Poll: Breakfast Cereal Part III: On The Shoulders of GIANTS!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

WHile doing my scientific research for this community, I discovered far too many cereals that simply COULD NOT be ignored or skipped over. And so our Cereal Polls for this community will be increased from 3 polls to 4. Here is pool number 3 which I simply call "On The Shoulders of Giants". These are the PILLARS of Sugary Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. These are the ones that everyone knows and they really do deserve a special treatment... a poll that sets them apart from all the other cereals.

Vote for as many as you experienced, or as many as you actually enjoyed, or the ones you still eat today... just vote for all your favorites! And if you want to see a commercial from the 80's of each one, feel free to click on the individual names of the cereals to link over to YouTube and watch :)

[Poll #1768388]

Comments

[cunninggod.livejournal.com]

I have nommed them all and loved 'em :)

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

You need to go back to the other two polls and make sure you've nommed all of those as well :)

[dark-weezing.livejournal.com]

I am such a junkie with Frosted Flakes, it's not funny.

Although, Rick Krispies isn't bad, but not filling.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

It takes an entire box of Rice Krispies to make a single serving, I'm pretty sure...

[cherry-faery.livejournal.com]

Being stuck in Canada-land, I've never had a chance to try Boo Berry, Frankenberry or Cookie Crisp! :( For some reason though, as an adult, they deemed Count Chocula was okay for Canadian children so I did finally have a chance to try that one.

[dark-weezing.livejournal.com]

Yes, and that's not even getting into the milk ratio, as some cereals use more or less milk than others. Between and a new cereal, Cinnabon, it's almost like tasting heaven. (If heaven could be tasted as such. Heh.)

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I consider it a fair trade for you guys having Alphagetti, Smarties and ketchup on your Mac & Cheese (not to mention the finest Ketchup commercial jingle of ALL TIME... "You're the top! You're the crowning glory! You're the top... to every hot-dog's story...")

[mspette.livejournal.com]

Ah, if only froot loops were still available!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Where do you live that you can't find Froot Loops?!?!?

[cptlbryant.livejournal.com]

This is kinda sad. I tried them all, but didn't like them all. My favorite was Cookie Crisp, but was around $5 a box and my mom couldn't afford it all the time. As an adult, I bought a box and couldn't eat it. It was like eating pure sugar. Ugh. Amazing what we eat as kids. But most of the others I can still enjoy now. Except Crunchberries.

[piplover.livejournal.com]

I love them all but Honeycomb. For some reason, never really liked the taste. All the other? Om nom nom nom!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

About once every two years or so I'll buy a box of Crunchberries and then remember that I love/hate them (Mmmm sweet, sooooo sweet, TOO SWEET!!!) and it takes another two years for me to forget how much I love/hate them :)

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I liked Honeycomb as a dry snack, but not with milk... plus, Honeycomb always had THE BEST when it came to prizes! Super-Hero iron-ons, mini license plates, all sorts of awesome stuff!

[ghrelin.livejournal.com]

LUCKY CHARMS ARE THE BEST AMIRITE

[ghrelin.livejournal.com]

but I know for a fact you guys have cinnamon toast crunch, and that along with golden grahams is the true king among cereals~

[aurora77]

Lucky Charms were the most fun looking cereal, but they didn't taste very good to me. Cap'n Crunch was my favorite.

Any cereal that couldn't stand up to milk was out. I still only pour a little milk into the bowl and only right before I'm about to eat so my cereal doesn't go soggy. Rice Krispies and [Fruity|Cocoa] Pebbles were tasty, but they went soggy too fast!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

The problem with Cap'n Crusnch was that it stayed TOO crispy in milk. One serving was fine, but by your third bowl the roof of your mouth was all cut-up and you had to tell your mom that "everything tastes like copper" :(

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Lucky charms? All right, let me tell you the whole conspiracy behind lucky charms, man. So, all right, look in the bowl for-- okay, see the little crunchy wheat things? And they have all the vitamins and minerals, right? So they're not that tasty, are they? Yeah, well, those are shaped like little-- you'll notice, take a look. Yeah, they're shaped like little crosses and little fish. The Ichthus symbol that the Greeks drew over their doors to signify they were Christians so the Romans wouldn't kill 'em, and then the little marshmallow things-- and those are fun, aren't they? They sure are, but they have no nutrition. They're just sugary and colorful, and those are shaped like pentagrams and moons and clovers: Traditional pagan symbols. So the propaganda that lucky charms is trying to lay on you is that the path to Christianity, WHICH IS NO [bleep] FUN, But they will give you vitamins and keep you regular, and the path to paganism, which is colorful and bright and sweet, but it will rot your teeth and make you fat.

