# Lucky Charms--spawn of Circus Peanuts
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-spawn-of-circus-peanuts/153
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
**Created:** [July 25, 1999, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-spawn-of-circus-peanuts/153 "1999-07-25T21:47:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 25, 1999, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-spawn-of-circus-peanuts/153/1 "1999-07-25T21:47:00Z")
Given The Master’s recent fascination with Circus Peanuts, it is interesting to note that they were the inspiration for Lucky Charms cereal. According to the August, 1999 _Discover_ magazine, in 1963, "[former General Mills VP and product developer John] Holahan was brainstorming in the aisles of his local supermarket one day when he came upon the orange Marshmallow Circus Peanuts that were among his favorite confections. He took a bag back to the lab, cut up the “peanuts,” and sprinkled them over a bowl of Cheerios. They ‘ate just right’ Holahan recalls.
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 25, 1999, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-spawn-of-circus-peanuts/153/2 "1999-07-25T21:53:00Z")
Eww, gross. I have to go throw out the box of Lucky Charms I have in my kitchen now. Thank you very much.
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 26, 1999, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-spawn-of-circus-peanuts/153/3 "1999-07-26T00:39:00Z")
I like circus peanuts.
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 26, 1999, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-spawn-of-circus-peanuts/153/4 "1999-07-26T01:43:00Z")
Hmm, a Lucky Charms/Circus Peanuts link. Could be interesting. I forwarded this to Cecil.
Jill
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 1999, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-spawn-of-circus-peanuts/153/5 "1999-07-27T01:32:00Z")
Jil- Have Uncle Cecil read up on this month’s Discover Magazine. It actually has an in-depth article on THIS TOPIC. ( Not too shabby for a Disney-produced publication ) It talks about the origins of this cereal. Too weird. I do believe that there is no such thing as a co-inkydink. That leaves me no other option than…the Great Conspiracy…\ 🙂
Typer Your Humble Servant.