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General Mills 50th Anniversary ‘Monster Mash’ Cereal

This year marks the 50th anniversary of General Mills’ Monster Cereals lineup, which began with the launch of chocolate-flavored Count Chocula and strawberry-flavored Franken Berry cereals in 1971. The blueberry-flavored cereal Boo Berry followed shortly after, premiering in 1973. Fruit Brute and Fruity Yummy Mummy, which were introduced in 1974 and 1988 respectively, will make their returns in the Monster Mash cereal after both being discontinued in 2014.

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PEBBLES Cereal Churns Out New Light Ice Creams

Grubbits readers are well aware that throughout the years that fan-favorite foods have crossed over to other food aisles. The Flintstones’ Pebbles cereal is no stranger to food merging. Now you will be screaming for Pebbles ice-cream in both Cocoa Pebbles and Fruity Pebbles flavors. It is funny that many kids today grew up on Flintstones’ vitamins and Pebbles cereal but never saw an episode of The Flintstones. Their only contact with the characters is at the supermarket level.

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General Mills Releasing Buddy the Elf Cereal

Hallmark already announced their Christmas line-up of 24/7 Christmas movies. General Mills is not far behind with the release of an official release of “Elf” cereal. The sugar-laced cereal is yet another in a long list of pop culture cross-promotion products to hook kids at heart longing for nostalgia. Elf cereal is sweetened corn puffs with holiday tree marshmallows with flavored maple syrup and other natural flavors. The limited-edition Elf Cereal will be on shelves in time for the holidays.

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The brief history of the General Mills Monster cereals

In March 1971, General Mills unleashed Count Chocula and Franken Berry onto breakfast tables with their sugar-laced cereals.
In February 1972, Franken Berry cereal joined the gang of cereals. The three remained constant throughout the years.
Fruit Brute joined the fold in 1974 but was discontinued by 1982 and replaced in 1987 by Fruity Yummy Mummy, which was discontinued in 1992.

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Special Edition ‘All Together’ Cereal at Kellogg’s NYC café

To support Spirit Day, the most visible anti-LGBTQ bullying campaign and united show of support for LGBTQ youth, Kellogg Company today launched a special edition ‘All Together’ cereal in collaboration with GLAAD supporting inclusion and to stand up against bullying. ‘All Together’ will be available today at Kellogg’s NYC café. Visitors will receive an ‘Altogether’ special edition box and can make their own ‘All Together’ cereal by mixing a diverse combination of Kellogg’s cereals.

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Cereal Killers: Ursula from The Little Mermaid and Oogie Boogie from A Nightmare Before Christmas

Bring on the bad guys! Funko, the toy manufacturer, is at it again as they release another set of cereal themed boxes. Once again, the toy inside plays a prominent role. Evil is at the forefront with The Little Mermaid’s Ursula and The Nightmare Before Christmas’ Oogie Boogie. Unfortunately, they are available exclusively at Spencer’s and Spirit Halloween. You can buy them both online if you are unable to make a trip to both stores. These cereal killers are ready to wreak havoc in your mouth with their multigrain colored laced colored cereal. All in good spirit, just in time for Halloween.

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Is Kellogg’s jumping the shark with their new Baby Shark cereal?

Baby Shark is a popular YouTube video has accumulated 3 billion views and counting. The cereal business needs to jump-start their sluggish sales and why not net the latest internet sensation Baby Shark from PINKFONG. Kellogg’s is cashing in on the popularity of this little ditty. The cereal is exclusive to Walmart and Sam’s Club. How apropos for shark week! Great marketing! Too bad it comes out on August 17th at Sam’s Club and mid-September at Walmart.

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Nutty Gripe: No Grapes or Nuts in Grape-Nuts Cereal

Throughout the years, cereal companies have made many claims. Corn Flakes was branded as a masturbation deterrent when first created. Well, it did not stop eaters from doing the dirty deed. Post’s Grape-Nuts cereal one would think there are either grapes or nuts inside the box. It has only four ingredients: whole grain wheat flour, malted barley flour, salt, and dried yeast.

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Cinnamon Toast Crunch Churros!

Usually churros are carnival food. Lately, they are appearing everything. It’s only natural that General Mill’s Cinnamon Toast Crunch would incorporate churros as an offshoot of their popular cereal brand. Cinnamon Toast Crunch Churros are great with milk but also yummy as a stand-alone snack.

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Clark W. Griswold and Cousin Eddie ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’ Cereal from Funko

There was a time when the toy was secondary when buying cereal. The folks of Funko see the world a bit more differently. The cereal is secondary. They are releasing what seems to be a steady flow of pop culture merchandised sugar laced themed cereals. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is feted for the occasion with Clark W. Griswold and Cousin Eddie cereals designed uniquely to each character. The boxes are exclusive to FYE.

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Funko Batman Cereal

Funko the makers of those cute bobblehead figurines are now making cereal. It’s funny, their customer base millennials do not gravitate to cereal as a breakfast choice.
Millennials surveyed say that cereal was an inconvenient breakfast choice because they had to clean up after eating it.

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Serial peanut butter cereal mixes

You heard of cereal with peanut butter flavor. How about peanut butter with cereal? Now you can buy peanut butter with such flavors as fruity crisps, cocoa puffed rice and cinnamon crisps. The Peanut Principle!, a New York, company wants you to think outside the box and put cereal in a jar with peanut butter. It’s like having two meals at the same time. Cereal with a sandwich.