Today while I was shopping, I saw a big display of Frankenberry, Count Chocula, and Booberry, a full eight weeks before Hallowe’en. No Fruit Brute or Yummy Mummy, unfortunately.
Were not those cereals available year-round? That’s what I remembered, but I haven’t eaten cold cereal in years and never ate those ones.
Oh yeah- it’s Halloween season at all the big stores. Time to stock up on Count Chocula!!!
Maybe it’s because General Mills is located here but I see those available year round at the grocery store.
I worked at Safeway (DC area) for a long time and these were available year-round. IME almost all stores carry Count Chocula, and most carry either Frankenberry or Booberry, but I rarely see them both.
I’m getting some Count Chocula today!
And yeah I remember is being year round, but, yeah Halloween sound like a great time for some heavy promotion. We have young minds to conquer!
If you can find them year-round, you’re lucky. Either that or you’re eating some really stale cereal. According to Wikipedia:
And that’s been my experience the last several years. I only see them in stores around the beginning of the fall season. I’d eat Count Chocula year-round if I could find it. As it is, when they have it, it’s not shelved with the other cereals. It’s in a big end cap display.
Interesting. I got out of the grocery game years ago, but I know at least up until 2008 they were available year round.
When I get those cereals now, the packaging does mention how they only come out for a short time, then they’ll be gone again until next Hallowe’en.
The only one I ever saw year-round was Count Chocula.
Why not just buy a year’s supply each fall when it is available? Maybe one of those vacuum sealers to make sure it lasts the year to go with it.
(I know probably “because money”, but I had to at least suggest it.)
Yeah, because money. But it’s cheap enough that I buy a few extra boxes to last me a few weeks after it disappears from the stores.
Not to be kill-joy but as a Gen-Xer who grew up with them we rarely had our parents buy them because, ah, well, they were freakin’ horrible! They were sickeningly sweet, chemically artificial tasting, and most of all packed with pieces of Styrofoam pretending to be marshmallows! They were the same as Lucky Charms or Trix, two other disgusting cereals we all hated. Give me Frosted Flake or Cap’n Crunch any day… Less was more…
I liked Cocoa Krispies, or Cocoa Pebbles to a lesser extent. The problem with them was they got soggy almost instantly, so you had to either eat it really fast, or start with just a little bit and keep adding cereal to the milk. But either way, once you were full, you had chocolate milk!
When I was a kid, we ate Boo Berry. I remember a Boo Berry ghost in the box that was covered with fuzz that changed color depending on the temperature. I used to hold it up to the space heater.
I’m old enough to remember when the monster cereals consisted of just Frankenberry and Count Chocula. Boo Berry, Yummy Mummy, and Fruit Brute are the cereal equivalents of Scrappy Doo, and best to be ignored.
The father of one of my HS friends worked for a cereal manufacturer. He brought home a bag of the teeny marshmallows that was the size of a 10 yo.
A whole group of us ate so many of them that I think we were all sick of the damned things by the end. But I did love me some crunchy marshmallows. Maybe I still would!
From wiki:
Now, that’s a marketing coup - have a turd-related symptom named after your product. 
I recently found myself in possession of a bag of “astronaut ice cream.” Having not had it since I was a little kid, I opened it up and broke off a piece. It was breakfast cereal “marshmallow,” exactly.
ETA: I’m sure it’s not exactly the same of course, but it was damn close. Given a piece without already knowing what it was, I’d have guessed it was breakfast cereal marshmallow for sure.