Thanks for this! The flavor, texture, and crunch of this cereal is forever burned into my memory and has never been duplicated.
Long after it had disappeared from shelves in Chicagoland, I once found a few boxes at a tiny grocery store in a small vacation town in Wisconsin. In an uncharacteristic move, my parents bought multiple boxes for me. They must have known how special it was too.
That was really nice of them. It last long enough that I thought it would be around forever, but when it disappeared from stores in my area, I never saw it again.
The Smurfs might not have made it so big in America had NBC-TV network boss Fred Silverman not encountered them on vacation in a Colorado toy shop. He was so impressed with the concept that he got on the phone with his old friends at Hanna-Barbera and told them that, if they got the broadcast rights to the Smurfs, they would be guaranteed a timeslot on the NBC Saturday morning schedule- which almost never happens.
But Silverman had burnt a lot of bridges with the executives at NBC with his excessive spending on ambitious but hollow projects, and they fired him just before "The Smurfs" went on the air on the network in the fall of 1981. So it was really the only positive thing NBC got out of hiring Silverman in the first place.
How did it compare to Cap’n Crunch with Crunchberries? I would save the Crunchberries until last for a big blast of artificial sweetener heaven. They later introduced a Crunchberries only cereal but that seemed like too much of a good thing.
Overwhelming artificial fruity flavor is a good comparison. I haven't found anything exactly comparable over the years, but an Oops, All Crunchberries, while different, would give a general approximation. Now I want to try an all Crunchberries bowl and compare my memories.
Thanks for this! The flavor, texture, and crunch of this cereal is forever burned into my memory and has never been duplicated.
Long after it had disappeared from shelves in Chicagoland, I once found a few boxes at a tiny grocery store in a small vacation town in Wisconsin. In an uncharacteristic move, my parents bought multiple boxes for me. They must have known how special it was too.
That was really nice of them. It last long enough that I thought it would be around forever, but when it disappeared from stores in my area, I never saw it again.
The Smurfs might not have made it so big in America had NBC-TV network boss Fred Silverman not encountered them on vacation in a Colorado toy shop. He was so impressed with the concept that he got on the phone with his old friends at Hanna-Barbera and told them that, if they got the broadcast rights to the Smurfs, they would be guaranteed a timeslot on the NBC Saturday morning schedule- which almost never happens.
But Silverman had burnt a lot of bridges with the executives at NBC with his excessive spending on ambitious but hollow projects, and they fired him just before "The Smurfs" went on the air on the network in the fall of 1981. So it was really the only positive thing NBC got out of hiring Silverman in the first place.
How did it compare to Cap’n Crunch with Crunchberries? I would save the Crunchberries until last for a big blast of artificial sweetener heaven. They later introduced a Crunchberries only cereal but that seemed like too much of a good thing.
Overwhelming artificial fruity flavor is a good comparison. I haven't found anything exactly comparable over the years, but an Oops, All Crunchberries, while different, would give a general approximation. Now I want to try an all Crunchberries bowl and compare my memories.