The Golden Age of Breakfast Cereals

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I wanted to publicly lament the current state of breakfast cereals. I was in the cereal section of a local Tesco recently and was shocked but also reminded of the time we live in.

I remember the 90s growing up and you had pure sugar cereal - Riccles, Smacks (they don’t make that anymore, wonder why!), Honey Nut Loops. I think some of these are still made now but have been rebranded.

The overall sugar content isn’t what it used to be. I think the only thing you can get that’s any good is the cinnamon wheats. Frosted wheats seemed to be gone as well.

A lot of the focus now is on health and nutritional value, and I guess it should be, you’d only get kids whining like little ****s to get super sugary cereal anyway if it was there.

Anyway mini rant: what was the breakfast cereal and why?

This is it

Plain old rice crispies were/are my favorite. Was never into the sugar brands to be honest

TheAsYLuMkeY

Sugar puffs..... your pi*s smelled of them after eating them!

Test For Echo

I would kill for a box of old school Sugar Puffs...:(

banie01

Cornflakes, sliced banana, ice cold milk and a good lash of double cream poured over the top!

Was a treat 30yrs ago, and still is now....


Ricicles and the likes were just crack for kids tho! :pac:

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Also; was trying to think of sugar puffs, kept getting mixed up with monster munch, which also suffered a horrible rebranding and bland new flavour compared to its former version.

Or was it monster puffs first and then sugar puffs?

fussyonion

I used to love Start cereal but they stopped making it a few years ago.

Mr. CooL ICE

I have fond memories of Weetabix. Tried it recently and it was so bland. Maybe my memories were more to do with the tablespoons of sugar i used to put on them

Ultrflat

I like toast bacon avadao and runney eggs

Feisar

My Mum was health conscious before it was a thing. So it was Weetabix or porridge in our house, fuppin' Cornflakes were a treat!

Used to love staying over at a friends, they had Frosties in the morning.

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Old school Kelloggs boxes





We got these once, they were kind of mank to be honest

Bobblehats

Feisar wrote: »

My Mum was health conscious before it was a thing

That’s nice :P did most of my drinking and smoking before I was even out of the womb

Rikand

fussyonion wrote: »

I used to love Start cereal but they stopped making it a few years ago.

That was always my favourite too but it was very expensive. Even in recent years, the tiny little box was around 4.50 and you'd have it all eaten in 3 bowls.

Usually on the night it was bought too!

deise08

Steyr 556 wrote: »

Old school Kelloggs boxes





We got these once, they were kind of mank to be honest

😂😂 Even as an adult, I looked straight at what they were giving free in the box there.

Crikey I think the whole of Ireland had the cornflake reflectors. Any still going around I wonder?

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deise08 wrote: »

😂😂 Even as an adult, I looked straight at what they were giving free in the box there.

Crikey I think the whole of Ireland had the cornflake reflectors. Any still going around I wonder?

They were class, I used to have a load of them.

The Tetrarch

TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »

Sugar puffs..... your pi*s smelled of them after eating them!

One Christmas my mother said we could each have what we wanted for breakfast on Christmas day.
I asked for Sugar Puffs so she bought a box.
That sticks in my mind to this day (I'm 70 in a few months), not the Sugar Puffs, but getting to pick what you wanted.

gerrybbadd

Corn Pops, used to love them.

Anyone remember that horrible banana flavoured cereal that Kellogs had back in the 90s?

chrissb8

When I was a kid I was only ever allowed to have cornflakes or rice krispies. So whenever I went to my cousins' house to stay the night or visit I used to eat about 3 or 4 bowls of frosties in one go.

Even to this day once or twice a year I'll grab a box of frosties and spend the whole day eating the box worth over every meal.

I laugh at the "benefits" though on some of these cereal boxes "added vitamin b" or "no artificial colours". Oh great, phew that puts my mind at rest from this bowl of sugar I'm about to eat.

