The top-selling breakfast cereals have always generally been:įor an ‘80s kid, there are a few gold choices in there specifically Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Lucky Charms. Except for maybe stoned college students. The problem for these brands was that they were 100% targeted to kids and really had no hope of cornering the adult market. For 9 year old me this was my dream come true. I remember almost passing out the day I saw a box of Corn Pops and Fruity Pepples on the countertop. Our whole family would be up there sharing these cottages and my aunts and uncles were in charge of the food. A big thing would happen in the summers however when we would head north to the cabin. To me, this was the very definition of utopia.

Seeing Cookie Crisp commercials when you were younger was borderline abuse knowing that I would never get to have cookies for breakfast. They were more facsimile foods, but that didn’t matter because I wanted them more than life itself. A lot of the things I was seeing in commercials could not really even be considered foods. That’s as extravagant as our cereal choices were. We were raised on the standard Cheerios, Cornflakes, Weetabix, and, if we were lucky, Honey Nut Cheerios. I took this worse than some countries that lose their independence.

Anything that came from a brightly colored box with some sort of cartoon on it was not going to be making it into my bowl. If you grew up like me you probably were very rarely allowed sugary junk cereal. You can listen to the podcast version about 1980s cereals, or if you like to listen with your eyes you can read on! The Brave New World Of 1980s Breakfast Cereals An explosion of cereal varieties and characters, along with great advertising campaigns, made these breakfast cereals as coveted as some toys.

The breakfast cereals of the 1980s ushered in a whole new era of products that were highly desired by kids. Do you remember being that kid in the supermarket pleading for your dream breakfast cereal like your life depended on it?

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