks for the nostalgia and fun trip down memory lane, definitely wouldn't mind going back, even for just a day... 😊
One correction: typically there weren't ads during the actual show for the toys for that property - at least Hasbro didn't do that. They advertised Transformers during GI Joe and GI Joe during Transformers (the exception was the ads for the Marvel comics which always promoted some toy). The problem was Barbie advertised during Jem, and My Little Pony was aimed at a younger audience than Jem - so it's one of the major reasons Jem failed. There wasn't a show to advertise the toys on. During the 2nd season, Jem was actually the #1 in Nielson ratings for both boys and girls - but it didn't result in selling Jem dolls, but Barbie dolls.
0:01 Fruity Pebbles is the ultimate Saturday Morning Cartoon cereal. Not only is it sugary and colorful, but The Flintstones have a long history of cartoons on Saturday morning.
@7:00 Masters of The Universe toys were inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame in 2022. My friend in elementary school had part of a whole basement of those, including Castle Greyskull (which is also a favorite of Kevin Smith).
I would guess because the cereal was more heavily advertised to kids and the demand from that age group was prolly overwhelming. Nowadays you barely see any cereal commercials unless its really mainstream like Lucky Charms or, Froot Loops, and Cap'n Crunch, and even those are barely advertised anymore.
Pee wee Herman, eating a bowl of Mr T cereal " I pity the fool that don't eat my cereal" that part just makes me crack up. Thanks for the memories Paul Reubens.
I remember all of these. Loved every moment. I especially remember Saturday morning when you would wake up and realize it was not a school day. Get out of bed, fix a bowl and cartoons.
I forget just how far back a lot of our big name brands go, it's crazy! Isn't general mills or kellogs currently being threatened by the FDA because of how much sugar they have in their cereal along with false advertising? Yeah, I can't really eat these cereals anymore, cereal is hardly a breakfast for me now, but it was great watching the history. I love your channel, really brought back some memories even if I was born in 96. If I'm ever in the mood for cereal, luckily there are healthier (or organic) options that do mimic the taste of the sugary options. I guess that's a cool thing about the evolution of food.
Waking up early on Saturday mornings to watch hours of cartoons with a bowl of cereal was the best! Second only to coming home from school to the Disney Afternoon.
One strategy that a lot of cereal companies did during the great sugar scare was to change the name of their cereals from Sugar to Honey. Of course I doubt many of them had any actual honey.
I always wanted to try "Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs" from Calvin and Hobbes, but Bill Watterson notoriously refused any licensing for the characters.
Wonderful topic, comments and presentation! :^) Interesting and entertaining facts. And we agree with the role of the 80's! Thank you very much for sharing.
I still have such fond and happy memories of Mr T cereal, and Gremlins, E.T., Ghostbusters, Pac-Man, Waffelos, Powedered Donutz, C3PO cereal and Donkey Kong cereal. These boxes take me back to a very happy part of my life that makes me grateful for growing up in the states...
@@monkeygraborange It wasnt that bad back them. Kids were actually "active", by GOINg OUTSIDE and play, it was easy to burn off those calories; I ate fine and healthy and very active with a lot of friends playing, and i liked these type of sugary cereals and sodas... Not like today.. when you see some these kids being sheltered by the "left", its why they make fun of them, to go out and touch grass. SOme of these hippy organic crowd on the left loves to demonize food, as they were suckered into that mlm scheme of organic food. Its called "moderation", you can eat anything just fine, just keep your calories in checked, its not that hard seriously.. Only rreal problem is when people think they require that they have to eat 3 times a day.. breakfast, lunch, dinner.. THose 3 sessions can easily surpass 3000++ calories if people are that gullible to think they need to eat that much.
It's Weird History Food Sunday! It's awesome to see the cereals that's popular in the '80s. I would love to see more videos of this topic. Imagine the popular cereals in the '70s & '90s!
For me it was Rice Krispies I remember as a kid having my ear right over the bowl so I didn't miss the snap crackle and pop. I never did hear that snap, darn you snap darn you to heck 😂😂
I grew up in the 80s and remember getting a lot of these cereals but funny enough, I don’t remember ever sitting down to actually eat them as part of a balanced breakfast lol. Btw, I used to assume I had a predisposed genetic love for sugar but maybe it was all these damn cereals that were to blame 🤣
That ghost busters cereal was delicious!!!!! I hated just about every marshmallow cereal on the market, but I always jumped at the chance to get that one
11:31 Gremlins would have already gotten wet, when they were Mogwai. That's why they're Gremlins. You can't get Mogwai cereal wet, that's why they didn't make Mogwai cereal. They made Gremlins cereal. If anything, you're drowning them in milk and finishing them off with your teeth to defeat the gremlins and thus save breakfast.
