4 Ways British and American Breakfast Cereal is Very Different
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2024
- When Britain and America do have the same breakfast cereals, these don't always share the same names, branding, or contents. Here are 4 ways British and American breakfast cereal is very different.
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Whenever we went over to my grandparents for a weekend, my grandma would have bought a variety pack of cereal with about eight-or-ten little one-serving boxes. My brother and I would eat the good ones first, then be stuck with Raisin Bran and plain Corn Flakes.
The boxes were perforated to open the front like a pair of French doors so you could cut the bag open, pour milk in, and use the box like a bowl. It always made a mess.
I grew up about half an hour away from Battle Creek. That was one of the school trips we always did, and we were all sent home with that same variety pack
I remember those little variety packs. Apple Jacks was my crack back then.
Did we grow up in the same house?! We would beg my mom for those snack pack sizes & on occasion she would relent. They were more expensive & of course we would gobble up the sugar cereal & leave the "healthy stuff".
Linda C That is so cool!
Herman Von Petri My brothers fav was Apple Jacks & Fruit Loops.
Fun Fact: Maurice Lamarche has been the Voice of Tucan Sam since the 1980's. For those of you not familiar with his name he is most known for voicing "The Brain " from "Pinky and the Brain". And for doing 72 voices for "Futurama"
Wowzerz cool😎💜✌🏻
He's now voiced by Matthew Curtis
@@ChronicBongitis420 yeah, he just barely took over the voice from Maurice as of last year.
Seventy-two voices??? That's rather impressive!
@@saundrajohnson1571 Tress McNeil has him beat on "Futurama" she did a total of 75 voices. Her most reoccurring voice was "Mother".
When I was a kid, I only wanted my parents to buy cereal so that I could get the toy prize inside. Then my father ended up being the one who had to eat the cereal. After a few years of this, my parents learned they could write the cereal company and get the entire line of toy prizes for free.
I didn't know you could get the toy for free! That would've saved my parents some $!
😂
@@kccfanpage1348 I don't think you could do this beyond the 1970s or early 80s.
@@jwb52z9 I did that in forth grade as a class project in '98-'99. Got a few toys and a bunch of coupons for various brands. Large companies sent a bunch of different things Malt-O-Meal only a few coupons and a couple of magnets shaped like trucks.
Back in the 1970's, my friend's Dad worked for Procter and Gamble. At the time, Crest had collectable plastic monsters. She got all of them while the rest of us pleaded with our parents to buy Crest as we busily brushed our teeth to go through more tubes to get the toy. I remember it was a status symbol to have the monsters lined up on our desks!! LOL!!
@@jwb52z9 My case happened in 1967 or 1968. Some cereal had about a dozen different plastic dinosaurs. I had many multiples of about three of them. My parents wrote the company, and they mailed me the whole set. I'm wondering why they did that. Maybe the claim that I had so many dinosaurs, but not much variety, showed the company that my family were good customers? I dunno, but I was the envy of my kindergarten.
The man that originally voiced Tony the Tiger sang on the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Thurl Ravenscroft
Also a lot of voices for Disneyland, haunted mansion, pirates of the carribbean etc.
Thurl Ravenscroft
That makes perfect sense!
That's so cool. I always thought it was Boris Karloff singing! 😆
General Mills had Coco Puffs. We were cuckoo for cocoa puffs here in the US of A.
Plus they were/are little puffed balls of something, not puffed rice.
@@LincolnRon I believe it’s corn.
We had a General Mills plant in Albuquerque when I lived there, which turned out to be a dangerous place to work...a cereal killer was stalking the place.
> 5:51 < Yes ... The real U.S. Cocoa Puffs are the chocolated version of KIX by General Mills.
ruclips.net/video/gZaVpv5p2CM/видео.html
Kelloggs can not use the name Cocoa Puffs.
Snap, Crackle, and Pop were not human, they were pixies or elves or some other damned thing like that!
Elf/Gnome, similar in style to the Keebler Elf/Elves.
@@HimmelsDaemon My father was a Keebler elf... worked at their bakery in Fairfax, OH for decades.
