Me too! It didn't help that rabbits were my favorite animal, so I hated the Trix commercials. I didn't understand why the kids wouldn't just share the cereal, because I would share it if I could. You'd think marketing NOT sharing to kids would be a bad thing lol.
I remember one commercial where its the rabbit's birthday and all the kids who previously denied him the cereal send him a box of trix. I was happy for him
My parents were aware of how bad most cereals were, so they made me look at the nutritional facts and if the sugar was under a certain number; i could add it to the cart. Mostly my cereals were ones with dried fruit. Even today, when my cereal restrictions are nonexistent, i still move away from the sweet ones, only occasionally sprinkling a handful of sweet cereal to my bowl of healthy cereal as a little treat.
@@MadeInTheAbyss Why the fuck are so violent? I just wanted to tell a story about a part of my upbringing. I have no idea why you decided this comment was the one to make your PSA about how cereal is the new cigarettes or tanning beds. I eat fruit too you sad excuse of a human being! Shut your pie hole and keep your "wake up sheeple" mentality to Twitter.
I remember as a kid I loved Tucan Sam. He felt less like a wacky mascot and had more of a soft spoken paternal figure vibe. I remember I even had a few toys of him. It's kinda crazy to look back on how much I loved the character when he wasnt even from a show or a movie or anything, but was just a mascot for a cereal company. It's weird how many of the things I found so much comfort and joy in as a child were created purley with monetary gain in mind.
Honestly reading all these comments from Americans feels so alien even coming from the UK. People talking about McDonalds MMOs, Cereal themed attractions, plushies of cereal mascots. All that shit just feels off. Like a cartoony representation of childhood obesity except it's real.
I grew up in Philippines, our household’s breakfast is usually eggs, hotdogs and rice. Because of the movie influence, I ask my parents to buy me a cereal. When I tried it, it’s good but it’s just too sweet. I feel like I’m eating a dessert rather than breakfast. I told them I’m not eating cereal as breakfast anymore, so I just kept the cereal as more of after-school snack where I treated it like eating chips (I didn’t put milk on it cuz it makes it soggy and I eat really slow so yea).
Hotdogs with bread, or hotdogs in omelettes is a great thing in Peru. Although we eat small omelettes; the ones I have gotten in US are way too big. Nowadays I avoid processed meat tho
@@Play-On7 Oh yeah. You'd be amazed at the kinds of breakfast people eat in other countries. Like in the Netherlands, one of their breakfasts consists of cold deli meats (like salami) and cheese and buttered bread with chocolate sprinkles called hagel (hay-gull) And in England, they eat baked beans for breakfast (usually on toast, or alongside sausages (called bangers), eggs, and tomatoes or mushrooms
After actually watching some episodes of The Flintstones, seeing Fred Flintstone having that big dumb smile on the front of the Pebbles boxes is hilarious because of how out-of-character it is. It's like if they made Squidward from SpongeBob SquarePants a cereal mascot and they made him smile on all the cereal boxes, lol.
I thought the Cookie Crisp wolf was so cool, and that was my favorite cereal as a kid . Looking back It’s crazy to me that I was eating actual cookies as a meal
Actual cookies would probably have been better for you as the higher fat content reduces the sugar spike and crash effect, and makes real cookies more filling than the cereal. Sigh
Back in my day, we didn't have the Cookie Crisp Wolf. I grew up in the era where we had Cookie Crook, his dog (that was always all like "Cooooookie Crisp" and the Cop. Eventually the crook and cop were phased out in favour of the dog. And Gen X, their Cookie Crisp mascot was a wizard
That's how it always end up going. Like I've had pop/soda tons of times as a kid but think at about 13 I stopped drinking it & been about 16 years now. At this point some of it grosses me out by the smell alone. Same with smoking, everyone but me in my family smokes & unfortunately I was around it a lot as a kid
@@BeansForBrains this was me with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches I loved them so much as a kid that I ate it three times a day even as a teen I still ate a lot of them now I’m 25 and can’t stand peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
In childhood, cereals were "the thing you're not supposed to eat before your actual meal", and it stays that way. Also I haven't tried cereal at all until I was like fourteen.
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@@zealmilenio177 for me it’s ADHD. This video had me laughing just because these were forgotten memories, and that fact that I ate soo much sugar as a kid is unbelievable. My favorite cereal was Fruity Pebbles. I tried a few months ago to eat a bowl, I couldn’t do it😭 it’s too sweet
When I lived in the US for a while, I was FASCINATED by the cereal section at my local Walmart. I tried so many flavors that were new to me. Most of them weren't even good (looking at the Reeses and Hersheys Cookies and Cream cereals specifically lmao) but it was the novelty of trying all these cool cereals we didn't have back at home. Maybe that's why I had gained 10 kilos by the time I returned home lmao
Well yeah you're not supposed to eat that many lmao a lot of people in my country (mostly big cities) don't really have the best self control when they have so much selection in front of them so it can be a bit much.
I think another thing to consider is the fact that public schools give these cereals out during breakfast, I remember that Reese's Puffs were scarcely given as an option(compared to other cereals such as lucky charms, Froot Loops, and Honey Nut Cheerios) and on the days it was- practically everyone would grab it.
They give us grade D meat, loads of pop tarts and other artificial things, fruits and veggies that are sprayed with pesticides, the sweetner for thing is aspartame...nothing fed to us in my school is real, which I spend mh days only eating the organic things my parents pack me because it's better for me and it tastes better. The bad stuff is all eaten by others so the government gets all the good stuff.
@@Nekoszowa Probably has more to do with the lack of activity and the sheer amount of food we eat than *what* we eat. Americans are terrible at moderation and that excess is represented in us being fat. It's just how the human body works.
I don't know about your country, but here, in my country, we call it "cornflex"😁. I think only Kelloggs is a mass producer of cereal here because many people don't consume it for breakfast. Only 6yo with a sweet tooth eat it.
@@vintimajethia7577 Same here in Italy. Someone must be buying them otherwise they would stop producing them. Although, our breakfast is completely sweet (cookies, jam, coffee, milk, pastry, croissants...). So, on second thought cereals are a good fit for my country.
Omgg I'm from Chile!! It is true, we have been robbed from cereal mascots.. however, if the cereal is "healthy" enough, it can be advertised with cartoons, but they're usually an off-brand diet version. (I love watching other cultures' differences about nostalgia stuff, I enjoy your videos so much!)
It's no mistake that a cereal theme park would have been opened in Minnesota, or more specifically in Minneapolis. Aside from the fact that MOA was the biggest mall in the world at the time, General Mills and several other major processed grain companies are headquartered in Minneapolis or have strong ties to the city due to its history as the flour milling capital of the world back in the day.
There's a reason it's called "Mill City." In some parts of Minneapolis, there are still old grain elevators and silos, and General Mills' neon "Gold Medal Flour" sign is somewhat iconic for residents.
This video made me remember the time I would spend playing on the computer on Trix and McDonalds online game websites. I also remember that each McDonalds happy meals would include a code that would be used to earn in-game currency to buy costumes for your self-insert character. Good thing I lost my password for my account so I do not see their marketing anymore. Anyway, this was a really interesting history of cereal and this video definitely deserve more views.
The McDonalds one was called McWorld, and I too used to go on there all the time. Had a huge majority of the items, then lost my password since I was like 12 at the time...then McWorld got Thanos-snapped
That was a really good video, whenever I've been to america I've always been shocked by how sugar filled everything is, it was interesting to learn about it.
@@CordeliaWagner i've always disliked bread* because of how sweet it is, you're telling me other countries have "normal" bread that i might actually enjoy?? damn. *excluding garlic bread, i love cheesy garlic bread 😋
The reason that the Trix rabbit never gets to eat the cereal is a literary conceit. That's how you create a serial story (pun intended) where the plot of every episode is "rabbit wants cereal". Toucan Sam also spent most ads looking for cereal but he always got it in the end so you dont even remember that wanting cereal is one of his character traits.
