What discontinued cereals would you like to see brought back?

King Vitamin. Loved that cereal. Apparently it was only discontinued in 2019.

Cookie Crisp Oatmeal Cookie flavor.

S'Mores Crunch

R1 oh I liked that one too. But no way was it still available in 2019??? I’m a cereal person and never ever saw it here in NYC. Maybe it was only available in certain regions?

Crazy it’s the only Quaker Oats cereal to only be released in the states, never internationally

Quisp! I know, technically, they still make it, but I’ve never seen it in a store.

Freakies!

Another vote for King Vitamin.

Waffelos, Smurfberry Crunch, C-3POs

Colon Blow

This is the perfect type of DL thread. I foresee hundreds of responses and, at some point, a fight will break out between two posters.

Loved this one, but mostly because it had Hulk Hogan on the cover. I loved him in the late 80s/early 90s when I was very young. I had action figures of him, the WWF pillow of him etc. my cousin loved Randy Savage and we would get into fights.

R10 why does it matter? Who predicts comments?

Kelloggs put out a sugary version of rice krispies called Frosted Rice, starting in 1977.

The changed the name to Frosted Rice Krispies in 1982 or 1983.

Not sure when or why they canceled it. Or even if its is cancelled. But I haven't seen it in grocery stores in decades.

Team Flakes.

Kellogg's 40% Bran Flakes.

The original Special K Flakes (completely different from what they're like now).

Heartland was the first big granola cereal promoted as a health food.

It was oats and clusters basically glued together with dried sugar. I think it was less healthy than a lot of processed cereals.

We begged our mom to buy Kaboom. Everything about it repulsed her. Eventually, she relented and bought a box. It didn't pass our taste test and was soon forgotten. Sorry, OP, I thought it was disgusting.

R16 sure.

The original Count Chocula and Cracklin' Oat Bran. For discontinued cereals, Honey Nut Cornflakes, Wayne Gretzky's Pro-Stars, and there was one that I think was called Fruit 'n Fibre, it had coconut, banana and pineapple.

King Vitaman was clearly a DLer.

R4- I remember that cereal in the early 1970's and liking it too and I grew up just north of NYC.

FREAKIES!

The little rubber toys were the best.

Cocoa Pebbles Chocolate Cereal

R20 yes. I’m from Brooklyn and we had that cereal in the 80s and some of the 90s, but I haven’t seen it since the 90s.

R22 CoaCoa Pebbles still exists.

The dyes in Kaboom were found to cause cancer, I believe.

R25 those dyes are still used in cereals today. I never heard that it was anything special for Kaboom

Banana Frosted Flakes were amazing. They were discontinued in the 80s. The recently released a Banana Crème flavor but it’s not even slightly the same.

Sugar Jets!

Total Raisin Bran

R15 - I completely forgot about Heartland. I loved the cereal as a kid, and looking at it now I probably also lusted after the sweaty Amish trade on the box.

R26, Red dye #2 was banned as a cancer causing agent in the 70s. If it was used in the cereal at the time it was most likely reformulated at some point.

Anyone remember Vanilla Crunch? I mentioned these a few months ago and people acted like I was making them up. They tasted like powdered donuts almost.

R31 I ate Kaboom in the late 80s into the 90s, long after that dye was banned. Kaboom was discontinued in the 90s.

The Jackson 5 and I loved Alpha-Bits.

This was an elite for the few brief years it was around. I remember being very disappointed as a kid when my mother stopped buying it, not realizing it wasn’t around anymore

R16 Kaboom was nothing but high fructose corn syrup and food coloring.

Ice Cream Cones cereal. I loved this shit.

I probably wouldn’t like it now, but I’d buy a box.

My mother refused to buy this for me. I still remember it to this day because she wouldn’t buy it for me. Or the Barbie cereal. Pretty sure I got in trouble for even asking

Kaboom was popular with kids who had a history of learning disabilities and behavior issues.

King Vitamin at r1! I didn't think others liked it cause it was somewhat boring for a sweetened cereal.

I’m r38’s mom.

You will not be eating fag food. Now butch it up you little panty-waist.

