estatesale_gary
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Check out this link - nothing is for sale but lots of memories!
http://theimaginaryworld.com/cbarch.html
http://theimaginaryworld.com/cbarch.html
Vintage Cereal Boxes
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turquoisedude
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Wow, I found the 'Quisp' boxes! They were my favorite when I was a brat but I seem to remember that it wasn't distributed in Canada. Fortunately my folks were hoarders and we'd buy a case of the stuff when we'd vacation in the States!
Ah, what memories!!
Ah, what memories!!
Neato site
I definitely remember ordering this but I can't remember what I ever did with it now. I was 7 then
http://theimaginaryworld.com/box509.jpg
I definitely remember ordering this but I can't remember what I ever did with it now. I was 7 then
http://theimaginaryworld.com/box509.jpg
Fabulous site Gary.
I would so collect vintage 50's/60's cereal boxes if they weren't so darn expensive.
Who's old enough like me to remember when Quaker wanted to discontinue either Quisp or Quake in 1972. They held a vote, I don't remember exactly how you voted, but Quisp won and continued on for at least another decade. Finding a box of Quake would be SO COOL!
OMG I just found quisp.com and you can still buy it from Quaker!!!! I'm so ordering a couple of boxes right now. Yummy!!!!
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I would so collect vintage 50's/60's cereal boxes if they weren't so darn expensive.
Who's old enough like me to remember when Quaker wanted to discontinue either Quisp or Quake in 1972. They held a vote, I don't remember exactly how you voted, but Quisp won and continued on for at least another decade. Finding a box of Quake would be SO COOL!
OMG I just found quisp.com and you can still buy it from Quaker!!!! I'm so ordering a couple of boxes right now. Yummy!!!!
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpa...mes Topics/Subjects/P/Politics and Government
estatesale_gary
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Quake - Good enough for William Conrad
Wiki had a neat summary for Quisp and Quake. I understand Daws Butler being Quisp but William Conrad was the voice for Quake?
Quisp and Quake were two sugar-sweetened breakfast cereals originally released in 1965 in the U.S. by The Quaker Oats Company and generally advertised together (during the same commercial) as products competing against each other. The very successful ads were cartoons created by Jay Ward of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame, and used some of the same voices, including Daws Butler as the voice of Quisp (an alien) and William Conrad as the voice of Quake (a miner).
In 1970, a contest was held by Quaker Oats to see whose cereal was the more popular of the two. In 1972, Quisp won, and Quake retreated underground. Quake, the cartoon character, reappeared in a new cereal called Quangaroos where he obtained an orange kangaroo as well as putting his mining helmet down in favor of an Aussie motif.
In the late-1970s, Quisp was removed from grocery stores due to low sales. It re-emerged in the mid-1980s, and finally was re-introduced in the 1990s as the "first Internet cereal" and is still in limited distribution.
Starting in early March 2008, many Dollar General Stores (especially in, but not limited to, OH, PA, WV, and much of the Northeast US) will begin selling Quisp (as well as other classics such as King Vitaman, Crunchy Corn Bran, and Honey Graham Oh's).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisp
Wiki had a neat summary for Quisp and Quake. I understand Daws Butler being Quisp but William Conrad was the voice for Quake?
Quisp and Quake were two sugar-sweetened breakfast cereals originally released in 1965 in the U.S. by The Quaker Oats Company and generally advertised together (during the same commercial) as products competing against each other. The very successful ads were cartoons created by Jay Ward of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame, and used some of the same voices, including Daws Butler as the voice of Quisp (an alien) and William Conrad as the voice of Quake (a miner).
In 1970, a contest was held by Quaker Oats to see whose cereal was the more popular of the two. In 1972, Quisp won, and Quake retreated underground. Quake, the cartoon character, reappeared in a new cereal called Quangaroos where he obtained an orange kangaroo as well as putting his mining helmet down in favor of an Aussie motif.
In the late-1970s, Quisp was removed from grocery stores due to low sales. It re-emerged in the mid-1980s, and finally was re-introduced in the 1990s as the "first Internet cereal" and is still in limited distribution.