I've always liked how the Cereal Mascots in the commercials during the early 2000s had lore to them remember when Toucan and his nephews traveled for different combos of Fruit Loops,Lucky running away from the kids that want his Lucky Charms Cereal,Cocoa Puff Bird going coo! Coo! For Cocoa Puffs, and Apple and Cinnamon having a rivalry then became friends. Not to mention the Cocoa Pebbles commercials were funny to watch as well I miss that era.
This is not only a problem in the US, most people in Mexico and Canada also grew up eating cereal for breakfast so it’s definitely more of a North America thing (I’m from Mexico and I grew up eating froot loops, cookie crisp and cornpop cereal)
Same, and my family that its from countryside (aunts and uncles are WAY OLDER than his brother, my Dad, who live in the city and its more influence by the states culture ) they didnt like to give something that its mostly sugar to their kids and grandkids, so i think this cereal culture really imitate the States, and get kinda worst here, thats why we are ""winning"" in child obesity
God, seeing Millsberry was a blast from the past. Everyone was OBSESSED with it when I was in elementary school. It really was its own social network of sorts. Whenever we had free time in the classroom, we'd all hop on the computers and play with each other. As much of a giant advertisement as it was, I lowkey kind of miss it... I remember spending hours in the arcade, as well as doing that one fishing activity/minigame where you could pull up random stuff from the lake a certain number of times per day, (or at least that's how I remember it being). I always got junk, like old boots and stuff like that, but I dreamed of one day getting some "ultra rare" item that none of my friends had. Good times.
I loved that game too! My biggest memories were decorating my house and REALLY wanting a chinchilla in game which eventually led to me begging for one in reality haha. I also abused the crap out of our color printer, printing picture of my avatar and house and such
The addiction to cereal is real, I haven't had any in years but sometimes when my blood sugar is low I can have a waking dream about diving headfirst into a bowl of sugar. Love your content too, you got a great voice for your videos!
I know I can't complain given that I'm from the country whose most popular theme park is based around a brand of crisps... but seriously, a cereal themed attraction in the Mall of America?
While the theme park was short lived, we actually still have a lot of cereal and grain themed areas in Minnesota. Included a musuem in a blown up flour mill (it blew up twice) and two different grain themed climbing areas for children (at the minnesota zoo and minnesota history center respectivly.) Basically, the entire state is obsessed with grains so the themed attraction wasn't far off of the culture of the area.
Funny thing is, my nephews actually really dislike the sickly sweet mascot cereals and prefer to eat stuff like Honey Bunches whenever possible. It's like the cereals are overdoing it so much that the kids are starting to dislike it, which is quite the feat
Growing up eating sugary cereal, the first time I had European muesli it blew my mind. It was so so much more subtle and harty - it was like a meal instead of a treat or dessert. It quickly became my go to breakfast due to how contrasting it was.
My parents never let us have really sugary cereal, but I BEGGED my mom for Cookie Crisp one time. It was pretty expensive, so she said “If I get this, you have to finish the whole box. You cannot waste it.” I HATED it. I finished the box, extremely slowly, and never asked for cereal ever again lol.
Hardly ever does my family have cereal (we have fruit instead) but when we do, we usually have Kashi branded items. A cool thing about Kashi, is that rather then making a mascot, they just feature an enlarged image of the cereal. I think it's a very clever mascot-less tactic.
Now knowing how Artery-clogging cereals can be, I mostly stay away from Cereal and now mostly eat a piece of fruit or a whole grain bagel with low-fat cream cheese when I go to school. Ever since i got the news I was prediabetic I made sure to really take the labels seriously and found out why doctors hate cereal.
One of the main sponsors for the first two seasons of The Flintstones was Winston cigarettes and the characters would be used in their commercials, so shilling breakfast cereals instead by the time I was a kid was actually a step in a healthier direction (not to mention that they made Flintstones vitamins as well). I guess it was one of those IPs that you could use to promote basically anything as long as the check cleared.
Mall of America is my local mall and my younger sister and I would go to Cereal Adventure as often as we could when it was open! It was never super busy when we went and it was just a really chill time, I remember really liking this one Trix video computer game outside the more memorable physical experiences. I did get an overpriced personalized box of mixed cereal (you get to choose what cereal you want inside), the cereal is long gone but I still have the box as a keepsake, it’s got my name on it.
I live in the UK and we barley have any cereal. My favourite cereal as a 14 year old who has to eat quickly for school is Coco Pops. Coco Pops are Rice Krispies coated in chocolate. They’re quite nice. If anyone reading this is visiting the UK I highly recommend them.
Hi I’m from the uk and I’m pretty sure they got rid of rice keispees cause it had too much sugar in it or something . I know there’s an alternative or something similar but am I relenting things wrong or did this not happen .
I remember walking into a store called 'American Candy' (I live in the UK) and there was a shelf for various American cereals lmao Also there was a baby shark cereal. Because of course there is...
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Doesn’t every larger store have a selection of imported £6 cereals?
@Max Müller i mean i don't usually see many of the iconic US cereals like lucky charms or froot loops Altho Kellogg's is an American company so ig there are american cereals like crunchy nut, but i don't recall seeing the really sugary ones
@ Yeah most big supermarkets in the UK have a world food section and will sell things like american cereals at a markup. The selection and price varies between supermarkets, a tesco near me used to sell the general mills generic brand versions of cereals like lucky charms and applejacks for £3 a box which was decent. There are some you can't seem to get easily though, like froot loops I can't find in supermarkets generally.
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a craving for a sweet breakfast instead if savory is still a habit I can’t kick even in my 20’s. nothing is more satisfying than a chocolate chip muffin or a vanilla (and sweet) flavored yogurt in the morning
First off I just wanted to let you know I binged all of your videos today lolz. Second, my mom and I used to spend so much time playing Millberry back when I was little, and every now and then I would remember it in a nostalgic moment but never have the name and NONE of my friends knew what I was trying to describe to them. So thank you so much for solving that mystery for me.
Growing up I actually hated the really sweet cereals. I wouldn't even eat honey nut cheerios because they were too sweet for my taste. My favorite cereals consisted of corn flakes, plain cheerios, and rice krispies because they just tasted plain. Now days I like a bit more sugary cereals like fruity pebbles and frosted flakes, but I still prefer the plain ones. I guess it just felt like I wasn't eating breakfast when I ate super sweet cereals.
I remember having a transformers or transformer looking or halo looking or power ranger looking themed Cinnamon Toast Crunch video game tie in that I never played but did see the sprites of by simply putting it in a DVD player, thinking it would turn into a movie.
I've been trying to remember what Millsbury was called for like a decade now. I loved the art style, and the reminders to get outside were actually pretty helpful for mindfulness for a kid who could hyperfocus on the screen for 6 hours at a time. I also don't like their cereals and never really have, so win-win for me!
There was a previous General Mills website before Millsberry, I can't remember what it was called, but Millsberry replaced it. It was a flash game collection at a school, there was a game where you constructed cocoa puffs with Sonny and another one where you played hangman with the honey nuts cheerio bee.
When I was a kid, there was a Timon and Pumba cereal called "Mud n Bugs" that I absolutely loved. I was always a skinny kid, so a bit of a sugary breakfast wasn't a big deal for me. But damn, was that cereal not healthy at all. It was the same for pretty much every cereal that I enjoyed as a kid. One of the biggest ones was when they had cereals for Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh, which were my favorite series. Like, they really got us all with that marketing. I don't eat cereal anymore, but if I did have kids, I wouldn't let them eat any cereals. It's all terrible.
I mean you do know there are healthy cereals right? You could just get plain bran cereal. There a lot of good fiber in cereal and nobody is making you get kids cereal bro
I remember liking coco pops a LOT as a kid. This was around the time the Star wars Episode I: phantom menace was released so you got a bunch of star wars cards with those reflective surfaces that changed picture when you tilted it, also some kind of plastic figures of the characters in the movie. I was also playing a lot of Ocarina of Time around this time, eating coco pops!
