Toys in your box of cereal

meath4sam

Why don't we get toys in the cereal anymore I remember as a kid eating cereal all day long till it came out then get to the end and it's not there as my brother robbed it as soon as box was opened.

kneemos

Should have done what your brother did.

Love2love

I think it's to do with the sugar content of most cereals. It encourages children to eat the likes of coco pops which aren't very nutritious.

theblaqueguy

Terrible loss
Won't somebody think of the children?

LordSutch

meath4sam wrote: »

Why don't we get toys in the cereal anymore I remember as a kid eating cereal all day long till it came out then get to the end and it's not there as my brother robbed it as soon as box was opened.

I wonder why the cereal manufacturers stopped doing it? Health & safety maybe?
Same goes for the ring that we used to find in the barmbrack at Hallloween, but thats also long gone . . .

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meath4sam

They don't even do the collect so many tokens and send away for something anymore.

hfallada

Because cereal companies are mean *****. A box of generic cornflakes is like a quarter of the price of the real thing. But yet there is little difference in quality

camel jockey

Political correctness gone mad.

dmc17

LordSutch wrote: »

Same goes for the ring that we used to find in the barmbrack at Hallloween, but thats also long gone . . .

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No it's not. They were in them this year

ComputerKing

Ya I don't know why they don't have them here anymore but anytime I go to France there are toys in all the children's cereals.

ComputerKing

Ya I don't know why they don't have them here anymore but anytime I go to France there are toys in all the children's cereals.

LordSutch

dmc17 wrote: »

No it's not. They were in them this year

Apologies, I thought they had stopped hiding them in the brack.

harney

LordSutch wrote: »

Apologies, I thought they had stopped hiding them in the brack.

Just learn to chew instead of gulping it all down in one go

NuckingFacker

It's the recession. The little feckers need to learn to do without. A few years of no plastic spiders ought to soften them up nicely. Real answer, some beller probably sued because little nigel choked on a mutant turtle. Hence no toys. boo.

dmc17

LordSutch wrote: »

Apologies, I thought they had stopped hiding them in the brack.

They haven't unfortunately but they should. It's a case of trying to find it so you can throw it in the bin.

Daqster

meath4sam wrote: »

I remember as a kid eating cereal all day long till it came out.

Tablespoon of Castor Oil would have done the job.

Jimoslimos

Data mining. It's more profitable these days to collect mobile phone/email/social media accounts and sell that information to advertisers.

Ruu

The sugar in cereals dissolves any toys they put in there.

cml387

Probably belongs in retro. However, toys in cereals was the highlight of my growing up.
There were:
Miniature Captain Scarlet models
Aeroplanes,and an airport you could cut from the back of the packet.
Little figures that would walk across the table, pulled by a small weight on a string.
And animal heads, once again on the back of the box, which had to be assmbled (fit Tab A into Slot

Pumpkinseeds

Kinda eggs are illegal in America as they're considered a choking hazzard but are still on sale here, so I'm guessing it's just cost cutting by not putting any toys in cereal boxes.

goose2005

They should do it the other way around as well. Every box of Lego could contain a tiny sachet of CHeerios.