Starting in early March 2008, many Dollar General Stores (especially in, but not limited to, OH, PA, WV, and much of the Northeast US) will begin selling Quisp (as well as other classics such as King Vitaman, Crunchy Corn Bran, and Honey Graham Oh's).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisp
turquoisedude
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Quisp.com
Wow - thanks for the link, Robert. I hope they ship to Canada!!!
Wow - thanks for the link, Robert. I hope they ship to Canada!!!
launderess
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Quazy Energy
Oh that's for sure.
Have pity on the hundreds of poor mothers and school teachers who had to deal with those sugar charged children all morning. *LOL*
Remember some of the above, mainly from television commercials, but our house it was mainly porridge (oatmeal, grits or "Cream of Wheat", for breakfast. Our mother had those cereal maker's number alright, and wasn't about to feed her children all that sugar. For the record, pop, and anything else laden with sugar (aside from the occasional cakes or cookies), was strictly controlled as well.
On the off chance cold cereal did make it into the larder, it was one of the following:
Raisin Bran
Museli
Quaker 100% Natural Cereal (aka cardboard in a packet)
Cheerios
L.
Oh that's for sure.
Have pity on the hundreds of poor mothers and school teachers who had to deal with those sugar charged children all morning. *LOL*
Remember some of the above, mainly from television commercials, but our house it was mainly porridge (oatmeal, grits or "Cream of Wheat", for breakfast. Our mother had those cereal maker's number alright, and wasn't about to feed her children all that sugar. For the record, pop, and anything else laden with sugar (aside from the occasional cakes or cookies), was strictly controlled as well.
On the off chance cold cereal did make it into the larder, it was one of the following:
Raisin Bran
Museli
Quaker 100% Natural Cereal (aka cardboard in a packet)
Cheerios
L.
launderess
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BooBerry
Apparently is still produced on a limited basis, usually more easily found around Holloween, and has a large fan club as well. FoodTV has a a segment on vintage cereals (forget which show), and interviewed a young man who is in love with the stuff.
Apparently is still produced on a limited basis, usually more easily found around Holloween, and has a large fan club as well. FoodTV has a a segment on vintage cereals (forget which show), and interviewed a young man who is in love with the stuff.
I was never a big cereal fan as a kid. I remember when Apple Jacks came out and pleading with mom to get some which she did and then tasting them YUK. They had cinammon in them.. I can't stand the taste of cinammon still to this day. I liked Rice Krispies and Sugar Frosted Flakes and Alpha-bits. Oh and Lucky Charms I remember when that came out and I didn't like them either with all those stale little bits of marshmallow stars etc. uggghhhh
launderess
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Guess What?
In our house if either parent caved in and purchased that cereal, you'd have finished that box, or else! *LOL*
As a child couldn't stand eggs for breakfast, and one morning decided to make a stand against the plate of scrambled eggs put out for my breakfast. Madame Ma Mere told me to eat, I played around and moved those darn eggs from one side of the plate to the other, but wouldn't otherwise be bothered.
A face down ensued, with the "law" saying I would remain at table until I ate those eggs (which were now cold). Well when one is a child one easily thinks you can outlast any parent, don't you? Until Big Daddy came in: took one look at the situation and made it quite clear if those eggs weren't gone in several seconds there was going to be some serious consequences and reprocussions! *LOL*
In our house if either parent caved in and purchased that cereal, you'd have finished that box, or else! *LOL*
As a child couldn't stand eggs for breakfast, and one morning decided to make a stand against the plate of scrambled eggs put out for my breakfast. Madame Ma Mere told me to eat, I played around and moved those darn eggs from one side of the plate to the other, but wouldn't otherwise be bothered.
A face down ensued, with the "law" saying I would remain at table until I ate those eggs (which were now cold). Well when one is a child one easily thinks you can outlast any parent, don't you? Until Big Daddy came in: took one look at the situation and made it quite clear if those eggs weren't gone in several seconds there was going to be some serious consequences and reprocussions! *LOL*
I had that same breakfast showdown but it was with fishsticks and my dad near force feeding it to me in the end. To this day and I'm 53 now I have never never ever in my life eaten let alone tasted another piece of fish or anything that lived in the water. Nope and never will. I was scarred for life LOL
launderess
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You know, today such behaviour might be seen as "abusive", but it was far from it. My parents were brought up by parents and others who lived through the Depression, and or had firm values that one did not waste food, or anything else that cost money. They certianly were not going to let a stroppy child run their lives.