Most curious. In Chile, traditional breakfast is milk tea/coffee with a sandwich (or plain bread in lean times), and maybe a fruit. ""Cereals"" were unknown in the 70s, oats were a novelty. Inflated rice and corn appeared first, as a snack. The sugary stuffs were introduced in the 80s, with the local advertising pressing on their vitamins content! 🤣 Still, not really filling in comparison to a sandwich made in the Chilean bread called marraqueta; we aren't talking about 2 sad Wonder Bread slices here, but of a thing like 2 bagels. Even plain, is a meal. Nowadays they are still there, and I presume some families give them to their kids by the side of the sandwich, but by law, mascots are forbidden, and black stamps signal the ones with excess of sugar, salt (or fats, in other foodstuffs).
As a 90s kid I grew up with fun processed foods and snacks. My breakfast was usually a sugary cereal or pop tarts. That stuff was fun and tasty as a kid and it’s all nostalgic to me as an adult. Today I can’t stand those foods. I feel so bad eating a few bites. I love my eggs, vegetables, milk, and coffee for breakfast now. Much more satisfying!
Here in Argentina breakfast cereal isn't as popular as in the U.S. but I remember eating Zucaritas (which is how Frosted Flakes are called in Latin America, since Tony the Tiger was on the box). However, in the last few years there's been some concerns about the amount of unhealthy ingredients found in most foods and, as way to combat childhood obesity, companies have forced to remove cartoon mascot from their packaging, so no more Tony, Chester Cheetah or the Trix Rabbit, though it varies from country to country. And in countries like Mexico and Argentina food packaging now has to include big octagons that indicate that a product has an excessive amount of sugar, fats or sodium
As a kid growing up in the 1980s, I remember all those cereal commercials between the cartoons on Saturday mornings. And pretty much the announcer would say it's part of this complete or nutritious breakfast. I've eaten those cereals every day before school. Fun times.
Even after the 80s they would still say that it is part of a complete or nutritious breakfast well till i say somewhere around mid to 2010s where they stopped saying that.
@@melissacooper8724 this is coming from kid who grew up in 2000s but raised to love the 80s and 90s to bits. Man i love to have a childhood in 80s friend
Fruit loops used to be so good in the early 2000s because they still had sugar sprinkled on them. Now, they taste awful since they decreased the sugar content in cereal
about the only one I remember was the Nintendo one... but then I was never a fan of fruity cereal so you could see the bind I was in! likely only ever had the one box, lol. lately come to love reese's puffs I mean peanut butter and chocolate in cereal form what's not to love?!
The irony of that is that the animated TV show it was based on only ran for three seasons. I thought they discontinued it when the show went off the air. Nowadays, they actually merchandise live-action TV shows ostensibly aimed at adults similarly, because now I see *Golden Girls* candy when I never used to see merchandise for that show and it was on the air. Could a cheesecake-flavored breakfast cereal be far behind? Back then, the only sitcoms that got merchandise connected to them were aimed at children and families. *Cheers* was the exception although that was based on a real bar that turned into a tourist trap until Coupvid killed it, so there was a symbiotic relationship between the two.
I was a kid in the 80s was born in 74. My favorites are snap crackle pop and cinnamon tost crunch. I liked sugar bear too but they don't make it anymore
I miss the good old days of cereal now everyone wants “all natural foods” I like my cereal sugary and unhealthy lol I don’t eat cereal to be healthy do you hear me “Magic Spoon”?
When I'm feelin' lonely - sad as I can be.. All by my self in an uncharted island in an endless sea.. What makes me happy, fills me up with glee: Those bones in my jaw that don't have a flaw. My shiny teeth and me. My shiny teeth that twinkle just like the stars in space, My shiny teeth that sparkle addin' beauty to my face, My shiny teeth that glisten just like a Christmas tree. You know they'll walk a mile just to see me smile... Woo! My shiny teeth and me!
