monster movies and favorite cereals

[Jscareshock]

This is a poll for the old timers as many of these cereals didn't make it out of the 1970s.  I remember watching the Groovie Goolies and Scooby Doo while eating some high octane cereal.  It was so good I'd snack on it while watching monster movies later that night (and my folks thought it was the mosnters that wouldn't let me sleep).  Rice Honies is up there because they offered some awesome toy surprises, often more than one, in every box of sugar.  What do you remember?

[toysoldierman2001]

Mine would have to be none of the above!

[Nicole]

I only remember Captain Crunch and the monster cereals. All the others were before my time. Between those, I always liked Franken Berry best.

[CreepysFan]

 FREAKIES.  I loved eating FREAKIES while watching monster movies, cartoons, after school snack, breathing, ect.  I would go through a box in one or two days, with milk or straight out of the box.  I even kept one of the boxes into the present, sitting on a shelf with my monsters and Freakie figures.  After the Freakies, my other favorites were Frankenberry and Count Chocula which I still enjoy eating even now.  Nothing ever matched the Freakies cereal.

[CreepysFan]

     THE HOLY GRAIL OF FOOD

          

 

[Bogey]

Captain Crunch with Crunch Berries.

[Gasport]

Had many favorite cereals including Quisp, Quake, Rice Honies [they offered the Winnie the Pooh spoon hangers!] But if i have to pick one fave, it would be Post Rice Krinkles with the totally politically incorrect mascot, So Hi. This box even included a rickshaw!!  Pure sugar disguised as rice puffs. Makes my teeth hurt just thinking about it. What a buzz...

http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/pax19.jpg

[Daimajin]

Freakies!  I'd forgotten all about them!  Though I usually ate potato chips while watching Sir Graves, I do remember waking up late on a couple of Saturdays and watching Channel 50's Chiller (with the bumpers of the guy in the Glenn Strange Frankenstein's monster mask stirring the cauldron.  Chiller came on earlier than Sir Graves and was a decent way to pass the time while waiting) with a bowl of Pink Panther cereal. 

Just frosted flakes colored pink by God-knows-what infernal process. 

[CreepysFan]

Pure sugar disguised as rice puffs. Makes my teeth hurt just thinking about it. What a buzz...

  Mike, is that why his hat says " So Hi " on it?  Here's a picture for Daimajin:

     

[avenger]

I don't know, Creepy.I wouldn't eat that stuff. Just look at what happened to that other guy !

[Daimajin]

Thanks for posting that Creepys Fan!  I haven't seen that image in, jeez, 35 years?  I remember wanting the rubber band car that was being offered at one time, asking for the cereal and being stuck having to eat a box of that crap!  Why can't parents understand that we don't want to eat the cereal 

[CreepysFan]

 If I remember right, Pink Panther Flakes didn't taste any different than Frosted Flakes did.  It did turn the milk a weird pink color.  You are totally right about kids and cereal Daimajin.  Taste = 5%, Super cool prize = 95%.  Except for Freakies.

[Monster Bob]

Cereal notes, from a connoisseur...


Fruit Flavored TWINKLES by General Mills. The best cereal they ever made. I think I had my last bowl in the late 60s.


I have to be honest- I remember when my Mom first told us that they were coming out with Monster cereal, we were beside ourselves. Unfortunately, an effeminate pink Frankenstein with a steam whistle stuck in his head wasn't what we had in mind! I accepted the cereal (aka it was OK), but wasn't crazy about it. The stuff they make now is nothing like the 'original recipe'... from the taste/potency to the texture to the crunch- they are all different. 


I have noticed a recent improvement in original Cap'n Crunch.


GM Cocoa Puffs- which has tasted weird for years, has improved drastically in last year or so, and now it also turns the milk chocolatey (which I only remember with Cocoa Krispies).


Quisp of today does not taste like Quisp of yesteryear, either, BUT Quaker makes a 'generic bagged' sweet corn cereal these days (can't remember the name- like Sweet Crisp or something) that DOES taste very much like vintage Quisp- much moreso than the current Q recipe.


I think the bottom line is they probably use more corn sryup and less cane sugar than they did 40 years ago- just like in soda. If you younger Monsters have never had a flavored soda made with real cane sugar- in a glass bottle- well, you've never had a real soda. I had a 10oz glass  bottle of "sugar made" Dr. Pepper in Texas a couple of years ago. It was unreal- like velvet running over your tongue. Bobby, if you read this, I am jealous. 

[Daimajin]

What did Freakies taste like?  Am I remembering correctly when I recall them tasting very similar to Captain Crunch?  And what toys were offered?  Does anyone remember?  I had a couple of rubber monster finger puppets -- maybe from Freakies?

(And regarding toys:  Last summer I went shopping by myself one weekend and, to my wife's dismay, I bought a box of Golden Grahams.  Neither of us eats Golden Grahams.  I was forced to explain to my wife that I had a sudden craving for them -- and that it had nothing to do with the cool little Batman toy inside. And that's how it came to be that I had to eat a whole goddamn box of Golden Grahams before we got any more cereal...)

[Monster Bob]

I remember Freakys being a sugary corn cereal, ala Cap'n Crunch or Quisp, but harder and less airy. At least that's what I remember.