What were some of the sugary cereals (and their characters) you loved as a kid?

Fruit Loops were my fave. Apple Jacks were second. I never really liked milk so I would just eat them dry from the box like candy.

Fruit Loops. I’ll still eat a bowl as desert before bed if we have any in the house. I’m 47

Cap’n Crunch or Honeycomb would be my next favorite.

Sugar corn pops, and co-co puffs.

Sugar Frosted Flakes – with Tony the Tiger. They’re Great!
I loved his voice – and the ear-splitting crunch they made when you ate them right away!

Tony was voiced by Thurl Ravenscroft who also sang “You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch” in the 1966 movie “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”

Gotcha! You’ll be singing that song all day!

Tony the Tiger also convinced me that “you were never too old to eat Frosted Flakes”—several concerted efforts to keep adults eating these sugary cereals.

I used to tell people that tigers actually eat children, not cereal—the Frosted Flakes were just a lure. But Tony was, and remains, a very likable character and didn’t need to outwit the ridiculous baddies featured on other commercials who tried to steal the cereal or outwit the characters or kids.

I guess the only character I really didn’t like was the Cuckoo bird on Co co Puffs (too annoying) and Sugar Bear seemed too confident, to the point of arrogance, in his smarts and strength as a result of eating Super Sugar Crisp / later Super Golden Crisp. My sister was annoyed by the leprechaun so never ate one of my favorite cereals, Lucky Charms.

I liked the Honeycomb Hideout kids—and the Short Circus on the T.V. show The Electric Company as I’m sure one was patterned after the other,

The villians on these cereal commercials never learned not to steal or guile cereal from the kids.

My favorite treat, only allowed once or twice a year, was Frosted Flakes and cold half and half. It was like an ice cream cereal.

I loved all of the above. Plus as an adult I confess that I use to buy “Lucky Charms” for myself.

Mini wheats.

Tony Tiger was my go to (ok, Frosted Flakes). Post Raisin Bran (with the Raisins) and Rice Krispies (Snap, Crackle and Poop). Finally, Super Sugar Crisps with some bear.

I was never a fan of the fruity, multicolored ones or the chocolate ones; not that I did not eat them if that was all mom had bought that week since my sibs and I had different tastes and, besides, a lot of time she bought what was on sale.

Agreed—never liked Fruity or Cocoa Pebbles. Flavours too strong. Was most drawn to Fruit-loops grade fruit cereals like Trix or Lucky Charms but the marshmallow types.

I agree with the sentiment about Pebbles. I like my sugary pieces of crack to not be so tiny.

Favorite cereals:
Honeycomb
Cap’n Crunch
Sugar Crisp

Favorite characters:
The Honeycomb Hideout
Count Chocula

Did you ever NOT like a cereal because of the characters on the commercial?
Yeah, I wanted to like Tony because he was a tiger, but disliked that he was hawking cereal and basically only had “They’re grrrrreat!” to say. That did put me off Frosted Flakes. Later, the Crunchy Wheats family and their song filled me with fear and loathing and I would never go near that cereal. Similar but lesser effect with some others.

How did the characters, ads, or cereals themselves, affect you?
Well, the Honeycomb Hideout made me want one, and I think there was an offer if you bought 8000 boxes of it or something – I think that was my main reason for being briefly hooked on Honeycomb cereal, until I got sick of it.

I was generally annoyed at how many cereal commercials had magical creatures (the Lucky Charms leprechaun, Trix rabbit) were always being captured and robbed by annoying cereal-crazed American kids. That and the commercialism of Tony the Tiger were the beginning of my life-long hatred of most TV advertising. I think it did reduce my interest in those cereals.

I liked some of the characters, but non of them convinced me to like their cereal. The cereals I liked was for their own reasons.
I liked Quisp, and the little alien, but the rest seperate for me.
I liked Super Sugar Crisp, but the bear was nothing to me. When they changed the name, It made me mad. So some people were on a health kick. The name change wasn’t going to fool anybody. I thought they should be honest about themselves.
The Honeycome house was SO cool, but the cereal was HUGE. I could only fit one in my tiny mouth at a time. They were too much like work to enjoy.
I did like Fruity Pebbles, because they turned the milk pink, and my mummy wouldn’t get us strawberry Quik.
I liked Lucky Charms, but I thought the leper was a twittering idiot.
We got Kaboom once. The clown and the name seemed fun, but the flavors were AWFUL.
I was more likely to steer towards a cereal for the prize, than the character.
OMG, getting a mistake box that had an extra prize was like winning the lottery!

I haven’t seen Boo Berry, or Count Chocula mentioned.

I feel like I remember a Mr. T cereal….

Well, there was Count Chocula, Boo Berry and Frankenberry

Patty Melt remembers Quisp and does anyone remember his cereal rival QUAKE—who was later replaced with an orange kangaroo?

Rojo—you mentioned Snap, Crackle and Poop. Actually it was Snap, Crackle and Pop—unless Kellogs introduced a Chocolate Chip variety of Rice Crispies

And, Zaku— I recall Tony the Tiger lecturing quite a bit about the virtues of his cereal and even field trips to The Cornfield—a.k.a. Anthony Fremont on The Twilight Zone

Frankenberry! Yes. That’s the other one I couldn’t think of.

^^^ I have the same problem with toy gun sets. There were three, a great white hunter set called “Magumba”, a western one called “Red River” and an army one called ??????. Bugs the crap out of me that I can’t remember.

I think Frankenberry, Count Chocula and Boo Berry are still around. Saw Frankenberry at Wal Mart—the others were there, too. Its been within the past five or six months.

Can’t help Rojo with the toy gun set.

I can’t even think of the last time I ventured down the “cereal” isle. I’ve swung by, to grab nutrigrain bars, but apparently don’t eat anything else there. Maybe I’ll take a spin next time, just to see what has happened to cereal…

^^ Not much, the size of the boxes is pretty much the same but they put less content into them. That is about all. Oh, and there are more cereals associated with various TV shows.

^Don’t forget the seasonal flavors. Pumpkin spice in the fall. Don’t try the pumpkin spice Cheerios. I know from experience. bleh

We couldn’t afford those fancy breakfast cereals. But the prospect of Sugar Frosted Flakes, with the idea of the sugar on plain old corn flakes not settling to the bottom of the bowl, intrigued me.