That's what i like about American sweets and pops. Says naturally and artificially flavoured. Means "we don't care whats in it becasue you'll eat and drink it regardless "😂😂😂
Can’t remember what year, but I recall when they all switched to using whole grain, instead of white processed grain. Maybe my taste buds were changing, because I was late teens early 20s, but seems like all the sugary breakfast foods tasted a little more like cardboard and pencil shavings after the switch
My family was so poor that we had cereals that only qualified for WIC. That meant lots of KIX, plain Rice Krispies, plain Cheerios, Corn Chex and Corn Flakes. Thank goodness for grandmothers because I’d be out buying Fruity Pebbles, Cap’n Crunch, Trix, and Cookie Crisp whenever I went to stay with her over the summer. Good times...
Yeah I remember that. However my parents bought Rice Krispies and Raisin Bran cereal a lot. I hardly got to eat those sugary ones. But when I did till this day I love Golden Grahams, chocolate Rice Krispies, lucky charms and a few more
Today, there are no toys in the cereal boxes. The best part was that unless you had a brother or sister who wanted the toy. Smh. Also, cool part were actually boxes they were fun to read the back of the boxes. Besides, at times, they had fun activities on the boxes. Thank you for some what cover this topic. i did ask for it, but mine was speaking on toys inside the box. I honestly want to why they stop putting toys in the boxes?
Whatever cereal was on sale that could be combined with coupons and then doubled by the grocer itself on certain days was my favorite. If there was no coupon that week it meant store brand corn flakes was what we’d eat.
Another great video. Technically Kellogg was right about high carb diets making you not want to have sex. Last time I was on a low fat diet my Depression was at its worst. Chuck Roasts continue to be a diet staple for me now thanks for instant pot pressure cooking in 1.5 hours to fall apart meat 😋 I grew up a fat kid and have tried every sugary cereal there is, but Frosted Flakes never get old.
I was on the road a *LOT* in the 80's and 90's, so breakfast was more than likely an egg mcmuffin or croissant sandwich from McD's or BK. Now when I go for breakfast cereal, I find I go for things like Frosted Mini-Wheats, Life, Frosted Flakes, etc. Still don't like the real sugary cereals....
Gen X from '72 here. I enjoyed many of said cereals mentioned here including Waffle-O's, Post Sugar Crisp with The Sugar Bear, Cap'n Crunch, Golden Grahams, Life, Honeycomb. These days at 51, I can't go wrong with Honey Nut Cheerios & Frosted Mini Wheats. The commercials & shows knew how to speak to kids well. Add some healthy vitamins & minerals to these classics well & it's all good. Thanks for the nostalgia.
Shreddies was and still is one of my favorite cereals, still have my "Star Trek: The Next Generation" poster with their old mascots "Freddy" and 'Eddie" on it. Cruncheroos was also a close second.
Im just grateful that they started putting marshmallows in everything now. Fruity Pebbles with marshmallows is something I longed for all through the 80s and 90s.
I used to love cinnamon mini buns cereal because of the commercials. A driver got hit with a shrink ray or something like that, and for some reason still had to deliver the cereal, guess they couldn't find any normal sized people to do it? Who knows it was geared towards kids so it hardly had to be logical. I had a crush on the guy who played the delivery driver and always hoped he'd get his own show, not only did he not get his own show, but Kellogg's stopped making cinnamon mini buns. I was so upset.
30 years later I'm still using that Donatello TMNT Cereal Bowl!
The '80s gave us so many food innovations that I hope the channel makes a yearly recap just line what they did in Weird History.
don't forget cocaine.
lol so many chemical innovations for the food industry, but damn were they tastey!
Food innovations that have led to an obesity epidemic.
And diabetes...
Weird History Food: WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!
I actually have a collection of flattened boxes from this era. Some of them are worth hundreds of nickels. (Although I think my "Breakfast with Barbie" box might actually be worth re-evaluating.) And while branded cereals were certainly huge in the 1980s, those of us of a certain age remember that the 70s had some craziness as well. I still fondly remember when you could cut-out a playable Bobby Sherman record printed on the box.
I was a child of the 80s and I’m always so grateful I was able to enjoy the 80s craziness in all its glory. 😊 My favorite cereals were Honeycomb and Frosted Flakes. Mmmmm, mmmm, mmmmm! They were pure sugar and so unbelievable tasty. The best part was the leftover puddle of super sugary milk after the cereal was gone and you got to enjoy one last blast of sugar before getting back to your cartoons. ❤
Great choices. Mine was waffle crisp, I loved that maple surgery flavor and aroma
My mom wouldn't let us have any of the fun cereals. And I am still paying for that decision 40 years later!
@@robertpettus6037I can literally smell them as I read your comment!
