Petition to Reinstate Peter Chaos

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Posted By: DMcD

Oh, the Pops are sweeter and the taste is, too.
They're shot with sugar through and through.
Kellogg's Sugar Corn Pops . .
Sugar Pops are tops!

(Extra points if you remember the melody).

I can recite a TV jingle from 1957 but I cannot remember what I ate for breakfast this morning. Scary.

Peter's "laughing out louds" were quirky. His dinger by dinger updates on the Bonds thread were annoying. His monopolizing of the board was way beyond tedious. He seemed clueless as to how to be part of a community such as this board. If he is to be reinstated he would really have to work to redeem himself. Me, I would be embarrassed as hell to come back. Maybe he could be permitted to post one day a week. But I think he dug his hole too deep.

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Posted By: Jason L

Wasn't he the King of the Lemurs in the new animated classic, Madagascar?
voiced by Sascha Baron Cohen, or similar...

definitely squirrely

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Posted By: Joe D.

did anyone put a vote in for fruity pebbles?

quite possibly the most sugary of all of the cereals.
I loved them.


what about good old Frosted Flakes?
I would have to give them my top rating.

yep. my vote is for Frosted Flakes.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Frosted Flakes...they're greeeeaaaaaaat!!

I think a better spelling is "grrrrrrrreat!" Emphasis on the "gr"

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Posted By: Anthony

There is a new restaurant in Westwood called JuJu (after JuJu Drums, no doubt. There is the vintage baseball tie in) that serves nothing but cereal (and there is the obligatory Seinfeld tie in. Got you covered Barry!). Had breakfast there last weekend, they have Sugar Smacks, Count Chocula, Applejacks, and about 40 others, many I haven't seen since I was a kid. Nothing like pumping your 9 year old up on sugar cereals topped with marshmellows and chocolate chips and then heading to the batting cage.

Wasn't Sugar Bear the voice of Bing Crosby?

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Posted By: Paul Moss

Back to cereal jingles.

I still have the tune for Cheerios, and the three other cereals that General Mills introduced, well it has to be over 45 years ago.


"Cheerios, Sugar-O's, Crackerjacks, and Sparkles.....Four new cereals for you!"


I was a Sparkles kinda guy. They consisted of 90% sugar and 10% processed wheaty substances. Good stuff!

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Posted By: Jim VB

Anthony Nex,

Cereal restaurants are a hot new concept in many metropolitan areas, especially any college towns. This past Summer, on our tour of potential colleges with my high school son, we saw several "cereal bar" type storefronts, usually just off campus. They offer a fairly large assortment of cereals and a variety of milks. Starbucks for the next generation.

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Posted By: dennis

hey guys got a good idea, maybe they can sell vintage cards at the cereal bar restaurants!

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Posted By: barrysloate

Uh-oh. Here we go!

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Posted By: Ricky Y

I used to like Rice Crispies with that little asian boy on a rickshaw So-Hi. I think I had one of those platic toys with his image pulling the cart...Even though I'm asian I thought that character was funny..ofcourse its politcally incorrect now...heh heh.+

Ricky Y

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Posted By: barrysloate

I think about ten years ago Rice Krispies had Creepy Crawlers in the box...these little plastic things with suction cups. But Rice Krispies aren't as good as they were when I was a kid.

Anyone remember the cereal Life? Wasn't that the one that Mikey loved?

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Posted By: Bob Pomilla

Correct me if I'm wrong Barry, but wasn't "Mikey" the subject of the urban legend that claimed he died when, eating pop rocks and drinking a carbonated beveridge, his head exploded? Like from reading a Peter C. post.

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Posted By: judson hamlin

Won't anyone show some love for Kabooms? Kind of a Lucky Charms knockoff with a circus theme, if I remember correctly.
Jeff - One of our local defense attorneys has a Quisp wristwatch. Is there some kind of correlation between Quisp and criminal attorneys?

I'm for un-banning Captain Chaos; There's a strange kind of zen to his posts that takes me back to Phil Rizzuto's asides on WPIX.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Bob- that's exactly correct...sort of like the rumor that Jerry Mathers was killed in Viet Nam. But the Beaver is alive and well.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Couple of thoughts: first, Barry, you are demented. I would have rather eaten the Froot Loops box than eaten Cheerios as a kid. No one ate Cheerios except for parents. And if by some odd chance there was simply no food left in the house and you were forced to eat Cheerios, normal kids would dump an entire bowl of sugar in so that when you were finished eating you'd have sand bars in your bowl made of sugar.

Second, those Corn Pops rocked. Round, yellow, tasty. Bit of an aftertaste after eating an entire box, however, but they still rocked.