I think the sheer variety of products can be explained in that the companies that produce cereal products have people working for them who make like $70-80,000 a year to come up with new ideas, and if they don't come up with new ideas they're redundant and not needed anymore. So they come up with all sorts of "new" bullshit to justify their own salaries.
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I never left Postopia as a kid! I grew up in the UK so could never try the cereals but the advertising really worked - I was obsessed with the idea of them.
Crunchling Adventure was my jam! Oh my gosh I played that more than the games I actually paid for. Stil loyal to Captain Crunch today, and this is probably why.
The question is, how they got parents to approve the sugary stuff as a healthy breakfast. As cerial was originally just plain grains, didn't they notice when sugar became the main ingredient, or didn't they just care?
I think the Flintstones are recognizable to Baby Boomers, Gen-X and Millennials pretty equally. We all watched the cartoon, took the vitamins, and ate the cereal. There were 2 live action movies when I was a kid. There were happy meal toys. The Flintstones was huge throughout the 90s. There were spin-off cartoons after the initial show, and some longer movie type special edition episodes long after the 60s TV show.
my favorite cereal is a mix of fresh fruit (preferably berries) soaked with water. usually, I rinse the water out, and I'm left with some amazing fruit that is softer, but not too soggy.
Another banger of a video ☺️ Funny enough I don’t think I was ever into the super sugary breakfasts as a kiddo - most of my breakfasts before school were microwaved scrambled eggs lmao. I was just never into the taste of most cereals. I still ate cereal from time to time, but it was those cereals that targeted like health-conscious adults or something (ie Post Selects Banana Nut Crunch and Blueberry Morning). It wasn’t even because I was concerned with my health (I was and still am a fat kid lmao), I just liked how it tasted. Looking back they probably still weren’t good for you to begin with either (had a lotta fiber but still a lotta sugar, plus some iteration of it had a carcinogen in the ingredients lmaoooo), but 8 y.o. me loved my gramma breakfasts. Throw some sliced bananas in there and I was all set.
Your last line got me lol. I also live abroad and I feel its fueled my cereal obsession even more now that its so limited. My parents thought I was crazy when I wanted to take a picture of the cereal aisle for my friends where I live.
For the same reason we are obsessed with milk… Our government food agencies lied to us for over 50 years about the health benefits of certain food groups and largely encouraged us to eat things like cereals and milk so the farming and agriculture business wouldn’t lose any money.
As a European I had American cereal for the first time, and it felt like I was eating crack, the fact that my muscles did not spas with enough force to make me shoot out through my roof is a miracle. Truly American cereal is not cereal it’s 49% crack 49% sugar and 2% grain.
As a Minnesotan, Cereal Adventures makes sense because General Mill's global headquarters is in Minnesota only a few miles away from the MOA. Land O' Lakes and Kemps are also headquartered in MN as well as the first mall (Southdale) was built in MN so really it Cereal Adventures was destined to happen at some point!
I (european) am absolutely a cereal for breakfast guy (tho it's more Muesli than the sweet cereals. I also like to mix my own muesli). I visited the states when I was 16 and my host family called me the cereal killer because i got so obsessed with all the different cereal options there and i took like 5 boxes back home with me 😭😂
I can’t stand cereal but I don’t think it’s all bad I feel like the more “adult” ones without added sugar that also add a source of fiber are fine eating with milk and some fresh fruit isn’t that bad of a breakfast honestly
I like cerial but i never eat it because my autistic ass would rather eat croissant as breakfast for the rest of my life. Not because i like croissant that much, but because its too hard to choose to have 20 options for breakfast.
The cereal straws was a real throwback when you mentioned it, in elementary one of my teachers introduced us to cereal straws and I was obsessed but only really had it a handful of times. I never enjoyed overly sweet cereals, especially those with marshmallows 😖😖 growing up I really only liked eating Frosted Flakes and Chex (my favorite flavor was strawberry)
My elementary school computer lab had the cap'n crunch game and I would always play it during free time. I remember not being able to make it past the first 2 screens but something about it was so appealing to me.
I'm so happy you talked about the websites! I remember playing on them back in the day. I remember my sister and I would copy the codes from the Pillsbury boxes in store because they had them printed outside the box. Evil little kids, I know, but we needed it to get cool cereal merch online. 😆
oh my GOD, the surprise inclusion of Big Mouth Life blew me away. I have been trying to find what that game was called for like 15 years? I started to think it was just a fever dream, I remembered it so vividly bc it was so surreal, but no one else I talked to seemed to remember it. Thank you for restoring my lost memory!!
i grew up in minneapolis in the late 90s through the 2010s. one of my moms favorite pictures of me growing up was in the cheerios spoon slide pit at Cereal Adventure! i had to have been no more than 5, so i don’t remember it a ton but i look back on pictures fondly! that was back when it was Camp Snoopy and not Nickelodeon Adventure. also, cereal culture was HUGE in the early 2000s, and i think minnesotans were at the center of it all. st. paul is a port city on the mississippi and was a huge wheat producer and distributor throughout the industrial revolution. both General Mills and Kelloggs started and still run out of the twin cities area. i never put it all together in my head until this video! great job, and thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Bro, you just awakened a memory of with the games. I used to play them *religiously* whenever mom and I visited the library. Those were good times, man, good times 😌👌
I'm European (Polish) and my favorite cereal are just Nestle cornflakes, lol. Yes they also have sugar in them, I found out the hard way while trying a more "wholesome" brand and they tasted inedible to me. I just love me some plain cornflakes from time to time, that's all. My second favorite were whole grain cheerios (NOT the ones with honey). I think we overall don't have that many sugary ones, at most it's the ones with honey or chocolate flavored. I was partial to Chocapic as well but I liked them the most with WARM milk, they were the one cereal where getting a bit soggy really elevates them imo.
My former roommate and I got our cereal from the food pantry at our local church. For some reason everyone donated lucky charms. We also found it at the local dollar tree which was next door to the church. It was out of season but still good. I don't eat cereal anymore but I wouldnt mind another bowl of lucky charms.
I felt like I unlocked a core memory when you talked about Postopia and Millsberry cause I played a lot of branded flash game sites as a kid, and a lot of them became blended together in my memory, so I didn't even realize how often I was spending time on a damn food brand game website. I gotta say though, of all of the capitalistic consumerist advertisement that's shoved down my throat every day, I wish MORE brands would put in effort to make fun games and experiences to promote their products, instead of just being a nuisance.
cause its delicious, its totally a desert (even many of the "healthy options", which are my favorite, are still not super good for you), but i still love them. also chex quest is a fun game, its quite easy (only the pseudo-official chex quest 3 has even even a bit of challenge, and even that is still probably much easier than most of doom2, though it doesn't help that ive probably played hundreds of doom maps), but its a very fun and charming shooter and made me buy some chex to go with the playthrough.
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I had no idea that there were so many products based on cereal, the most i've seen on my country are cereal bars but those failed quite quickly bc they were too sweet even for us, they're still being sold but i doubt they have many sales , ive barely seen people buy them. Something that's also interesting is that in my house cereal is not really breakfast but dinner, since my mom only gave us cereal on breakfast when she had no time to cook bc we were late to school i associated it with easy and cheap food that can fill your stomach for a while until you get another food, so since my mom doesn't cook dinner ( my family grew in the countryside , they dont really get dinner so even when they moved we still didn't grew with that being a thing) we just picked whatever is around and eat before sleep and that's what cereal became to me, which funny enough is the reason as to why i can't eat anything after 9 pm anymore, my stomach can't handle it and ofc i stopped eating that when i discovered it was making me have stomach pains at night Is also too sweet for my current taste, no idea how i enjoyed eating it that much lol
Even as a kid I hated cereal. Something about the cereal getting soggy and the artificial fruit flavors just disgusted me. I remember sleeping over at a friend's house and all they had was cereal for breakfast, and I would sadly eat dry cereal out of a bowl. I still hate cereal. MAYBE I'll put a bit of granola on my cereal. But that's it for me.