@@DPSFSU oh yea lol
@@robertpettus6037 random but I moved into a new place and for some reason the hall closet has a maple syrup smell too it. 2 years later and when open it has the same smell. They must have loved their waffle crisp.
The fact that Purina, a DOG FOOD company owned cereal at one point, is very mind-boggling. Then again, Purina did own Jack In The Box during the 70s, and Hostess Snack Cakes for a brief period of time during the 1980s.
Do you have any idea how much Dupont owns?! Every giant company has their fingers in everything. It's so disgusting when you see what these companies do. Make everything from simple plastics to agent orange, amongst other things.
@@DPSFSUah yes, Agent Orange. I talked with a niece of mine about that and she said, “I’ve never had that soda before. Do they still sell it?”
Kids...
dupont was split a few times. But yes 20 years ago you were right. Since then they merged and split into 3-6 companies depending how you count
@@Down_the_Wind oh my God! Lol I hope you explained what it was to her but not scar her for life. Stuff did nasty things.
@@DPSFSU oh I did lol.
Still can’t stop laughing about the funny faces and actions of Kellogg and co. at the beginning. 😂 Remiinded me of good old Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
I only know about 10% of these cereals, maybe because I grew up in Europe. My favorites used to be Rice Krispies which are no longer sold here. I also liked Smacks with the frog mascot.
Lots of happy memories as a child. Morning Funnies was my favorite cereal.
The editing on this episode was outstandingly good 👍 Great work to the editors
This is funny, nostalgic and informative! I used to love the cereal aisle when I was a child in the mid 1980's and early 1990's all those cool cereals and prizes they would include in the box was awesome to me!
Between the toys and the cereals (among other things), the 80s was definitely one of the best times for being a kid. Thanks for the nostalgia and fun trip down memory lane, definitely wouldn't mind going back, even for just a day... 😊
I liked the glow in the dark toys in the 70's as a child. I still like my fave cereals of yesteryear,but in moderation now.
I loved the 80s especially for the Garbage Pail Kids cards lol. I spent my allowance on packs of them every week for years.
We used to make Rice Krispy Treats (from Rice Crispies) and Chex Mix (from Chex Cereal), among many other popular recipes that used cereals.
One correction: typically there weren't ads during the actual show for the toys for that property - at least Hasbro didn't do that. They advertised Transformers during GI Joe and GI Joe during Transformers (the exception was the ads for the Marvel comics which always promoted some toy). The problem was Barbie advertised during Jem, and My Little Pony was aimed at a younger audience than Jem - so it's one of the major reasons Jem failed. There wasn't a show to advertise the toys on. During the 2nd season, Jem was actually the #1 in Nielson ratings for both boys and girls - but it didn't result in selling Jem dolls, but Barbie dolls.
RIP Paul Reubens
0:01 Fruity Pebbles is the ultimate Saturday Morning Cartoon cereal.
Not only is it sugary and colorful, but The Flintstones have a long history of cartoons on Saturday morning.
My favorite combo!
Oh hell yeah. I love the fruity pebbles. The only downside, is you.have to scarf them, unless you want to be left with a bowl of psychodelic mush.
When I was a kid in the 60's and 70's thr sugary cereal choices were Frosted Flakes, Alpha Bits, Honeycomb, Trix, Sugar Crisps, and many others.
Quisp and Quake.
And Orange Quangaroos.
@@glazdarklee1683
Cookie crisp and Cap'n Crunch with Crunch berries were my favorites.
I loved the toys in the boxes! I miss them!
@7:00 Masters of The Universe toys were inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame in 2022.
My friend in elementary school had part of a whole basement of those, including Castle Greyskull (which is also a favorite of Kevin Smith).
I loved LOVED strawberry short cake as a kid. My favorite cereal
Good times, good times. I'm just thankful that they put l waffle crisp back on the market recently. Breakfast of Champions indeed.
God seeing some these commercials from the 80s are unlocking deep memories
I would guess because the cereal was more heavily advertised to kids and the demand from that age group was prolly overwhelming. Nowadays you barely see any cereal commercials unless its really mainstream like Lucky Charms or, Froot Loops, and Cap'n Crunch, and even those are barely advertised anymore.
Partially due to FCC rules + dying network and cable TV.
Not to mention that Saturday morning cartoons are obsolete.
They are all massively overpriced, consumers know they are shit and they are sick of being fkd over by greedy corps..
