Post then changed the formula and re-released the cereal in as Magic Berries Cereal. Looking for a sugar high now? When you open your celebratory, Franken Berry or any of the other monster cereals this Halloween, , expect a sugar high—without the pink poop aftermath. We tasted all five of the cereals and Count Chocula is the best by a long shot. Her work also appears in OutsideOnline. Franken Berry cereal was originally released in by General Mills with his monster-buddy Count Chocula.
Post a Comment. Cereal pieces for the three monster cereals were initially cylinder-shaped with a cross in the middle.
Now, each monster cereal brand has its own character shapes. In this TV commercial, the monster duo argue over who has the best cereal. Count Chocula boast that his cereal has monstrous chocolate flavor while Franken Berry claims his cereal has monstrous strawberry flavor. While both monsters are bickering back and forth, a young boy walks by and says hi.
The monsters, who are actually timid and easily scared, are noticeably frightened by the little boy. The commercial ends with a shot of a box of Count Chocula and Franken Berry on a breakfast table behind respective glass bowls of each cereal.
Are you a Frankenberry fan? Let me know in the comments below. Also, if you enjoy reading about cereal, check out some of my other cereal blog posts here. Since he was a child, Tony has eaten thousands of bowls of cereal.
Learn how Tony got his start as The Cereal Guru , and why he decided to start this cereal blog. There are many interesting facts about this cereal that are not as well known as it once was.
Colorful and bright cereals are the norm these days, but in the 70s, this was just starting to be a common offering on the cereal shelves in the grocery store. FrankenBerry was among the first of these cleverly marketed cereals. Count Chocula was chocolate flavored and featured an image of cartoon Dracula and the FrankenBerry was strawberry flavored and featured a silly pink Frankenstein on the box.
The commercials made to promote these cereals involved the two characters bickering over which cereal was the best. During a commercial, their verbal conflict would scare them out of their wits. This has been continued across the other varieties of the Monster lineup as well. In the 80s, the cereals were advertised as having bigger pieces and there were marshmallow bats added to all of the monster cereals for a few years in the late 80s and early 90s.
By February of , these cereals which had originally been intended to be seasonal, were still on the shelves because they were so popular. This is when Frankenberry accidentally found itself at the center of what was at first believed to be a health crisis among children.
During the early months of this year, children were showing up at hospitals with bright pink stools. Doctors did not know what to make of this mystery and it was feared that children were catching a new disease nationwide that could not be explained.
Boo Berry joined the lineup of spooky cereals in and Fruit Brute in Fruit Brute was discontinued and replaced in by Fruity Yummy Mummy which was then discontinued in These cereals have appeared and disappeared on and off throughout the duration of the promotion of the Monster Cereal lineup.
Boo Berry , Count Chocula, and Franken Berry have been the constants that sold the most and were offered continuously. Even the switch to seasonal offerings has never impacted the presence of these three popular flavors while the satellite flavors like Fruity Yummy Mummy and Frute Brute have come and gone numerous times. FrankenBerry and Count Chocula were sold all year round until
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