# "Lucky Charms! With Bloody Teeth!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 6, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980 "2012-02-06T14:44:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/21 "2012-02-06T20:11:27Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > My friend Mel guesses they are a special commemorative ‘The Troubles’ edition of Lucky Charms: “Bloody teeth! Brass knuckles! Silver bullets!” > [@Miller](#): > > Silver bullets? Were there a lot of Proddy werewolves running around in Belfast in 1920? “Orange men!” ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/22 "2012-02-06T20:41:05Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I like Lucky Charms marshmallows. I don’t buy the cereal anymore because whenever I do I end up picking all the marshmallows out and being left with nothing but a box of boring cereal, which seems like kind of a waste. So just buy the [marshmallow pieces](http://nuts.com/chocolatessweets/toppings/ice-cream/marshmallow-bits.html?gclid=CKWUhdSaiq4CFUlN4AodwTbh4A) by themselves =) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/23 "2012-02-06T20:50:11Z")
> [@](#): > > “Pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, green clovers. And now blue diamonds!” [/bad Irish accent] > > My brain seizes up after that and can’t list any more marshmallow types. I think the next ones along were purple horseshoes. You can probably pin down a person’s age pretty closely by asking them what the definitive set of marbits is. Me, I include Purple Horseshoes (though I remember them being New! and Exciting!), but my brain refuses to recognize anything after that as “real”. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/24 "2012-02-06T20:57:47Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I like Lucky Charms marshmallows. I don’t buy the cereal anymore because whenever I do I end up picking all the marshmallows out and being left with nothing but a box of boring cereal, which seems like kind of a waste. [Truth in advertising.](http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/marshmallows-with-obstacles.jpg) Sorry about the misspelling of “marshmallows”. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/25 "2012-02-06T21:20:09Z")
Are you certain they’re not real bloody teeth? Maybe there was an accident at the factory! ---
**Author:** ![KneeSid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dec6dc/32.png) [@KneeSid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneeSid)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/26 "2012-02-06T21:42:40Z")
You do realize Lucky Charms is nothing more than broken Cheerios and recycled circus peanuts ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/27 "2012-02-06T23:19:21Z")
> [@KneeSid](#): > > You do realize Lucky Charms is nothing more than broken Cheerios and recycled circus peanuts That would explain the “taste.” ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/28 "2012-02-06T23:46:28Z")
> [@KneeSid](#): > > You do realize Lucky Charms is nothing more than broken Cheerios and recycled circus peanuts No no no, it’s broken Alphabits and dehydrated leprechaun droppings. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/29 "2012-02-06T23:48:12Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > No no no, it’s broken Alphabits and dehydrated leprechaun droppings. Again, yep, “taste.” ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/30 "2012-02-07T01:12:06Z")
Lucky Charms is one cereal where the generic is better. I think we get the Malt-o-Meal version, but I’m not sure. Then again, it’s been forever since I’ve been able to eat them, so, for all I know, my memories of the taste are false. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/31 "2012-02-07T01:19:09Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Maybe I can find a _Valley of the Dolls_ edition: “Blue downers! Red uppers! Yellow gin bottles!” “They’re tragically malicious!” ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/32 "2012-02-07T01:52:42Z")
…and i just bought 3 large boxes. ah, well, i still have frosted flakes, capt’n crunch, and trix. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/33 "2012-02-07T02:04:15Z")
There was a trend several years back where they sold food products colored in psychedelic colors. I kept thinking about the red cereal the dad was advertising in the novel Cujo. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/34 "2012-02-08T18:55:32Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > …and i just bought 3 large boxes. ah, well, i still have frosted flakes, capt’n crunch, and trix. That’s the real problem with Lucky Charms. They’re a gateway drug to Frosted Flakes. Sweet, sweet, crack-frosted flakes. /drool But a huge bowl of Lucky Charms, hand-picked to be very marbit-heavy, and swimming in half-and-half… a pretty good way to get sugar-buzzed and crank my LDL numbers while pretending it’s still “a nutritious part of a complete breakfast.” ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/35 "2012-02-08T19:09:28Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > At the risk of spoiling the fun by revealing the mystery, here are a couple of links. [The first one](http://thesmartcookiecook.com/2011/11/05/seriously-cereal-lucky-charms-is-magically-delicious-for-all-ages/) is to a blog that includes a picture of THIRTEEN marbits, along with their descriptions. The bloody teeth probably are, in fact, red shooting stars. Are you kidding me? None of those things actually looks like anything at all. In my day the pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, green clovers, and blue diamonds at least were recognizable! ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/36 "2012-02-08T19:32:37Z")
