The original Captain Crunch was always my favorite. Fruit Loops and Honeycomb were probably our "staples" as I don't remember any of these at home. After '71 the household didn't buy "junk" cereal. Oh well, I was heading into my teens and Graoenuts somehow flipped the bill. Thanks for another wonderful trip down Memory Lane! 😊
You're welcome and thank you for watching Betty! Honeycomb used to have some great commercials and ads. They seemed like they were all over the place and now it feels like forever since I have seen them. I always loved Captain Crunch and Fruit Loops.
There used to be some good toys in the boxes and if they didn't have that then there were things you could send off for. Reading the box while eating cereal was the best and they also had some fun games and puzzles on them.
i remember my dad showing me Kaboom cereal when i was young at the store, we bought it and he said it wasn't the same as when he was a kid but glad i got to try it since the cereal was discontinued around 2004/2005. excellent video as always, Rhetty!
Thank you for watching and sharing a couple of your favorites. Luckily you can still be BooBerry every year around September and October. But I haven't seen C3PO's in a long time.
As a child I ate coco puffs, captain crunch, rice krispies, sugar crisp, lucky charms, fruit loops and life cereal. I loved when my mom made hot oatmeal and maypo! 😊
I grew up in the 50s and 60s. We didn't get a lot of cereal and what we did get, was not sweetened. Corn Flakes and Rice Crispies. We weren't allowed to put sugar on it soooo, it wasn't popular with us. My mom did, however, provide hot cereals like you mentioned Maypo, oatmeal and a hot rice bowl with hot milk and raisins. Otherwise we were eating eggs and bacon/sausage or corned beef hash, gravy and sometimes hashbrowns.
@@Dadsezso Well, the cold and hot cereals were for a quick breakfast on school days. On the weekends we always had a hot breakfast like bacon and eggs/pancakes or French toast. We usually always had 1/2 an orange or berries with it. We always had dinners from scratch back then too!!
We got mostly General Mills cereals because my mom collected the Betty Crocker points coupons on the boxes! One I miss to this day was Buc Wheat Flakes with a "snap of maple flavor" on some of the flakes!
I remember preferring Quisp to Quake specifically because I liked the little alien guy better than the miner guy. also ... being allowed to pick out the cereal when grocery shopping with mom was a very, very big deal.
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us. There was quite a bit to choose from and the toys and artwork could certainly grab our attention.
I thought that Kellogg's Corn Flakes w/ Bananas debuted about a decade and a half ago. I didn't know that that was a thing back in the '60s. It sure had a short comeback story.
I remember Moonstones. They were great! They had a SUPER strong fruit taste, like nothing else I've ever tasted. Still, even to this day, nothing can quite touch Cocoa Pebbles as far as I'm concerned.
I love Cocoa Pebbles. The only issue I have is that I finish the box quicker than I should. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Dorelaxen!
I,was born in 1957,and grew up in the 1960's. I still remember eating these cereals from the 1960's and 1970's. I miss the cereals from back in the day. 4:01
There was a time when that wasn't an issue. Even the cartoon characters advertising the cereal were getting blown up etc. Thank you for watching planescaped.
I remember eating Coco Krispies, Life Cereal, and Alpha Bits when watching Saturday morning cartoons. I also remember one discontinued cereal called King Vitamin. It contained less sugar than Capt'n Crunch and other sweetened cereals at the time. I still remember eating Kaboom when I was a kid. My cousins came down to visit one summer, and they introduced me to Freakies. My aunt still had the original refrigerator magnets in the 1990s. Kids today will never understand what the kids had in the 1970s, and it was a lot of fun to be excited when new cartoons appeared every autumn. I sure like looking at nostalgia. Thank you for the video.
Anyone remember the six to eight variety pack of cereals? We always got these mini sized boxes of cereal when we went camping during Spring break. Either to the Oregon coast or to Mount Rainier. Nice memories 🙂
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us mellokitty4186. They still put packages like that together but they don't have the same variety as they used to.
I remember a lot of these cereals especially those from the late 50s and 60s. I enjoyed several of these from that era. I got a lot of them for breakfast. I liked Kream Krunch
Thank you for watching and sharing one you enjoyed Kirk! That was definitely one of the space aged type cereals. I feel like they were really creative with cereals back then.
I wish they would bring back Kream Krunch. I think since people are more used to freeze dried foods now it would do better. I know I would like it, I love Astronaut ice cream.
