Gods, I wish they still made this cereal! It was Lucky Charms with a great Banana Flavor on the marshmallow bits. fromthesidelines is right...it wasn't around for very long...but it certainly left an impression on me as a kid. Will SOMEONE please stop taking the sugar and flavor out of cereal?!!?
As i recall Banana Wackies was the first marshmallow-type cereal. No one I have talked to remembers it but me. Doing a Google search turns up nothing, not even a reference. Stumbled on this on You Tube accidently. Nice to know I didn't make it up.
I remember liking these as a toddler but, as you noted, they didn't last too long. In my memory they were pushed by the Peanuts kids. This cartoon character looks a little like Peanuts. A banana marbits cereal would sell, I think.
Because several new General Mills cereals were not as popular as their established ones. For example, they introduced "Sugar Cones" in 1966. They were essentially BUGLES {also introduced at the time} with added sugar and less salt. It too was around for about a year.
@EmilWMiller I agree. The problem isn't the sugar and the flavor, making kids obese, its because when WE were kids, we were outside playing and getting lots of exercise, unlike kids nowadays who sit in front of the TV, computer and video games. I liken it to how the leftists who blame guns for killing people.
gto66: People merely talk about innocuous cereal memories from the 1960s and you start foaming at the mouth about drugs? Take your Geritol and relax already.
Don't remember the cereal, but I disagree about the Ritalin. A big part of the troubles we Boomers brought on ourselves comes from our failure to be self-disciplined. "If it feels good Do IT!" does not lend itself to raising strong minded, self-directed, goal oriented and self sufficent kids... So we turned to the buddies we had in our teens...DRUGS!. Where has that left our kids and grandkids? Third rate students behind Red China for God Sakes! Think about it!
