# breakfast cereals **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 26, 2000, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977 "2000-07-26T23:44:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/21 "2000-07-27T04:45:13Z")
Sorry pkbites, but your wrong. You still can get Quisp at this site: [http://hometownfavorites.com/](http://hometownfavorites.com/) It’s in the second page of cereal. Hope this makes your day. ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/22 "2000-07-27T04:47:04Z")
In college my roommate and I lived (if you could call it that) almost entirely on Froot Loops (dry), Jack Daniels, and Ben and Jerry’s coffee heathbar crunch. We would also smoke Marlboro Lights as a diet aid. I had granola for breakfast this morning. I guess that means I’m older and wiser. ---
**Author:** ![KayNothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/51bf81/32.png) [@KayNothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KayNothingMan)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/23 "2000-07-27T05:08:42Z")
Nada thang wrong with cereal! 😃 Mmmm… _drools_ sugary puffs with no nutritional value. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/24 "2000-07-27T05:26:56Z")
I’ve never ordered cereal through the mail before! I noticed they had stuff like “Kaboom” and “Boo Berry”. I hated marshmellows as a kid, and hate them to this day. How someone dumps milk on them and says it’s a good breakfast is beyond me. Blech! But the cereals I really hated was anything chocolate! As Cecil himself once wrote, Cocoa Puffs are the greatest example of mans inhumanity toward man! They just tasted like crap to me. Give me something like Quisp, Capn Crunch, or Alpha Bits (with the cut out cardboard record on the box, usually the Archies) and I was happy. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/25 "2000-07-27T05:28:45Z")
Of course if I’m out of Apple Jacks, I just fry up a big pan of Beff Stroganoff Hamburger Helper, pour some milk over the top of it and call it breakfast. Yum ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/26 "2000-07-27T07:22:45Z")
If Cap’n Crunch is good enough for me, then it’s good enough for my kids. Whooo hoooo! Lookit that bugger run!! ---
**Author:** ![Zoing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecccb3/32.png) [@Zoing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoing)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/27 "2000-07-27T07:51:03Z")
Excuse me, but… KIX! ---
**Author:** ![realidad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@realidad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/realidad)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/28 "2000-07-27T08:01:16Z")
I could eat cereal 3 times a day if I was allowed, but occasionally I stray to real food. My faves - Fruit Loops and Corn Pops (both dry or with milk) Also like the “healthier” cereals, Sultana bran etc. I allow myself whole milk once a month or so as a treat…hmmm. Just might have me another bowl right now. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/29 "2000-07-27T09:40:20Z")
I’m currently working on a box of Count Chocula, myself…love Cocoa Puffs and Cheerios and Golden Grahams and Super Sugar Crisp (or whatever they call it now) and Corn Pops and Lucky Charms… ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/30 "2000-07-27T10:59:00Z")
My favorites: (the healthy ones) Team Flakes (obsolete?) Product 19 Special K (the sugar covered flakes/nodules of death) Lucky Charms Captain Crunch with Crunch Berries Peanut Butter Crunch Apple Jacks Cocoa Puffs Frosted Flakes Super Sugar Crisp Mostly the two non obsolete healthy ones, and the first three sugar coated ones. And I’d rather have bacon (mmm…bacon…), hash browns or tatertots (mmm… **tatertot** …sorry) and eggs over cereal any day. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/31 "2000-07-27T19:54:17Z")
Ha! I used to eat Quisp all the time when little. Just found it for $2 a box. What I love is the commercials, where they say at the end “A part of this complete breakfast.” Yes, a small part. The sugary part. That said, I can tolerate Corn Pops, Apple Jacks, and Kix. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/32 "2000-07-27T20:00:28Z")
Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs. But they taste better with sugar on 'em… Tell me if anyone knows the reference. Apple Jacks Froot Loops Cinnamon Toast Crunch Coooooookie Crisp! Cap’n Crunch Berries Count Chocula (or whatever it was called) Frosted Flakes Cracklin’ Oat Bran ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/33 "2000-07-27T20:07:51Z")
Granola and yoghurt. Least you think I’m a health food nut, I sometimes have coffee and a pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream for breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/34 "2000-07-27T20:22:05Z")
I was always a cereal mutant. As a youth, while my younger siblings were eating up all of the marshmellow-chocolate-and-sugar-drenched graineries such as _Boo Berry_, _Count Chocula_ and _Pebbles_, I was old school before I was in Junior High School. I was happy (and still am) with _Rice Krispies_ and _Corn Flakes_, lightly dusted with sugar please, and that was just fine with me (and still is). * * * Yer pal, Satan _I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR: Three months, two weeks, four days, 18 hours, 21 minutes and 46 seconds. 4390 cigarettes not smoked, saving $548.82. Life saved: 2 weeks, 1 day, 5 hours, 50 minutes._ Visit [The Fabulous Forums of Fathom](http://fff.fathom.org/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?) ---
**Author:** ![DarkHeart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@DarkHeart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkHeart)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/35 "2000-07-27T20:29:18Z")
HONEY COMBS! ME WANT HONEY COMBS! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/36 "2000-07-27T21:19:20Z")
Sam’s(Warehouse club place)in Denver sells qwisp. They have triple boxes right next to the huge bags of Ghetto-o’s ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/37 "2000-07-27T21:28:53Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by AudreyK \* \*\*Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs. But they taste better with sugar on 'em… Tell me if anyone knows the reference.\*\* IIRC, Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs were Calvin (of Calvin & Hobbes fame)'s favorite cereal I like the sugary chex and mini wheats cereals , no milk 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b5e925/32.png) [@Zion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zion)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/38 "2000-07-27T23:21:54Z")
I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again. The GREATEST cereal of all time is _Cracklin’ Oat Bran_. But, I’m not sure if they make it any more. So, for a couple years now, I’ve been eating Special K, and Wheaties. It could just be me, but I think Frosted Flakes have been reformulated…or something. They taste different than they used to a couple years back. Or, maybe my taste buds have “matured.” Same thing goes for Honey-Nut Cheerios. ---
**Author:** ![timmar68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@timmar68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timmar68)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/39 "2000-07-28T01:54:06Z")
Peanut Butter Crunch is the perfect PMS food! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977/40 "2000-07-28T03:31:30Z")
IIRC, the mascot of Calvin’s beloved Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs was Buzzy the Hummingbird. How appropriate. On another note, if y’all haven’t heard of this one, take a look at a short-lived Cap’n Crunch spin-off: [Punch Crunch](http://www.ticktock.simplenet.com/box1262.jpg). The hot pink box, along with an, erm, unusual mascot (a pink hippo in a sailor suit leering at the Cap’n) made the cereal kind of a joke in the gay community. The cereal didn’t last long, from what I hear. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-cereals/26977.md?page=3)