Breakfast Cereals We Wish They Would Bring Back
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- Weird History Food is going retro with your old favorite breakfast cereals. Walk down any breakfast cereal aisle in the United States, and you will find a plethora of options. There are often dozens of selections, each with variations on flavor and type. Sadly, some cereals that many enjoyed in childhood no longer exist. Whether it’s due to the public’s changing taste, a loss of license, or some other reason, some have simply vanished.
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The Powerpuff Girls had an amazing cereal back in the early 2000s, that had coated pop-rocks that would pop in your mouth. Truly the pinnacle of cereal science
Ffeeeeeuuuuttttttuuuuurrrreeee
I personally don’t remember the powerpuff girls because let’s face if it’s been 20, 25, 30+ years since you’re childhood you’re bound to forget a few things while you’ll remember others vividly. I do remember Spider-Man cereal for the Tobey Maguire era of Spider Man films. Curiously, I have no idea why cereal producers didn’t try to capitalize on the X Men film series when the 1st film came out back in 2000.
I remember!!!!
@@dylanbowlin3646your comment makes no sense
When my grandkids ask me what we had before the internet, Ill say whakcy cereal, slime everything, and commercials
I remember the commercials more than eating the actual cereals. Ours was an eggs and toast for breakfast household. Sleepovers or vacations were the only times I'd get sweet cereals. Smurfberry Crunch was a definite favorite, with the tune from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ballet in the commercial.
I miss my batman cereal. But what I really miss is when cereals actually had sweepstakes where you could win some cool prizes as a kid. When I was 10, I got the lucky box of Fruity Pebbles which played music when opened it which signaled the $1,000 cash prize. Sadly my mom made me split it with my siblings 😡
I’m surprised that she didn’t take it her self, considering she paid for it….
@@Johnnyy832 lmao my mom did that to me when she bought me a scatecher for my birthday I won 200 and she said she would put it in the bank for me for when I was ready 🤣 I remember asking her for it so I can get a game and she said the bank lost it ...
@@Kyle4OH8 yeah my mom did that all the time with our birthday money. Later we learned that the “bank” was code for the liquor store, mall, and jeweler lol
I liked the Cocoa Puffs factory with ramps on the back of the box, and you'd pour them in the top and they'd travel down the ramps into your bowl at the bottom. There's a video of one on CZcams, if anyone cares.
That ish was disgusting. I had to flipping have it cuz the box was so awesome. My mom put her foot down made me eat it. So instead I positioned the box to hide my bowl from view across the kitchen. I'd put double ration in the bowl and clank my spoon around a bit, and as soon as the coast was clear I'd dump it in the trash and hide it under stuff. By the following Sunday, I was eating Captain Crunch like a boss 11 yr old does. Mission accomplished.
Donutz cereal, that was the one I couldn't quite remember the exact name of, thank you Weird History Food! My parents were friends with a guy that worked for General Mills, and every time our family would go over there, we were always granted free boxes of cereal to take home, and that powdered sugary goodness made it my favorite of all time! And when I would mention it around my friends, none of them knew about it, which always threw me off. But now I understand why, I was enjoying free, discontinued cereal 😋
@scott vincent you lucky bleepidy* bleep**.. if I could, I'd put my foot in your bleep***.
*clean
**spoon
***cereal bowl
Thats epic
I loved Donutz Cereal back in the 1980's.
How about Dinky Donuts cereal?
Another popular cereal from my day was Post Crispy Critters. The "one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals".
Hah-- I vaguely remember the commercial for that.
Frosted Cheerios taste the same as Crispy Critters
The Starwberry Short Cake Cereal was totally awesome.
Yes, it was! I love it!
there was an orange blossom cereal too! i liked both of them
My little sis used to get the Strawberry and the Orange. I’d sneak some when nobody was around. 🤣
Batman cereal was pretty tasty, like honey nut Cheerios crossed with Cap'n Crunch, but it didn't grind up the roof of your mouth. This also left out ET cereal which was a delicious peanut butter flavor.
Ya I remember it being captain crunch like in taste.