Third, Todd, I knew there was something off about you. Apple Jacks? Here was my reasoning as a kid why I would always choose Froot Loops over Apple Jacks: first, FLs had many colors as compared to just one in AJs; next, AJs tasted like apple (sort of). Why eat something that tasted like a real healthy fruit (again, kind of) when you could eat little bright colored, chemically flavored circles -- which tasted nothing like a real fruit?

Fourth, I loved Cap'N Crunch (sp?) but ONLY with Crunchberries. Those berries were divine! Without the crunchberries the cereal was kind of flat and dry.

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Posted By: howard

Loved Quisp as a kid! Cap'n Crunch too, but now I have a new favorite. Recently my doctor suggested I eat more cereals like oatmeal and shredded wheat. He probably didn't mean Frosted Mini Wheats but that's what I've been inhaling for two months now.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Judd, I would kill for a Quisp wristwatch. I would never wear it out in public, but still, I would kill for it.

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Posted By: Brad

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Posted By: barrysloate

Jeff- we posted at the same minute again!

I still eat Cheerios nearly every morning for breakfast, and have been my whole life. Never was big on those sweet cereals, although Frosted Flakes weren't too bad at that.

Forgot about Sugar Pops- "Sugar Pops are tops!"

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Posted By: judson hamlin

Wha? The Land of Vanilla?

Isn't that near Greenwich, CT?

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Quisp


edited out a bunch of videos as it probably was slowing down some folks computers.

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Posted By: Joe D.

Jeff L: "Couple of thoughts: first, Barry, you are demented." -
I laughed out lout when I read that first line. What a way to start a post. That was funny.


As far as the Crunch Berries cereal... those were great too. And - my method for eating them was to eat all of the Captain Crunch first... sifting through the berries..... after all of the captain crunch was gone, I was left with berry bliss.


Frosted Flakes was still tops - and the best would be if you got the last 'bowl' in the box because you could pour all of that excess sugar into your bowl. Theres nothing like scraping the bottom of a cereal bowl for some milk drenched sugar.

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Posted By: howard

Brad, that might just be the strangest commercial I have ever seen.

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Posted By: Fred C

Are Grape Nuts in the same categorey as Cheerios? I used to eat that cereal with a few pounds of sugar in every bowl. I'm not sure if Ewell Gibbons would have approved of all the sugar but that's the way I liked to eat Grape Nuts. On a few occassions I'd even eat Apple Jacks. Actually, those weren't that bad. Crap, now I want to go out and buy different cereals... damn this Chaos thread...

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Posted By: barrysloate

Joe- why is that funny?

I am demented. You should never make fun of the mentally challenged!

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Fred, alas Grape Nuts are in the same category as Cheerios. After all, how can you rationalize eating some cereal that: a) is advertised by some old fart who is older than dirt; and b) is supposedly good for you?

I don't mean to sidetrack this thread -- after all, a bag carrier put such an effort in to start it -- but does anyone ever feel sad about the decreased size of Yodels and Good N' Plenty these days? What the hell is that about? My mouth has gotten bigger since the 70s; therefore I would expect the sugary crap I used to eat to have at least grown proportionally over the years.

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Posted By: Ed Ivey

Frankenberry. Nuf said.

I've never seen Frankenberry and Fred Thompson in the same room.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Jeff- it's a small mint...it's a junior mint!

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Posted By: Ed Ivey

These cheerios are making me thirsty

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Posted By: John E

I found it!

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Posted By: Dan Koteles

no kid ate Cheerios except for Sloate and Moss. Thems thee ultimate, drab, no taste cereal on the planet.Thinking back, I tried to compare anything in the food groups to DRABIDITY of the Cheerios and came up with nuttin. Cheerios was so nasty, hell, I cant even come up with anything funny to say about them. We did the RIce Krispies, then Frosted FLakes , then "Boo-Berry". Michigan is a Kelloggs state anyway ,so no on the Post except for what?.....Raisin Bran, when 3-d's were in the second most nastiest cereal, frickin Raisin Bran was in the house . MY dogs ate more Raisin Bran then any other dogs in the world. Cream of wheat and Apple JAcks have invaded the cupboards of late.

Would anyone here buy an okay cereal if they re-did old time player 3-d's?

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Posted By: Steve Clark

I have been on various message boards since the early 1990s (back to the CompuServe days) and have seen many like peter c. Basically someone immature or insecure that wants to fit in with the grownups or the cool/smart guys. It becomes a continuation of posting without thought just to get feedback and attention.