@@Werewindle ooohhh....you got some good stuff in *your* lunchbox!
Snap Crackle Pop. The sounds of cereal that farts. Didn't stop me from chowing
@@debistanley2791 what I sound like whenever I move - sometimes when I don't move too!
Your video thumbnails are so brilliant. Every time I see them in my recommended, they make me smile! ~ Jennifer (An American married to an Englishman)
His thumbnail game IS on point!!!
"...actual humans -- and children." 😂
No one:
Not a single soul:
Lawrence: THE BREAKFAST CEREAL MASCOTS DON'T HAVE TEETH ITS A SUBLIMINAL WARNING
My brother, sister and I all had our favorites. Frankenberry, booberry and count chocula! Here’s to breakfast in the 80’s!! And to fantastic Saturday morning cartoons!
Count Chocula was my jam! When you couldn't get them anymore, I went full Coco Pebbles. Munching out to that and watching Schoolhouse Rock in between cartoons was a great way to wake up.
Our poor mom had to remember to carefully alternate which flavor that she bought so that everyone could get to have their favorite in rotation! Or face the screeches. whines and wails of outraged children . They didn't have the Mega sized boxes back then either.
@@julilla1 During Halloween Target always has them. Too bad not year round.
Yummy Mummy and Fruit Brute were also good
As a child my favorite cereal was Captain Crunch. I'm surprised I still have (most of) my teeth!!!
I'll still buy a box of that or one of the other Crunch cereals on occasion.
Still my favorite!!! The original one with peanut butter right?
But do you still have the roof of your mouth?
@@ericpaul4575 reason I gave it up. Nothing worse than having to gargle hydrogen peroxide after breakfast. Lol
I’m 64, and still eat it.
Remember when Nestle used to have a coco puff cereal that actually made the milk taste like nesquik? I miss those
Yep - it had a rabbit as a mascot, so my dad would always point out how similar to rabbit droppings the cereal looked to tease me as a kid.
I’m Koo koo for Cocao Puffs !
They still sell it in the UK, and possibly other countries too. It has the imaginative name of Nesquik Cereal.
Thank you! I thought I was crazy because I thought to myself that Coco Pops was what we had here in America. Puffs v Pops! Can't remember if my mom let me have them very often, had a lot of oatmeal.
My fave: Raisin Bran, which does not appear to be a registered trademark, and is thus called by that name everywhere in the Anglosphere.
They started putting in too many raisins. I like my bran flake to raisin ratio to be equal.
It’s called Sultana Bran in Australia.
Kellogg's or Post?
@@mdf3530 Post
@@MattOz It's called Sultana Bran in the UK too - and sultanas are better in cereal than raisins!
"And speaking of mascots, that brings us on to this:"
(ad starts)
"Jake from State Farm?"
Doesn’t Jake have teeth ?
@@chicagodaddy1 Probably. Haven't looked too closely.
Which one? The original, or the usurper?
Anyone remember Quisp? King Vitamin? Buck Wheats? My favorite was Lucky Charms. We used to eat the marshmallow shapes out of the box first, naturally.
I do remember Quisp! I also remember Boo Berry, Count Chocula, and a third one based on Frankenstein, but I forget the name.
@@bigscarysteve frankenberry. :) they still exist, carried in many stores only in October
Quisp is my favorite.
@@michaelbadger6645 There was a cereal named Quake also. I remember you could vote for Quisp or Quake and Quisp won. And Quake was discontinued.
@@jchiliw , some of the commercials are on RUclips
Golden Grahams cereal 🥣 was the best as a kid... And the premium/pricey cereal too. I don't eat cereal anymore, but my grandparents eat at least a box of those a week now.
I remember the sugar crisp bear with the hooded eye crooning in a Bing Crosby voice " Can't get enough of my sugar crisp" or something like that. I think in the '60s or '70s when I was a kid.
It was in the 80s and 90s too.
I was never allowed to eat "sugar cereals" when I was a child, so I never developed a taste for them. My favorite cereal is grape-nuts. I'm pretty sure if anyone loses any teeth from grape-nuts it is due to the rock-hard density, and not the sugar content.