Agreed. Probably why in the end, Cap’n Crunch was my favorite cereal, but the only thing that was ever better than that was Batman’s… and Batman’s wouldn’t tear up your mouth.
It also left out the cereal with the squirrel that even had commercials: Honey nut clusters.
Yeah, I really miss Batman cereal. I remember it tasted amazing. I was hoping it was just some other cereal repurposed. I tried Kix once thinking it looked similar, but it tasted nothing like I remember. I think Cap'n Crunch is the closest. Until I saw this video and saw it was made by Ralson and not Quaker, I assumed it was just Cap'n Crunch, but I guess not. Cap'n crunch is probably my favorite cereal, but man you can't eat too much of it with it's mouth destroying properties.
So I'm not the only one with a torn up mouth after Captain Crunch 😂
I miss the original Waffle Crisp and there was a cinnamon roll cereal that was also really good! Anyone else remember those?
I miss those and original rice crispy treat cereal. They brought them back out and messed them up proper.
Hell yeah I do 🔥🔥🔥💯
Yes! I was just telling my kids about Waffle Crisp the other day.
@@venom74799 the og 1s was 🔥🔥
loved Waffle Crisp back in the late 90's. Post reintroduced it as Waffle Crunch back in the early to mid 2010's. then for some reason it was gone again c. 2017. you can find it, albeit way overpriced on azamon if you really want to get yourself some. the taste was the same for both as far as i can remember.
To this day, as a 40 year old man I still remember the Nintendo cereal song. Can’t say I actually liked the cereal but that song is still with me.
Nintendo it's the new cereal 🤣
@@bruceaskew2107 Nin-ten-do! It's for breakfast now!
Nin-ten-do! It's a cereal, wow!
Nope I did not look up the commercial on youtube; turns out, it was just stored in a long neglected sector of my memory
Ah, and it's already in this video. But, I had not gotten there yet =p
@@Babbleplay 🤣🤣🤣 it's stored in memory as well 💯
I loved Smurf Berry Crunch!
Yes! That stuff was delicious!
@@DarkFire1536
And since, nothing even close to Smurf cereal.
Me too!
I could still taste every one of those as they came up… they left that kind of impression
I would legit sub to every
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I do love my cereal. Wrote a book on cereal from the 80s and 90s and everything. There's a cereal in South Africa called Strawberry Pops. Tastes exactly how I remember Strawberry Nerds cereal tasted.
I literally came to the comments to see if you had commented yet. This made my morning
how much money did you demand the cereal companies give you for a good review, or is that only done for your video game reviews? 🙄
@@bostonrailfan2427your name has to be Anita to make those kinda claims😂😂😂😂 #CerealGate23
@@Willrocs he has been receiving free stuff to give good reviews, he never bashes anything and acts like he likes a lot of things that he doesn’t really. so sorry that his shady actions don’t bother you
@@bostonrailfan2427 who are we talking about OP or the voice in The video
I loved all the monster cerals Fruit Brute Count Chocula and Frankenberry and Booberry but I got some recently they only release them around halloween now, and they taste totally different
Yeah, my husband has been grumbling the past 6 years or so.. "Count Chocula isn't as chocolate-y as it used to be".
I still tell him I'd like at least 1 box of each for Halloween.
I really miss being a kid.
We were raised on cereal made with sugar def not the same as corn syrup. Even the texture is different 🥲 Def glad I got to taste REAL cereal before it became extinct lol
@@St.Linguini_of_Pesto corn syrup is sweeter, it’s that you’re older and tastes change to you
it’s because you’re older and nostalgia gives you the feeling of things being better in the past but it’s no different than before…minus dangerous chemical additives
My cockatiel, Baby, LOVES BooBerry. As do I. But I really miss Quisp. It shows up now and again in one form or another, but it used to be a regular staple for me and my siblings. Alpen (muesli) was also FANTASTIC....
Although not on the list, Smurf Berries was the bomb! It tasted so Smurfy. I wish they'd bring it back.
Smurfin A, I need to taste that again, now. Fuck crunch berries.