Zebra3

Steyr 556 wrote: »

Anyway mini rant: what was the breakfast cereal and why?

That's a couple of questions, not a rant.

Canis Lupus

TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »

Sugar puffs..... your pi*s smelled of them after eating them!

The greatest food to eat stoned. When I had some weed I'd go to the shops first to buy Sugar puffs. nyom.

banie01

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Corn Pops, used to love them.

Anyone remember that horrible banana flavoured cereal that Kellogs had back in the 90s?

Ugggh they were rank...
Cut the mouth off ya too!
Worse than yellow pack cornflakes

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjLO4eEp0Xs

Does anyone get that undercurrent of serious drug addiction that comes across in this first advert? The kids come on the stage and taunt the bird with sugary cereal knowing full well he has issues with it.

Also the ad at 2:05 is nightmare fuel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDWXGcsMTHw

Nightmare fuel again.

IAMAMORON

I heard somewhere that Crunchy Nut Cornflakes were invented by a consortium of dentists.

Mr. CooL ICE

My sisters had the Rice Krispies digital watches and I was mad jealous. Remember the ones that had the popup display?




I saved up enough packet tokens to send away and get these bad boys:

recyclops

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Anyone remember that horrible banana flavoured cereal that Kellogs had back in the 90s?

hope your not talking about banana bubbles because they were top class. tagline

"the cereal that taste like a milkshake"

im still everyday 2 weetabix and sliced banana, ice cold milk

anyone who eats cereal warm is a heathen

GreeBo

Anyone remember Harvest Crunch?
Used to love that.

Mister Vain

TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »

Sugar puffs..... your pi*s smelled of them after eating them!

I thought that was just me. Glad I wasn't alone. :pac:

cj maxx

This is it wrote: »

Plain old rice crispies were/are my favorite. Was never into the sugar brands to be honest

Or Weetabix

Mister Vain

Mark Rippetoe wrote: »

My sisters had the Rice Krispies digital watches and I was mad jealous. Remember the ones that had the popup display?




I saved up enough packet tokens to send away and get these bad boys:

God yes I remember the watches. And the reflectors for the bikes. We used to put them on the spokes.

Tchaikovsky

fussyonion wrote: »

I used to love Start cereal but they stopped making it a few years ago.

Always left the roof of your mouth in tatters.

Mister Vain

Start was lovely. They always had a picture of a runner or a cyclist on the box. So I'd horse it into me and leg it out the door thinking I was an athlete.

GreeBo

Mister Vain wrote: »

Start was lovely. They always had a picture of a runner or a cyclist on the box. So I'd horse it into me and leg it out the door thinking I was an athlete.

Steve Cram wasnt it?

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I'd say it's nice if you get used to it but it's a no craic breakfast for sure.

WesternZulu

Anyone remember the Coco Corn Flakes made by Kellogg's in the late 90's/early 00's? Don't think that was their exact name though but it was something like that.

They were essentially regular cornflakes covered in chocolate - what Coco Pops was to Rice Krispies.

Delicious!

Cienciano

WesternZulu wrote: »

Anyone remember the Coco Corn Flakes made my Kellogg's in the late 90's/early 00's? Don't think that was their exact name though but it was something like that.

They were essentially regular cornflakes covered in chocolate - what Coco Pops was to Rice Krispies.

Delicious!

Yeah, I remember them. They were great, one of the few nice sugary cereals.

Bran Flakes had the best ad, it's still stuck in my head after all those years.

Mister Vain

Nesquik and Golden Nuggets were savage.

TheAsYLuMkeY

This is the scaldiest tasting cereal that was ever produced, i recall when we had run out of everything else (cornflakes & oats) this was always there as the old man ate it, no matter how much sugar you doused them with it still cut through the sweetness and tasted like crap,

buckwheat

Canis Lupus wrote: »

The greatest food to eat stoned. When I had some weed I'd go to the shops first to buy Sugar puffs. nyom.