You might read the side of the box because that cereal probably doesn't have that much less sugar than the ones talked about. Besides, cereal is in itself basically pure sugar/carbs. To eat that bowl of cereal you eat, you might as well eat a candy bar for breakfast. Just saying!
i love grape nuts snd i still get them now and then. (they have a lot of calories.) Cheerios was always my favorite though. Rice Krispies were fun, too. they really did crackle :) 🍜🌷
in the ‘50’s we didn’t have all these pure sugar dry cereals and i don’t even like them.
@@RiverWoods111 You must not be familiar with Grape-Nuts. It was developed in 1897, is not sweet, and contains very little sugar.
abused child
the older I get the less cereal I eat, but around Halloween whenever they bring back BooBerry, and Frankenberry I make sure to buy a box for nostalgic sake.
Remember Quisp?
@@LindaC616 sorry can't say I've heard of it before now, but looking it up you can still get it on Amazon.
Linda C We loved Quisp & Quake growing up. Big Capn Crunch fans. They all tasted the same. This was the 70's. Move to PA in early 90's & guess what I find on the shelves? Quisp! Hadn't seen it in years.
Fruit Brute, Yummy Mummy & Count Chocula of course!
@@LindaC616 I remember Quisp and Quake as a kid. When Quisp came out again recently I bought a box and realized it was just repackaged Cap'n Crunch when it shredded the roof of my mouth. How did I ever enjoy that crap when I was a whelp? I must have been a masochist.
My favorite cereal as a kid was Count Chocula and for a while Quisp.
My favourite cereal today is of course bacon and eggs because old men shouldn't be eating so much carbs.
I never thought about Toucan Sam having a British accent until now! 🤦🏻♀️
well he is obviously from the Caribbean which is a bastion of British possesions
@@gben7084 and Spanish. And French. And Dutch 🤷♀️
I always thought it was the Guinness connection.
My favorite cereal has always been Lucky Charms. It's horrible for me and I love it.If you're wondering if I'm 5 the answer is no, I just act like I am sometimes.
I would have thought Coco Pops would be associated with Cocoa Puffs since their names sound more similar than Cocoa Krispies.
Maybe that's why Kellogg's tried to change the name.
But cocoa puffs don't go Pop (or snap or crackle)
33 years old I have never once noticed any of these mascots not having teeth
I am almost twice as old as you and I never did either. Lol
@@frandistabile4723 I'm more than twice as old, and Tony used to have teeth. (Maybe they rotted out from all that sugar----LOL).
@@elultimo102 Lolol! I am only 3 years shy of twice the age and I never thought about teeth until seeing this video. Now I am going to google old Frosted Flakes commercials and check it out, but you are right all that sugar rotted his teeth. Lol!
@@frandistabile4723 y
@@jaybeers5758 y what??
Love these comparisons of products. I’ve been told American grocery stores have a much larger selection than England. One of my friends said a store in London had 2 different toothpastes to choose from, vs 12 different choices at WalMart. Your content is always fun and interesting. 👏🏻❤️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I never understand why these type of cereals are classed as ones for children. As an adult in my 60’s I still think they’re great.
Here in the UK they’ve recently brought out white & white & strawberry editions of Coco pops. I’ve tried both & think they’re brill.
The sugary 'junk food' contents, and cartoon mascots.
My favorite cereal since I was a kid is Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but about ten years ago I discovered the Malt-O-Meal version called Cinnamon Toasters, and I actually like them better than the name brand.
Coca Krispies also had two different elephant mascots: Coco in the early 60s and Tusk in the 70s and early 80s.
My favorite cereal as a child was Cap'n Crunch. I'm not sure that his moustache did not obscure whether or not he had teeth.
As a child. I loved any cereal that was filled with sugar. I wasn't allowed to have them much, so it was a special treat. I didn't care if it was Froot Loops, Smacks, Corn Pops...
Unless it had marshmallows. Even as a kid, I was disgusted with cereal marshmallows!
Corn pops were great as a kid.