This sounds weird but the way you pronounce your consonants is so satisfying?? You have the perfect and clearly enunciated voice for commentary videos.
@@joshuamartinez970 I never said it was the sole cause, but to deny that it's a massive contributing factor is pretty moronic as well. It's a lot easier to overconsume something that tastes good, and we tend to find unhealthy things to taste better. pair that with it being pushed to children and pushed as a "healthy" breakfast, and yeah, you've got an issue.
@@justsomeguy898 healthier option cereals tend to be more calorically dense or right on par. The nutrition from the cereal has no affect on weight gain whatsoever. It’s all about caloric intake and your daily burn
@@joshuamartinez970 Carbs and sugars both also play a role in weight gain and retention, as well as your natural metabolism. Eating a lot of sugar is also proven to be bad for your health and can mess with metabolism, so yes, it can affect weight gain. Childrens' breakfast cereal is bordering on candy for breakfast. And as I said previously, people are more likely to eat more of something that's sweet, because most people think sweet things taste good. The body craves sugar. Basically, calories aren't the only thing that matter. They are a big factor, but if something affects your general health and your metabolism, there's a very good chance your weight is getting impacted as well.
Cheerios(tm) one of the "healthy" cereals, has a higher glycemic index than pure table sugar! This means if you eat Cheerios(tm) as opposed to just spooning pure table sugar into your mouth, your blood sugar will spike faster with the Cheerios(tm). The standard "good" breakfast we kids were taught when I was a kid in the 1970s was a big bowl of cereal with fruit, a massive glass of orange juice (and keep in mind American orange juice is at least 2X as concentrated as it needs to be, it's positively syrupy) and white bread toast with just a very thin bit of butter or margarine, but always jam or jelly. It's a sugar-fest.
As a kid that grew up in Aus/NZ, I was always fascinated by American culture, and cereal was no exception. This was before we had easy access to the internet so opportunities to indulge my curiosities about the USA were few and mostly came from sitcoms and movies. But yes, while grinding down my Weet-Bix in a seaside bach I always fantasized about colorful, sugar-filled cereals with magical cartoon mascots... I yearned to be a kid in suburbia with a Nintendo and be able to walk a few doors down to visit my friends rather than having to drive the tractor until its tank ran dry. Well, back to cereals. Sure, a few Yankee cereals slipped through the cracks eventually. But when I was a kid, the most famous mascots at that time were some bloke who swam and Sir Edmund Hillary.
Me and my siblings adored the crunchling game as young kids. Our dad somehow programmed it so that all of our crunchlings had the same name and that's a core memory for me. When I talk about that game to people, I usually get quizzical looks
@@all-the-spiders yeah this kid was basically a teenager way back in like, 4th or 5th grade: he was werirdly good at computers (keep in mind that this was the 90's and almost NO ONE knew anything about computers yet and he was playing games like GTA and the sims with pixilated naked people.XD
As a 1998 CA kid who visited my MN family most summers and went to the MOA "camp snoopy" theme park every year, sometimes a couple times a summer, I had absolutely NO IDEA it was Cereal Adventure before it was the 'Snoopy and Woodstock camping in the forest' theme that I loved growing up.. My cousins and I were all shocked and a little bit upset when it changed to the Nickelodeon theme it still is today even though many of the rides were just rebranded at the time.. I remember having feelings that they "sold out" even though I guess it turns out it wasn't actually licensed as Camp Snoopy as long as I thought I remembered. I'm 24 now and feel too big for the rides whenever I visit the actual mall (which I completely ignored as a child), but I'll always be team Camp Snoopy which feels more fitting for Minnesota IMO 🥲
No because as a kid I hated the “mascot never gets the cereal in the end” trope because it made me soooo sad lol
Me too! It didn't help that rabbits were my favorite animal, so I hated the Trix commercials. I didn't understand why the kids wouldn't just share the cereal, because I would share it if I could. You'd think marketing NOT sharing to kids would be a bad thing lol.
@@haybale287 Trix commercials made me so angry I was yelling at the screen “JUST LET HIM HAVE ONE”
@@haybale287 The tagline should be "It so good you could not share it."
I remember one commercial where its the rabbit's birthday and all the kids who previously denied him the cereal send him a box of trix. I was happy for him
Trix commercials are a vindication of r/childfree
My parents were aware of how bad most cereals were, so they made me look at the nutritional facts and if the sugar was under a certain number; i could add it to the cart. Mostly my cereals were ones with dried fruit. Even today, when my cereal restrictions are nonexistent, i still move away from the sweet ones, only occasionally sprinkling a handful of sweet cereal to my bowl of healthy cereal as a little treat.
Have you ever tried fruit bowls? You might like them
@@TomoLamp I go through them too fast, it get's expensive
@@Fighting.Flower breakfast speedrun any%
@@TomoLamp I actually use the breakfast skip
@@MadeInTheAbyss Why the fuck are so violent? I just wanted to tell a story about a part of my upbringing. I have no idea why you decided this comment was the one to make your PSA about how cereal is the new cigarettes or tanning beds. I eat fruit too you sad excuse of a human being! Shut your pie hole and keep your "wake up sheeple" mentality to Twitter.
I remember as a kid I loved Tucan Sam. He felt less like a wacky mascot and had more of a soft spoken paternal figure vibe. I remember I even had a few toys of him. It's kinda crazy to look back on how much I loved the character when he wasnt even from a show or a movie or anything, but was just a mascot for a cereal company. It's weird how many of the things I found so much comfort and joy in as a child were created purley with monetary gain in mind.
Honestly reading all these comments from Americans feels so alien even coming from the UK. People talking about McDonalds MMOs, Cereal themed attractions, plushies of cereal mascots. All that shit just feels off. Like a cartoony representation of childhood obesity except it's real.
@@Jenna_Talia Well, I'm from Australia, so yeah similar feelings.
@@Jenna_Talia Yea it's really awful. Imagine how unsettling it is for me to look back on.
tbf a lot of kids shows and movies were created to sell merchandise so they were just as commercial as actual mascots xD
I grew up in Philippines, our household’s breakfast is usually eggs, hotdogs and rice. Because of the movie influence, I ask my parents to buy me a cereal. When I tried it, it’s good but it’s just too sweet. I feel like I’m eating a dessert rather than breakfast. I told them I’m not eating cereal as breakfast anymore, so I just kept the cereal as more of after-school snack where I treated it like eating chips (I didn’t put milk on it cuz it makes it soggy and I eat really slow so yea).
I didn't know that people ate hotdogs outside of the U.S. Hotdogs for breakfast does sound nice.
Hotdogs with bread, or hotdogs in omelettes is a great thing in Peru. Although we eat small omelettes; the ones I have gotten in US are way too big. Nowadays I avoid processed meat tho
Same i did that when i was younger too😆
You have a good point, I would much rather eat eggs and rice than Coco Puffs
@@Play-On7 Oh yeah. You'd be amazed at the kinds of breakfast people eat in other countries.
Like in the Netherlands, one of their breakfasts consists of cold deli meats (like salami) and cheese and buttered bread with chocolate sprinkles called hagel (hay-gull)
And in England, they eat baked beans for breakfast (usually on toast, or alongside sausages (called bangers), eggs, and tomatoes or mushrooms
After actually watching some episodes of The Flintstones, seeing Fred Flintstone having that big dumb smile on the front of the Pebbles boxes is hilarious because of how out-of-character it is. It's like if they made Squidward from SpongeBob SquarePants a cereal mascot and they made him smile on all the cereal boxes, lol.
tbf most of the “good” ads ended with Fred angrily chasing his neighbor after his mooches off his supply
inb4 Krabby Patty cereal episode
I mean the commercials themselves tend to have Fred and Barnie acting pretty in character, but you're kind right lol.
The Flintstones were originally mascots to advertise cigarettes!
In the OG show, Fred is the schemer and Barney is the one who plays along with it none-the-wiser.