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Posted By: Steve Clark

By the way, nice picture of the Quisp ray gun. That brings back memories from my childhood in the 1960s.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Yeah, that Quisp ray gun is awesome. After watching the commercial, does anyone notice a bit of Jerry Lewis in his voice?

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Posted By: john/z28jd

I gotta go with Joe D on the cereal choices. My 2 favorite are frosted flakes and fruity pebbles.


I actually had my mom buy me boo berry from florida and send it up to me because i hadnt seen it anywhere up in NJ for years,now ive seen it a couple times,but for some reason i think they only release it around halloween. They arent bad but not anywhere as good as the other 2 above

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Posted By: Larry

"Anyone remember the short-lived Sir Grapefellow and King Vitaman?"

Never heard of Grapefellow, but we still have King Vitamin at the local KMart. Also, haven't seen Frankenberry or BooBerry in decades here, but we still have Count Chocula.

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Posted By: Cobby33

"What's in the drinking water in Northern California law firms these days."

Jeff- I represent that comment!

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Larry, King Vitamin tasted like Cap' N' Crunch, no? Just shaped differently?

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Posted By: Dan Koteles

Peter cannot respond to this!

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Posted By: Jim VB

<<Basically someone immature or insecure that wants to fit in with the grownups or the cool/smart guys.>>


Ummm, Steve,


We're a bunch of middle age guys who collect baseball cards AND... sit around our houses and offices and talk about it on an internet message board.

Tell me again who the "cool/smart guys" are.

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Posted By: pas

Cheerios rule! 99 percent of breakfast cereals are nauseatingly sweet -- basically just sugar with a little grain mixed in and sprayed with some vitamins.

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Posted By: peter ullman

as a kid growing up in northern nj...my mom wouldn't let me have a bb gun, lawn darts...any darts for that matter...and no sugary cereals...only for my birthday. As a result as a kid I ate mostly product 19. I grew to love those crispy...healthy flakes and learned just the right milk ratio so as to maintain their crispiness for enough time to finish my bowl. These days...while plain cheerios is always good...I gravitate towards granola from the bulk aisle...or kashi brand 7 grain whole flakes...and lactaid milk! How pathetic I am...please have pity on me.


pete ullman in mn

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Posted By: barrysloate

Peter- you have a professional obligation to tell your young patients not to eat all those sugary cereals.

Long live Cheerios!

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Posted By: PC

Peter -- you are definitely not alone. Loved Product 19 as a kid. Also Total, Wheaties and Cheerios. Still do. Raisin Bran was in the house a lot, and that seemed sugary to me. We had the occasional Frosted Flakes, but primarily for those '70s 3-D Kellogg's cards. Think they came in Raisin Bran too.

My kids like cinammon Life the best, although we also have the typical sugary stuff in the house. I usually don't do the food shopping, but recently I did and decided to buy a box of Product 19 for the kids to try. They liked it (I was not surprised).

What I didn't like was that a medium box of Product 19 was about $5.00 (that surprised me). For that price, there should be 3-D cards in the box.

edited: and no lawn darts or BB guns either! Our parents were wise. Although we did have those model rockets, with the solid/explosive engines. Had a friend who set one up in his grandmother's living room (a dry run), and accidentlally set it off. Burned a hole in the carpet, left char marks on the cieling and walls, and filled the house with smoke and the smell of gunpowder. Obviously, a rocket hobbyist, not a rocket scientist.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Cheerios are fine as long as you dump a boatload of sugar on them....One box a year is about enough Cheerios. This morning on the menu is Cap'n Crunch...the regular kind...I haven't seen Crunchberries on the shelf for years.

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Posted By: Preece1

Your comment was right on target and exactly what I was thinking.

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Posted By: MVSNYC

Jim VB/Preece-

i totally disagree...

i can't speak for everybody, but i am good friends with Jeff L, Joe D, Wonka, Brain W, etc...i have met many many cool/smart guys here...we get together a lot, for dinner & drinks...we talk about everything under the sun, not just cardboard. i can only speak for myself here, but i hardly spend anytime at home, i am always out socializing, traveling, partying, etc...

MS
NYC

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Posted By: Jim VB

MS,

<LOL> OK. So it's you that Peter C wants to be like.

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Posted By: MVSNYC

Jim- haha, glad you took that well...after re-reading it, i thought i came off like a cocky New Yorker...(which i am)

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Posted By: Jim VB

Michael,

I was born in Jamaica Hospital. Grew up in a house on the corner of Woodhaven Blvd. and Metropolitan Ave. After moving upstate for a few years, I moved back to NYC and worked at Abraham & Straus after college. Much of my family still lives in New York.


I have no trouble with New Yorkers.