I was a Frosted Flakes fan. My ex used always talk about his favorite King Vitaman. I thought he was making it up because I never heard of it ever. Then the internet, world wide web came along and I searched for The King Vitaman cereal and it was real with it's own little jingle. Did you have King Vitaman across the pond ?
I had a great aunt when I was growing up in the 80's who loved King Vitaman Cereal, so when we went to visit her that was breakfast, and I would always be so bummed out I was not getting my Frosted flakes, or captain crunch lol!
I loved King Vitamin. I always thought they were shaped like little gears.
I think I ate King Vitamin once, and never saw it again. Must have had one of the last boxes before it was discontinued.
@@brianoneill7186 It somehow lasted till 2019
@@CommodoreFan64 I like your name. My first PC was a C64. When it died in 1991, I found and bought a used one, though by that time I was using a turbo XT, IBM clone also.
Anyway, I think King Vitamin and Captain Crunch, along with Quisp and Quake, had similar corn and oat meal ingredients. I like(d) them all, but I thought King Vitamin had the 'zestiest' taste.
I used to love frosted shredded wheat. Alas, my diet no longer includes cereal of any kind.
Same here, Astrowolf, I feel your pain! I sneak in some Special K Strawberry occasionally, but boy, do I miss frosted Shredded Wheat!
I may have been one of the only kids who loved the non frosted shredded wheat. Not the minis either, the full brick the size of a wallet. I also loved raisin bran.
Schizz Popinov Oh no! Those were the worst. Like a soggy wood chip 😆
My cousins neighbor worked on the campaign for Frosted Mini Wheats. He gave them a ton of it. They had 11 kids. No one like it.
@@Schizz_Popinov Plain Shredded Wheat was what I grew up with, too. I didn't start eating the frosted ones until I moved out of my parents' house.
I'm with Jerome K. Cheerios have always been my favorite, too!
Life is my favorite cereal.
Sugar Smacks were my favourite cereal as a kid in England in the late 1960's. They always had the best free toys with them, that were often a tie in to a TV series I liked - in 1967, it was 'Captain Scarlet', and there were tiny model kits of vehicles from the show.
And later Kellogg's used both Star Trek and Doctor Who (Jon Pertwee) as tie-ins on the boxes
I fell in love with wheatabix when I visited the UK. Wish I could get it here in the states.
3:40 -- The Dean of Canterbury cathedral also has a cat that sticks its paw in his milk.
Now, I can't unsee it! All of your favorite cereal characters no damn teeth, because of eating sugary cereal!🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
I found your channel a less than a hour ago and I absolutely love your delivery of observations and your humor is on point with mine. I have subscribed and will be going back through older videos and I am sure I will enjoy them. This is my fourth video of yours. Keep up the awesome content.
Boy are you in for a fun and informative time! Congratulations.
I discovered Kellog's Fruit & Fibre on a trip to the UK and was SO UPSET upon returning home to the US to find that we don't have an identical cereal. After that, on most trips to the UK I would bring back a purple box of that yummy cereal in my suitcase.
Mostly we got shredded wheat or grape nuts (yes I’m old). If we were really lucky we might get a box of Sugar Pops.
I still have nightmares about Shredded Wheat. They were always worried about us being regular 😊 to this day I swear Triscuts are just SW with salt.
Although Alton Brown says popcorn makes a great breakfast cereal, I don't think he ment the cheese kind I'm munching now.
Undoubtedly my favourite is Rice Checks. Straight, no sugar.
After that, chocolate Krave straight out of the box, by the handfulls.
Rice Chex sprinkled liberally with Salt.
Chex is a cereal that is best mised with other things. Also it had a great video game.
Yes! Krave straight out is like movie theater popcorn only better (and chocolate is the reason why!)
A golden oldie that is no longer made was Freakies. It was out in 74-75 and made an unsuccessful return in the 80s. It was delightful.