R40 I always summed King Vitamin was for people over 65 yrs old. My friend and I used to crack jokes about it when I was like 6 yrs old.

Kaboom was Top 3 best selling cereals throughout all of the 70s into the early 80s. By the mid 80s sales started to decline.

R36 false. Do research. It was one of the few cereals in the 70s that had some of the most vitamins and nutrients.

You always run that mouth with zero knowledge. Humble yourself. You’re not intelligent. Actually, you’re quite the opposite

Assumed

R43

Mr. T Cereal needs to make a comeback.

The very idea.

I've never even heard of Kaboom.

R43 Kaboom was for retards

R49 yup. That’s why it was dominating 😊

I always wanted it but my mom wouldn’t allow it 😭

Nerds cereal.

Fortified Oat Flakes. Damned delicious.

Post Alpha-Bits.

Strawberry Shortcake cereal.

I loved Marshmallow Pebbles. . The best cereal, arguably better than Capn’ Crunch or Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Quisp and Quake were two different cereals featuring two different super heroes. Both were eventually discontinued, but Quisp made a brief return. I don't know why they didn't bring back Quake.

Also, I want my Maypo!

R56 I loved that one too.

Kellogg's Nutri-Grain. I liked the Almond Raisin.

Dino Pebbles. The marshmallows were so good.

Convinced r55 is just googling cereals and posting at this point and never tried any of these.

Pink Panther Flakes.

R62 you’re just googling cereals and posting ones you’ve never had.

You're dumb for saying that R61 as an 80s kid I had that cereal a couple of times & then my parents would've get it for me any more.

I think they probably saw someone they knew in the store & were embarrassed that was my choice.

King Kullen's Natural cereal was better tasting than the Quaker Oats Granola.

I loved the taste of Buc-Wheats even though they had no marketing gimmick. Then inexplicably they killed the maple, and Buc-Wheats was toast.

I remember the giant Frosted Wheats, not Mini. Red box, I think. I swear I remember that cereal.

The original Cinnamon Toast Crunch was really good but now it look and tastes like cardboard.

Another vote for Honey Nut Cornflakes.

And not a cereal but it comes up all the time in these types of threads: Carnation Breakfast Bars.

Nintendo Cereal was great too. Had that quite often when I was little.

R68 I loved the monster cereals back in the late 90s but now they all taste awful.

Puffa Puffa Rice.

Post Crispy Critters.

R68 someone on FB commented that on my post! They said Cookie Crisp original recipe was delicious but is nasty now and he used to eat it with Chocolate Carnation Breakfast Bars

One from the dark ages...Concentrate

I loved Sugar Jets, R28! Definitely my favorite cereal as a kid. I think it was still around in the early '70s but soon disappeared.

I feel like Cranberry Almond Crunch changed their recipe.

Baron Von Redberry

Sir Grapefellow

Yes, R53. My favorite growing up.

In the '60s, Post added freeze-dried strawberries to corn flakes. Adding milk was supposed to resuscitate the strawberries, but it really just made them mushy. I was fascinated by this cereal as a kid, but it was a huge flop and lasted only a couple of years, if that long.

Isn’t that what later became Special K?

[quote] Kaboom was popular with kids who had a history of learning disabilities and behavior issues.

Sounds delicious!

The vast majority of breakfast cereals are so lacking in nutrition that you'd get more of what your body needs by eating the box. Even vitamin fortified cereals are so lacking in fiber and so heavily sweetened that the vitamins they contain are probably needed to undo the damage from the product itself. We always had minimally sweetened cereals (wheaties, corn flakes, cheerios, bran flakes or raisin bran, grape nuts, and the like). Of course, if not being watched too carefully we poured a heaping spoon of sugar over them! I loved Life cereal. To me it tasted much different and more delicious than most other cereals. They still make it, but I haven't had it in years. I realized as an adult that it's loaded with sugar too, damn it.

What a bizarre accusation, R62. I was a kid in the 70s and did have Pink Panther Flakes a bunch of times—can still taste it in my mind and visualize the pink milk.

R83 was actually directed to R63; I'm R62.

