Discontinued Cereals

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Originally posted by frogger67

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Originally posted by naxet76

I seem to remember as a kid in the mid 80s my grandma having a brown box of corn flakes....Country Corn Flakes? I want to say it was brown kind of like a barn with a bowl of cereal in front. Sound familiar?

That sounds like Quaker Corn Bran. It had a scarecrow as its spokesperson. Not sure if it's around anymore. For a bran (yuck!) cereal, corn bran actually tasted good.

back in the early 60s there was another version of Country Corn Flakes.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yuej5igoKCo

HI this is My first post. I am in my late 20s and some of the cereals that I recall that have been discontinued are:
S'mores Grahams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbFRXSzIx8Q
C3P0 cereal
http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0922/2.jpg
Teenage Muntant Ninja Turtles Cereal
http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0854/1.jpg
The Real Ghostbusters Cereal
http://www.ghostbustershq.com/media/cereal_gb.jpg
Mr T. Cereal
http://www.strangecult.com/crap/t_stuff/t_cereal.jpg
PacMan Cereal
http://theimaginaryworld.com/disp16.jpg
Batman Cereal
#1: http://collectibleshop.tripod.com/batman-cereal-with-bank-1989.jpg
#2: http://www.jefito.com/batman_box.jpg
FrankenBerry
http://theimaginaryworld.com/tic569.jpg
BooBerry
http://theimaginaryworld.com/box708.jpg
Gremlins Cereal
http://www.dangproductions.net/images/cereal1.jpg
G.I.Joe Cereal
http://www.yojoe.com/archive/nottoys/images/cerealbox.jpg
Rainbow Brite Cereal
http://www.80stoysale.com/images/rbcerealbox.jpg
Slimer from Ghostbusters Cereal
http://tvtoymemories.com/TN_LARGE_Slimer_cereal.JPG
Cookie Crisp -The Ralston version
http://theimaginaryworld.com/pre498.jpg
Dino Pebbles
http://www.x-entertainment.com/downloads/newpicsa/dino.jpg
Yummy Mummy
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/8/86/150px-Yummy_Mummy.jpeg

A majority have movie tie-ins and were limited editions or ran a short time while they were Fads. Most came from Ralston,which is out of business. I remember each and every single cereal on here.

Also this should take any 80s kid back in time.-- Wall Walkers that came with Corn Pops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuZ3g5S33jQ

Oh and the Ghostbusters cereal glowed in the Dark http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imrh0oL-aqI

Fun stuff

I just glanced at posts, so forgive me if this has already been mentioned.

Does anyone remember Post Oat Flakes? Occasionaly as a kid my mom would let me use some of her and my father's half and half on my oat flakes ceral.IT was yum!

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Originally posted by alan2007

Most came from Ralston,which is out of business.

Ralston is alive and well. They make many of the store brand cereals in your supermarket.

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Originally posted by drpep

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Originally posted by alan2007 Most came from Ralston,which is out of business.

Ralston is alive and well. They make many of the store brand cereals in your supermarket.

Not to mention Purina chows for pets and livestock, including rabbits, cows, horses, pigs . . .

And, of course, dogs and cats.

I think Purina bought the pet food from Ralcorp and Ralcorp now is involved only in marketing private label human foods. Who knows, the cereal and dog food probably came out of the same machines

Rember Kellogg's OK's cereal with Yogi Bear on the cover. He uses to say "the oe with the bear on the cover and suitable for framing".

Pass the buck...pass the buck..pass the Buckwheats! I had a plastic Marky Maypo that would hold the side of my bowl, too...

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Originally posted by felix4067

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Originally posted by BigGlenn



Frankenberry

Boo Berry and Fruit Brute, too!

Hey Guys..they still make Frankenberry and Boo Berry...I love them!

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Originally posted by sigmagrrl

HOW ABOUT SMURFBERRY CRUNCH?!?! BEST CEREAL OF THE EIGHTIES!!!

I'm SOOO GLAD someone mentioned Smurf Cereal!!! I LOVED that stuff...the only thing that ever came even remotely close to that sugary goodness was berry berry kix...and even that was a long shot! What I wouldn't give to have another bowl of that little slice of cereal heaven!

Is Alpha Bits still around? I can't find them anywhere.

