none of the cereals are advertised on TV it's time to raise your spoon and morning for the
top 10 cereals that don't exist anymore you're eating a bowl of cereal c-3pos I am cppo human
cycle relations sometimes the name of the cereal alone is so perfect that it doesn't matter whether
it's flakes puffs or random shapes that pour out of the box and into your bowl You Gotta Have It
named after these stuffy perpetually worried gold robot from the Star Wars movies of course
kids from the 80s wanted it every morning C-3PO is on the front of the Box looking terrified that
you might consider eating him and on the back there were cardboard face cutouts of famous Star
Wars characters there were also giveaways and promotions where if you send enough Box Tops to
Kellogg's they would send you Star Wars action figures in the mail essentially this cereal was
part of the Star Wars merchandising world and kids bought it in droves sell it to us we'll give you
so much more money Anthony Daniels the actor who played C-3PO in the movies even reprized
his role for the television commercials it was discontinued in 1986 so finding a box now is
for collectors only oh and the cereal itself it was a medley of Honey coated oats wheat and corn
depending on who you asked it was shaped like the letter b or the number eight which happens
to sound like the name of the next memorable robot in the Star Wars franchise did this 80s
cereal predict the arrival of bb-8 and 2015's the force awakens the power of breakfast marketing is
strong with this cereal hidden treasures Treasures gifts you got it all wrong the older you get the
fewer surprises you want in the morning but kids love surprises all the time so between 1993 and
1995 General Mills sold a cereal called Hidden Treasures they were corn-based squares that had a
fruity filling but different flavors inside like Cherry grape or orange and it was hard to tell
which flavor each one was before popping them in your mouth Health as a bonus to help teach
children that crushing disappointment is a part of life some squares were completely Hollow and
had no additional flavor at all I have original no flavor and whole wheat no flavor a robot named HT
was the mascot don't think too hard about how they came up with the name but the lore was a bit hazy
apparently he was the inventor of the cereal as well as the mischievous character who wanted to
find out what was in each Square even though kids told him not to ruin their Fun Since Forrest Gump
hit cedars in 1994 maybe he could have said life is like a bowl of Hidden Treasures you never know
what you're gonna get Nickelodeon green slime Bart was buying slime most of the products on
this list were attempts to rule the cereal aisle in the grocery store for as long as possible but
this one was always meant to be a limited edition get it while you can breakfast treat into 2003 by
the early 2000s thanks to shows like Rugrats and SpongeBob SquarePants Nickelodeon was the premier
kids channel overshadowing the once indomitable Disney getting covered in green slime at their
Awards shows was a badge of honor for kids and celebrities alike it's an honor thankfully when
it came to making a cereal to celebrate the award show General Mills kept it familiar using puffed
corn cereal and then added green food coloring while the flavor itself wasn't mind-blowing a nice
touch was that each shape was slightly unique and lumpy meant to represent a blob of slime because
it was known as a limited edition cereal right from the start collectors eagerly snapped up the
products and didn't even open the boxes if you want to try them today you're going to have to
Fork over a lot of green to get a bit of the green cereal Pac-Man cereal hey you know Pac-Man I know
of him the Pac-Man video game was all the rage in the early 80s and since it involved a large yellow
mouth gobbling up multi-colored ghosts creating a cereal where kids could do the exact same thing
in their cereal bowls was a no-brainer now General Mills could have made this product with sugar-free
wheat squares and kids would still have bought it but they did deliver the sugar rush because both
Pac-Man and the ghosts Blinky pinky Inky and Clyde were all marshmallow bits there were also Corn
Pops mixed in that were meant to represent all the dots Pac-Man would have to eat to advance to the
next level it was probably the most thematically consistent cereal of all time at least he's
consistent but because of its obvious similarities to Lucky Charms also made by General Mills Pac-Man
cereal would only be popular as long as the game was so it's no surprise that efforts to keep the
product and the hearts and minds of kids meant adding Miss Pac-Man and including giveaways and
Raffles for all sorts of merchandise General Mills went hard on this too there were hats watches
cameras and a chance to win a full-sized Pac-Man arcade cabinet it's actually impressive that it
wasn't discontinued until 1988 since by then in the video game world the big yellow mouth had been
replaced by a jumping Italian plumber as the new favorite waffles where's my waffles they're coming
right up why work hard trying to come up with new ideas for breakfast cereal flavors ingredients
or shapes when you can just rip off something else that's just sitting on the kitchen table
waffles arrived in the late 1970s and only got a couple of years out of the decade before being
yanked however during that time it was the best way to get a maple syrup waffle flavor that you
could drown in milk the selling point was that it would stay crispy in milk meaning they were
pretty brittle at first and would eventually make their the roof of your mouth sore I can't
breathe the advertising was in the hands of a dim-witted animated cowboy named waffleo Bill
and his smarter than average horse the Western theme was really played up and you could send away
for a cowboy-themed belt buckle while the maple syrup was meant to be a sugary plus a lot of kids
realized that if they wanted waffles the real deal would be the better choice as a last-ditch attempt
to keep it on shelves a blueberry flavored Incarnation was introduced but also didn't
make much of a dent so waffle Bill had to ride his know-it-all Steed into the sunset Captain
Crunch choco Donuts Captain bye Captain Crunch breakfast cereals and sugar go together like
