Best Childhood Cereals No Longer Available
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so who decided that these cereals should be stripped from the grocery store shelf? There was a wonderful time in all of our childhoods where our favorite mascots were celebrated with cereal box covers, transforming boring, old grocery aisles into a rainbow of Technicolor deliciousness. These fiber-rich cereals were the ultimate choice in breakfast treats. Shiny, familiar faces stared us back and beckoned, "Choose me, for I pair best with your Saturday Morning Cartoons!" Unfortunately, those same faces have disappeared over the years. Many of our favorite childhood cereals are no longer available, but that doesn't mean they have disappeared from our memory. Here is a list of some of our favorite cereals that we miss truly, madly, deeply.
French Toast Crunch
For the child that wasn't allowed to use the stove, there was French Toast Crunch, a delicious cereal that had the same great taste as the forbidden fried and egg-soaked bread. Did anybody else drizzle syrup in the cereal bowl? This was the only real way to enjoy French Toast Crunch.
Sprinkle Spangle
Does anything beat a magic genie that grants sprinkles over colorful sugar cereal? Sugary bits of sweetened corn puffs dusted with a range of rainbow sugar specs tasted absolutely magical. If we were a kid with three wishes, we'd probably wish for three boxes of Sprinkle Spangles.
Dino Pebbles
Everybody's favorite character from The Flintstones finally got his own cereal! At a time when the Flintstones family began appearing all over the grocery store, Dino popped up in cereal boxes, gummy vitamins, and fruit snacks. Dino Pebbles would be short-lived, as Fruity Pebbles prevailed and Dino Pebbles quickly became extinct.
Reptar Crunch
It's the Rugrats-themed cereal with lots of attitude and even more bits of dinosaur. What started as a fictitious cereal on a cartoon became the real deal, and it was good enough to make us kick and scream like Angelica until we got to take a box home.
Oreo-Os
Is that the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man? Nope, it's just a sweet puffy, white Oreo creature made out of that crème filled center of Oreos! And there are literally hundreds of those little creatures inside that box of cereal. By our estimation, eating a bowl of Oreo-O's may have contained more sugar than a sleeve of Oreo cookies… but that didn't stop us from finishing off both in one sitting.
Berry Berry Kix
Nothing kicks up a bowl of tiny cornballs like some sickly-sweet berry triangles. Available for only a short time in the early 90s, Berry Berry Kix was the ultimate compromise cereal – Moms were happy we were eating Kix, we were happy because our milk tasted like blueberries.
Pop-Tarts Crunch
Pop-Tarts with a spoon? Come on! Pop-Tarts were the go-to portable pastry that made an even better cereal. By shrinking them down to miniature fruit-filled pies, these sugary strawberry and brown sugar cinnamon pieces made for the most delicious breakfast fusion dish on the whole list.
Dunkin Donuts Cereal
Can't decide between a bowl of cereal and a box of donuts? Why not both! Dunkin Donuts shocked the nation with a cereal that contained two bags of different flavors: one bag had glazed whole grain O's, and in the other was a bag of chocolate O's. Both delicious, both absolutely incredible.
Nintendo Cereal System
Power up! Nintendo cereal was a dream come true, as Mario and Link turned breakfast into an 8-bit adventure. It was a combination of artifacts from our favorite video games. Berry flavored Zelda weapons were mixed with Koopa Troopa marshmallows. What better way to start the day than defeating some baddies for breakfast?
Urkel-Os
Based off everyone's favorite 80's character Steve Urkel, this cereal was spawned from America's obsession with the geeky guy from Family Matters. A strawberry and banana flavored cereal with yellow and red loops, it's a food item we still wish was around today.