# Cereal Crimes **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 10, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148 "2007-07-10T02:06:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/21 "2007-07-10T02:43:29Z")
I got my cereal from a vampire, a mummy and a pink Frankenstein and _I liked it that way_. And now that I’m a grown up my breakfast comes from Juan freakin’ Valdez and _I like it that way_. Some day my breakfast will come from a hole in my neck and _I will be too fucking senile to care_. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/22 "2007-07-10T02:44:57Z")
[QUOTE=Uvula Donor] The real explanation is probably a lot simpler. Six months’ supply of Trix batter got poured into the wrong goddamn machine, so the company slapped together an ad campaign, dug some NOS boxes out of the warehouse, and is releasing a “special limited edition” version of Trix. [/QUOTE] No. Now Trix are just Crunchberries. It’s just meaningless rebranding. Trix are dead. They are gone from this earth forever lessening cereal biodiversity. Now if you buy a box of Trix it just says “Trix” but contains cheap, inferior, crunchberries. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/23 "2007-07-10T02:45:43Z")
[QUOTE=Hung Mung] I got my cereal from a vampire, a mummy and a pink Frankenstein and _I liked it that way_. [/QUOTE] Okay, I remember Count Chocula (the vampire), BooBerry (the ghost of Peter Lorre), and FrankenBerry (the big pink dude), but which one was the mummy? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/24 "2007-07-10T02:49:11Z")
I woke up one Easter morning to find that part of my large chocolate bunny had been eaten. I was told that the Easter Bunny was responsible for the mayhem. I haven’t trusted a rabbit since then. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/25 "2007-07-10T02:50:41Z")
[QUOTE=Scylla] Post cereal can’t be bothered to maintain standards and you’re all happy about it. . . Now Trix are just Crunchberries. . . . [/QUOTE] Goddamnit, Trix are made by General Mills, not by Post. And Crunchberries are from Quaker Oats. Who gives a shit what you think about puffs? You can’t even keep the fucking \*companies \*straight!!! /foams at mouth ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/26 "2007-07-10T02:52:22Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] Cite? [/QUOTE] Oh, you think I’m kidding? Here ya go: [http://www.marketresearch.com/product/print/default.asp?g=1&productid=1472033](http://www.marketresearch.com/product/print/default.asp?g=1&productid=1472033) My company gets this stuff for me. You’ll have to pay $600 to learn that it costs more to injection mold sugar than to rill plate it. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/27 "2007-07-10T02:54:21Z")
If this all turns out to about global warming, I’m gonna be pissed! CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/28 "2007-07-10T02:54:55Z")
[QUOTE=Uvula Donor] Goddamnit, Trix are made by General Mills, not by Post. And Crunchberries are from Quaker Oats. Who gives a shit what you think about puffs? You can’t even keep the fucking \*companies \*straight!!! /foams at mouth [/QUOTE] And I suppose you think Saturn is a whole new car company ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/29 "2007-07-10T02:56:12Z")
[QUOTE=Scylla] Even if it’s not, a step backwards is not progress. You can’t go back. You can only go forward. [/QUOTE] Fucking liberal. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/30 "2007-07-10T02:56:51Z")
[QUOTE=Uvula Donor] Okay, I remember Count Chocula (the vampire), BooBerry (the ghost of Peter Lorre), and FrankenBerry (the big pink dude), but which one was the mummy? [/QUOTE] [Yummy Mummy.](http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/8/86/150px-Yummy_Mummy.jpeg) I shit you not. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/31 "2007-07-10T02:58:09Z")
[QUOTE=Scylla] And I suppose you think Saturn is a whole new car company [/QUOTE] no u ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/32 "2007-07-10T02:59:39Z")
[QUOTE=Uvula Donor] Puffs are easier to eat, too, because you don’t really have to chew them or anything. [/QUOTE] Puffs also have less pointy bits to poke you in the gums. When I was a kid we got the industrial size boxes of Kix, which is just a plain old ordinary puff. No weird colors or flavors. Trix were a rare treat we only got once in a while, like when dad got a raise or mom had a coupon. There’s nothing wrong with puffs! ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/33 "2007-07-10T03:00:00Z")
[QUOTE=Scylla] No. Now Trix are just Crunchberries. It’s just meaningless rebranding. Trix are dead. They are gone from this earth forever lessening cereal biodiversity. Now if you buy a box of Trix it just says “Trix” but contains cheap, inferior, crunchberries. [/QUOTE] Ooh, crunchberries. . .those were my favorite. And I wanted the whole box to be crunchberries. \*\* Scylla\*\*, you’ll have to provide a picture of what you’re talking about because the picture in **Uvula Donor** ’s post is what I remember Trix to look like. If it’s changed since then, you’d have to show it. I think you posted this on the wrong message board. You’d have to catch the X generation or younger to get any response on this. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/34 "2007-07-10T03:02:44Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] It’s good to see Trix jettisoning that garbage and focusing on what’s important: making a cereal with enough sugar to kill a diabetic at forty paces. [/QUOTE] That’s Capt’n Crunch’s job! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/35 "2007-07-10T03:03:39Z")