Oh and does anyone know if there is anything remotely close to tasting anything like the old Smore's Cereal? Damn that stuff was good. Here is another one that I don't think is discontinued but is sometimes hard to find...at least in my experience. Oh's! They are similar to Cheerios in the way they look but they are filled with tiny honey clusters in the center...I like to eat them as snacks! Thanks for this topic people..it brought back alot of memories!

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Originally posted by Foxyfishy14

Oh and does anyone know if there is anything remotely close to tasting anything like the old Smore's Cereal? Damn that stuff was good. Here is another one that I don't think is discontinued but is sometimes hard to find...at least in my experience. Oh's! They are similar to Cheerios in the way they look but they are filled with tiny honey clusters in the center...I like to eat them as snacks! Thanks for this topic people..it brought back alot of memories!

I do remember that Smores cereal. I'm wondering if you could just make your own. I figure you could toss in some chocolate bits and mini marshmallows with Golden Grams. I assume they still make Golden Grams.

Came in like an orange color box........

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Originally posted by John In Seattle

Does anyone recall "Team Flakes" made by General Mills? They were a combination of four grains (Wheat Rice Corn and Oats) all in one flake. One of my favorites, but they are not made anymore.

Does anyone else recall them, or have memories of cereals that are no longer being made?

any chance of kellogs making pep cereal again? i still miss it.

Hey Robearjr..I guess I could do that..although I was at Walmart a few days ago and I saw something called Smores cereal but it didn't look like it had the golden grahams type "flakes" if you want to call them that..I am a bit intrigued but I don't know if I'll actually try it.

Oh and Alan2007 Check out my thread in the snacks section and feel free to post any other 80s food that you miss!

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Originally posted by felix4067

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Originally posted by BigGlenn



Frankenberry

Boo Berry and Fruit Brute, too!

They haven't discontinued these...Frankenberry, Boo Berry, and Count Chocula are in every grocery store I've been to. And always has been. I've been buying it for 30 years. The only ones they discontinued were the others, like Fruity Yummy Mummy.
Once in a while you can still find Quisp. I love it!

Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Cereals, which were introduced in the 1980s. I liked the whole grain corn flakes. Now all you find in that line are the cereal bars.

I'm trying to remember the name of a rice cereal the Kellogs made in the early 90's. I know the marketing had a Japan angle. Anyway the regular was in a red box and the one with raisins was in a purple box.

When did Kellogg's discontinue Pep? Why?

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Originally posted by tsores

Is Alpha Bits still around? I can't find them anywhere.

I saw some in Walmart last night.

Not a childhood memory , but I really liked graham chex and they quit making it.

It's odd - I only remember Rice Krispies, probably the most nutrient-empty cereal. Snap/Crackle/Pop My mom made Cream of Wheat with lots of butter and something else, Maypo?

CINNAMON KRUNCHERS (it stayed Cinnamony and Crunchy in Milk).
French Toast Crunch.

General Mills also had a Corn Flakes.

Does anyone know if Kellogg's has discontinued its Cinnamon Krunchers cereal? They are SOOOOOO good but suddenly I can't find them anywhere. similar to Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but better and more sugarier.

I also remember Country Corn Flakes and that I liked them better than Kellogg's...they stayed crispier in milk. As I recall, that was because they had a bit of rice mixed in with the corn. A good product that didn't catch on.

Post Toasties.

And "Yummy Mummy" has an entirely different meaning these days.

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Originally posted by TxTee Not a childhood memory , but I really liked graham chex and they quit making it.

http://www.maltomeal.com does an acceptible knock-off.

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Originally posted by TxTee My mom made Cream of Wheat with lots of butter and something else, Maypo?

I remember a commercial with some of the NFL's biggest linemen whining, "I want my Maypo!"

Did Twinkle have a clown on the box and "glitter" on the cereal? Seriously?

I remember TEAM Flakes. (RICE WHEAT CORN OATS) That was the best cereal ever made. I miss them. Why is it that a healthy, great tasting cereal is no longer around but stuff like special K that taste like cardboard is? My mom gave me coupons for Team Flakes and I save them because I remember growing up on them and that they tasted great and didnt realize that that was a HEALTH Cereal and I loved them. REMEMBER on the back of the box how it spelled TEAM and in each letter it had a picture of Rice in the T , Wheat in the E , Corn in the A , and Oats in the M in that Orange Box?

