Cereal Boxes - Most Entertaining

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Kellogg's Apple Jacks has funny stuff on the package - "Other Stuff That Doesn't Taste Like Apples" - where they give some fun facts about parking meters, cockatoos, ear-muffs, duct tape and the sandbox tree. Each bit ends with something like "cockatoos in no way taste like apples" and "Americans now use 250 million square yards [of duct tape] a year, but not one of those yards taste remotely like apples".

This is the thread where we talk about cereal boxes.

― Maria D., Friday, 16 May 2003 15:48 (twenty years ago) link

I eat Grape Nuts. The box is all about how good for you it is. Or at least, I assume so. I've never read it.

Fantasy cereal - "Hom-o's" - every month, a new gay icon on the box. The first will feature Ian McKellen.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 16 May 2003 15:55 (twenty years ago) link

This link is not safe for work!

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 16 May 2003 16:03 (twenty years ago) link

Surely Cheerios would have been the better choice there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 May 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link

I used to read cereal boxes intently when I was a kid, in a half-asleep stupor. What cereal boxes make the best reading material?

― Maria D., Friday, 16 May 2003 19:23 (twenty years ago) link

ON Kelloggs cereals for a while, there were two characters, Eet and Ern, who discussed the prizes one could gain through eating andf earning their points. A TM sign floated by every picture of Eet and every picture of Ern on the label, and by every word EET and ERN. I counted, and with all the Eets, Erns and Kelloggs logos, it added up to 53 trademark signs! See:

http://www.kcsa.org/images/eet.gif

Eet and Ern logo --- with TM!

http://www.kelloggs.com/games/images/game_eecatcher3.gif

They are a rather manic looking horse/pig duo whose games' names rip off the titles of Salinger novels.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Friday, 16 May 2003 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

Fivvy, you make this up surely? I have never seen such shit.
I thought it said 'catheter in the sky' and I was really confused.

― Simeon (Simeon), Friday, 16 May 2003 23:27 (twenty years ago) link

Croonchy Stars

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 17 May 2003 00:30 (twenty years ago) link

"see how many times you can find the word rutabaga on this box. this one doesn't count" "rutaba: almost!" "rutabaga on a side panel doesn't count"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 17 May 2003 00:36 (twenty years ago) link

Haha this is the third or fourth time I've heard you talk about that cereal! I should find a box for your birthday.

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 17 May 2003 00:39 (twenty years ago) link

eight years pass...

Revive!
http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/1715/image08142011174931.jpg
Ummmm....

― *tera, Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/7962/image08142011174941.jpg

― *tera, Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link

Ha!!! That can't be an accident.

― JacobSanders, Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link

How come you taste so good!TM

― leave me alone, i was only zinging (rip van wanko), Monday, 15 August 2011 01:20 (twelve years ago) link

These Life boxes keeping making me laugh every time I think of them. I keep trying to imagine the meetings discussing the colors and placement of who would be on these boxes. I wonder if they knew how this would really look.

― JacobSanders, Monday, 15 August 2011 01:44 (twelve years ago) link

Did they really co-ordinate the color of the cereal with the color of the people featured on the boxes?

― JacobSanders, Monday, 15 August 2011 01:47 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.ediblemanhattan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/quisp-cereal.jpeg

― turning in the widening gyre (remy bean), Monday, 15 August 2011 01:48 (twelve years ago) link

nine years pass...

https://i.imgur.com/eQC4w0U.jpg

The fuck?

― calstars, Thursday, 15 April 2021 02:40 (three years ago) link

I think I may still have this box around somewhere, which I bought because it was so wtf

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/24/2b/ba/242bba0ea870a6b13a2fd0ff0fcaebf8.jpg

― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Thursday, 15 April 2021 02:52 (three years ago) link

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