Best tasting cereal, hands down.
smurf berries sounds like a dangerous sex act.
like she ties off your nuts until they turn blue or something.
also reminds me of snozzberries from super troopers.
which i think is just that stoner's word for snot???? 🤔🤔🤔
I ate Ice Cream Cones (Which I thought would be mentioned more) and Mr. T.'s cereals. What a time to eat a bowl of sugar and still come out okay.
Remember Rocky Road cereal?
Ice Cream Cones was soooooo good!
I loved the ice cream cones omg 😍
I remember moist of these on a Saturday morning in front of the television without a care in the world lol....
That was the start to my weekend...
"moist"
The cereal I miss the most came out in the early 90's called Dino Pebbles. Just like the fruity pebbles or the coco pebbles, but this one had more of a plain tasting flake and Dino shaped marshmallows. Man that was a good cereal.
Idk if it’s the same cereal brand from the 90s and I’m also in the usa but if you go to the big resealable bags of cereal that are all off brand and cheap at your local Walmart or target you can find chocolate Dino pebbles with and without marshmallows for 5$ usually sitting next to the big bags of Knock off coco puffs and cookie theme cereals the Dino cereal also goes by Dino crispy now too I’ve noticed when I go to get more
I liked Dino Pebbles too! 😁 Def forgot about this one thank you!! Core Memory Unlocked 🔓🙂✨💎
I used to love Fruity Pebbles
I loved 3-CPO's and the old E.T. cereal. Never got to try the Gremlin's cereal, but I wanted to soooo bad.
Guess I was a slave to pop-culture from the get-go.
The PowerPuff Girls Cereal (2000) was super solid! I always wished Kellogg's would have brought it back with the (awful) PowerPuff Girls re-boot
The proper dude is voicing this one!
It's so smooth
Ppl keep saying this. But i still havent heard “the other wrong voice”
Why?
@@steakcrust558 it’s the woman
@@steakcrust558 A woman occasionally narrates the videos. She's not *bad*, but the guy has so much personality and she sounds like the WatchMojo lady
Here in Québec, we had Tintin cereals, which were not very good but offered 3D blue/red glasses to see 3D pictures on the back of the boxes. 50 years later, I still enjoy some Capt'n Crunch once in a while!
Indeed breakfast cereals are the best. When you don’t have much time to cook, they’re one of your best option.
The Mr T Cereal, C-3PO cereal, Pac-Man cereal, and Smurf berry cereal were all delicious and deserve to make a comeback
I still have 4 of the Batman Cereal boxes in my Possession with the Plastic bank still in the Cellophane wrap on the front
Only twice did my mom buy me that "Hidden Treasures" cereal. It was DELICIOUS!!!!!!
Granted, the only other cereal we ever had was generic unsweetened puffed wheat. It literally tasted like wet card board and the wheat husk things would get stuck in your teeth.
“Generic unsweetened wheat” I can taste that
I've kept pet rats, and they love puffed wheat.
Your mother served her kids rat food.
@@SimuLord it certainly felt that way at the time.
I always thought c3po's shape was an attempt at the shape of his eyes, otherwise I had no idea what they were trying to do
There was 7*Up flavored gum that I will never forget. It had goey soda in the middle. ❤️
While we're at it, Tom and Jerry fishcakes with ketchup inside were da bomb when I was 10 years old
I remember that gum!
Smurf berry crunch was a favorite as a child. It was Smurfy.
We bought one box of that and it was horrendous! Our dog ate it and threw up blue puke
Yeah, Smurf berry crunch at the time were amazing but that was a long time ago
I remember C-3PO's, we only bought them because we wanted the free toys...which we never got, presumably because the cereal was gone before we could send in for it
Oh, how I treasure Paul Reubens. He's just a great actor.
I was a weird kid, so some of favorites may not jibe with many of the sugar addicts in the comments.
I love Frosted Flakes, so much so my husband gave me a Tony the Tiger plushie.
His mom's dog tore my Tony to shreds & I cried like someone murdered my family.
I also grew up loving both versions of Super Golden Puffs .. Sugar Bear & Dig'Em are just 2 more of my favorite cereal "spokesmen". And the bee from HoneyNut Cheerios.
Those are also my favorite "kid" cereals, when I was 7 or 8.