"kellloggggggggggggggggs sugar corn pops...sugar pops are TOPS!"

"and Twinkles only smiled.." sigh yep the good old days,, which explains having 6 abcessed teeth pulled in first grade..

When my kids were little I taught them that they could have any cereal they wanted as long as the number was below 13 (I think) which pretty much meant Cheerios.. I used to explain there was "growing food, and garbage food, and I wanted them to eat growing food because I loved them." One day we were in the cereal aisle and my 6 year old watched in horror as a woman threw several boxes of highly sweetened cereal into her cart.. With the piercing voice of only a 6 year old, Elisabeth plaintively said.."Oh Mommy doesnt that woman love her children?? shes giving them GARBAGE cereal!!"

I wanted the floor to swallow me up..

But Here I am 25 years later giving the kids cheerios, and Life cereal.

What number?

Quisp story of the year:

We have a supermarket in town that is based in NEPA - Redner's Warehouse Markets. They are a low-ball operation that is one of those that claims that it is 'employee owned'. They are actually real good, have dirt cheap prices -without the intrusion of a 'card'! A few weeks ago, they had in their flier hidden away in a corner, the following special: QUISP..at 2/$5! Naturally. I RAN down there the first chance I got. Getting there, I literally searched inever cor ner of the store - no Quisp! I was p**ssed! I literally ran home, and got right online and wrote a nasty, nasty email -one of those that is supposedly 'to the president', blah, blah...WELL - not more than an hour later I got a phone call from the local store mananger - he was VERY apologetic, and said it was a vendor problem, they would take care of it, and that I should have a couple of boxes very soon, etc, etc..

Flash forward a couple of weeks - I had sort of semi forgotten about the whole thing, when Tom the store manager called again - my Quisp was in!! I ran back down there, and stopped at the service desk, thinking they had just imported a couple of boxes for me. Instead, they girl directs me to the end of one aisle where...THEY HAD A WHOLE DAMN DISPLAY OF THE STUFF!! Cool Quaker display case and all (wis now I had brought a camera!). I immediately bought three boxes!

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Originally posted by DavidEMartin

Gawd, were Freakies awful!
But even worse was a similar cereal, Giggles Smiles and Laughs. My younger sister and I were cereal addicts, capable of devouring boxes of just about anything you could pour milk over but these intensely colored smilie faces turned us right off. It was the first time Mom had to throw out a barely-touched box of cereal.

The correct name was Grins Smiles Giggles & Laughs -- and I still have a prize from that cereal: a little plastic walking toy, featuring one of the characters. Also, I had a suitemate in college who would pour his Ice Cream Jones (miniature ice-cream scoops and cones) cereal in my Corn Bran as a joke. I used to love Waffleo's (and the commercial with the cartoon cowboy rounding up the "li'l blueberry critters"), but my favorite, to this day, is Fruity Pebbles -- the most artificially tasting fruit flavors available on the market!

Hey,I saw frankenberry,Count Chocula and BooBerry at the Walmart here in Schertz.I guess Post or kellogs brought them back for Halloween. I have seen Quisp,the cereal with the alien on it at the SuperTarget on Loop1604 and Blanco Road in San Antonio.
Annpeeples,you can find Wolf Brand Chili all over this part of Texas with no problem.
Wish Kool_aid would bring back their Rootbeer mix they had back in the 1970s and 80s,which they later dropped.Keebler's made back in the 1980s some flour tortilla chips which were good,but quit making.
As far as cereals go,there are still some that are being made,but might only be sold in local regions . Just saw at Walmart and H.E.B.Grocerystore a new Kellog's one called La Lecheria,which has a milkmaid on the box and I assume in spanish refers to the fact it has lots of milk in it.See alot of that in this area due to the high hispanic population.Whether one could find it in say Chicago or DeMoines is another matter.

Love that Quisp cereal !!

I remember Team..I was a weird kid in that I liked a lot of the 'boring' cereals as well. Remember 40% bran flakes? As a kid I called them just 'forties'. Wonder what the other 60% is? Now they are just Bran flakes. Let's see..Donutz..small, powdered donuts that were "cereal". Dunkin Donuts..had both glazed and chocolate varieties..Ice Cream Cones..my sister loved that. Corn Bran..mmmm..haven't seen that in a good 8 years. Oh heck I can go on forever with this one!