Fkem, it's all trash
Pee wee Herman, eating a bowl of Mr T cereal " I pity the fool that don't eat my cereal" that part just makes me crack up. Thanks for the memories Paul Reubens.
@7:42 I remember the Turtle Blimp, looks like a really cool toy!
I remember all of these. Loved every moment. I especially remember Saturday morning when you would wake up and realize it was not a school day. Get out of bed, fix a bowl and cartoons.
I forget just how far back a lot of our big name brands go, it's crazy!
Isn't general mills or kellogs currently being threatened by the FDA because of how much sugar they have in their cereal along with false advertising? Yeah, I can't really eat these cereals anymore, cereal is hardly a breakfast for me now, but it was great watching the history. I love your channel, really brought back some memories even if I was born in 96.
If I'm ever in the mood for cereal, luckily there are healthier (or organic) options that do mimic the taste of the sugary options. I guess that's a cool thing about the evolution of food.
Waking up early on Saturday mornings to watch hours of cartoons with a bowl of cereal was the best! Second only to coming home from school to the Disney Afternoon.
Man o man those were the days 😀
Licensed cereal and Saturday Morning cartoons. Such an iconic duo
One strategy that a lot of cereal companies did during the great sugar scare was to change the name of their cereals from Sugar to Honey. Of course I doubt many of them had any actual honey.
Also Super Golden Crisp, Corn Pops, etc.
I always wanted to try "Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs" from Calvin and Hobbes, but Bill Watterson notoriously refused any licensing for the characters.
Great video that brings bacc Alot of late 80s, early 90s memories. Honey Smacc🐸💚 n Cocoa PuFFs 🤎 were my favorite
That is so awesome that you referenced the "St. Louis Carpet Lady" for the Ralston-Purina bit. 😁 She just passed away earlier, this year.
Wonderful topic, comments and presentation! :^)
Interesting and entertaining facts.
And we agree with the role of the 80's!
Thank you very much for sharing.
My life won't be complete until I find a box of Urkelos
I will go to my grave insisting there were four candidates for president in 1992.
I still have such fond and happy memories of Mr T cereal, and Gremlins, E.T., Ghostbusters, Pac-Man, Waffelos, Powedered Donutz, C3PO cereal and Donkey Kong cereal. These boxes take me back to a very happy part of my life that makes me grateful for growing up in the states...
It's absolutely fascinating how these cereals left a lasting legacy
Yes, a lasting legacy of obesity and incipient diabetes.
@@monkeygraborangeso? It’s our prerogative if we want to get fat or get healthy lol if we want sugary cereal then it’s not your concern lol
It is my fucking concern when the government lied through their teeth about the cause of obesity, and the teeth they lied through were false as well.
@@monkeygraborange It wasnt that bad back them. Kids were actually "active", by GOINg OUTSIDE and play, it was easy to burn off those calories; I ate fine and healthy and very active with a lot of friends playing, and i liked these type of sugary cereals and sodas... Not like today.. when you see some these kids being sheltered by the "left", its why they make fun of them, to go out and touch grass.
SOme of these hippy organic crowd on the left loves to demonize food, as they were suckered into that mlm scheme of organic food.
Its called "moderation", you can eat anything just fine, just keep your calories in checked, its not that hard seriously.. Only rreal problem is when people think they require that they have to eat 3 times a day.. breakfast, lunch, dinner.. THose 3 sessions can easily surpass 3000++ calories if people are that gullible to think they need to eat that much.
Smurfs cereal hands down! It was such a unique flavor that has yet to be replicated.
It's Weird History Food Sunday! It's awesome to see the cereals that's popular in the '80s. I would love to see more videos of this topic.
Imagine the popular cereals in the '70s & '90s!
For me it was Rice Krispies I remember as a kid having my ear right over the bowl so I didn't miss the snap crackle and pop. I never did hear that snap, darn you snap darn you to heck 😂😂
But RK never had a lot of sugar. Now, Fruity Pebbles were loaded.
I grew up in the 80s and remember getting a lot of these cereals but funny enough, I don’t remember ever sitting down to actually eat them as part of a balanced breakfast lol. Btw, I used to assume I had a predisposed genetic love for sugar but maybe it was all these damn cereals that were to blame 🤣
@@unknownindividual😂😂 how i grew up in the 2000s haha
The genetic hypothesis floated around during the 90s, given prominence by the Eddie Murphy version of *The Nutty Professor,* should have stayed there.
@@unknownindividualmost of us did t have remotes back then.. you actually had to get up and change the dial.