At the same time, I love GrapeNuts & Shredded Wheat, the original big biscuits each wrapped in a paper pouch.
I miss those big biscuits. Shredded Wheat is awesome as a hot cereal.
Oh yeah, hot cereals.. Quaker Oats & Cream Of Wheat are on my personal "must have on plane if crashing on a desert island" list.
[gasp!] You mentioned Combos?? Dammit, now I want a bag.
Well, this is something else. Good. Whatever happened to Eggo Waffles cereal?
My favorite was the Donkey Kong cereal. The barrel shaped cereal was probably just Capn Crunch but I remember it tasting different. Special mention of Count Chocula and it's yearly release. It was one of my favorites as a child and I try to get at least one box every October.
The donuts one could come back if a cereal maker paired up Dunkin.
They could make Tess Holiday their spokesperson and brand it as the anorexic's favorite 😂
Quisp, Quake and Quangaroo cereals need to be reviewed!
I miss Banana Frosted Flakes and Vanilla Wafer Cookie Crisp. As well as nacho flavored Cheetos.
I recall OJ's being one of the tastiest, and yet fleeting cereals of the 80's.
S tier narrator. I'm enthralled with things that I've never cared less about because I enjoy listening to him so much
The Golden Graham S'mores cereal will always be my all time favorite I long for the day of it's return.
Cereal reminds me of my childhood. Every spoonful sparks fond memories of Saturday mornings at the breakfast table.
The dominance of the Mr. T pose
Being a kid during the early 90s when Saturday morning cartoons was a big thing we had plenty of delicious sweet cerals
Freakies and Pink Panther cereals were some of my favorites.
in the 80's my grandma lived less than a mile from the General Mills factory. Depending on the wind direction the whole neighborhood would smell like fresh baked cereal.
A+ video!
Great topic and amazing choices!
Bring them back!
You forgot the actual rice crispy treat cereal!! Clusters of marshmallow rice crispy treats that you poured milk on!! This was my favourite kid cereal!!!
He mentions it @7:47
I dont miss any one cereal anywhere nearly as much as I miss the cereal boxes. All the games and riddles and sweepstakes. Neck I even remember getting pc games out of the box. I had backyard baseball and operation, both very memorable and very fun. Now the back of a cereal box is just QR codes
The Batman cereal didn't taste like "honey oats" so much as it tasted like waffles with an ample serving of butter and syrup. 5/6 year old me found it delicious.
The Ghostbusters cereal was legendary though. I mean, it was my favorite movie, and cartoon, but I was a cereal connoisseur, and it was legit one of the best cereals I ever had. I cut out the logo from the box and hung it up above my bed for quite awhile.
I'm surprised to learn it was a smaller company that did both those, not General Mills, Kelloggs or Post. Those cereals were unique, and really good. Probably not good for you, but f it, it was the 90s. Ralston, huh? They need to make a comeback. They should sell their old cereals online.
Yeah, also the prizes, the contests, and just the games on the back were so much fun. That would be my way of entertaining myself before school a lot of the time, just reading cereal boxes.
Cereal companies try to do all sorts of things these days, but they don't quite nail it like they did in the 80s and 90s. That was the golden age of cereal.
Quisp isn't gone completely, but one I can only buy online for a high price
Forbidden Limited edition cereal :D
I like Spooky month and xmas and limited edition cereals ;)
I was a big Nintendo fan as a kid, so I loved the Nintendo cereal.
Nintend Cereal System. It was a system.
I’m surprised the Batman cereal wasn’t called Batflakes 😂😂
As a child I remember collecting the box tops of the monster cereals so I could get a glow in the dark puzzle of their newest flavor Fruit Brute
While I never had the original, the new version of the Ghostbusters cereal was really good and I wish we had more of it. I would love to have been able to try the og
The old version was so good that 30+ years later, I'd say it was the best cereal I ever had. It was so good. Both the marshmallows and the actual cereal pieces were delicious. It was a masterpiece.