Was often amazed when visiting freinds or watching television and the mother would make several dishes for each meal, one for each child and perhaps the husband because this one or that one would not eat this or that. Told my mother about it once, and she promptly told me get all such foolish ideas out of my head. She was running a household and kitchen, not a cafeteria or restaurant. You ate what was prepared and was thankful for it, end of story.
Was often amazed when visiting freinds or watching television and the mother would make several dishes for each meal, one for each child and perhaps the husband because this one or that one would not eat this or that. Told my mother about it once, and she promptly told me get all such foolish ideas out of my head. She was running a household and kitchen, not a cafeteria or restaurant. You ate what was prepared and was thankful for it, end of story.
danemodsandy
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Cheerios:
Well, the site had one Cheerios City box, but it was the same one I've already found. Cheerios City was a promotion from 1957; there were buildings you could cut out and assemble, all scaled to Tootsietoy cars (sold separately, of course). The supermarket is the one you see on the Internet most often, but there was a city hall, a school, a gas station, and a drive-in restaurant. The drive-in is the one I remember cutting out and assembling 52 years ago, and I'd love to find that box again, if only as a pic on the Net.
Wouldn't mind finding the Cocoa Puffs boxes with the train cut-outs, either.
Well, the site had one Cheerios City box, but it was the same one I've already found. Cheerios City was a promotion from 1957; there were buildings you could cut out and assemble, all scaled to Tootsietoy cars (sold separately, of course). The supermarket is the one you see on the Internet most often, but there was a city hall, a school, a gas station, and a drive-in restaurant. The drive-in is the one I remember cutting out and assembling 52 years ago, and I'd love to find that box again, if only as a pic on the Net.
Wouldn't mind finding the Cocoa Puffs boxes with the train cut-outs, either.
perc-o-prince
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She was running a household and kitchen, not a cafeteria or
Grew up in a very similar household, except our mother gave each of us a pass on roughly one item. I remember one of my brothers hated liver (was given hot dogs or something) and I couldn't stand brussel sprouts. I think I also got a pass on fish, though I'd get and eat tuna salad. My father was against this and thought we should all be eating what was prepped, and that was it. Well, I know the smell of sprouts made me gag. I'm sure I'd have unswallowed if I had been forced to eat them.
However, I think it was when he once forced my brother to eat liver that stopped him from pressing the issue again! He had the same reaction to liver that I would have had with sprouts!
Chuck
Grew up in a very similar household, except our mother gave each of us a pass on roughly one item. I remember one of my brothers hated liver (was given hot dogs or something) and I couldn't stand brussel sprouts. I think I also got a pass on fish, though I'd get and eat tuna salad. My father was against this and thought we should all be eating what was prepped, and that was it. Well, I know the smell of sprouts made me gag. I'm sure I'd have unswallowed if I had been forced to eat them.
However, I think it was when he once forced my brother to eat liver that stopped him from pressing the issue again! He had the same reaction to liver that I would have had with sprouts!
Chuck
perc-o-prince
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Was it only Kellogg's that had the variety pack of 10 individual boxes of different cereals wrapped together? Each box had either dashed lines or perforations to show you where to cut the box and inner paper to use the box as a bowl? He who got up first got the one box of really cool cereal in the pack!
Chuck
Chuck
laundryshark
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Cereal.com
You'll appreciate this site, especially its newsletter, which also has many non-cereal offers.--Laundry Shark
http://www.cereal.com/
You'll appreciate this site, especially its newsletter, which also has many non-cereal offers.--Laundry Shark
http://www.cereal.com/
laundryshark
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Huge List of Cereal
Don't know if there are photos, but at least here is the list.--Laundry Shark
http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/deyoe
Don't know if there are photos, but at least here is the list.--Laundry Shark
http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/deyoe
maytagbear
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For me,
it was hamburger gravy over mashed sweet potatoes.
My father gave me a fairly severe spanking.
I hate sweet potatoes to this day.
I will cook them for other people, but don't expect me to eat any.
If served over anything else, hamburger gravy is acceptable, though certainly not my first choice. Would rather have a burger, or meat loaf, or American style Bolognese.