Born, raised, and still living in Battle Creek, Michigan. As a kid I always dreaded out of town visitors because we always had to take them for a Kellogg’s tour. Now I miss those days. Tours were discontinued in the 80’s due to a fear of secret recipes being “leaked “- LOL- what’s to steal? Process a grain and smother it with artificial color and sugar! Kellogg’s current marketing now touts the company as “The original plant based diet”. Hahaha! Nice piece. It’s cool for our little town to get a shout out!
Well, they did try that Cereal City there. My daughter was around 3 months old and had her picture with Tony. She's 22 now, so that's been shutdown for over 20 years, right?
Not many realize that Post is originally from that area and was the first to steal the "secret formula". The bad thing was, the machine that they ended up using to make the flakes they didn't own the patent on and that's how CW Post was able to replicate it.
Count Chockula, Fruit Bruit, Boo Berry and the original Frankenberry. All variations of the same cereal.
I am actually eating cereal right now! Multigrain Cheerios. I just like snacking on them. As a kid (and now as a way older kid with experience), I never cared for sugary cereals. About as crazy as I'd get are Frosted Flaked or Coco Krispies. I was (and am) content with Cheerios, granola, corn flakes... all the "boring" cereals.
I love chocolate, but hate chocolate cereal(and chocolate milk) Eating a bowl of Cocoa Puffs as a kid was an unpleasant experience. The memory never left me. The cereal did...rapidly.
Freakies were always fought over in the morning. My Mom had a rule you could not dig out the toy from inside the bottom of the box, you could only get it if you were the lucky one to pour it into your bowl. The Freakies box read "Collect them all!" only to keep getting the same blue Freakie over and over and finding out later that the green Freakie never was distributed to our part of Michigan. How could they do that to a kid? Quaker Crisp, Apple Jacks and Space Food Sticks were favorites too.
Freakies were such a big deal back then, my friends and I used to play "Freakies" and pretend to be the various characters.
Good work Larry!
I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs ... a cuckoo on the General Mills US version of the cereal
which was not mentioned this time. Do they have Cocoa Puffs across the pond?
The ways Lawrence says Pops, I almost thought he said Puffs. For part of the video at least.
I believe Cocoa Puffs is corn based.
@@StatsJedi I don't think there is a direct equivalent, but you can get them online anywhere. Like most things, internationally acquired products can be stupidly expensive.
Sonny the cocoa puff bird is voiced by Larry Kenny... who also did that voice over you used to hear in the 80's,
Miller brewery company, Milwaukee Wisconsin..
And besides Sonny,
Larry Kenny is probably best known for being the voice for, ........
Lion-o!!! lord of the thundercats!!!!
From the cartoon,
Thundercats..
Mel Blanc's last name is pronounced "blank."
Mel 'Blahnk' changed the pronunciation of his name when he was a kid, tired of being teased with bad French accents.
Blank was his birth name, he changed it to "Blanc" after a teacher said he wouldn't amount to anything and be like his name.
Caught that too huh ? 😅😂🤣
except when he was playing Professor LeBlanc, the violin teacher
When I was in high school they (the high school) somehow obtained an obscene amount of cereal made in the US, but meant for the Canadian market, so we could have as much as we wanted for free. Aside from having French text on them, the biggest difference was Sugar Crisp, the only surviving cereal with "sugar" in its name. The cereal has been renamed to Golden Crisp in the US before I was born, but remains "Sugar Crisp" in Canada to this day. Both versions are apparently at least 50% sugar, though (ditto for Honey Smacks by the way).
I love the irony of these pop up ads in RUclips videos! After all these jokes about teeth, and lack thereof, the algorithm gives me an ad for Crest Toothpaste!
Recently I was feeling nostalgic about cereal I ate as a child. I bought Cap'n Crunch, one my favorites. It tasted absolutely nothing like it used to, it was awful. So disappointed.
Ur obsessed with the USA the way I’m obsessed with the UK! I’m a Mini driving, Doc Marten wearing, Queen (the band of course) lovin American! 🇬🇧
I think you may have gotten the Cocoa Puffs mixed up. Cocoa Puffs is made by General Mills, not Kelloggs. They're a chocolate coated version of Kix cereal. In the US, the Cocoa Puffs mascot is a Sonny the cuckoo bird, who is known for saying, "I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!" Cocoa Krisps is Kelloggs' competitor to Cocoa Puffs.