Ever have an "Ecto Cooler"😂
@@chromicapop4595 sadly never got the chance to have that or the rereleases either. I have made some homemade version that are not half bad
good video
Love your fun scripts, editing, and delivery style of your videos. Lot's of interesting history of our favorite foods. I was part of the core demographic for these cereals as a kid of the 80's. Sadly, I only recall trying 1 or 2 of these during that time, because mom wasn't too keen on her kids eating a bowl of sugar every morning for breakfast. Our sweet cereals were usually either Honey Nut Cheerios, Frosted Mini Wheats, or sometimes Cap'n Crunch (the peanut butter variety was my favorite). Now if you'll excuse me, I'm taking my bowl of Froot Loops to the living room while I watch the next episode of the Superfriends. 🥣🥛😄
Growing up in the 80s in Canada … I would catch brief fleeting glimpses of these mystical American breakfast cereals. All we ever got was honeycomb and alphabits. 😢
Watching those American kids on the Saturday morning commercials chowing down on these unattainable cereals was so painful for us 😅
We had many of them here in Ontario. Pacman was my favorite.
Thank you so much for doing a cereal video,I really appreciate it,I wanna cry 😭 Im excited 😊😆
I want Smurfberry crunch again! Great video as always!
It's not a cereal, but I will always carry a torch for Planters P.B. Crisps. I worked overnights at Target during their short but delicious life and they made a great pick-me-up near the end of the day.
What I miss is when sweetened cereal actually had visible crunchy white icing on them, especially Trix and Apple Jacks.
The Monster Cereals were like that. It was like a frosted coating. Now it's just a clear glaze on them.
@@johnnierock1090 yup
After watching this video, I realized how creative, innovative, and fun the marketing strategies of companies back then.
Thank you for making me feel old. I miss wonder balls
I want the Marshmallow Rice Krispies back. They were really good. I remember eating a chocolate cereal at my grandma's house once, the chocolate pieces were round and it had regular shaped marshmallows in it and I have no idea what kind of cereal it was but I'd love to know. This would have been in the 80's.
what is a "regular shaped marshmallow" lol
@@cashnelson2306 Shaped like the mini marshmallows that you buy in the bag.
no mention of "Freakies" Cereal from the 70's???....It was so good. They had the best commercials and toys inside.
They should bring back all the cereals for a new generation. 😀👍
And rice krispies treats cereal needs to go back to the original clumps of awesomeness
What I think is you only gave a very small honorable mention to the best kids cereal of the 80s during your Batman segment and that is Smurf Berries man.Smurf Berries literally needs its own video and apparently your researchers are confused or too young to understand just how delicious they were.
Rocky road cereal was 🔥
I miss all my childhood cereals , I'm a 80's kid and I had every cereal that matched the cartoon I loved 😍 I want all of them to come back !
I think I vaguely remember Nerds cereal! Blast from the past I had completely forgotten about! 💚
This video said we still have the iconic and wonderful Rice Krispy Treat cereal… how I wish that were true! The current version on shelves is a sad lucky charms knock-off with none of the chewy marshmallow clusters that made the original so goos.
Oh man, so many memories from my childhood! So, in 89 my mom bought a bunch of the Batman cereal boxes so she could send away for the bank and the T-shirt. She still has the bank! The cereal itself was your standard honey glazed corn puff. Not outstanding, but not terrible. I wasn't allowed to keep my Mario/Zelda cereal box though. Still makes me a little bit sad. Not $200 sad though. 😂 For anyone wondering what those tasted like you can get pretty much the same flavor in nearly any newer novelty cereal. A few years back there were Dora and Spongebob cereals that tasted just like them, and newer ones I'd say the Minecraft and Pokemon ones are pretty close too. As for the nerds cereal I'd say try the newer formulations of Fruit Brute and Frankenberry, which ironically now taste much more like the Nerds cereal than they did in the 80's! Good times.
Great selection! They should totally bring them back!
I want King Vitamin back so very badly. I even wrote Quaker asking for boxes!
I want Cheez Waffies back -- _salty, crunchy, cheese-adjacent deliciousness!_
A lot of these cereals were promotions for the television cartoons, esp. in the 80s. What fun times I had as a kid.
Some of these I never heard of. Good job on the video. Cereal fan here still.