@@DPSFSU Our cable box had a remote with a 20 foot cord.
@@WastedTalent- lucky!!
That ghost busters cereal was delicious!!!!! I hated just about every marshmallow cereal on the market, but I always jumped at the chance to get that one
My favorite cereal was Buckwheat's.... They were sugary and stayed pretty crunchy for a flake cereal. I just loved the flavor
11:31 Gremlins would have already gotten wet, when they were Mogwai. That's why they're Gremlins. You can't get Mogwai cereal wet, that's why they didn't make Mogwai cereal. They made Gremlins cereal. If anything, you're drowning them in milk and finishing them off with your teeth to defeat the gremlins and thus save breakfast.
Most curious. In Chile, traditional breakfast is milk tea/coffee with a sandwich (or plain bread in lean times), and maybe a fruit. ""Cereals"" were unknown in the 70s, oats were a novelty. Inflated rice and corn appeared first, as a snack. The sugary stuffs were introduced in the 80s, with the local advertising pressing on their vitamins content! 🤣 Still, not really filling in comparison to a sandwich made in the Chilean bread called marraqueta; we aren't talking about 2 sad Wonder Bread slices here, but of a thing like 2 bagels. Even plain, is a meal.
Nowadays they are still there, and I presume some families give them to their kids by the side of the sandwich, but by law, mascots are forbidden, and black stamps signal the ones with excess of sugar, salt (or fats, in other foodstuffs).
That sounds wonderful
Shame Chile missed out on 80s cereal
@@BeyondDaX Say that after you have experienced a ham and avocado sandwich on a crusty, warm, chewy marraqueta...
As a 90s kid I grew up with fun processed foods and snacks. My breakfast was usually a sugary cereal or pop tarts. That stuff was fun and tasty as a kid and it’s all nostalgic to me as an adult. Today I can’t stand those foods. I feel so bad eating a few bites. I love my eggs, vegetables, milk, and coffee for breakfast now. Much more satisfying!
@@emaarredondo-librarian I mean if I can find one of those, I wouldn't mind trying that to be quite honest
@1:12 The figures remind me of the tv series Urban Legends (2007-2011), when they show "Mini-Myths."
Here in Argentina breakfast cereal isn't as popular as in the U.S. but I remember eating Zucaritas (which is how Frosted Flakes are called in Latin America, since Tony the Tiger was on the box). However, in the last few years there's been some concerns about the amount of unhealthy ingredients found in most foods and, as way to combat childhood obesity, companies have forced to remove cartoon mascot from their packaging, so no more Tony, Chester Cheetah or the Trix Rabbit, though it varies from country to country. And in countries like Mexico and Argentina food packaging now has to include big octagons that indicate that a product has an excessive amount of sugar, fats or sodium
Bruh that is only 40% true
@7:22 Teddy Ruxpin is the #1 toy I am circling in the christmas catalog
As a kid growing up in the 1980s, I remember all those cereal commercials between the cartoons on Saturday mornings. And pretty much the announcer would say it's part of this complete or nutritious breakfast. I've eaten those cereals every day before school. Fun times.
Even after the 80s they would still say that it is part of a complete or nutritious breakfast well till i say somewhere around mid to 2010s where they stopped saying that.
When i said mid i meant to say mid 2000s
@evandaymon8303 Oh, okay.
@@melissacooper8724 this is coming from kid who grew up in 2000s but raised to love the 80s and 90s to bits. Man i love to have a childhood in 80s friend
It's funny how sales really started to slump in 2009 around the same time wokeness and idiocy started to prevail over common sense
The 80's were the golden age for just about everything, movies, music, toys, and food.
January 1, 1990 was like Cinderella’s coach turning back into a pumpkin.
Yup!!!! It was a Great time to be a kid in the 80’s!!!!!🤗🤗🤗
@dutchplanderlinde8883nostalgia in a nutshell
@dutchplanderlinde8883 *hits blunt*
One of my favorite cereals was called Crispy Critters. I miss it so much!
I caught a glimpse of them marching by for a fraction of a second in this video! I was trying to remember their name, thank you.
@@michaelturner2806 Tried some back in '87. I'm STILL seeing a Doctor about it.
Fruit loops used to be so good in the early 2000s because they still had sugar sprinkled on them. Now, they taste awful since they decreased the sugar content in cereal
about the only one I remember was the Nintendo one... but then I was never a fan of fruity cereal so you could see the bind I was in! likely only ever had the one box, lol. lately come to love reese's puffs I mean peanut butter and chocolate in cereal form what's not to love?!
