Tea 🍵 💙🎶🌻

Very very idle question (I'm on a break, idling): What were your favorite breakfast cereals, growing up? It's okay if they still are your favorites. It's okay if they were healthy or unhealthy. No judgment here.

I'm sure some of you did not eat breakfast cereal, and I would be interested in hearing that too.

I'll start. I always liked Rice Krispies and prob still do, though I haven't had them in ages. Oh, and I had a Cocoa Krispies phase -- loved how it made chocolate milk.

At some point my mother started buying only "healthy" cereals, and I developed a taste for Product 19 and Grapenuts. Never could get into Total; it tasted like wet newspapers to me. Oh, Special K was decent -- but I put sugar on it..

#Cereal #BreakfastCereal

Apr 19 at 7:39pmWeb
Show threadAlandthraApr 19
@tc_morekindness i dont remember what they are called. Puffy like they came from a rice grain but drenched in a honey/Carmel coating. It was sold at Walmart for like 6 dollars a bag years ago
Show threadTea 🍵 💙🎶🌻Apr 19
@soniadevonie Oh... Wait. Sugar Pops, maybe?
Show threadAlandthraApr 19
@tc_morekindness those look close, they were in a golden bag and weren't corn based
Show threadWrenApr 19

@tc_morekindness

Cheerios with sliced banana. 😃

Show threadTea 🍵 💙🎶🌻Apr 20
@wren Oh yeah. I loved Cheerios -- still do. And I often eat sliced banana on cereal. 👍
Show threadSkullvalancheApr 20
@tc_morekindness as a child of the 80s I gotta say it was anything with marshmallows, which were forbidden in my house... so uh, mostly cocoa puffs or fruity pebbles.
Show threadTea 🍵 💙🎶🌻Apr 20
@skullvalanche Were fruity pebbles anything like Lucky Charms? And why were marshmallows forbidden?
Show threadSkullvalancheApr 20

@tc_morekindness No, I'd say fruity pebbles have more in common with Trix or Froot Loops.

Lucky charms are more like frosted Cheerios with freeze dried marshmallows thrown in. They were forbidden because the gelatin in them wasn't kosher. 😱

Show threadTea 🍵 💙🎶🌻Apr 20

@skullvalanche I was thinking it was something about the gelatin...not being vegan, maybe.

Oh, I just remembered Trix, I think. Weren't they round balls that were kind of airy, texture-wise, if I'm thinking of the right thing. Not the same flavor at all, but kind of the texture of cheetos. Airy/crunchy.

Show threadSkullvalancheApr 20

@tc_morekindness I'm pretty sure Kix, Cocoa Puffs, and Trix all had the same puffed corn ball base. 🤔

Much like Rice Krispies, Cocoa Krispies, and Fruity Krispies (do they still make those?)

The "pebbles" variants I'm guessing were also rice based? Different parent company.

Corn, rice, and wheat in various form factors... all with the same basic flavors: cocoa, fruity, honey, frosted, or plain. 🤔

Breakfast cereal is in need of innovation.

I think cinnamon-sugar and peanut butter were the last great innovations. 🤣

Show threadTea 🍵 💙🎶🌻Apr 20

@skullvalanche You have deepened this cereal discussion... Cinnamon-sugar, sure. But I don't recall peanut butter in cereal.

Yesterday, I was thinking about Product 19 -- it might have been my favorite of the "healthy" cereals. I was curious about whether it was still being made (I gave up breakfast cereal when I went through a Paleo phase years ago.) I found this interesting bit of info: Product 19 was made from 4 grains.

"The slightly sweetened cereal was made up of corn, wheat, oat, and rice flakes"

One of the things I liked most about it was that it stayed crunchy in milk. I'm guessing that was the rice in it.

https://www.the-sun.com/money/8526529/kelloggs-discontinued-breakfast-cereal-product-19-customers-plead-return/

Kellogg’s discontinued breakfast cereal dubbed the ‘MVP’ as customers plead for its return despite its ‘cod...

CEREAL fans are begging for the return of an old favorite despite its unusual and secretive name. Kellogg’s lovers have been divided since breakfast cereal Product 19, which was launched in 1…

The US Sun
Show threadTea 🍵 💙🎶🌻Apr 20
@skullvalanche Btw, I never heard of Fruity Krispies.
Show threadTea 🍵 💙🎶🌻Apr 20
@skullvalanche I was just trying to think of which cinnamon-flavored cereal I used to eat, and I remembered Honey Grahams and Cinnamon Grahams. I loved them both for a while.