Who Misses Oreo Os?

[bazooka_beak]

I had the same type of parents. I ate many bowls of Froot Loops during my first year in college. I also liked Pops and Sugar Smacks when I could get my hands on them. Lucky Charms was the one I most wanted as a kid because of the colored marshmallows.

Now breakfast cereal for me would be Kashi with vanilla soy milk and a dash of honey and brown sugar.

Yeah, despite the fact that I can eat any kind of cereal I want now, for some reason most of the time I opt for Cheerios or Wheaties or something

 

[Drtooth]

I do think advertising for corn syrup spiked products shouldn't be pointed at kids. You can make a sweet tasting, cartoon-shaped product without loading it up with that garbage. The only reason actual sugar is more expensive is because of the corn lobby. The price has been fixed in favor of corn. The problem with expense of sugar is as artificial as corn syrup.

That's the only thing I really have a complaint about... that and some of the other chemicals. But hey... we got rid of Trans Fats. I say take all that corn and make some ethanol out of it. Make plastic bottles out of it... get rid of them BPAs.... the sad thing is the chemicals in junk food are nothing compared to all the chemicals in everything else we experience. It's in the air we breathe... the water we drink (tap or bottled... pick your poison).

I'm seeing less and less companies use it... but we've got a ways to go. Seems General Mills is the only company that really stopped using corn syrup to sweeten their corn cereals. No kidding... I found corn syrup in BRAN! No foolin'... BRAN! Good for you bran. Not even Raisin Bran or Fiber One or any of that... Supposedly straight up bran.

I still say the best Breakfast cereal you can have is Cheerios with actual fresh fruit... none of that disgusting freeze dried flecks of yuck. Freeze Drying is for marshmallows to make them not marshmallow like at all.

 

[D'Snowth]

Geez, do we have to turn this into another rant thread?

...

 

[bazooka_beak]

That reminds me of a gag from Futurama.

I was thinking the exact same thing!

 

[Drtooth]

Here's something.... in the 70's (I think) there was an actual breakfast cereal that had bits of freeze dried ice cream floating in there. Could you imagine the conniption fits parental groups would have today if they even suggested it?

You know what cereal I miss like crazy? I know it was only a limited time promotional thing for a movie... but I miss Atlantis: the Lost Cereal. It was like Lucky Charms... but instead of the solid rock hard marshmallow bits, it had small chocolate cookies.

Ajnd, while it was the most artificially tasting and colored cereal, I miss Buzz Lightyear bits. That was the freakiest colored thing I ever seen... Green cereal pieces with purple graham crackers shaped like the L.G.M.s.... Though, frankly... that seemed more like XR's cereal.

 

[CBPuppets]

Oreo O's was my favorite cereal (Next to Reese's Puffs, Cocoa Pebbles, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch.)

 

[D'Snowth]

I too like the previously mentioned cereals, though I've honestly never had Reese's Puffs before.

 

[bazooka_beak]

Wasn't there a cereal in the 80s or 90s that had a commercial featuring grannies making it in a factory? I can't remember what it was called.

 

[D'Snowth]

Wasn't there a cereal in the 80s or 90s that had a commercial featuring grannies making it in a factory? I can't remember what it was called.

Oh yeah, it was from the 90s I believe... and it had a group of kids dressed in black like spies trying to break into their factory to steal their cereal...

I think it was some kind of waffle cereal of sort...

 

[Drtooth]

Wasn't there a cereal in the 80s or 90s that had a commercial featuring grannies making it in a factory? I can't remember what it was called.

Oh man... that thing with the grannies, man...

Yeah, it was for a Post Waffle type cereal... Waffle Crisp I think...

but you know what website is your best friend for cereal characters? This one