Kombos, Baron von Redberry, Sir Grape fellow, Lucky Charms and Kaboom were my favorites! Eating cereal while watching Space Ghost, The Herculoids and Jonny Quest was the best part of Saturday morning!!❤❤❤❤❤
I know what you mean. There have been several Cap'n Crunch cereals and mascots that have been retired over the years, like Seadog & Wilma The Winsome White Whale from Vanilly Crunch, Chockle the Blob from Choco Crunch, Jean LaFoote from Cinnamon Crunch, Smedley The Elephant from Peanut Butter Crunch & The Crunch Berry Beast from Crunch Berries. I'm probably missing some others, too.
I remember liking it very much as well. Rhetty didn't mention that the 4 human characters were actually named Grins (the guy with dark hair), Smiles (tall, red haired guy, bald on top), Giggles (the girl) & Laughs (short, red haired guy with bow tie).
Speaking of 1960s cereals, yesterday at a sale I found 2 cardboard Monkees records that was on Post cereal boxes back in the late 60s. My mom told me she remembered them. I was born in 1974. There are 4 songs on each record.
Being a kid in the 1990's some of the memorable cereals I ate were Post's Banana Nut Crunch, Kellogg's Double Dip Crunch and Rice Krispies Treats Cereal. All have been discontinued sadly but I was happy to have tried them.
@@XianHu for sure it was really sweet. I'm pretty sure I was trying to trick my mom. She didn't want me eating junk for breakfast. Honestly all breakfast cereal in my opinion is unhealthy... Just carbs.
As always many thanks to Rhetty for History for another nostalgic video. I remember when Cocoa Krispies first came out I believe in the late 50s. A local grocer was giving away mini boxes of them as samples. We kept making return trips to get them. Such wonderful innocent times back then.
I remember we got C3POs, Mr.T, Strawberry Shortcake & Donkey Kong cereal. One night i ate a lot of Strawberry Shortcake before bed & threw up in the middle of the night. That ruined my love for the cereal! I still enjoy Cocoa Pebbles & Lucky Charms.
Experiences like that can definitely ruin your liking to a product. I had that after an experience with a Zero bar and Orange Julius in the 70s and I have never had either one since. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!
That would have been fun to do and get. Things like that just aren't the same for kids. Cereals don't offer prizes inside or that you can send off for quite like they used to. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us!
With the exception of Twinkles, I remember all of those General Mills cereals. My dad worked for the Big G and in those days, we were able to get damaged packages of what they made at the plant. The TV ads for Quake and Qwisp were made by Jay Ward, who also did Rocky & Bullwinkle, George of the Jungle and Super Chicken.
My uncle worked for General Mills, my family got involved in pre-launch testing of new products. I fondly remember when granola bars and some kind of fruit snacks hit the scene in the mid 70s.
Skip those expensive cereals from Kellogg's, General Mills, Post, etc. You can find cheaper alternatives from Malt-o-Meal. Their cereals are packaged in large bags and are lower in price and taste like their big-brand counterparts. Malt-o-Meal's Coco Dino-Bites look and taste EXACTLY like Cocoa Pebbles!
Thank you for watching and sharing your favorites. Every so often around Halloween season they re-release the Fruit Brute but the others I haven't seen in a long time. Thank you for watching Frank!
Lol, my brother buys Fruit Brute & Count Chocula every Halloween. I've also seen Frankenberry & Boo Berry. Last year there was a new one with a female ghoul(?) on the cover. I don't remember what she was but she looked like a teenager.
I always love to see ya Rhetty! You have the best channel here on RU-vid. You always bring out something exciting! Now its time to check out what's on the today's menu😆
@@RhettyforHistory Now I've got our medical staff going crazy this morning trying to figure out their favorite cereal way back into the 60s!! They're a riot, lol! You certainly have the best topics Rhetty😁
I miss the original formula for General Mills Monster cereals (Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Blueberry, etc.) . They used to be oat based cereals, but were changed to corn based in the early 2000's. Personally, I think the oat version tasted better. I also preferred the original shapes (round with a crossbar cereal, and normal cylinder marshmallows), but that's probably just nostalgia.
I miss Quisp I loved that one. Quisp came back for awhile about 10 years ago but not forever. I really also wish they still made Ice Cream Cones Cereal, and Nerds Cereal
Peanut butter crunch was/is my favorite. Had a bowl while watching this. I remember some of those 70’s cereals (Freakies, Grins Smiles…, and most notably Quisp). Most of them tasted like regular Captain Crunch.