I come from the cereal city of B.C Mi. I have followed your channel for a long time and this episode was great..keep up the good work your very good
Watching this while eating cereal for dinner😂 strawberry frosted mini wheats
Update: wow the ending was ironic
The only time I got any fun, sugary cereals was when I stayed over my grandparents house as a child, lol. Did love Smacks, Golden Grahams, and Fruit Loops though :)
Sugar Pops
Love the emotion behind that Cocoa Pop segment. I could feel your irritation.
You obviously spend a great deal of time doing research for your videos, which is what makes them so interesting!
Golden Grahams, Lucky Charms, Mini Frosted Wheat, Coco Puffs (I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!)
why did that store clip look like jungle jim's?? edit: it is!! that store is the most amazing grocery store i've ever been inside. i love that they hand out maps at the entrance
I do so enjoy your videos
I lived in Australia when I was little and I remember a cereal called Weetabix. Loved it. I sometimes have dreams about eating it.
Weetabix is still a very popular cereal here in the UK , three with cold milk and a little sugar 💂
I LOVE Froot Loops!!!!
Okay, I’ll admit it…I do love my Froot Loops! But it is a rare day indeed when I eat cereal. Oddly enough, that was my dinner last night… I hadn’t had cereal for months! 😂
I remember having a field trip to the visitor facility at Kellogg's when I was in 4th grade. They had a cornflakes dispenser mounted right in the wall.
We saw our favorite grocery store, Jungle Jim's, at the behalf this!! We may have run into you there! 😀😀
Fun fact: Honey is just as likely to rot your teeth as sugar. Like High fructose syrup honey has a higher fructose to glucose ratio than standard table sugar.
Did you ever think that the reason they don’t have teeth especially Tony The Tiger is to make them more cute and child friendly.
In the US, Coco Puffs has a bird mascot named Sony The Cuckoo Bird, and his catchphrase is "I'm cuckoo for Coco Puffs"
It's good to hear my hometown mentioned on your channel. Also the home of Post Cereals.
My favorite cereal is Post Grape Nuts. Yes, I'm old and boring; don't at me, as the youngsters say.
Tried them once. How, in the name of All Dentistry, do you manage to chew them? (Warm milk?)
I've always loved Grape Nuts....even as a child. I'm not normal 😁
@@keetrandling4530 Here on the East Coast, Portuguese American people make a sort of pudding with them. They put in the pudding and the grape nuts on the bottom, almost like a parfait, and eventually they soften up
I let mine sit for awhile. Yum
I used to love Grape Nuts in the winter. You could put them in a microwave and they'd soften up a bit and they were so tasty.
I used to love Cookie Crisp…now I’m older and eat Special K (aka poop cereal) 🤷🏻♀️
I eat steel cut oats with prunes....
Not only was Sugar Smacks changed to Honey Smacks...
Sugar Pops was changed to Corn Pops.
And Sugar Bear turned into a frog.
Kelloggs Sugar Smacks was available in the UK in the 1960s and 70s. On the box was an artwork picture of a character from a Sci-Fi series that was on British TV at the time, such as Dr Who, Captain Scarlett, Thunderbirds, Joe 90 and Star Trek, and had a plastic toy in the box related to the show.
"Can't get enough of that Sugar Crisp! Youi can never get enough!"
"Hey Granny. You'll have to be quicker than that if you want my sugar crisp....can't get enough of that sugar crisp, sugar crisp, sugar crisp...."
I get so excited when notifications actually come up when the video uploads vs 20 minutes later!
Coco pebbles do a better job of making chocolate milk. Also, they crunch better than coco krispies. Coco puffs look too much like rabbit droppings to be appealing.
General Mills has a cereal called Cocoa Puffs. They are General Mills "KIX" with chocolate.
It's interesting that there are Rice Krispies on both sides. In Australia we have rice bubbles and coco pops, I always wondered why they weren't coco bubbles or rice pops
Generic bran flakes and oat circles are my favorites 😋
I didn’t know sugar smacks were renamed honey smacks!