I thought the Cookie Crisp wolf was so cool, and that was my favorite cereal as a kid . Looking back It’s crazy to me that I was eating actual cookies as a meal
Actual cookies would probably have been better for you as the higher fat content reduces the sugar spike and crash effect, and makes real cookies more filling than the cereal. Sigh
Back in my day, we didn't have the Cookie Crisp Wolf.
I grew up in the era where we had Cookie Crook, his dog (that was always all like "Cooooookie Crisp" and the Cop. Eventually the crook and cop were phased out in favour of the dog.
And Gen X, their Cookie Crisp mascot was a wizard
ehh I'm not even sure whether they count as "cookies". Actual cookies probably have better nutritional value lol
Worst cereal.
I wasn’t allowed to have those and I always wanted to try them so when I did get the opportunity I thought they were terrible 😭
My parents were pretty strict with cereal. I almost never had them. I now eat cereal as a dessert.
Your parents or the cereal
@@tiernanfitzpatrick3345 so true
That's how it always end up going.
Like I've had pop/soda tons of times as a kid but think at about 13 I stopped drinking it & been about 16 years now.
At this point some of it grosses me out by the smell alone.
Same with smoking, everyone but me in my family smokes & unfortunately I was around it a lot as a kid
@@BeansForBrains this was me with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches I loved them so much as a kid that I ate it three times a day even as a teen I still ate a lot of them now I’m 25 and can’t stand peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
In childhood, cereals were "the thing you're not supposed to eat before your actual meal", and it stays that way.
Also I haven't tried cereal at all until I was like fourteen.
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Thank you!! I appreciate the feedback, this means a lot :)
This makes me think your eyes were pulled back and tied clockwork-orange-style. Kinda disturbing imagery.
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@@zealmilenio177 for me it’s ADHD. This video had me laughing just because these were forgotten memories, and that fact that I ate soo much sugar as a kid is unbelievable. My favorite cereal was Fruity Pebbles. I tried a few months ago to eat a bowl, I couldn’t do it😭 it’s too sweet
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When I lived in the US for a while, I was FASCINATED by the cereal section at my local Walmart. I tried so many flavors that were new to me. Most of them weren't even good (looking at the Reeses and Hersheys Cookies and Cream cereals specifically lmao) but it was the novelty of trying all these cool cereals we didn't have back at home.
Maybe that's why I had gained 10 kilos by the time I returned home lmao
Well yeah you're not supposed to eat that many lmao a lot of people in my country (mostly big cities) don't really have the best self control when they have so much selection in front of them so it can be a bit much.
For our american readers: 10 kilos is ~20lbs or about 6 Gallons (0.12 Bathtubs/0.003 Football fields) of fat.
@@MerlinJuergens It's not hard to convert weight in you head. You euros are the ones bitching about it all the time.
I know you're not bad mouthing Reese's Puffs lol
I think another thing to consider is the fact that public schools give these cereals out during breakfast, I remember that Reese's Puffs were scarcely given as an option(compared to other cereals such as lucky charms, Froot Loops, and Honey Nut Cheerios) and on the days it was- practically everyone would grab it.
"I wonder why the children in our country are getting fat..."
They give us grade D meat, loads of pop tarts and other artificial things, fruits and veggies that are sprayed with pesticides, the sweetner for thing is aspartame...nothing fed to us in my school is real, which I spend mh days only eating the organic things my parents pack me because it's better for me and it tastes better. The bad stuff is all eaten by others so the government gets all the good stuff.
@@Nekoszowa Probably has more to do with the lack of activity and the sheer amount of food we eat than *what* we eat. Americans are terrible at moderation and that excess is represented in us being fat. It's just how the human body works.
Your right lol@@ComradeKits
@@ComradeKits what you eat is far far more important then how much you eat. Amercans eat bad food and eat a lot of it
In my country we call any cereal "cornflakes" and i think thats funny😭 i've gotten so used to it, even the blatant mispronounciation of it
you mispronounce it as Cornifleks I’m presuming
I don't know about your country, but here, in my country, we call it "cornflex"😁. I think only Kelloggs is a mass producer of cereal here because many people don't consume it for breakfast. Only 6yo with a sweet tooth eat it.
In France as well.
@@vintimajethia7577 Same here in Italy. Someone must be buying them otherwise they would stop producing them. Although, our breakfast is completely sweet (cookies, jam, coffee, milk, pastry, croissants...). So, on second thought cereals are a good fit for my country.
@@woolylove YEAH!!!
Omgg I'm from Chile!! It is true, we have been robbed from cereal mascots.. however, if the cereal is "healthy" enough, it can be advertised with cartoons, but they're usually an off-brand diet version.
(I love watching other cultures' differences about nostalgia stuff, I enjoy your videos so much!)
Imported cereals look so weird with the giant stickers covering the mascots and the black seals. They even cover the mustachioed guy from Pringles.
It's no mistake that a cereal theme park would have been opened in Minnesota, or more specifically in Minneapolis. Aside from the fact that MOA was the biggest mall in the world at the time, General Mills and several other major processed grain companies are headquartered in Minneapolis or have strong ties to the city due to its history as the flour milling capital of the world back in the day.
There's a reason it's called "Mill City." In some parts of Minneapolis, there are still old grain elevators and silos, and General Mills' neon "Gold Medal Flour" sign is somewhat iconic for residents.
This video made me remember the time I would spend playing on the computer on Trix and McDonalds online game websites. I also remember that each McDonalds happy meals would include a code that would be used to earn in-game currency to buy costumes for your self-insert character. Good thing I lost my password for my account so I do not see their marketing anymore. Anyway, this was a really interesting history of cereal and this video definitely deserve more views.
I remember some of these virtual world too haha! Li Speaks has a video on Fast Food virtual worlds if you're interested in a little nostalgia trip
@@justsomeguy898 i was just about to recommend Li Speaks to the op!!
The McDonalds one was called McWorld, and I too used to go on there all the time. Had a huge majority of the items, then lost my password since I was like 12 at the time...then McWorld got Thanos-snapped
That was a really good video, whenever I've been to america I've always been shocked by how sugar filled everything is, it was interesting to learn about it.
Everything has a disgusting sweet sidetaste. Even bread has sugar in it.
@@CordeliaWagner i've always disliked bread* because of how sweet it is, you're telling me other countries have "normal" bread that i might actually enjoy?? damn.
*excluding garlic bread, i love cheesy garlic bread 😋
@Marshtard Yes, somewhat, but white toast is still sweet, white or dark bakery bread is the way to go
Same omg I went to America for 10 days when I was a young teenager and when I came back, all of my clothes were a little too tight 😅😅
Bruh! No it does not taste like sugar XD
I couldn’t imagine a world without cereal. I be eating cereal everyday and when there isn’t any cereal, I’ll actually be a little sad
Food Addiction.
Your parents told you bad eating habits.
I used to be exactly like that until I ran outta time to sit down and eat cereal.
That was me before I found out about well cooked breakfast meals with good ingredients.
damn y’all really hate cereal up in these replies 💀💀💀
@@CordeliaWagner oh yeah, well your parents raised a dork
The reason that the Trix rabbit never gets to eat the cereal is a literary conceit. That's how you create a serial story (pun intended) where the plot of every episode is "rabbit wants cereal".
Toucan Sam also spent most ads looking for cereal but he always got it in the end so you dont even remember that wanting cereal is one of his character traits.
i got a diabetes insulin tracker ad about halfway through this video and i can’t help but find that funny
I've always liked how the Cereal Mascots in the commercials during the early 2000s had lore to them remember when Toucan and his nephews traveled for different combos of Fruit Loops,Lucky running away from the kids that want his Lucky Charms Cereal,Cocoa Puff Bird going coo! Coo! For Cocoa Puffs, and Apple and Cinnamon having a rivalry then became friends. Not to mention the Cocoa Pebbles commercials were funny to watch as well I miss that era.
Frosted Flakes being called “frosties” is just because Australians love to shorten names.
