Cereal Spotlight: Sir Grapefellow And Baron Von Redberry

You might have said to yourself, “Self, you know you love that wonderful blueberry taste of Boo Berry cereal, and you love that great strawberry taste of Franken Berry cereal, but man, you also really love the flavors of raspberry and grape, couldn’t there be cereals with those flavors too?” If you had said that, and truly so many of us kids did love those flavors, you might have thought somebody at General Mills, the makers of those fruity marshmallow wonderful monster cereals, would have thought that too. Well, apparently, they did.

You see back in 1972 while Franken Berry was doing well on the shelves and Boo Berry was in the planning stages, General Mills did, in fact, release their versions of grape and raspberry cereals. Unfortunately for those of you like me, who love those two flavors, if you blinked, you may have missed them. I actually didn’t blink, and I didn’t miss them, but they just weren’t around long enough to have their flavors stuck in the portion of my brain that keeps track of tastes and smells. Their names and mascots on the other hand, despite being around such a short time, have burned themselves into my memory. Read more >