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Go with the Orange Moose

There comes a time in every boy’s life that he becomes a man. For me, that day is today.
I leave at sundown for two weeks in search of this mystical animal, the Orange Moose. It was last sighted in the Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia…but it won’t make that mistake again. I hope to corner it in [...]

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The Bear of the Hour: Vitamins vs. Sugar

This is an amazing video…but how well were you paying attention? Were you counting the number of times vitamins were mentioned? How about the word sugar? Well, if you didn’t you are in luck…I did!
Sugar(y): 12, Super: 8, Bear: 6, Crisp: 5, Vitamin(s): 4
Based on this data, Super Sugar Crisp should have 3 times the [...]

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Party Like a H-I-P-P-O-ster

It’s shaping up to be a very nice weekend (at CerealBlogger headquarters)…and I’m ready to party. If you are thinking what I am thinking…follow these five simple steps to a successful foray into event planning:
1. Watch this video.
2. Burn a DVD of this video, looping.
3. Host a party and play this video on a small [...]

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Cereal nerds that pre-date Toby Radloff

I just bought a USB memory scan device that is capable of converting my 1980’s cereal related memories into an easy to view mpeg format. Allow me to recall a trip to the market back in ‘86:

We sure did buy Iggy a lot of cereal that day. Including that Nerds Cereal. Every box of Nerds [...]

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Getting Square with Breakfast Bears

Wake up, everybody, wake up! What a catchy jingle, and what a cute bear-shaped cereal. Hey, wait a minute, didn’t they market those same exact sweet bear-shaped crackers as a snack called Teddy Grahams? Well, 1990 saw the brief introduction of Breakfast Bears (no not Barkfast Squares…) into Nabisco’s line of bear-promoted products. They didn’t [...]

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Cereal Endorsements are EZ

Hide your dog, the original pup-munchers are back with another Alpha-Bits jammy jam. J5 (the Jackson brothers) already rocked the world with their first cereal commercial way back when. Check out the new joint below.

Continuing the trend of suggestive commercial lyrics set forth with his original “VD” exploits (read the old post to see [...]

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Snap Crackle n’ Pop Music

Behold: the very first commercial made by the Rolling Stones, in October of 1963…and it’s for Rice Krispies. Hot jams! It ran in several countries under the condition that they would not be identified as the band playing. (Other bands aren’t nearly as coy…)

This is no Dead Flowers of course, but feel free to peruse [...]

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