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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.
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…Surely they’re not talking about Bugs.
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It was the little black duck who came up with all the good lines, but the studio gave them to Bugs because he was more mainstream. Kinda like Pat Boone covering Chuck Berry. And no, there never was a ChuckBerry! Frankenberry, sure, but Chuck? uh uh, no way…
As a child of the 80’s, I have to say I’m somewhat nonplussed because I didn’t know that they even changed Trix from puffs in the first place. I must have already moved on to pop-tarts or microwavable sausage biscuits or something.
Ah, the more things change, the more things stay the same.
I just wanted to let you know that I have carefully examined every Pit thread on the front page, and I have found this one to be the most worthy of rant.
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I just wanted to let you know that I have carefully examined every Pit thread on the front page, and I have found this one to be the most worthy of rant.
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With a name like bigbabysweets2000, of course you would. What thread title could be more about you? The cereal is for big bab(ies), it’s sweet and in 2000, it was still the weird-looking stuff.
I sometimes think that my life started down the wrong path when during the waning days of the Truman Administration I uncritically accepted the idea that somewhere behind the Quaker Oats factory in Cedar Rapids, Gabby Hayes was blowing bushel after bushel of oats and wheat out of a muzzle loading 12 pounder gun to produce Quaker Puffed Oats and Quaker Puffed Wheat – it’s shot from guns. But then it may have been the Ovaltine thing, too.
Any of you SOBs who deny knowledge of Gabby Hayes, the ultimate old fart cowboy sidekick, has just lost any feeling of respect for you I may ever have had.
OMG!! What the heck is that?! I had no idea. Thanks for the picture.
Scylla, sorry. . . I’m glad they changed it back. That was an abomination.
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No kidding! Here’s a larger image, for those with old-lady eyes like mine.
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It was the little black duck who came up with all the good lines, but the studio gave them to Bugs because he was more mainstream.
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Did you see the movie where Bugs was erasing Daffy. . . starting with the bill? Classic stuff.
Of course, cereal is drugs; look at “I’m cuckoo for Coco Puffs” and many more!
Sugar Bear, a dealer, for sure.
Now we’ve got Dora the Hora shilling for cereal, in name only.
Nestle did this with Coco Pops - changed the name to Choco Krispies. Ostensibly to bring it into a system of naming consistent with their other cereals (Rice Krispies being the non-chocolate version, choco flakes being chocolate flavoured corn flakes, etc).
There was a massive public outcry and eventually, they asked the public to vote, and the old name - Coco Pops - was restored.
Although to be honest, they might have planned all of that right from the start as a big PR/publicity stunt.
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With a name like bigbabysweets2000, of course you would. What thread title could be more about you?
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A thread regarding a notorious Detroit ganster, who ruled the streets with an iron fist. That is until Sugar Bear arrived on the force and cleaned up all the crime.
