monster movies and favorite cereals

[ChattyLMS]

Oh Daimajin!
I'm so sorry if I was offensive regarding So-Hi!  I didn't mean it to be offensive in any way and I hope you will accept my apology!   

I used to get a kick out of character's from the shows I was watching push the cereals.  After all, if it's good enough for the Monkee's, it's got to be good.  Couldn't even watch Rocky and Bullwinkle without Boris and Natasha pushing sugar coated cereals.

Well, Fred and Barney used to sell cigarettes in commercials.  No wonder why so many people smoked.   

[avenger]

I loved Sugar Pops . However ,somewhere along the way sugar became a bad word ,so now they
are called Corn Pops. They used to have a picture of Sugar Pops Pete on the front and they had
great prizes inside ! Come to think of it most of the cereals had great prizes inside.

[ChattyLMS]

"I'm Sugar Pops Pete and everyday with my sugar popper I sweeten all the Sugar Pops you can eat"

[avenger]

Bravo, Laura !

[Wicked Lester]

I agree on the PC crap. That's all it is,crap. WAAAHH you made a little joke because of a look or culture. Get over it.
Unless it is downright hateful find something else to do. Why don't we boycott anything/everything Al Jolson did because of his blackface thing? Some of my waaay higher ups are Japanese businessmen and they talk exactly like the Rice Krinkles kid.
You didn't expect him to talk like a Harvard graduate did you?

Anyone remember the Sugar Bear cartoons with the Krinkles kid , Alphabet Postman ,The Crispy Critters Lion and Sugar Bear?
"yes yes I believe , oh yea I believe that Granny Goodwitch is gonna be OK"

[zombiehorror]

See...here's the thing about PC.  A lot of people use the excuse "I'm not PC or I hate the PC stuff" in order to be rude or disrespectful to other folks.  They use it as an excuse for rudeness.  To justify their own prejudices or to excuse their own ugly behavior. 

Speaking as someone who's wife is Japanese, I get offended when I hear some idiotic nonsense like "Lice Klispies."  I realize you probably thought it was terribly funny, but it really just shows the kind of person you are.

<http://www.youtube.com/v/46WcFObgYhI&hl=en&fs=1 http://www.youtube.com/v/46WcFObgYhI&hl=en&fs=1"

Sorry couldn't resistOh.......... what the hell, here's another one for you!

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OK, now let's get back to monster's and cereal!  It's the Cap'n all the way for me!

DISCLAIMER:  I had nothing to do with writing/directing/producing or any other facet of making either of these movies.  I wasn't even born when the Bugs cartoon was created & was only 11 when Christmas Story was made.  Please do not call the PC police on me!

[Toy Ranch]

I'm not sure what's going on in here, but I'm locking this until I can figure it out.

[Toy Ranch]

This thread has veered off into unacceptable territory.  Let's try and be sensitive and tolerant to each other, folks.  Talking about cereal is good.  We need to get this back on cereal.  If you have any non-cereal comments you need to make, please make use of the PM feature.  I'm going to unlock this, but if it gets off track again it's going to be locked for good.

[CreepysFan]

 Any one else's Mom bring home something nasty like Fruity Pebbles or Fruit Brute?  Sometimes instead of the stuff we craved, she'd buy something for a "change of pace".  Usually ended up being thrown out.  Once she brought home a cereal with a squirrel on the box, and that stuff wasn't bad.  Mostly we kept to the same routine: Freakies, Capt.Crunch, Crunch Berries, Lucky charms, Frankenberry, and Count Chocula.   I still eat the Lucky Charms even now.

[Gasport]

Lucky Charms...My mom only bought this a couple of times. I'd eat all the marshmallows and leave the cereal to rot. All's it did was to minimize the sweetness, so what exactly WAS the point??

[depressedlarrytalbot]

You guys have had a real cereal culture over there haven't you. Seinfeld had the right idea, keep 'em as snacking boxes besides their breakfast uses. We don't have General Mills, just Kelloggs, Sanitarium and generic imitations. We had about five or six Kelloggs "fun-eatin' favorites" over the years and some have the same names as yours I think while others are the same but are named a bit differently... we have Froot Loops and Coco Pops and we used to have Sugar Frosties, Strawberry Pops and Honey Smacks. For the sake of comparisons, those mascots are respectively, Sam Toucan, Coco the Monkey, Tony the Tiger, some red dancing elephant (Strawberry Pops didn't last that long) and Bertie the Bee - near as memory serves. We used to see Cornelius the Rooster at the start of Huckleberry Hound, and we had the Linus The Lion-Hearted cartoons never realizing he was a cereal mascot.
Hardly anyone has plastic toys in the boxes here these days though we too had DARK KNIGHT toys recently, which was great fun, but it seems to have been a mere flash-inna-pan thing.   
Cheerios just appeared on our supermarket shelves in the last six months or so.  Ain't that lame ?
You guys get cool stuff like marshmallow bits. We're too dull here to have those. Yeah and our stoopid mums couldn't get into DARK SHADOWS, neither. Australia is a great country, but we need to become the 51st State really baaaaad ......

[Jscareshock]

I think the days of finding awesome toy prizes in our boxes is long gone.  Now it seems to be getting free dvds or music downloads.  Oh for the days of those secret compartment and satellite launching rings.

[Toy Ranch]

I think the days of finding awesome toy prizes in our boxes is long gone.  Now it seems to be getting free dvds or music downloads.  Oh for the days of those secret compartment and satellite launching rings.

Very true, and it all comes down to what kids want.   Give a kid today a secret compartment ring and he's probably going to shrug his shoulders and say "how stupid" before plugging in his earbuds or going back to the video game.  Our parents probably groused because we couldn't be satisfied with a stick and a barrel hoop though... 

[CreepysFan]

Our parents probably groused because we couldn't be satisfied with a stick and a barrel hoop though... 

Mom hated dairy products, wasn't allergic, just wouln't eat them.  She wouldn't even cook with milk, substituting water instead.  Even the arguement that you can't taste the milk in cooked foods didn't matter.  Mom ate Corn Flakes or Raisin Bran....with water instead of milk.  Once when we were out of milk us kids tried it that way, and it was drop to the floor and gag type nasty. 

[ChattyLMS]

Oh for the days of those secret compartment

Oh I loved cereal toys that had secret compartments!  Imagine having a secret compartment and be able to have a secret message in it that know one else would know about!  Except of course all the thousands of other kids who had the same thing!

Recently there was a cereal that came out with a lighted up Indiana Jones spoon in it.  Neil, age 24, washed that spoon by hand and ate with it.  I think it broke.  I can't stand that now they have a cereal for every movie or TV show that comes out.  Oh come on, High School Musical Cereal?  Oh Brother!