One of my local morning radio shows often does “The Mt Rushmore of _____”. For instance, the other morning they had a heated debate of the four top Saturday Morning Cartoon icons. Or “The Mt. Rushmore of Saturday Morning Cartoons” - who’s face do we chisel on the mountain side.
This morning they started in on The Mt Rushmore of (Childhood) Breakfast Cereal. I found myself screaming “Captain Crunch you IDIOT!” at my dashboard as they replaced it with Raisan Bran. :smack: (Its just didnt make sense!!)
And then maybe a fruity cereal like Trix or Fruit Loops. Probably go with Trix since it seems to be a bit more popular (or at least it was back in my day).
I like your nomination of Rice Krispies, so that would be my third, although for a cereal, it’s really bland (well, my opinion). As a treat, though, it’s rarely beaten. So that alone would catapult it into the mountainside.
The last spot I can’t decide on. There’s like a 20 place tie for it in my mind.
That doesn’t quite work. ISTM that for the Mt. Rushmore, you’d need to choose four faces to carve into the mountainside, and Rice Krispies would take up three of them (Snap, Crackle, and Pop).
Let’s go with Cap’n Crunch, Tony the Tiger, Toucan Sam, and the Trix Rabbit.
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You can’t have a Mt. Rushmore of cereals without Wheaties, The Breakfast of Champions
Wheaties
Trix
Sugar Frosted Flakes
For the 4th slot I’d suggest a joint commemoration of Cheerios and Froot Loops, linked together like the Olympic rings.
It seems to me that Kellogg’s Corn Flakes is the George Washington of breakfast cereals. It’s the one that started the whole notion of “breakfast cereal” to begin with, and Wheaties and Raisin Bran are just following its precedent.
For the second, we also can’t have a cereal mountain without Cheerios.
For the third, we need one representative of the whole “sugar as the first three ingredients” category of cereals, but I’m not sure whether Trix or Froot Loops is the better candidate, here. Does anyone know offhand which one came first?
And I really don’t know for the fourth, but I’m leaning towards Rice Krispies.
American.
It covers all of the principle grains (including oats)… They are the grandaddies that cover the granola, flake, cereal and fruit, and sugar frosted cereal techs.
Since we’re carving into a mountain, I lean towards historical and cultural significance versus personal taste.
Corn Flakes Cornelius rooster (George Washington role)
Cheerio’s Bee
Rice Krispies elves (The first cereal mascot)
Sugar cereal: I would leave it open to popular vote between Tony the Tiger, Toucan Sam, Trix Rabbit, Cap’n Crunch. My vote would be for Tony the Tiger (bird, insect, humanoid, and mammal) He’s Grrrreat!
It lacerates the roof of your mouth when you eat it. It’s like little pillows of sandpaper!
After you’ve poured in your Cap’n crunch, eaten it, then poured some more into the same bowl, the milk starts to get disgusting. Depending on how hungry you are, the Cap’n’s flavory crunchy goodness can overcome the milk destruction for two or three refillings. But at some point… ew, the milk.
Mount Rushmore Cereal sounds like it would be hard on the teeth… but most kids’ cereals are… (I keep having visions of cereal in the shape of little presidential heads.)
Works for me! I’d be tempted to replace one of them with Lcuky the Leprechaun, but which one?
Although it would be cool as hell to have an actual mountain with the faces of Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Booberry, and … I guess Fruit Brute, if you need a fourth … carved into it.