Like many sodas, there are hundreds of cereal recipes that we'll never taste again. Mr T and Pac-Man cereal was so unique, you'd have to taste it. I think, working off the retro / nostalgia angle, just like so many soda makers always come up with new flavors, cereal makers should bring back classics for a limited time. It'd create a boom for cereals again. If I heard Mr T cereal was coming back for a limited time, I'd be buying Mr T cereal next week.
Apple Jacks, Trix, Mr. T, Dig' em Smacks, Super Sugar Crisps (Sugar Bear), C3POs, Frosted Mini Wheats, Donuts, Fruity Pebbles, Captain Crunch, SmurfBerry Crunch, Sugar Corn Pops, Pac Man, Alpha Bits,.... I ate these religiously throughout the 70s and early 1980s. Man, I want to stock my shelves with these right now!
I actually won the NES from the Nintendo cereal box! It was the full NES with Powerpad, Zapper, and two controllers with the triple game cart with Super Mario Bros. Duck Hunt. and Track Meet.
🎶Fruity Marshmallow Krispies
Lots of fruity marshmallow shapes
Leave you snap, crackle poppin'
Over lots of fruit taste🎶
I have had that jingle stuck in my head for literal decades.
One of my cherished childhood memories was searching through the box for the latest giveaway gift - those were the days !
Heck yeah! Going elbow deep into a brand new box! 🤣👍
@@BangBang-hk4rg 😂
I want cereal video games to come back. The prize in the box is a download code for a cereal themed game, potentially with multiple versions for each cereal flavor. The ending could even require the player explaining what the cereal tastes like, forcing them to eat it instead of only getting the box for the code.
As a 70s and 80s kid I had all them cereals my fave to this day is C-3PO.
I remember trying several of those as a kid. The Nerds one did indeed get mushy really quick as I remember.
C-3P0’s were amazing! I miss them so much.
I loved Fortified Oat Flakes....I could eat a whole box in 1 seating.... life has never been the same since they stopped making it
My favorite cereal has always been Golden Grahams. Fortunately, that's been around my whole life.
The 80's were such a awesome time for me my parents were living I finished high school in 1984
I remember eating almost everyone of these. Mr. T and Batman were amazing.
Honestly, as long as the Honey Maid S'mores cereal exists, I don't need any other kind of cereal. It's Honey Grahams, Cocoa Puffs, and marshmallows similar to the Lucky Charms marshmallows, but they're white and look more like regular marshmallows and not novelty shapes. Amazing cereal, Honey Grahams and Cocoa Puffs are great on their own, but together with marshmallows it's like the best combination.
Cinnamon Kruncher's Cereal is the only discontinued cereal that I can think of that I truly miss enough to where I would be stoked if they announced it was coming back. It was pretty much Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but somehow it seemed like it was just a lot better than Cinnamon Toast Crunch, more intense cinnamon sugar flavor. It was only out for a year I think in 2005 or so, maybe two years max.
I love this new series
Miss the original Smores cereal 😋😍
This video mentioned Rice Crispys but not the Pop Rocks mashup with the Power Puff Girls. That cereal was SOOOO good.
Oh, man... the Ghostbusters cereal. That was some premium eatin' in my day.
I miss King Vitamin... The old local grocery store near me had it but they went out business when Walmart showed up. 😔
I remember the Batman cereal! I was 5 when it came out. I remember the toy Batmobile. The cereal was very very sweet. It was pretty good though. Reminded me of captain crunch but sweeter. Was such a cool hype for the movie back then.
Chilean here. Most, most curious. When I grew up, 60s-70s, that kind of cereal breakfast was totally unknown. Bread, sandwiches, cake, milk (with tea, or coffee, or Milo), and maybe fruit was breakfast. Eggs for the grownups. When I was very young, oatmeal was just starting to be sold, even nowadays people calls it "Quaker" no matter the brand (or lack thereof) instead of "rolled oats."
Nowadays the main brands of cereals are available at supermarkets (Nestle, mostly), but still aren't the most popular breakfast.
Urkel cereal was my favorite. Jaleel White's teenage face on a box of banana-strawberry sugar rings.
Look how diverse those commercials were. Gen X didn’t care about race. Good ole days.