Fruity Pebbles is a colorful, crispy rice cereal originally marketed with fruit flavors including orange, lemon and tangerine. The Post cereal company introduced Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles at the same, and they were the first cereals to be created based on a television series. The show that inspired these popular cereals was none other…
Lucky Charms breakfast cereal is a headliner in the General Mills product lineup. The sweet, toasted oats cereal mixed with iconic colorful marshmallow shapes made their way to American tables in 1964. The breakfast cereal was created after General Mills issued a challenge to its team: Make a unique new cereal using the same manufacturing…
Cocoa Pebbles is a sweet, crispy rice breakfast cereal with artificial and real cocoa flavoring. Add milk, and you soon have a bowl of crunchy cereal swimming in tasty chocolate milk to start your day. Cocoa Pebbles and its partner breakfast cereal Fruity Pebbles were the first to be created around existing cartoon characters, specifically…
It’s a delicious cinnamon graham, it’s a cereal, and it’s absolutely flavorful and fun! Golden Grahams are made by General Mills and they are one of the best cereals ever created in our humble opinion. If you like graham crackers, you will be quite pleased with this cereal delight that takes the fun and flavor…
Kellogg’s Corn Flakes has been a staple of the kitchen pantry going all the way back to the early 1900s. While some might think Corn Flakes cereal lacks the pizazz of some flashier, sweeter varieties designed to appeal to children, its history more than makes up for any thought that Corn Flakes might be bland….
Cocoa Puffs cereal was every child’s dream: Chocolate for breakfast. Even better: Chocolate for breakfast, washed down with milk that, thanks to that crunchy sweet cereal, became chocolate milk to slurp straight out o the bowl. Cocoa Puffs were introduced to the American breakfast table in 1956 by General Mills. The cereal is puffed corn…
Cheetos Puffs, those airy, crunchy, cheesy treats that melt in your mouth and leave their mark on your fingertips, first hit the chip aisle in 1971. But their origin story begins much sooner, with Crunchy Chee-tos, which were introduced to the world in 1948. Fifty years later, the company dropped the hyphen in the name…
“Frosted Flakes,” the deliciously crunchy breakfast cereal, has been a staple of many family’s mornings since Kellogg’s introduced it in 1952. Originally called “Sugar Frosted Flakes,” the cereal is a sweetened version of the company’s Corn Flakes. The word “Sugar” was dropped from the name in 1983, though the flakes remain as sweet as they…
Space food sticks are linked indelibly with the first trips to space and they were very popular in the space race era due to this connection. If you have not heard of these snacks, that is because they were discontinued in the 1980s when the original space race craze officially ended. This being said, they…
There are not many kinds of cereal that have been made by General Mills that did not experience long-term success. The company is famous for creating memorable and exciting cereal blends and styles that were often paired with silly and fun mascots. General Mills has sold some of the same cereals since the early 1900s…