# The Mt Rushmore of Cereal **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mt-rushmore-of-cereal/529543 "2010-02-18T21:58:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![parthenokinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mt-rushmore-of-cereal/529543/21 "2010-02-19T17:27:56Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > 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. Really? Fruit Brute over Yummy Mummy? Them’s fightin’ words. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mt-rushmore-of-cereal/529543/22 "2010-02-19T17:33:12Z")
surely there must be room for [Mikey](http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackieinmi/2491472014/)! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mt-rushmore-of-cereal/529543/23 "2010-02-19T17:35:32Z")
Childhood: Cap’n Crunch (Cap’n) Rice Krispies (Trio) Trix (Rabbit) Sugar Puffs (Sugar Bear) Adult: Special K (some woman on a diet) Cheerios (some man fighting cholesterol) Store brand honey nut oat Os (me with an empty wallet) Raisin Bran ( the sun) ---
**Author:** ![RainGrowsBrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@RainGrowsBrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RainGrowsBrite)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mt-rushmore-of-cereal/529543/24 "2010-02-19T19:51:56Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Adult: > > Special K (some woman on a diet) > Cheerios (some man fighting cholesterol) > Store brand honey nut oat Os (me with an empty wallet) > Raisin Bran ( the sun) I would have to throw in: A Costco Kirkland-brand box of ‘cereal of the month’ the size of my house (that will last until next year) ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mt-rushmore-of-cereal/529543/25 "2010-02-19T21:42:44Z")
My Childhood: Freakies Quisp Cap’n Crunch Count Chocula My Dotage: Frosted Flakes Cinnamon Toast Crunch Honey Bunches of Oats Honey Nut Cheerios ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mt-rushmore-of-cereal/529543/26 "2010-02-21T23:15:44Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > 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? Not off the top of my head, but I was guessing that Trix was older and Wikipedia bears me out. [Trix](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trix_%28cereal%29) (1954). [Froot Loops](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froot_Loops) (1963). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mt-rushmore-of-cereal/529543/27 "2010-02-22T01:27:46Z")
The Froot Loops Toucan would be a prohibitively difficult and costly complication for a Rushmore granite-carving project. It would necessitate a much greater degree of excavation for that face (to allow for the proper projection of the beak), which, if not situated and angled astutely, would be in perennial shadow from being too deeply recessed into the mountain. Plus, the beak would pose a danger to the countryside below, as its long-term structural integrity would be tenuous at best. This message was brought to you by the Corn Bran Scarecrow [RIP] Rushmore Inclusion Lobby. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mt-rushmore-of-cereal/529543.md?page=1)