The Golden Age of Breakfast Cereals

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 02-05-2020 12:41PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBpNxm77CVQ

A-L-P-E-N

Thelonious Monk · 02-05-2020 12:51PM

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 02-05-2020 01:17PM

^ what the f*ck is that.

matchthis · 02-05-2020 01:19PM

Coco pops all the way, little plastic figures in the boxes too. Always went for the last bit of Alpen too as was like sugary dust that had sunk to the bottom of the bag. Got corn flakes too, didn’t eat them, just wanted the bike wheel reflectors.

matchthis · 02-05-2020 01:21PM

Steyr 556 wrote: »

^ what the f*ck is that.

The glow of warmth you got from eating porridge

Thelonious Monk · 02-05-2020 01:21PM

matchthis wrote: »

The glow of warmth you got from eating porridge

Ready Brek gave us a glowing suit that protected us from paedophiles in the 80s

matchthis · 02-05-2020 02:16PM

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Ready Brek gave us a glowing suit that protected us from paedophiles in the 80s

Thankfully I was Fugly as I didn’t eat porridge

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 02-05-2020 02:28PM

matchthis wrote: »

The glow of warmth you got from eating porridge

It's a creepy image just as a still, I presume it's from an advert.

tea and coffee · 02-05-2020 02:34PM

Country Store. Like Alpen only laden with sugar. Yum.

( in re the sugar content- coco pops are almost 50% sugar still)

Thelonious Monk · 02-05-2020 02:38PM

Steyr 556 wrote: »

It's a creepy image just as a still, I presume it's from an advert.

Yeah they were pretty weird ads really

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVAvA6fP8Xw

Gynoid · 02-05-2020 03:39PM

I was reared on Rice Krispies and minced meat, thankfully not at the same time. For treats there were Cornflakes. I used to have them with hot milk, but it had to be just before the boil to be perfect. Then my mother discovered Three Guys discount supermarket, which she sometimes called Gubays, a name that somehow made me think it was the height of posh. Every time she said I'm off to Gubays I thought she was cool. Their own brand cornflakes were RANK though.

But that was all that we got given, and Kelloggs became a distant fond memory. Once I even found mouse shyte in a pack. Childhood traumas.

Filmer Paradise · 02-05-2020 06:31PM

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Ready Brek gave us a glowing suit that protected us from paedophiles in the 80s

Ready Brek was great stuff. In the '70s there was different flavours. Banana and Butterscotch to name 2.

We got Shredded Wheat once. Vile. I'll never know how they were ever a thing.

It was like trying to eat Hay!

dreamers75 · 02-05-2020 08:35PM

Alpen on top of Crunchy Nut Cornflakes with ice cold milk.

rtron · 02-05-2020 08:49PM

Who remembers corn flakes with the characters from Disney's the black cauldron?

Cushtie · 02-05-2020 09:02PM

All ye posh feckers with yere Rice Krispies, Corn Flakes, Coco pops!!! We had two choices, weetabix or starve. If there was no weetabix twas boiled egg.

Like a few of the posters above it was only if staying over at the friends or cousins we would get to have corn flakes.

I remember when I was around 13 or 14 I used to babysit some younger cousins. They always had a wide range of cereals, used to clean em out!!!

tastyt · 02-05-2020 09:12PM

Remember weetos, chocolate rings with a mad scientist on the box , loved them

Also lucky charms with the leprechauns on them and little marshmallows, I’d kill a whole box of them and be sick

Adyx · 02-05-2020 09:13PM

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Ready Brek was great stuff. In the '70s there was different flavours. Banana and Butterscotch to name 2.

We got Shredded Wheat once. Vile. I'll never know how they were ever a thing. It was like trying to eat Hay!

I liked Shredded Wheat. And All-Bran/Bran Flakes. My favourite cereal is Special K though.

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 02-05-2020 10:53PM

Gynoid wrote: »

I was reared on Rice Krispies and minced meat, thankfully not at the same time.

Forbidden recipes 101.

SEPT 23 1989 · 02-05-2020 11:00PM

Frosted Wheats

Late 90's early zeros

Let those lads soak for a few minutes in a bowl of avonmore

Mother of jaysus

fryup · 03-05-2020 10:59AM

who remembers sugar puffs, your pee used to smell of it afterwards

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 03-05-2020 12:19PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Frosted Wheats

They still make frosted wheats but I never see them in any shops around me in awhile.

SeaFields · 03-05-2020 12:24PM

I wasn't allowed get Start

It was in small boxes so I'd have it eaten the day the food shop was done. My mother used tell me it was a waste of time buying it

fryup · 17-05-2020 12:52PM

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Ready Brek was great stuff.

anyone ol'skinflints out there make their own homemade ready brek by blending oatmeal flakes in a blender?

or was it just me

Ultrflat · 17-05-2020 02:01PM

Remember the frosted rice crispys with freeze dried marshmallows? They had a weird name.

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 17-05-2020 02:18PM

Ultrflat wrote: »

Remember the frosted rice crispys with freeze dried marshmallows? They had a weird name.

Sounds like Riciciles but the marshmallows is not in them.

Ultrflat · 17-05-2020 02:22PM

Steyr 556 wrote: »

Sounds like Riciciles but the marshmallows is not in them.

Yes!

That's them, they were ok, but that much sugar first thing int the morning and people blame ADD :pac:

I enjoyed them

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 17-05-2020 02:23PM

Yeah Kelloggs have discontinued them because they started removing sugary cereals from their product line.

Life can't be fun anymore

Ipso · 18-05-2020 06:59AM

rtron wrote: »

Who remembers corn flakes with the characters from Disney's the black cauldron?

35 years ago!! Thanks for making me feel old.

angel eyes 2012 · 18-05-2020 07:28AM

It was mostly cornflakes and rice Krispies in our house. Into the 2000s my sister and I loved Crunchy Nut Cornflakes, I had them a couple of years ago and the name is so misleading they are laden with sugar!

I remember some friends houses would have poptarts and I wanted them at home but my Mam was having none of it. I think they tasted like cardboard but the novelty factor was high.

I also remember about 15 years ago maybe cornflakes promoted itself as a diet food - I think the plan was you would have 2 bowls a day and 1 healthy meal, I tried it for 2 or 3 days and ended up putting on more weight.

Hangdogroad · 18-05-2020 07:30AM

Ipso wrote: »

35 years ago!! Thanks for making me feel old.

Remember those hologram cards with pictures of dinosaurs which turned into modern day animals when you moved them? A tiger became a T Rex etc.

The Golden Age of Breakfast Cereals

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