I remember when everyone changed their name to "Honey" because they thought it sounded healthier. But I also remember that for a while Sugar Smacks were called Super Sugar Smacks.
@@julilla1 You're thinking about Super Sugar Crisp which became Super Golden Crisp. The mascot's name went from Sugar Bear to Golden Bear and now he's Sugar Bear again.
@@rick420buzz ah, you're a true cereal mensch! Thanks!
In Sweden we use the same branding as the UK :) Always loved HoneyPuffs!
Just adore you Lawrence. Thank you~
I feel that American cereals (among all other foodstuff in the US) are filled with so many preservatives and chemicals, not just sugar
the US FDA listed all the chemicals in the ingredients such as salt would be listed as sodium and all chemicals in the sodium will be listed also
Never did like "candy cereal", my folks bought Corn Flakes, Cheerios, Wheaties, Rice Krispies, and Grape Nuts. I grew up with these, and I still prefer them.
Those Reese's Pieces cereals always grossed me out.
I loved grape nuts and cracklin oat bran. We'd have the sugary cereal as snacks, without milk, just a handful or 2 once in a while. My favorites were apple jacks, cinnamon toast crunch, and oh's!
Post (the other big American cereal company) also makes a version of Honey Smacks called Golden Crisp (which is actually the original). One of the few cases outside of really plain stuff like Raisin Bran or Corn Flakes where they make the same cereal (department store brands make knockoffs of all the popular ones but Kellogs and Post tend to stick to their signature stuff).
It's 1AM, and I had to go into the kitchen and make myself a bowl of cereal. Thanks a lot, Laurence.
Fruity Pebbles, hands down
I'm a Coco Pebbles person, but both of the Pebbles had a superior flavor transfer to milk. The milk left in the bowl was like drinking Quik afterwards.
I am eating cereal right now Chocolate Lucky Charms although not my favorite Cocoa Crispys mixed with frosted flakes is my favorite.
Nowadays I stick to oatmeal for my cereal but this brought back memories of all the sugary cereals I enjoyed as a kid - Sugar Frosted Flakes, Captain Crunch, Trix, Crispy Critters, Lucky Charms, Alpha Bits, Cocoa Crispies, Honey Puffs and I am sure more. Maybe it was as I grew older or just because I would put LOTS of brown sugar on them Rice Chex, Shredded Wheat -the original big ones broken up and the minis. Without brown sugar but definitely raisins Grape Nuts.
Ah, a pleasant stroll down memory lane.
I loved shredded wheat biscuits by Post. Now you have to order them online. I love Life cereal and raisin bran.
My childhood faves were Fruity Pebbles and Captain Crunch with crunch berries.😋
Honey Smacks/Sugar Puffs are actually a copy of Ranger Joe's a 1939 cereal that was a honey coated puffed wheat product. First pre-sweetened breakfast cereal. Sold in a cellophane bag rather than a box.
Oh Lawrence, this had me giggling manically...!
We used to have different flavours of Mueslix cereal, but they seem to have vanished from grocery stores. Banana nut were my favorite.
I really like all kinds of cereal.... I guess my favorite is Captain Crunch Berries. Second maybe Golden Grahams
Maybe not entirely on topic but POST Cereals marketed a rice cereal that had a sweet coating, not sure but suspect that it was sugar. As a child it was one of my favorites as it had a " prize " in most boxes of a small plastic car. One year, it was all I ate for breakfast and built up a small fleet of cars as a result.
Being a senior citizen, I now eat either Raisin Bran or Special K...the Special K with fruit that I buy and add.
BTW, one year, around the holidays, I made double chocolate Rice Krispies treats. I used chocolate marshmallows and chocolate flavored Rice Krispies.
I thought you only ate Weetabix. I'd like to see your cat dipping its paw into your cereal, though.
Whisker Reels has been awfully quiet lately
Captn Crunch with crunch berries is the GOAT..even though it tears up the roof of your mouth , everytime. I'm willing to overlook it 😋😏.