[quote]Kaboom was popular with kids who had a history of learning disabilities and behavior issues.

Don Jr. and Eric loved it!

Many loved it. It made General Mills many millions and was their top selling cereal through the 70s.

The ones with the racist ads.

1969 commercial

Kibbles & Bits

I enjoyed Rice Honeys. Wheat Honeys were good, too, but they were basically the same as Honey Smacks and Golden Crisp, which are still sold.

[quote]FREAKIES! The little rubber toys were the best.

I kept getting the same toys over and over again and it pissed me off. I desperately wanted the one that looked like a blue elephant but never got it.

Kaboom was the best!! Bring it back!!!

Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs

I desperately wanted these things but my mother refused to buy them. Still scarred to this day.

Another Kaboom! fan. Grew up in Fairfield County in the 70s, and we’d get my dad to buy it.

Mom would give us those… loaves… of Shredded Wheat. She’d soak them in hot water, press it out and pour milk over it, with a little Sweet n’ Low. It was an acquired taste; we liked it, too.

A classic cereal from the ‘70s.

I’ve never had it, but after all these posts, now I want Kaboom!

Definitely, Team Flakes.

Vanilla Wafer Cookie Crisp. Unlike the chocolate chip kind, it didn't shred the roof of your mouth.

I LOVED PINK PANTHER FLAKES!

1979, the original "Fruit Brute" cereal... the monster cereal with the wolf-man mascot.

It was awesome. It was also quickly discontinued. They brought something like it back as "Yummy Mummy" for a while, but it wasn't the same, and it too was quickly discontinued.

They could just never get a fourth "Monster Cereal" going for some reason.

R101, they brought those back last year at Halloween. Or was it the FrankenBarry/Count Chocula/BooBerry?

Cookie Crisps

No love for Body Buddies?

I didn't think so.

I'll add my vote for Team flakes too. It was a blend of rice, wheat, corn, and oats, and had a unique taste.

Wasn't Quisp cereal basically Cap'n Crunch but with round pieces, not square? If I recall, Quisp's mascot was a space alien.

[quote]Wasn't Quisp cereal basically Cap'n Crunch but with round pieces, not square? If I recall, Quisp's mascot was a space alien.

A space alien named Quisp.

In1965, after the success of Cap'n Crunch, Quaker introduced two new cereals at the same time, Quisp and Quake. Both tasted like Cap'n Crunch, but Quisp was "saucer-shaped," as in flying saucers, and a little easier on the roof of your mouth. I don't remember what shape Quake cereal was. Quisp was a space alien with a propeller on his head. Quake was originally a construction worker, but later he turned into an Australian cowboy. Quisp and Quake appeared in each other's commercials as rivals, claiming that his cereal was superior. As I recall, kids were asked to vote on whether they preferred Quisp or Quake. Quisp has been sporadically brought back over the years, available mostly online, but Quake went away and never came back. Apparently Quisp won the popularity contest.

Quisp is far more retro-friendly than Quake. Gen Xers swoon over that Martian's cereal.

Cookie Crisp - vanilla

Cookie Crisp - chocolate chip

Quisp is for queers

I guess that's why I used to enjoy a bowl of it while listening to my vinyl copy of "Judy at Carnegie Hall," R109.

Kellogg's Pep, the official cereal of groomers.

Hot smacks

Cookie Crisp Oatmeal Cookie Flavor was BY FAR the best (hell, I ate it straight from the box as a snack). And it was discontinued so quickly, and never brought back. WTF not?!?

The two "nutritous" cereals were Total and Product 19. Are they still around?

Total is still around. Product 19 became increasingly hard to find and was finally discontinued by Kellogg's in 2016.

I loved Special-K Red Berries!

Freakies.

Given that every other comment here is "Freakies," how did it get discontinued?

I’m sorry you missed out on Spacesticks, R94. Somehow they are one of my earliest memories, and they were magical.

I loved Space Food Sticks. They had the texture of colored chalk, but they were weirdly delicious.

How did I miss Freakies growing up? That was my era, yet I never heard of them.

R106, I definitely sent two mail-in votes for Quisp! You had to cut out the ballot from the back of the box.