As for cereals, we had the more nutritious versions of the sweetend cereals, such as Quaker Life, or Post Oat Flakes, or Buc*Wheats...but usually, it was Cheerios. Didn't really like Cheerios then, don't really like them now. However, Grape-Nuts......are like breakfast Kryptonite. I am helpless in the face of Grape-Nuts.
Our grandmother would get the Kellogg Variety Pack when we came down. She lived in a tiny village in Champaign County, Ohio (Dayton-Springfield region).
Lawrence/Maytagbear
it was hamburger gravy over mashed sweet potatoes.
My father gave me a fairly severe spanking.
I hate sweet potatoes to this day.
I will cook them for other people, but don't expect me to eat any.
If served over anything else, hamburger gravy is acceptable, though certainly not my first choice. Would rather have a burger, or meat loaf, or American style Bolognese.
As for cereals, we had the more nutritious versions of the sweetend cereals, such as Quaker Life, or Post Oat Flakes, or Buc*Wheats...but usually, it was Cheerios. Didn't really like Cheerios then, don't really like them now. However, Grape-Nuts......are like breakfast Kryptonite. I am helpless in the face of Grape-Nuts.
Our grandmother would get the Kellogg Variety Pack when we came down. She lived in a tiny village in Champaign County, Ohio (Dayton-Springfield region).
Lawrence/Maytagbear
ronhic
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Gosh...
Cereal choice for us was always fairly strictly limited to
- Kelloggs Cornflakes/rice bubbles
- Weetbix (sanitarium)
Just sometimes we would get fruit loops or cocopops....and even rarer were frosty flakes
Mind, if dad came shopping we could pretty much have what we wanted to mums disgust...and the bill was always at least 30% higher than normal...
Cereal choice for us was always fairly strictly limited to
- Kelloggs Cornflakes/rice bubbles
- Weetbix (sanitarium)
Just sometimes we would get fruit loops or cocopops....and even rarer were frosty flakes
Mind, if dad came shopping we could pretty much have what we wanted to mums disgust...and the bill was always at least 30% higher than normal...
toggleswitch2
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The incredible edible egg.
My father decided one Saturday mornning to let me my mom sleep late and make breakfast for us three kids.
He served eggs, toast and orange juice.
Problem is, we three kids could not (and can't) tolerate eggs. Not don't WANT eggs; CAN'T do eggs. And the acidity of the juice didnt agree with us either.
The mere smell of them scrambling made (makes) use heave and wretch. Well, poor mom got up upon hearing us all use the toilet one after the other to puke. Not sure if any of us had any mouthfuls in us already.
I can tolerate eggs hidden in baked goods, breads and maybe even Chinese fried rice, if small pieces. And I will eat a hard-boiled Easter egg or two in the spirit of the holdiay; But no more.
Eating chicken period is not my idea of food.
My father decided one Saturday mornning to let me my mom sleep late and make breakfast for us three kids.
He served eggs, toast and orange juice.
Problem is, we three kids could not (and can't) tolerate eggs. Not don't WANT eggs; CAN'T do eggs. And the acidity of the juice didnt agree with us either.
The mere smell of them scrambling made (makes) use heave and wretch. Well, poor mom got up upon hearing us all use the toilet one after the other to puke. Not sure if any of us had any mouthfuls in us already.
I can tolerate eggs hidden in baked goods, breads and maybe even Chinese fried rice, if small pieces. And I will eat a hard-boiled Easter egg or two in the spirit of the holdiay; But no more.
Eating chicken period is not my idea of food.
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...How shocked I was to see my sister preparing eggs for her children.
When invited to join in, she simply said "No, thank you, I'm not hungry right now". It was great to see a parent not inflicting their fears/worries/issues/intolerances upon another human being. Wisely, I aked her on the side, quietly, about this and she said her kids don't know she doesn't like eggs. Why plant that or any other seed in their head?
YOU GO GIRL!
I remember having quite a laugh at my 6" 2" (IIRC that is over 1.8m) big strapping macho man of a roommate scared to death of the tiniest bug, as was his mother.