Oh man. The Ghostbusters cereal was my life.
I remember a lot of those weird cereals. I also remember the after effects of Smurf Berry Crunch. It was a bit alarming to say the least.
Yep. After eating that you wanted a nap or to jump up and run around 😂
Did it give you blue shits?
Mr T cereal lasted for about 9 years - because it was honestly really good and better than Cap'n Crunch.
The irony of that is that the animated TV show it was based on only ran for three seasons. I thought they discontinued it when the show went off the air.
Nowadays, they actually merchandise live-action TV shows ostensibly aimed at adults similarly, because now I see *Golden Girls* candy when I never used to see merchandise for that show and it was on the air. Could a cheesecake-flavored breakfast cereal be far behind? Back then, the only sitcoms that got merchandise connected to them were aimed at children and families. *Cheers* was the exception although that was based on a real bar that turned into a tourist trap until Coupvid killed it, so there was a symbiotic relationship between the two.
It tasted like Cap N Crunch with Molasses Flavoring. It was VERY Good.
Do all cereal commercials say, "A part of this compete breakfast"?
Not Total because it’s the equivalent of a complete breakfast.
@5:58 On the side of our high school football field is the name "Timer" (like Time For Timer!), apparently it was the nickname of the main donor.
Back when Kellogg’s, Post, and all those other cereal companies were competing against one another during the whole Saturday Morning thing.
I was a kid in the 80s was born in 74. My favorites are snap crackle pop and cinnamon tost crunch. I liked sugar bear too but they don't make it anymore
King Vitamin was my favorite cereal. Yes it had a creepy guy as the mascot but I loved the taste.
I still remember the white, hard sugary coating on Cocoa Puffs. They were SO GOOD.
French toast crunch will always be my favorite cereal
I miss the good old days of cereal now everyone wants “all natural foods” I like my cereal sugary and unhealthy lol I don’t eat cereal to be healthy do you hear me “Magic Spoon”?
When I'm feelin' lonely - sad as I can be..
All by my self in an uncharted island in an endless sea..
What makes me happy, fills me up with glee:
Those bones in my jaw that don't have a flaw.
My shiny teeth and me.
My shiny teeth that twinkle just like the stars in space,
My shiny teeth that sparkle addin' beauty to my face,
My shiny teeth that glisten just like a Christmas tree.
You know they'll walk a mile just to see me smile...
Woo!
My shiny teeth and me!
That's what i like about American sweets and pops. Says naturally and artificially flavoured. Means "we don't care whats in it becasue you'll eat and drink it regardless "😂😂😂
Can’t remember what year, but I recall when they all switched to using whole grain, instead of white processed grain. Maybe my taste buds were changing, because I was late teens early 20s, but seems like all the sugary breakfast foods tasted a little more like cardboard and pencil shavings after the switch
Magic spoon is actually so good tho lol
Magic spoon is great just way too overpriced. 10 dollars for a box of cereal that gives me two bowls at most.
That brought back a lot of memories. Thanks for the video.
the Nintendo cereal Zelda side was the best cereal ever.
My favorite cereals are old school. Frosted Flakes and Cap 'N Crunch.
Same!😂
I forgot about Smurf Berry Crunch. That stuff was good. I seem to remember it was similar to crunch berries.
My family was so poor that we had cereals that only qualified for WIC. That meant lots of KIX, plain Rice Krispies, plain Cheerios, Corn Chex and Corn Flakes.
Thank goodness for grandmothers because I’d be out buying Fruity Pebbles, Cap’n Crunch, Trix, and Cookie Crisp whenever I went to stay with her over the summer.
Good times...
All those WIC cereals are delicious. I forgot about Kix. Do they still exist?
@@arieljones4595 they do still exist actually. Saw them the other day when out shopping.
There was a Winnie the Pooh cereal called Honey B's. It was so good!!!
I loved Smurf Berry Crunch.
I loved Mr. T cereal but one I really loved that nobody mentions or seem to remember is Apple Frosted Mini Wheats that came in a green box.
Exactly the kind of show I wanna watch while eating my third bowl of wet sugar encrusted ground wheat chaff chunks on a Sunday morning!
3rd bowl? thats wild kid!
@@dillinger445lol who eats one bowl of cereal?