They’re called Frosties here in the UK as well.
frosties is such a lovely name
also called frosties in the uk
This is not only a problem in the US, most people in Mexico and Canada also grew up eating cereal for breakfast so it’s definitely more of a North America thing (I’m from Mexico and I grew up eating froot loops, cookie crisp and cornpop cereal)
Same, and my family that its from countryside (aunts and uncles are WAY OLDER than his brother, my Dad, who live in the city and its more influence by the states culture ) they didnt like to give something that its mostly sugar to their kids and grandkids, so i think this cereal culture really imitate the States, and get kinda worst here, thats why we are ""winning"" in child obesity
God, seeing Millsberry was a blast from the past. Everyone was OBSESSED with it when I was in elementary school. It really was its own social network of sorts. Whenever we had free time in the classroom, we'd all hop on the computers and play with each other. As much of a giant advertisement as it was, I lowkey kind of miss it... I remember spending hours in the arcade, as well as doing that one fishing activity/minigame where you could pull up random stuff from the lake a certain number of times per day, (or at least that's how I remember it being). I always got junk, like old boots and stuff like that, but I dreamed of one day getting some "ultra rare" item that none of my friends had. Good times.
I loved that game too! My biggest memories were decorating my house and REALLY wanting a chinchilla in game which eventually led to me begging for one in reality haha. I also abused the crap out of our color printer, printing picture of my avatar and house and such
I'm a Brazilian who's never left Brazil and I think that the biggest culture shock I ever had. wow.
The addiction to cereal is real, I haven't had any in years but sometimes when my blood sugar is low I can have a waking dream about diving headfirst into a bowl of sugar.
Love your content too, you got a great voice for your videos!
I don't buy cereal often, but when I do I binge it
You seem to be well spoken and very intuitive about the topic your covering. Great video i hope you get more traction and views! Subscribed.
I agree :)
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In Europe, babies are delivered by storks. In US, they come as freebies in boxes of cereal.
BAHAHAA LMAAOO
I know I can't complain given that I'm from the country whose most popular theme park is based around a brand of crisps... but seriously, a cereal themed attraction in the Mall of America?
Ireland? Tayto Park
While the theme park was short lived, we actually still have a lot of cereal and grain themed areas in Minnesota. Included a musuem in a blown up flour mill (it blew up twice) and two different grain themed climbing areas for children (at the minnesota zoo and minnesota history center respectivly.)
Basically, the entire state is obsessed with grains so the themed attraction wasn't far off of the culture of the area.
My.... my alternate!!!!?
Funny thing is, my nephews actually really dislike the sickly sweet mascot cereals and prefer to eat stuff like Honey Bunches whenever possible.
It's like the cereals are overdoing it so much that the kids are starting to dislike it, which is quite the feat
😂i had this exact effect. absolutely loved fruit loops and cocoa pebbles but blehh it gets weird
Honey Bunches of Oats rules!
Growing up eating sugary cereal, the first time I had European muesli it blew my mind. It was so so much more subtle and harty - it was like a meal instead of a treat or dessert. It quickly became my go to breakfast due to how contrasting it was.
My parents never let us have really sugary cereal, but I BEGGED my mom for Cookie Crisp one time. It was pretty expensive, so she said “If I get this, you have to finish the whole box. You cannot waste it.”
I HATED it. I finished the box, extremely slowly, and never asked for cereal ever again lol.
Hardly ever does my family have cereal (we have fruit instead) but when we do, we usually have Kashi branded items. A cool thing about Kashi, is that rather then making a mascot, they just feature an enlarged image of the cereal. I think it's a very clever mascot-less tactic.
Kashi is alright. It is like eating flavoured cardboard with some nice chunks in it, but it does make you feel healthy.
@@HolyKhaaaaan eventually however, you become accostumed to the irresistible taste of cardboard.
Now knowing how Artery-clogging cereals can be, I mostly stay away from Cereal and now mostly eat a piece of fruit or a whole grain bagel with low-fat cream cheese when I go to school. Ever since i got the news I was prediabetic I made sure to really take the labels seriously and found out why doctors hate cereal.
One of the main sponsors for the first two seasons of The Flintstones was Winston cigarettes and the characters would be used in their commercials, so shilling breakfast cereals instead by the time I was a kid was actually a step in a healthier direction (not to mention that they made Flintstones vitamins as well). I guess it was one of those IPs that you could use to promote basically anything as long as the check cleared.
Mall of America is my local mall and my younger sister and I would go to Cereal Adventure as often as we could when it was open! It was never super busy when we went and it was just a really chill time, I remember really liking this one Trix video computer game outside the more memorable physical experiences. I did get an overpriced personalized box of mixed cereal (you get to choose what cereal you want inside), the cereal is long gone but I still have the box as a keepsake, it’s got my name on it.
Holy crap this video unlocked memories I didn’t know I had. The amount of nostalgia I have for Millsberry makes me want to play again.
I live in the UK and we barley have any cereal. My favourite cereal as a 14 year old who has to eat quickly for school is Coco Pops. Coco Pops are Rice Krispies coated in chocolate. They’re quite nice. If anyone reading this is visiting the UK I highly recommend them.
Hi I’m from the uk and I’m pretty sure they got rid of rice keispees cause it had too much sugar in it or something . I know there’s an alternative or something similar but am I relenting things wrong or did this not happen .
We have them in the US. They are called Cocoa Krispies.
@@starsINSPACE i was gonna say this! they are also called cocoa pebbles depending on the brand
@@KASPlaysSimsit's Ricicles that got discontinued. They're the ones that were Rice Krispies coated in sugar. The plain Rice Krispies are still around
@@jeanettemullins oh ok thanks for clarifying
I remember walking into a store called 'American Candy' (I live in the UK) and there was a shelf for various American cereals lmao
Also there was a baby shark cereal. Because of course there is...
Doesn’t every larger store have a selection of imported £6 cereals?
@Max Müller i mean i don't usually see many of the iconic US cereals like lucky charms or froot loops
Altho Kellogg's is an American company so ig there are american cereals like crunchy nut, but i don't recall seeing the really sugary ones
@ Yeah most big supermarkets in the UK have a world food section and will sell things like american cereals at a markup. The selection and price varies between supermarkets, a tesco near me used to sell the general mills generic brand versions of cereals like lucky charms and applejacks for £3 a box which was decent. There are some you can't seem to get easily though, like froot loops I can't find in supermarkets generally.
Same here! I just went in for fun and then just saw a massive wall just for cereal, was interesting to see.
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Thank you! I’m glad you like them :)
@@dreamyjellies
a craving for a sweet breakfast instead if savory is still a habit I can’t kick even in my 20’s. nothing is more satisfying than a chocolate chip muffin or a vanilla (and sweet) flavored yogurt in the morning
First off I just wanted to let you know I binged all of your videos today lolz. Second, my mom and I used to spend so much time playing Millberry back when I was little, and every now and then I would remember it in a nostalgic moment but never have the name and NONE of my friends knew what I was trying to describe to them. So thank you so much for solving that mystery for me.
Growing up I actually hated the really sweet cereals. I wouldn't even eat honey nut cheerios because they were too sweet for my taste. My favorite cereals consisted of corn flakes, plain cheerios, and rice krispies because they just tasted plain. Now days I like a bit more sugary cereals like fruity pebbles and frosted flakes, but I still prefer the plain ones. I guess it just felt like I wasn't eating breakfast when I ate super sweet cereals.
I remember having a transformers or transformer looking or halo looking or power ranger looking themed Cinnamon Toast Crunch video game tie in that I never played but did see the sprites of by simply putting it in a DVD player, thinking it would turn into a movie.
I've been trying to remember what Millsbury was called for like a decade now. I loved the art style, and the reminders to get outside were actually pretty helpful for mindfulness for a kid who could hyperfocus on the screen for 6 hours at a time. I also don't like their cereals and never really have, so win-win for me!
