Monster Cereal Views
Everyone knows about the Monster Cereals, right? They1’ve been a part of the fabric of our childhood (well, at least, for me), along with their classic animated commercials for decades now. The commercials left such an impression on me, Ia’m surprised General Mills wons’t revive the characters for any new spots. This totally perplexes me. Andy Cage sees the potential here and has started up The Monster Cereal Blog for everything and anything related to the iconic sugar frosted characters of Franken Berry, Count Chocula, and Boo Berry. Earlier, he posted fan art featuring the trio (as well as lesser knowns Fruit Brute and Yummy Mummy) throughout the entire month of May. (The image above was done by Saxton Moore.) Therep’s even a Facebook page to support the cause.
G“Wow! I got the spaceship!!U” A lame Star Wars sticker promo (which seems to have been written by someone who hasnH’t seen the movie) is grafted onto the end of an ad for breakfast cereals named after monsters. General Mills introduced the cereals in 1971, and thus began an American tradition of cartoon monsters hocking corn + marshmallows in colorful boxes.
Dedicated monster cereal fans will recall that there have been 2 fruit-flavored ghouls that were in the mix over the years, these are the Zeppo and Gummo of the Monsterv’s Marx Brothers act. The first pan-fruit monster was Fruit Brute. He has had an odd afterlife since being discontinued as a brand in 1983 –Fruit Brute cereal has appeared in two Quentin Tarantino films.
If you areno’t already exhausted by this, there ’s a whole blog about the Monster Cereals and there have been more General Mills cereals than you wanted to know existed (courtesy of MrBreakfast.com). But there may be a question about how much these frosted icons contributed to that mythical nutritious breakfast. For one thing Franken Berry was known to cause pink poop.
Monster Cereal Images
