Post by bennybuzzkill on Sept 1, 2020 16:19:28 GMT -6
I did not really plan on reviewing all of the Munster cereals but....
Here I am today with the Count Chocula one. I had been confused why Count Chocula is now just a seasonal monster cereal now. Count Chocula used to be one of the main dudes! In all of the cereal characters! He was the most chocolate cereal, and I was not allowed to ever eat him! Now I am an adult and you are telling me he's different and only seasonal? Let's look this up.
In March 1971, the first two cereals in the line were introduced, the chocolate-flavored Count Chocula and the strawberry-flavored Franken Berry. In the commercials, the two monsters, Count Alfred Chocula and Franken Berry, would engage in comic bickering over which cereal was better, when something or someone else interfered in their verbal sparring and scared them out of their wits.
In February 1972, Franken Berry cereal included an indigestible pigment that turned some children's feces pink, a symptom sometimes referred to as "Franken Berry Stool".[5][6][7] The Count Chocula and Franken Berry recipes were reformulated to remove this pigment.[8]
Boo Berry, reputedly the first blueberry-flavored cereal,[9] was released in December 1973, and Fruit Brute in 1974. Fruit Brute was discontinued by 1982 and replaced in 1987 by Fruity Yummy Mummy, which was discontinued in 1992.[10]
In 2010, Betty Crocker released Franken Berry and Boo Berry Fruit Roll-Ups.[11][permanent dead link] General Mills released Count Chocula cereal bars.[citation needed]
Since 2010, Franken Berry, Boo Berry, and Count Chocula cereals have been manufactured and sold only for a few months during the autumn/Halloween season in September and October.[citation needed] As of late 2010, information such as nutrition data and historical facts can still be found on the official General Mills website at all times of the year.[9]
In August 2013, General Mills released all five monster cereals for purchase during the Halloween season. Both Fruit Brute, which was being released for the first time in 31 years, and Fruity Yummy Mummy, which was being released for the first time in 21 years, received updated packaging like the other cereals. Additionally, it was revealed on I-Mockery that special retro edition boxes of all five cereals with their original packaging art would be sold exclusively at Target stores.[12]
In February 1972, Franken Berry cereal included an indigestible pigment that turned some children's feces pink, a symptom sometimes referred to as "Franken Berry Stool".[5][6][7] The Count Chocula and Franken Berry recipes were reformulated to remove this pigment.[8]
Boo Berry, reputedly the first blueberry-flavored cereal,[9] was released in December 1973, and Fruit Brute in 1974. Fruit Brute was discontinued by 1982 and replaced in 1987 by Fruity Yummy Mummy, which was discontinued in 1992.[10]
In 2010, Betty Crocker released Franken Berry and Boo Berry Fruit Roll-Ups.[11][permanent dead link] General Mills released Count Chocula cereal bars.[citation needed]
Since 2010, Franken Berry, Boo Berry, and Count Chocula cereals have been manufactured and sold only for a few months during the autumn/Halloween season in September and October.[citation needed] As of late 2010, information such as nutrition data and historical facts can still be found on the official General Mills website at all times of the year.[9]
In August 2013, General Mills released all five monster cereals for purchase during the Halloween season. Both Fruit Brute, which was being released for the first time in 31 years, and Fruity Yummy Mummy, which was being released for the first time in 21 years, received updated packaging like the other cereals. Additionally, it was revealed on I-Mockery that special retro edition boxes of all five cereals with their original packaging art would be sold exclusively at Target stores.[12]
Okay now I am even more confused. The whole monster cereals go back to 1971???
THIS is the Count Chocola I remember:
Is this the same man??? I don't remember seeing that count Chocolua on the shelves with any of the other Munsters. Am I crazy? Is this a bernstein bears Nelson Mandella effect going on here?
The new one looks... not as good. Count, what happen to you? Not the 90s good cereal drawings that I remember here. And the marshmallows... there used to be a bunch of different ones? bats and skulls and mummies? Now they are all just bats? and don't even look like bats when I pour them out in my bowl?
This is hard for me because I feel like this Count Chocula now has been a downgrade from the Count Chocula of the past. The quality of the cereal, the marshmallows, the artwork... he's not even with us all year anymore. This just so sad.
I ate this one again with almond milk, which was a good choice. It was a good experience but I can't help but thinking not as good as the Count once was in his prime. I'm not really saying I feel that boo-berry is a better cereal in this case, but I just have to give Count Chocula in this form a 6.2 out of 10 stars.
I need to go back and take a real close up photo of that "bat" marshmallow so you can all see.