I do that with Coco Pops

I'm 41

Autosport

Steyr 556 wrote: »

I'd say it's nice if you get used to it but it's a no craic breakfast for sure.

I was looking for this cereal today but no joy and now I see they’ve stopped making it won’t someone think of the children

Strumms

Frosties, no contest. I’d starve before eating weetabix and All Bran...I wouldn’t give that to a constipated gerbil.

w/s/p/c/

You can't beat a big bowl of cornflakes with some ice cold milk and a bit of sugar. Either that or Rice Krispies were the breakfast of choice as a kid. Milk had to be straight from the fridge. However in winter time, you had to have them with hot milk (from the stove and not microwave!).

Haven't had either for a long time, its either porridge oats or wheetabix with fruit for breakfast now... but feck it, gonna get a box of cornflakes when I do the shopping, live dangerously in these dangerous times!! :-)

Badly Drunk Boy

TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »

This is the scaldiest tasting cereal that was ever produced, i recall when we had run out of everything else (cornflakes & oats) this was always there as the old man ate it, no matter how much sugar you doused them with it still cut through the sweetness and tasted like crap,

Growing up, we only ever had Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies, although we would have tried some of the others on very rare occasions, maybe staying with friends or cousins. I haven't tried most of the things mentioned here and I 47.

Nowadays I live alone but always have Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies and All-Bran (the new addition). When I have them, I usually have a Corn Flakes/All-Bran mix, usually 80/20, add milk and allow to soak for 10 minutes. If I'm bothered, I'll then get add one or two handfuls of crunched up Rice Krispies, with a bit of extra milk added for the powdery Rice Krispies. And before ye retch, the sogginess from soaking brings out the flavour.

I used to love the fine bits at the end of the box so much that I made any part of the box like that by crunching it up. I converted my siblings too...

Mister Vain

There's nothing in Corn Flakes. I could eat 12 bowls of them and I'd still be hungry.

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Mister Vain wrote: »

There's nothing in Corn Flakes. I could eat 12 bowls of them and I'd still be hungry.

Yeah but if you heaped in half a bag of sugar you could drink up the sugary milk of it at the end.

fryup

the golden age of cereals was when you got the free gift inside...a small toy to assemble like a plane

but health & safety put an end to that:( choking hazard i suppose

Dr. Bre

I neArly came eating a bowl of frosted shreddies

colm_mcm

Steyr 556 wrote: »

I'd say it's nice if you get used to it but it's a no craic breakfast for sure.

This used to be out around 1990 too. Was full of sugar back then IIRC. I liked them cos they looked like wheels. They were aiming it at sports people I think.

I remember Frosties in the 90s as a 12/13 year old, they had “CARBO LOADED!” on the box in huge writing like it was a good thing, along with diagrams in how it gave you energy.

pappyodaniel

Who remembers Banana Bubbles? The cereal that thinks it's a milkshake.

Philipx

Cienciano wrote: »

Yeah, I remember them. They were great, one of the few nice sugary cereals.

Bran Flakes had the best ad, it's still stuck in my head after all those years.

Feck ya anyway...that's todays earworm :eek::eek::eek::P:P:P

Philipx

Had to be Corn Flakes, cold milk, sugar and sometimes a sliced banana.

Can you still get the multi mini packs of cereals?

We used to visit relations in Strabane in the 70's & we used to love getting these, multiple choice sugar hits :P

GreeBo

Strumms wrote: »

Frosties, no contest. I’d starve before eating weetabix and All Bran...I wouldn’t give that to a constipated gerbil.

I used to eat Frosties using fresh orange juice instead of milk.

It was the sweetest thing I have ever tasted and the juice did strange things to the flakes.



Remember these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY0cyvRgezI

Though I always seemed to get a pack with 5 corn flakes and 3 rice krispies

Anywho, I used to eat them straight from the pack, milk and all, saved on a bowl