You must be from another reality. Being 57 years old now,I would have been 7 when that cereal hit the market. I don’t have any recall of that cereal at all!!!
If you would have visited us in the 1970s on a Saturday morning, you probably have seen us eating one of these cereals - Cocoa or Fruity Pebbles, Frankenberry, Count Chocula, Boo Berry, Sugar Corn Pops, Sugar Smacks, Honey Combs, or Frosted Flakes while we watched cartoons. We always looked forward to the toy inside.
Some of them had some really good toys and no matter what the boxes were entertaining on their own. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us!
My sister and I always wanted the newest cereals Fruity Pebbles & Coco Pebbles, Cookie Crisp. Sometimes we would get a cereal based on the surprise toy or special offer on the box. We would sometimes collect box tops for our school to get something. We wound up eating Raisin Bran or Cornflakes as we entered our teens.
Those toys and offers on the boxes were super enticing to kids. I was guilty of doing the same thing you and your sister did. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!
Two very popular cereals for kids here were Kellogg’s Fruit Loops and Kellogg’s Coco Pops. I loved eating the different coloured fruit loops as a kid, but I liked them on their own. No milk meant they were crunchy and not soggy. I prefer toast with Vegemite over cereal though. 😁 Thank you Rhett. ❤️Jodie 🇦🇺 Hi Paul. 👋😁🇺🇸
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories Jodie! Fruit Loops really were great to have on their own with no milk. I used to put them in sandwich bags and take them with me everywhere!
Quisp was a leading favorite at our home!! I do remember a short run of strawberry honeycombs, they were good. But ultimately what ever had the coolest toy in won!!
I loved Apple Jacks and The Baron. Hey, you missed telling us about Jimmy Durant here > 9:53 He used to tip his head down, look up at us and say, "Ha-cha-cha-cha!" The funniest thing about cereals in the 60's and 70's was, that nearly _every_ cereal had the word "Sugar" in its title. Like today, what is 'Golden Pops' today used to be called "Super Sugar Corn Pops.
You're right about Jimmy and the Sugar. All of a sudden sugar is bad. At least to say. It's still in plenty of items out there. If it doesn't have that then it will probably be higher in fat or artificial sweeteners. People won't eat it otherwise. I enjoyed a lot of these old cereals though. Sugar or not. I remember adding sugar to corn flakes etc.
@@RhettyforHistory everyone is switching to not _saying_ that it's full of sugar. That or they're switching from 'high fructose corn syrup' to 'natural sugars' as if its any better for our pancreas. Diabetes is still the leading cause of reversable blindness today.
Hey Rhett, do you have a video on some of the prizes that use to come in cereal? Your channel is great! They always take me back to my childhood, thanks!!!👍🏻
Brought back memories. I remember a few of them. Sugar was always the main ingredient. No wonder as a kid we couldn’t sit still. Ha!! I also remember the box’s were fun all by themselves. It was a requirement to study the back of the box as you ate. If you were really lucky you got a prize in the box too. 👋😁 Jodie! 🇦🇺
You're right about the boxes and artwork. We stared at them and read the stories and then did the puzzles and games on them. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us!
Great video! I have been waiting a long time for a video on all the great cereals from the past! I really do enjoy them. Wish I could have tried those Pink Panther Flakes and the Crazy Cow cereal! Thanks for the great video, I’m sure I’ll be watching it over and over!
It is hard to believe how many cereals have disappeared. My mom didn't like getting my sisters and I cereals with lots of sugar. We did get Honeycombs and Alpha-Bits (which was discontinued a few years ago) and sometimes cereals like Fruity/Coco Pebbles, Apple Jacks, Sugar Smacks, and Lucky Charms. I remember when Freakies came out. They were insanely popular but faded quickly. The original Cookie Crisp came in several flavors (besides chocolate chip); my favorite was vanilla wafer. Does anyone remember Euell Gibbons advertising Grape Nuts? When we went on vacation, mom always got us a package of small boxes of Kellogg's cereal. You could use the box as a bowl (by design) but mom always got paper bowls for us to use. There were "boring" cereal like Product 19. In the 70s, many cereal came with "prizes", small plastic toys or posters. One of my favorites were the monster posters in one of the cereals one year for Halloween. There were 4 of them - Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. If I remember right, they glowed in the dark. You could also collect box tops to send in for even better toys. I got my Boba Fett Star Wars action figure that way. Fun episode Rhetty!