I was absolutely obsessed with Postopia and Millsbury as a kid. I still kind of wish I could play Millsbury as an adult. RIP to both
There was a previous General Mills website before Millsberry, I can't remember what it was called, but Millsberry replaced it. It was a flash game collection at a school, there was a game where you constructed cocoa puffs with Sonny and another one where you played hangman with the honey nuts cheerio bee.
When I was a kid, there was a Timon and Pumba cereal called "Mud n Bugs" that I absolutely loved. I was always a skinny kid, so a bit of a sugary breakfast wasn't a big deal for me.
But damn, was that cereal not healthy at all. It was the same for pretty much every cereal that I enjoyed as a kid. One of the biggest ones was when they had cereals for Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh, which were my favorite series.
Like, they really got us all with that marketing.
I don't eat cereal anymore, but if I did have kids, I wouldn't let them eat any cereals. It's all terrible.
I mean you do know there are healthy cereals right? You could just get plain bran cereal. There a lot of good fiber in cereal and nobody is making you get kids cereal bro
I remember liking coco pops a LOT as a kid. This was around the time the Star wars Episode I: phantom menace was released so you got a bunch of star wars cards with those reflective surfaces that changed picture when you tilted it, also some kind of plastic figures of the characters in the movie.
I was also playing a lot of Ocarina of Time around this time, eating coco pops!
I think the sheer variety of products can be explained in that the companies that produce cereal products have people working for them who make like $70-80,000 a year to come up with new ideas, and if they don't come up with new ideas they're redundant and not needed anymore. So they come up with all sorts of "new" bullshit to justify their own salaries.
Lucio-Oh's is probably the strangest cereal collab
LMAOO I actually got my hands on a box when they released, and I gotta say it was actually pretty damn good
I love how you always tie it back to video games. I’m going to watch every single video now.
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I never left Postopia as a kid! I grew up in the UK so could never try the cereals but the advertising really worked - I was obsessed with the idea of them.
I spent an unhealthy amount of time on millsbury as a kid, you have unlocked weird childhood memories that I completely forgotten about
Crunchling Adventure was my jam! Oh my gosh I played that more than the games I actually paid for. Stil loyal to Captain Crunch today, and this is probably why.
The question is, how they got parents to approve the sugary stuff as a healthy breakfast. As cerial was originally just plain grains, didn't they notice when sugar became the main ingredient, or didn't they just care?
I don't think they were given a choice.
What do you mean? They still had the choice to get Cheerios or Corn Flakes or something. The sugary cereals didn't completely replace the regular ones
I think the Flintstones are recognizable to Baby Boomers, Gen-X and Millennials pretty equally. We all watched the cartoon, took the vitamins, and ate the cereal. There were 2 live action movies when I was a kid. There were happy meal toys. The Flintstones was huge throughout the 90s. There were spin-off cartoons after the initial show, and some longer movie type special edition episodes long after the 60s TV show.
Cereal doesn't sound like a word anymore and I still have half the video to go
Tbh, as a person who stopped eating cereal altogether, it's worth it, you're not missing much and you really don't need that much sugar in your diet.
Same but I also quit drinking milk too
OMG THE CRUNCHLINGS 😭💗
my favorite cereal is a mix of fresh fruit (preferably berries) soaked with water. usually, I rinse the water out, and I'm left with some amazing fruit that is softer, but not too soggy.
Another banger of a video ☺️ Funny enough I don’t think I was ever into the super sugary breakfasts as a kiddo - most of my breakfasts before school were microwaved scrambled eggs lmao. I was just never into the taste of most cereals. I still ate cereal from time to time, but it was those cereals that targeted like health-conscious adults or something (ie Post Selects Banana Nut Crunch and Blueberry Morning). It wasn’t even because I was concerned with my health (I was and still am a fat kid lmao), I just liked how it tasted.
Looking back they probably still weren’t good for you to begin with either (had a lotta fiber but still a lotta sugar, plus some iteration of it had a carcinogen in the ingredients lmaoooo), but 8 y.o. me loved my gramma breakfasts. Throw some sliced bananas in there and I was all set.
Your last line got me lol. I also live abroad and I feel its fueled my cereal obsession even more now that its so limited. My parents thought I was crazy when I wanted to take a picture of the cereal aisle for my friends where I live.
I grew way too attached to my crunchlings. That Captain - sorry, Cap'n Crunch game made me the gamer I am today. 😂
For the same reason we are obsessed with milk…
Our government food agencies lied to us for over 50 years about the health benefits of certain food groups and largely encouraged us to eat things like cereals and milk so the farming and agriculture business wouldn’t lose any money.
As a European I had American cereal for the first time, and it felt like I was eating crack, the fact that my muscles did not spas with enough force to make me shoot out through my roof is a miracle. Truly American cereal is not cereal it’s 49% crack 49% sugar and 2% grain.
As a Minnesotan, Cereal Adventures makes sense because General Mill's global headquarters is in Minnesota only a few miles away from the MOA. Land O' Lakes and Kemps are also headquartered in MN as well as the first mall (Southdale) was built in MN so really it Cereal Adventures was destined to happen at some point!
I (european) am absolutely a cereal for breakfast guy (tho it's more Muesli than the sweet cereals. I also like to mix my own muesli). I visited the states when I was 16 and my host family called me the cereal killer because i got so obsessed with all the different cereal options there and i took like 5 boxes back home with me 😭😂
you've unlocked my childhood memories because i had completely forgotten about millsberry until now
I can’t stand cereal but I don’t think it’s all bad I feel like the more “adult” ones without added sugar that also add a source of fiber are fine eating with milk and some fresh fruit isn’t that bad of a breakfast honestly
Why not eat muesli?
Highly processed food is always bad.
@@CordeliaWagner that probably would be better than cereal, I wouldn’t know I’m a hard egg fan in the morning. 😅😅😅
Sometimes too much fiber is Colon Blow though 😂
I like cerial but i never eat it because my autistic ass would rather eat croissant as breakfast for the rest of my life.
Not because i like croissant that much, but because its too hard to choose to have 20 options for breakfast.
The cereal straws was a real throwback when you mentioned it, in elementary one of my teachers introduced us to cereal straws and I was obsessed but only really had it a handful of times. I never enjoyed overly sweet cereals, especially those with marshmallows 😖😖 growing up I really only liked eating Frosted Flakes and Chex (my favorite flavor was strawberry)
i was a big cereal guy as a kid but these days i only have a bowl as a treat from time to time. it really is more of a dessert than a breakfast.
My elementary school computer lab had the cap'n crunch game and I would always play it during free time. I remember not being able to make it past the first 2 screens but something about it was so appealing to me.
A lot of the sugar in a bowl of cereal comes from the milk as well, so substituting that for unsweetened almond milk may be a good idea.
Wrong. Milk has only a little lactosis. Most sugar comes from the cereals. People who want to be healthy don't eat that trash.
Cmon, we all know nobody actually eats cereal for breakfast, maybe if we feel like it. But its mostly just a snack for whenever
I'm so happy you talked about the websites! I remember playing on them back in the day. I remember my sister and I would copy the codes from the Pillsbury boxes in store because they had them printed outside the box. Evil little kids, I know, but we needed it to get cool cereal merch online. 😆
oh my GOD, the surprise inclusion of Big Mouth Life blew me away. I have been trying to find what that game was called for like 15 years? I started to think it was just a fever dream, I remembered it so vividly bc it was so surreal, but no one else I talked to seemed to remember it. Thank you for restoring my lost memory!!
"Why is America-"
Consumerism. The answer is consumerism. Always.