> [@John Hodgman](#): > > [There is…an interactive exhibit on how Lucky Charms are made. Here it is shown how the leprechauns are first flayed and then pulped to be turned into the marshmallows. Off to the side are waist-high piles of abandoned little green hats that will be shipped back to Ireland under international treaty.](http://www.flymf.com/NewLook/FFOK/ReviewAreasOfMyExpertise.htm) … ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/37 "2012-02-08T19:39:41Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > At the risk of spoiling the fun by revealing the mystery, here are a couple of links. [The first one](http://thesmartcookiecook.com/2011/11/05/seriously-cereal-lucky-charms-is-magically-delicious-for-all-ages/) is to a blog that includes a picture of THIRTEEN marbits, along with their descriptions. The bloody teeth probably are, in fact, red shooting stars. > > [The second one](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3527/3280325217_eea85ce4d4.jpg), I’m not prepared to claim that it is a Courreges dress, but it did come up when I performed a google image search on “courreges dress.” Based on that, I’m going to postulate that **Eve** ’s _“a kicky 1960s Courreges dress in blue and white”_ is a blue shooting star. Wow, 6 colors of shooting stars? That seems like a waste. They’ve been pretty stupid with the shapes for some time, so I’m not surprised. > [@Acsenray](#): > > Are you kidding me? None of those things actually looks like anything at all. In my day the pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, green clovers, and blue diamonds at least were recognizable! Yeah, they made changes that weren’t improvements. I was okay with purple horseshoes - those seem reasonable as lucky charms. Then they came up with the multi-color marshmallow process, and that drove them to change the traditional shapes/colors so they could make them “brighter”. Thus they came up with the Pot of Gold, which has a yellow pot and a “gold” (orange) spot at the top. They modified the green clover to be a leprechaun hat with a green clover on it so they could have two colors of green. The made a rainbow that is three colored. They got rid of blue diamonds, made the yellow moons blue (because blue moons are culturally the luckier item and so they could retain blue while replacing the yellow with the pot of gold). And then they replaced the orange stars with “shooting stars”, which are the bizarrest piece. You see, they orange star has an orange tail, but the tail would be too fragile if it were just the tail, so they made the white part as “background” or whatever for the tail, and thus it’s a shooting star. Except it doesn’t look like anything. The white doesn’t really make sense - shooting stars are seen at night, shouldn’t the background be black? And the shapes are fairly indistinct. I mean, marshmallow isn’t the best medium for high detail sculpture anyway, so simpler shapes are better. The hearts, horseshoes, and moons are reasonable. The balloons just look like blobs. The “hat”, “pot of gold”, and “shooting star” are all unindentifiable as objects - they have to be explained. Multiple colors of shooting stars is taking the worst peice and making more of them in the most ridiculous way possible. (Maybe I shouldn’t say that - they could take that as inspiration.) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/38 "2012-02-08T19:56:41Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > They modified the green clover to be a leprechaun hat with a green clover on it so they could have two colors of green. Oh, is \*that \*what that was? I was baffled. I know a bloody tooth when I see, it, though. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/39 "2012-02-09T00:46:57Z")
Does anyone remember the hourglass shape with the dissolving center? I remember when they introduced the red balloon…I thought it was awesome. I still have Lucky Charms in my pantry. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/40 "2012-02-09T05:19:16Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > …and i just bought 3 large boxes. ah, well, i still have frosted flakes, capt’n crunch, and trix. You _must_ read [Breakfast of the Gods](http://breakfastofthegods.com/) by Brendan Douglas Jones. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980.md?page=3)