It Stays Crispy in Milk. A Tribute to Cereals of My Youth...
The other day I was watching my son eat his favorite cereal, Lucky Charms. And I started thinking back to when I was a kid: Lucky Charms was also one of my favorites as well. Lucky the Leprechaun looks a little different now compared to, say, 1974, but he's still around. I thought that was pretty cool. And as one thought segued to another, I started thinking about all the cereal "characters" of my childhood. Every sugar-coated, frosted, packed-with-vitamins-and-iron, genuine-aritificial-flavor box of awesomeness had its own little cartoon character which tried to convince me to convince my mom that the next time she was at the Red Owl in Wadena, she should by THAT particular cereal. And you know what? She usually did. So I decided to take a stroll down memory lane and try to think of as many breakfast cereal characters I could from my youth. I know I've overlooked a few, but here are the ones I can clearly remember. <<>...