[QUOTE=Uvula Donor] Goddamnit, Trix are made by General Mills, not by Post. And Crunchberries are from Quaker Oats. Who gives a shit what you think about puffs? You can’t even keep the fucking \*companies \*straight!!! /foams at mouth [/QUOTE] Oh my god, it’s a cross-company conspiracy! ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/36 "2007-07-10T03:09:22Z")
[QUOTE=Heffalump and Roo] . \*\* Scylla\*\*, you’ll have to provide a picture of what you’re talking about because the picture in **Uvula Donor** ’s post is what I remember Trix to look like. If it’s changed since then, you’d have to show it. I think you posted this on the wrong message board. You’d have to catch the X generation or younger to get any response on this. [/QUOTE] Here’s a cite: > [@](#): > > Trix replaced the original round ball shape with fruit-shaped pieces. Four new fruit shapes and colors were added over the years: Grapity purple (1980-1995), Lime green (1991), Wildberry blue (1998-2006), and Watermelon (1999). In 1995, the cereal pieces were given a brighter and more colorful look. It should be noted, however, that the different “fruits” in the cereal between 1992 and 2006 all share the same flavor. Recently in 2007 Trix has replaced their fruit shaped pieced with the original round ball shape. from here: > **[Trix (cereal)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trix_%28cereal%29#_note-0)** > > Trix is an American brand of breakfast cereal made by General Mills of Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the North American market and by Cereal Partners (using the Nestlé brand) elsewhere in the world. The cereal consists of fruit-flavored, sweetened, ground-corn pieces. The Trix trademark is also used by Yoplait (a yogurt company previously mostly owned by General Mills) for a line of similarly flavored yogurt marketed toward children. General Mills introduced Trix in 1954 as a sugar-coated version ... Note also: > [@](#): > > The earliest known successful attempt of the Trix Rabbit to obtain the cereal was in 1969. A national vote was held with ballots distributed on the back of Trix boxes, allowing kids to vote on whether to let the Trix Rabbit have some Trix. According to this campaign, he had already consumed two spoonfuls before the kids caught him. Nonetheless, it continued to be part of the advertising that that the Trix Rabbit never had Trix. In two commercials he successfully tricked the children again into giving him Trix, but they were apparently cross about it.[citation needed] > > In 1980, one of Trix’s television ads ended in a cliffhanger accompanied by a write-in survey asking children whether the Trix Rabbit should be able to finally get a taste of Trix. America’s children responded with an overwhelming “yes,” and a subsequent television ad depicted the rabbit finally getting to eat a bowl of Trix cereal. While he is known to have previously enjoyed a bowl in 1976, following this public intervention in 1980 he has not succeeded in gaining access to Trix’s fruity goodness again, and anti-rabbit sentiment persists within the animated juvenile community. > > Generally, the commercials begin with the rabbit having successfully managed to snatch the cereal, only to have the kids confuse him long enough for them to snatch it back. In some commercials, the rabbit successfully gets the cereal and makes a getaway, leaving the kids to ask the watcher for help. > > In a Got Milk? commercial ad, the rabbit is disguised as a man (played by Harland Williams) in a supermarket. He buys a box of Trix, and the cashier says to him, “Trix? Trix are for kids.” The rabbit returns to his home mumbling the phrase “Trix are for kids”. Excited, he pours himself a bowl, yelling “Today, they’re for rabbits!” and laughing maniacally, but when he is about to add milk, he discovers there’s no milk left in the carton. The commercial ends with the Got Milk? screen. > > In 2006, the phrase “Silly Rabbit, Trix are for Kids” ended up #59 on TVland’s 100 greatest quotes and catch phrases If that’s not pathological addiction, I don’t know what is. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/37 "2007-07-10T03:23:23Z")
Grapity purple? Grapity? What kind of thing is that to teach kids? We’re lucky that kids since 1980 haven’t all become Grapists. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/38 "2007-07-10T03:36:11Z")
[QUOTE=Scylla] Here’s a cite: [/quote] Thanks for the cite, but it’s not that I don’t believe you. It’s just that I’ve never seen anything but the round puffs. And I looked at the box from 2006. . . how is that different than round puffs? I just don’t know what they looked like between when they were round puffs and now that they’re back at round puffs. What is a grapity purple shaped like? but as to your cite, this seems to be going too far: > [@](#): > > anti-rabbit sentiment persists within the animated juvenile community Surely they’re not talking about Bugs. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/39 "2007-07-10T03:41:55Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] When I was a kid we got the industrial size boxes of \*\*Kix \*\* … . [/QUOTE] I’m glad you brought up Kix. When Trix was introduced back in the 50’s it was clearly intended to play off Kix’s existing brand identity. It had the same shape, but was brightly colored and “for kids”. The return to the original puff is merely a return to the cereal’s true roots … . ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148/40 "2007-07-10T03:42:56Z")
Hey! I remember that! I voted for the rabbit to get some Trix. My mom didn’t want to give me a stamp, but finally relented after much pestering. And Trix should be puffs: orange, lemon, and cherry. Anything else is NOT Trix. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-crimes/411148.md?page=3)