(quote from comedian Patton Oswalt)

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Lucky charms? All right, let me tell you the whole conspiracy behind lucky charms, man. So, all right, look in the bowl for-- okay, see the little crunchy wheat things? And they have all the vitamins and minerals, right? So they're not that tasty, are they? Yeah, well, those are shaped like little-- you'll notice, take a look. Yeah, they're shaped like little crosses and little fish. The Ichthus symbol that the Greeks drew over their doors to signify they were Christians so the Romans wouldn't kill 'em, and then the little marshmallow things-- and those are fun, aren't they? They sure are, but they have no nutrition. They're just sugary and colorful, and those are shaped like pentagrams and moons and clovers: Traditional pagan symbols. So the propaganda that lucky charms is trying to lay on you is that the path to Christianity, WHICH IS NO [bleep] FUN, But they will give you vitamins and keep you regular, and the path to paganism, which is colorful and bright and sweet, but it will rot your teeth and make you fat.

(quote from comedian Patton Oswalt)

[aurora77]

Wow. I never even came close to thinking any of that. The theory sounds a lot like some of the ones I heard growing up about various otherwise-benign-seeming products/bands/what-have-you. XD I generally thought most of it was reaching at best.

[aurora77]

I know what you mean. I eventually learned to stop eating it once my mouth started feeling irritated. That was the only one that I let sit in the milk a little bit first.

[deepseasiren.livejournal.com]

LOLOL and that was one of my favorite cereals. I also loved Sugar Smacks, Frosted Flakes, Captain Crunch, Frootloops and Rice Krispies.

[deepseasiren.livejournal.com]

I agree with that...the cereal has to stand up to the milk. Like you, I only pour about half a cup ( if that) into the bowl.

[deepseasiren.livejournal.com]

I thought they looked like little crosses but I hadn't thought about the fish. LOL and I went to Catholic school of all things ;)

[aurora77]

Yeah, because too much and it will make the cereal soggy before you can get to it, and too much milk is wasted otherwise.

I'm so looking forward to having some pop tarts and Cap'n Crunch that day!

[cherry-faery.livejournal.com]

You guys can't put ketchup on your mac & cheese? This is puzzling and very sad. (Unless you mean that we have the stuff were you cook it with the ketchup in the sauce which I think I've seen but it seems to me that putting the real stuff on your KD would probably still be the better option.)

[cherry-faery.livejournal.com]

It is true. I practically lived off Cinnamon Toast Crunch when I was old enough to badger my mother enough for her to want to shut me up. :)

[cherry-faery.livejournal.com]

I have never been able to accurately describe my love/hate relationship with Cap'n Crunch but this sums it up both perfectly and hilariously. Said description could also apply to both Toblerone and (in my case at least) Starburst candies.

[ghrelin.livejournal.com]

haha, good one... though I don't think marshmallows are more likely to make you fat than wheat things! Either way, still an awesome cereal, still love it as an adult.

[mspette.livejournal.com]

The UK :P

In my research I have just found out that Canadian froot loops are very different and more flavoursome than European froot loops (where they are still available).

[deepseasiren.livejournal.com]

Pop Tarts!!! My favorite was strawberry Pop Tarts! I wouldn't even put them in the toaster I'd just eat em right out of the package. My parents used to gross out at that. LOL

[deepseasiren.livejournal.com]

They had Pac Man cereal for a while there too that was based on Lucky Charms. All the little marshmallows were ghosts and pacmans.

[beagle1.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed a lot of these. Cookie Crisp was my all time fav though. I can still get down on a box of that :P

[cooperwench.livejournal.com]

We had boo-berry and Frankenberry back in the day. Don't know why they stopped.

[cooperwench.livejournal.com]

Lucky Charms is the bomb.

[man-of-snows.livejournal.com]

My favorite wasn't on there: Apple Jacks

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm... I think Apple Jacks may have been on the short list for a proposed 4th poll... check the other cereal polls just in case?