@@XianHu, no kidding? I remember it since it came in those little boxes I talked about (at least I think it did). I remember eating it but it has been decades. (Note - Don't take what I said as it was a bad cereal; it just didn't have the sugar and mascot of the others cereals that a kid like me wanted.)
@@gregwasserman2635 I ate it until it was discontinued in 2016. I even wrote to them to request its return, but I guess there were just too few of us that really liked it. Although, I personally feel like they just failed to advertise it properly, plus it's kind of a terrible name. Look at all the attention they give Special-K or Frosted Flakes.
@@XianHu, I loved Alpha-Bits and they discontinued it in 2021. It sucks. I have a few other favorites that are still around that I eat. There was one called Kix that my mom got a lot that I enjoyed, but I don't know if it is still around.
@@gregwasserman2635 I remember Kix, little balls of corn based cereal. I haven't thought about that one in a long time. I looked it up, and it's still being produced today by General Mills, so you should be able to find that one.
I loved King Vitamin cuz it was sweet like capn crunch..and i also remember actual 45 records by the archies were on the of sime cereal boxes...also..i loved trix and fruit loops until they addrd more weird fruit..bring back the oranges, lemons and cherrys..
First they had to take sugar out of the name of the cereal. Then out of the cereal itself. 😖 I ate alot of different cereals. You're one of the first people who has ever mentioned Kabooms. I loved that. 😍 😢
You should have included Ralston in your list of manufacturers (0:11), Kellogg's, Post, General Mills & Quaker. They may not be around anymore (acquired by Nestle), but they were once a major player and they came up with, Chex, Cookie Crisp, Freakies (0:45), Grins & Smiles & Giggles & Laughs (1:51), Moonstones (1:32), Waffelos and many more not to mention their tie-in cereals like Donkey Kong cereal, Batman cereal.
I was surprized to learn about a cereal from the 1970's that I don't remember, Mr. Wonderfull's Surprize (5:22) I really loved cereal as a kid, and thought I had tried pretty much evrything. I loved the super sugary stuff as well as the healthier options. In the morning I was just as likely to be eating original Cheerios or Grape-Nuts as Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries or Cocoa Krispies. Cocoa Krispies was probably my all time favorite, though; especially when Tusk the elephant was the mascot.
Every week my mom would let my little brother and I pick our own cereal with the stipulation that we would not waste it if we didn’t like it so sometimes we would switch with each other and it worked out pretty good . We tried about everything that came out in the 60s 🎉 Quisp and Quake were pretty good and stand out !
Most of those I had never heard of but I definitely remember eating Crazy Cow and Quisp! I guess my favorite as a kid was peanut butter Capt. Crunch with crunch berry coming in a close second. I was probably a bit weird though because I also loved Raisin Bran and Grape Nuts.
Chocolate Crazy Cow & Kaboom! My all time favorites! The monster cereals were also yummy. Amazing I do not remember many of the 70's era cereals. What's pathetic is they all have one ingredient in common - sugar.
Growing up, in my home town we mainly had Food Lion and Kroger. There was a strange grocery store in town called Red Front which was the only place you could get rare things like Rice Krispies with marshmallows or Kaboom cereal. It was such a treat to go there but it looks like Red Front got new management and shut about 4 years ago. Good memories though.
they were crazy for all the characters back then. i just remember Waffelo's being my favorite that got discontinued but that missed out being an early 80s cereal.
I always loved Quisp. However my mother would only buy Total! On the rare occasion I could get something less healthy so to speak I would always grab Quisp.
My twin brother and I totally missed out on the ‘70s cereals. Our older siblings told us the stories of those old cereals. Though they missed out on the ‘60s cereals, where our much older cousins bragged about that. One of them has his old decoder ring prize from one cereal. Another one has a miniature model car kit.
I have never heard of many of these cereals. Our mother was very strict when it came to morning cereals. We usually had Porridge for breakfast. Sometimes pancakes or eggs, or waffles. If we had a cereal it was usually Kellloggs corn flakes.
Many of these cerials never made their way into Canada. I'm from Montreal and I remember the big names in breakfast cerials like Froot Loops, Sugar Crisp, Captain Crunch, Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Apple Jacks and so on but many brand in this video I never even heard of!
Our household was pretty basic when I was a kid, Corn flakes, Rice Crispies and Cheerios. Mom didn't like all the sugar but as we got a little older and more kids in the family she relented a bit and we got Sugar Snaps and Frosted Flakes. We also had oatmeal and Malt o meal. I am not a big cereal fan today except in winter I like some oatmeal. I did not even recognize a good portion of the ones you highlighted.