Why is america the country i was born in
i grew up in minneapolis in the late 90s through the 2010s. one of my moms favorite pictures of me growing up was in the cheerios spoon slide pit at Cereal Adventure! i had to have been no more than 5, so i don’t remember it a ton but i look back on pictures fondly! that was back when it was Camp Snoopy and not Nickelodeon Adventure.
also, cereal culture was HUGE in the early 2000s, and i think minnesotans were at the center of it all. st. paul is a port city on the mississippi and was a huge wheat producer and distributor throughout the industrial revolution. both General Mills and Kelloggs started and still run out of the twin cities area. i never put it all together in my head until this video! great job, and thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Bro, you just awakened a memory of with the games. I used to play them *religiously* whenever mom and I visited the library. Those were good times, man, good times 😌👌
I haven’t thought about my crunch long I’m YEARS but I LOVED playing that as a kid omg I’m so nostalgic
I’m eating cereal while watching this
I'm European (Polish) and my favorite cereal are just Nestle cornflakes, lol. Yes they also have sugar in them, I found out the hard way while trying a more "wholesome" brand and they tasted inedible to me. I just love me some plain cornflakes from time to time, that's all. My second favorite were whole grain cheerios (NOT the ones with honey). I think we overall don't have that many sugary ones, at most it's the ones with honey or chocolate flavored. I was partial to Chocapic as well but I liked them the most with WARM milk, they were the one cereal where getting a bit soggy really elevates them imo.
My former roommate and I got our cereal from the food pantry at our local church. For some reason everyone donated lucky charms. We also found it at the local dollar tree which was next door to the church. It was out of season but still good. I don't eat cereal anymore but I wouldnt mind another bowl of lucky charms.
Lucky charms is kinda the worst cereal. It’s sorta just a dried marshmallow. Ginger mascot isn’t good either compared to Tony the Tiger or Toucan Sam.
they're magically delicious!
I felt like I unlocked a core memory when you talked about Postopia and Millsberry cause I played a lot of branded flash game sites as a kid, and a lot of them became blended together in my memory, so I didn't even realize how often I was spending time on a damn food brand game website.
I gotta say though, of all of the capitalistic consumerist advertisement that's shoved down my throat every day, I wish MORE brands would put in effort to make fun games and experiences to promote their products, instead of just being a nuisance.
cause its delicious, its totally a desert (even many of the "healthy options", which are my favorite, are still not super good for you), but i still love them.
also chex quest is a fun game, its quite easy (only the pseudo-official chex quest 3 has even even a bit of challenge, and even that is still probably much easier than most of doom2, though it doesn't help that ive probably played hundreds of doom maps), but its a very fun and charming shooter and made me buy some chex to go with the playthrough.
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I had no idea that there were so many products based on cereal, the most i've seen on my country are cereal bars but those failed quite quickly bc they were too sweet even for us, they're still being sold but i doubt they have many sales , ive barely seen people buy them.
Something that's also interesting is that in my house cereal is not really breakfast but dinner, since my mom only gave us cereal on breakfast when she had no time to cook bc we were late to school i associated it with easy and cheap food that can fill your stomach for a while until you get another food, so since my mom doesn't cook dinner ( my family grew in the countryside , they dont really get dinner so even when they moved we still didn't grew with that being a thing) we just picked whatever is around and eat before sleep and that's what cereal became to me, which funny enough is the reason as to why i can't eat anything after 9 pm anymore, my stomach can't handle it and ofc i stopped eating that when i discovered it was making me have stomach pains at night
Is also too sweet for my current taste, no idea how i enjoyed eating it that much lol
Even as a kid I hated cereal. Something about the cereal getting soggy and the artificial fruit flavors just disgusted me. I remember sleeping over at a friend's house and all they had was cereal for breakfast, and I would sadly eat dry cereal out of a bowl. I still hate cereal. MAYBE I'll put a bit of granola on my cereal. But that's it for me.
This sounds weird but the way you pronounce your consonants is so satisfying?? You have the perfect and clearly enunciated voice for commentary videos.
What makes you think that?
I am so glad to hear someone mention Millsberry. I loved playing that game but you sre the only person I've ever heard talk about it
cereal tastes good af but it's no wonder America has a childhood obesity crisis
The first time i saw Little Debbie cereal i almost choked.
This notion that sugary cereal is the cause of obesity is moronic. Overconsumption of anything healthy or not will cause obesity
@@joshuamartinez970 I never said it was the sole cause, but to deny that it's a massive contributing factor is pretty moronic as well. It's a lot easier to overconsume something that tastes good, and we tend to find unhealthy things to taste better. pair that with it being pushed to children and pushed as a "healthy" breakfast, and yeah, you've got an issue.
@@justsomeguy898 healthier option cereals tend to be more calorically dense or right on par. The nutrition from the cereal has no affect on weight gain whatsoever. It’s all about caloric intake and your daily burn
@@joshuamartinez970 Carbs and sugars both also play a role in weight gain and retention, as well as your natural metabolism. Eating a lot of sugar is also proven to be bad for your health and can mess with metabolism, so yes, it can affect weight gain. Childrens' breakfast cereal is bordering on candy for breakfast.
And as I said previously, people are more likely to eat more of something that's sweet, because most people think sweet things taste good. The body craves sugar.
Basically, calories aren't the only thing that matter. They are a big factor, but if something affects your general health and your metabolism, there's a very good chance your weight is getting impacted as well.
Yes, sadly we can't really control what gets in the stores and nobody really cares. It's hard to be healthy in america
omg I haven't thought about Big Mouth Life in ages, what a throwback!
Eat a bowl of fruit. Whoops. Sugar is sugar.
Great video though, you'll be a great documentor!
Fruits have fiber, vitamins and minerals and they have way less sugar than the same amount of cereals.
You can;t be serious lmao
Cheerios(tm) one of the "healthy" cereals, has a higher glycemic index than pure table sugar! This means if you eat Cheerios(tm) as opposed to just spooning pure table sugar into your mouth, your blood sugar will spike faster with the Cheerios(tm).
The standard "good" breakfast we kids were taught when I was a kid in the 1970s was a big bowl of cereal with fruit, a massive glass of orange juice (and keep in mind American orange juice is at least 2X as concentrated as it needs to be, it's positively syrupy) and white bread toast with just a very thin bit of butter or margarine, but always jam or jelly. It's a sugar-fest.
I’m 16 and I know who the Flintstones are, they played it on Boomerang
holy shit. I forgot that channel exists
As a kid that grew up in Aus/NZ, I was always fascinated by American culture, and cereal was no exception. This was before we had easy access to the internet so opportunities to indulge my curiosities about the USA were few and mostly came from sitcoms and movies. But yes, while grinding down my Weet-Bix in a seaside bach I always fantasized about colorful, sugar-filled cereals with magical cartoon mascots... I yearned to be a kid in suburbia with a Nintendo and be able to walk a few doors down to visit my friends rather than having to drive the tractor until its tank ran dry. Well, back to cereals. Sure, a few Yankee cereals slipped through the cracks eventually. But when I was a kid, the most famous mascots at that time were some bloke who swam and Sir Edmund Hillary.
Me and my siblings adored the crunchling game as young kids. Our dad somehow programmed it so that all of our crunchlings had the same name and that's a core memory for me. When I talk about that game to people, I usually get quizzical looks
a kid at my elementary school straight up pirated the game for me.
@@JT5555 that's so funny
@@all-the-spiders yeah this kid was basically a teenager way back in like, 4th or 5th grade: he was werirdly good at computers (keep in mind that this was the 90's and almost NO ONE knew anything about computers yet and he was playing games like GTA and the sims with pixilated naked people.XD
You guys eat cereal?
we asian eat rice
*aggressively eat rice*
As a 1998 CA kid who visited my MN family most summers and went to the MOA "camp snoopy" theme park every year, sometimes a couple times a summer, I had absolutely NO IDEA it was Cereal Adventure before it was the 'Snoopy and Woodstock camping in the forest' theme that I loved growing up.. My cousins and I were all shocked and a little bit upset when it changed to the Nickelodeon theme it still is today even though many of the rides were just rebranded at the time.. I remember having feelings that they "sold out" even though I guess it turns out it wasn't actually licensed as Camp Snoopy as long as I thought I remembered. I'm 24 now and feel too big for the rides whenever I visit the actual mall (which I completely ignored as a child), but I'll always be team Camp Snoopy which feels more fitting for Minnesota IMO 🥲
I was OBSESSED with Crunchling Adventure as a kid, my dad had it included in the Shockwave Machine on our PC