When invited to join in, she simply said "No, thank you, I'm not hungry right now". It was great to see a parent not inflicting their fears/worries/issues/intolerances upon another human being. Wisely, I aked her on the side, quietly, about this and she said her kids don't know she doesn't like eggs. Why plant that or any other seed in their head?
YOU GO GIRL!
I remember having quite a laugh at my 6" 2" (IIRC that is over 1.8m) big strapping macho man of a roommate scared to death of the tiniest bug, as was his mother.
Toggles, have you ever tried to find the cause for your aversion to eggs? They're the closest thing to a perfect human food that exists in all of nature.
Did your folks eat them poached or soft boiled? That might put kids off permanently on them.
Obviously people like what they like, but I've never met anyone who got physically ill just from the smell of eggs cooking. That's mind blowing to me.
Did your folks eat them poached or soft boiled? That might put kids off permanently on them.
Obviously people like what they like, but I've never met anyone who got physically ill just from the smell of eggs cooking. That's mind blowing to me.
toggleswitch2
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Times three kids!
And I'm told the aversion was way before the ego of the concept of it being a contest of wills of "defeating" a parent.
And I'm told the aversion was way before the ego of the concept of it being a contest of wills of "defeating" a parent.
danemodsandy
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JeffG:
"Obviously people like what they like, but I've never met anyone who got physically ill just from the smell of eggs cooking. That's mind blowing to me."
A lot of people have an extraordinary aversion to a food or foods, and I don't know of anyone who has ever figured out what causes it. With me, it's sweet potatoes and yams; I cannot bear even to smell them. As Phyllis Povah put it in The Women, I will "unswallow."
Being a Southern kid, this aversion was considered extremely strange; most people down here cannot get enough of them (though they seem to be largely an excuse to eat Karo syrup). My grandmother on my dad's side tried to get me to eat sweet potatoes a time or two, giving up when it was clear that I would not, could not, get them down. This was not a woman who coddled kids unduly, either. Since I adored spinach and squash and broccoli and green beans (I told you I was a weird kid), she figured I'd be okay even if I didn't eat sweet potatoes. Very sensible woman.
One of my pet peeves is people who belittle or ridicule other peoples' food aversions, or worse yet, keep trying to make them eat the retch-making food. There are plenty of good things to eat in this world, and vitamin pills too, so no one's going to die from not eating a food or two they can't get down. Anyone who responds to a "no, thank you," with any kind of ridicule or cajoling or force-feeding is a control freak.
"Obviously people like what they like, but I've never met anyone who got physically ill just from the smell of eggs cooking. That's mind blowing to me."
A lot of people have an extraordinary aversion to a food or foods, and I don't know of anyone who has ever figured out what causes it. With me, it's sweet potatoes and yams; I cannot bear even to smell them. As Phyllis Povah put it in The Women, I will "unswallow."
Being a Southern kid, this aversion was considered extremely strange; most people down here cannot get enough of them (though they seem to be largely an excuse to eat Karo syrup). My grandmother on my dad's side tried to get me to eat sweet potatoes a time or two, giving up when it was clear that I would not, could not, get them down. This was not a woman who coddled kids unduly, either. Since I adored spinach and squash and broccoli and green beans (I told you I was a weird kid), she figured I'd be okay even if I didn't eat sweet potatoes. Very sensible woman.
One of my pet peeves is people who belittle or ridicule other peoples' food aversions, or worse yet, keep trying to make them eat the retch-making food. There are plenty of good things to eat in this world, and vitamin pills too, so no one's going to die from not eating a food or two they can't get down. Anyone who responds to a "no, thank you," with any kind of ridicule or cajoling or force-feeding is a control freak.
polkanut
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My maternal grandmother couldn't tolerate fried eggs after she went through menopause. She ate them scrambled, boiled, poached, etc., but just couldn't do them fried. And this was the woman who would and did eat anything and everything else.
What fascinates me about food aversions (as opposed to physical things, e.g. food sensitivities and allergies) is that they're psychological in origin. My dad took me rabbit hunting when I was 7, and the experience was traumatic. I wouldn't (or "couldn't") eat cooked rabbit after that. But there was nothing about the food per se that made me sick.
I don't mean to belittle or ridicule anyone. I'm curious.
I don't mean to belittle or ridicule anyone. I'm curious.