@@chipskylark172 2 is acceptable.. 3 is too much
Yeah I remember that. However my parents bought Rice Krispies and Raisin Bran cereal a lot. I hardly got to eat those sugary ones. But when I did till this day I love Golden Grahams, chocolate Rice Krispies, lucky charms and a few more
Today, there are no toys in the cereal boxes. The best part was that unless you had a brother or sister who wanted the toy. Smh. Also, cool part were actually boxes they were fun to read the back of the boxes. Besides, at times, they had fun activities on the boxes. Thank you for some what cover this topic. i did ask for it, but mine was speaking on toys inside the box. I honestly want to why they stop putting toys in the boxes?
They stopped because they just create more waste for the environment and parents don’t want what basically amounts to garbage all over the house.
The best cereal was Smurf magic berries cereal. Its secret ingredient was red food coloring and sugar. It was delicious.
Whatever cereal was on sale that could be combined with coupons and then doubled by the grocer itself on certain days was my favorite. If there was no coupon that week it meant store brand corn flakes was what we’d eat.
Fred and Barney with Winstons in their mouths, I couldn't stop laughing!!
I would totally smoke Flintstones-branded weed but WB would never allow it. They’d relent before Disney ever did, though.
Another great video. Technically Kellogg was right about high carb diets making you not want to have sex. Last time I was on a low fat diet my Depression was at its worst. Chuck Roasts continue to be a diet staple for me now thanks for instant pot pressure cooking in 1.5 hours to fall apart meat 😋 I grew up a fat kid and have tried every sugary cereal there is, but Frosted Flakes never get old.
That was the point. It is part of an ongoing war on male sexuality.
I grew up in the 80's my parents bought a huge box of Honey Combs cereal. All the time.
Hell yeah, thanks for uploading this video on my post-birthday week!!! 🎉🎉
I was on the road a *LOT* in the 80's and 90's, so breakfast was more than likely an egg mcmuffin or croissant sandwich from McD's or BK.
Now when I go for breakfast cereal, I find I go for things like Frosted Mini-Wheats, Life, Frosted Flakes, etc. Still don't like the real sugary cereals....
The TMNT cereal that came with a cereal bowl was my favorite, I had a ton of those bowls by the time they were discontinued.
All we were aloud to have was cheerios Wheaties rice crispy and oat meal but I grow up in the 70s and was in my mid teens in the early 80s .
I was an 80s kid, but same. We got a sweet box on occasion but the only way I got most of them was when I stayed over my grandparent's house 😆
Gen X from '72 here.
I enjoyed many of said cereals mentioned here including Waffle-O's, Post Sugar Crisp with The Sugar Bear, Cap'n Crunch, Golden Grahams, Life, Honeycomb. These days at 51, I can't go wrong with Honey Nut Cheerios & Frosted Mini Wheats. The commercials & shows knew how to speak to kids well.
Add some healthy vitamins & minerals to these classics well & it's all good.
Thanks for the nostalgia.
@9:08 Brilliant cereal box toy!
5:00 Johnny Quest! Boy, haven't seen that cartoon in years....
I loved the Spider-Man cereal from the 90's. It was basically Chex or Crispex with marshmallows, if memory serves.
Shreddies was and still is one of my favorite cereals, still have my "Star Trek: The Next Generation" poster with their old mascots "Freddy" and 'Eddie" on it. Cruncheroos was also a close second.
0:39 The Golden Age of Cereal - LOVE IT!
Nothing is more American than diabetes in a box for breakfast.
The green and orange basketball cereal. I really want those back in production.
Hang on--the Post guy was Kelloggs' patient at one time? Like, in the sanitarium? @2:20
C-3PO’s were later rebranded as Pro Grain.
"cant get enough of that sugar crisp, sugar crisp" lol
Smurfberry Crunch was fun to eat. A Smurfy fruity breakfast treat.
Nothing will ever taste as delish as Smurfberry Crunch. Man.
I absolutely loved and devoured E.T. cereal as a kid!
Golden Grahams are my jam
Im just grateful that they started putting marshmallows in everything now. Fruity Pebbles with marshmallows is something I longed for all through the 80s and 90s.
I used to love cinnamon mini buns cereal because of the commercials. A driver got hit with a shrink ray or something like that, and for some reason still had to deliver the cereal, guess they couldn't find any normal sized people to do it? Who knows it was geared towards kids so it hardly had to be logical. I had a crush on the guy who played the delivery driver and always hoped he'd get his own show, not only did he not get his own show, but Kellogg's stopped making cinnamon mini buns. I was so upset.
The Flakes not the patients!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