butter and toast or bacon and eggs cereals in the early 20th century were quite light on sugars as
Corn Flakes and Shredded Wheat were the standards as food manufacturing became more industrialized
we got a lot more easy access to processed sugars and by the early 21st century kids and adults who
ate like kids were blessed with an offshoot of the already sugary cap and Crunch cereal choco
Donuts not just donuts but chocolate flavored Donuts new flavor triple chocolate and just to
really drive the sweet sweet Point home they added multi-colored sprinkles as well how do donuts work
floating in milk you ask wouldn't they immediately get soggy to get around this the donuts and the
cereal were crunchy and became softer the longer they soaked so it comes down to what kind of
cereal connoisseur you were as to when you should start spooning this sugary start to the day into
your mouth whether it was too much of a good thing or a sugar overdose that made everyone grind their
teeth for the rest of the day choco Donuts stopped appearing on shelves in the early 2000s nerds
cereal look these are nerds yes we do mean the candy and yes like the candy the cereal boxes were
designed to have two different flavors and two different compartments so you could access each
flavor separately and yes there were arguments and fights over whether you preferred the orange
or cherry flavor or mixed them together like a heathen being able to do this to nerds cereal
like you were able to with the candy is a novelty that immediately earns at a spot on this list but
it should be noted that the cereal was not just a big box of candy while sugar has been a dominant
ingredient on this list nerds the cereal was a mix of wheat corn rice and oat flour before the
sweet stuff was slathered on as a sort of hard shell so much sweetness the big send-away offer
was a specially designed cereal bowl that had a divider in the middle so that you could pour
each flavor of nerd in each half there was even a small gate that you could lift to eventually have
the two flavors mingle with each other that is if you were okay with such a thing while there
was a rumor that this cereal would make your um bathroom experience turn to whatever color you
recently ate the real problem was the challenge of making specialized boxes and bags to hold two
different cereals so the cereal was phased out in the late 1980s Monopoly cereal we could play
Monopoly nothing makes kids more excited about breakfast than acquiring real estate uh right
while the Famous Board Game was a big hit right away when it came out in the mid-1930s it took
nearly seven decades until there was an attempt to make it something that could be poured into a bowl
and consumed celebrating Rich Uncle Penny bags the actual name of the white mustachioed mascot
made sense for a game about Market domination and Bank errors in your favor but it was an odd
choice for cereal marketed to eight-year-olds and the excessive amounts of marshmallow bits
shaped like hotels and deeds scared off the adults who might be watching their weight as closely as
their bank account I don't want people to think I'm fat more exciting was some of the whispering
behind the scenes just like how Monopoly was strongly based on another similar board game
called the landlords game Monopoly this cereal was rumored to Simply Be Cinnamon Toast Crunch with
the marshmallows added in it debuted in 2003 at a time when the brand was trying to switch gears
after the McDonald's Monopoly Scandal while it was intended to be a limited edition serial it's
common knowledge that if anything sells extremely well the company would bring it back again and
again and since Monopoly cereal is gone from store shelves it seems like the board game alone will
have to carry on its Legacy Mr T cereal Mr T it makes sense that cereals marketed to kids would
have zany cartoon characters plastered on the box to make them more appealing so it's doubly strange
to have a living breathing person on the front who seems to have leapt out of a cartoon himself the
menacing gold chain wearing vest rocking Mr T was a household name throughout the 80s having come to
prominence playing the villain in one of the Rocky movies and a military Commando slash demolition
expert on The A-Team television show he was a big hit with children this led to an animated
TV series on Saturday mornings named after him so it was obvious that merchandising would come next
merch baby merch in case his cartoon face on the box wasn't enough there was a lot of sugar placed
on the crispy corn and oats cereal giving it a taste similar to Captain Crunch at least Quaker
Oats put the added effort in to make the cereal pieces shaped like the letter T while Mr T made
plenty of Cameo appearances on many TV shows to keep his popularity going throughout the 80s his
cereal alone made an appearance in the kids film Pee-wee's Big Adventure even as his own star began
to dim when the next decade began his cereal was still on shelves until 1993 and yes of course the
catchphrase was I pity the fool who don't eat my cereal sprinkle Spangles all right sprinkle
sprinkle sprinkle sprinkle you don't even need to say the name of the brand to know which cereals
they're associated with but when thinking about the successes you rarely think of the failures
so pour a cereal bowl full of sprinkle Spangles which were a star-shaped corn Puffs decorated
with sprinkles out for the genie the mascot that General Mills try really really hard to put on the
same level of those other breakfast icons they got noted character actor Dom DeLuise to voice
the character in the commercials and on the side of the box was a five stanza poem X stolen his own
powers and the cereal he created use my divine power you wish it I dish it was his catchphrase
and it went absolutely nowhere the fact that this cereal came out in 1993 suggests it was trying
to piggyback on the success of Disney's Aladdin film from a year earlier since this Genie looks
a lot like the iconic Robin Williams character but mascots can't sell cereal alone and while
kids and sprinkles seem to be a perfect pair parents thought it was a terrible choice and
sprinkle Spangles was gone by 1998. sadly the genie was retired even before the cereal was