70's Cereals

[bushy]

I was just thinking about Quisp cereal while I was checking out this site. Remember the infamous Quisp vs Quake mail-in Marketing Campaign, think it was 1972. I was a quisp junkie and so relieved at age 10 when I found out Quisp won and Quake quickly left the scence. Only to be followed by Quisp sadly several years later...

Also during this time they had 4 of those disgusting monster cereals. Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Boo Berry and Fruite Brute. The latter lasted all of a year I think......

[Robin]

I wonder... was Quake and Quisp a regional thing? I'm in Maryland which is the DC area on the mid atlantic coast and I don't remember them at all, but so many people have written about them over the years.

I do remember Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Boo Berry but not Fruite Brute.

If you remember Quake and Quisp, respond by saying where you lived back then. I'm just curious to see if someone is where I am from and I just missed it!

[gena]

new york - then and now and quisp was one of the best cereal ever. the commercials were really cool

[bushy]

Yes, It may have been a Metro-NY regional thing. It was one of the best cereals ever. I even ordered one of the quisp propeller head things with 5 box tops

[tikibob]

Hello everybody. I'm new here and I would like to say that I too remember Quisp and Quake cereals. I used to eat the cereal all the time growing up in Los Angeles...

[bev]

I live in Nebraska and we had both Quisp and Quake cereals here.

[tikibob]

Anyone ever try Pink Panther Flakes cereal??? There are a lot of things to miss about the early 70s, not the least of which is the groovy taste of Pink Panther Flakes Cereal.

[bushy]

Wow Tiki, I remember Pink Panther Flakes.. I remember trying them and thinking they were pretty gross even as a kid.. They turned the milk pink too I remember... Isn't this about the same time they indroduced Cap 'n' Crunc with Crunchberries ?? I remember the commercial with the Crunchberry beast !! You couldn't make that stuff up ;D

[tikibob]

I remember liking Pink Panther Flakes. They were so incredibly sweet, they made Sugar Frosted Flakes seem like "Total" LOL! ;D Talk about a major sugar rush!! The things we ate as kids! ;D I think your right about Cap'n Chunch's Crunchberries being out at that time. I seem to remember eating a lot of them to be able to get the box tops, so I could receive a Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory kit, which enabled me to make my own Wonka chocolate bars. I believe that was around 1971 when the movie came out.


Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory Kit Ad


Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory Kit

[david111]

Hi,everybody.i am new here,this site is fantastic,thanks robin! i had a lot of favorite cereals back then,but on sat.mornings it was fruit loops,i loved to watch hr pufnstuf and stuf myself with em,follow your nose!

[MIa]

I was crazy about Count Chocula ,Boo berry and Frankenberry cereals! I remember eating them while watching romper room and The New Zoo Revue ,before going to kindergarten hahaha.Cap'n Crunch and the Crunch Berry Beast were there too!

[jeannepolkadotbikini]

Best 1970 cereal was Alphabet Cereal...there were 45records on the back of the box and you cut them out and played them on your record player think I got "Sugar Do Do Do Do Do Do aw Honey Honey You Are My Candy Girl and you me wantin You" by the Archies.
Best cereal memory...opened the box one morning and instead of 1 superball inside as the prize I got a Whole Box of superballs and NO cereal. It was probably the best day of my entire childhood

[bev]

Wow I forgot all about the 45's on the back of the box! I also had Sugar Sugar? by the Archies. My husband of 28 years LOVED that song as a kid in Jr. High. He was lucky enough to have the Archies album.

[debnjohn6469]

Hi everyone,


This is so cool because my wife Deb and I, both remember alot of these cereals from the 70's. Cereals like, Cap' n Crunch, Crunch Berries, Peanut Butter Crunch. My wife says her favorite was Boo Berry cereal. I think she likes that one cause Boo Berry always looked so sad and she felt sorry for him. Hahaha. I loved most anything back then. Everything from Corn Pops to Honeycombs. Hey does anyone remember the Honeycomb tree clubhouse where the kids would sneak off to eat some Honeycombs cereal and only to have some adult show up there at their club house and try to get their cereal by looking so big and scary? Or how about short lived cereals like Frosted Rice Cereal with Tony the Tiger Jr. as it's mascot? Or what about Pac-Man cereal or Smurf Berries cereal? Okay now it's time for me to take my meds again, since my wife is yelling at me to stop talking to you all on here. hahaha. She's coming to take me away haha...she's coming to take me away haha...he he...ho ho...haha.