One of my fondest Halloween memories as a kid was getting the General Mills Monster cereals. They were discontinued in 2010 as year-round offerings, only being made available during the Halloween season thereafter.
The three most well-known were Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry, but there were also two others monster cereals that did not have the same longevity as their monstrous brethren: Fruit Brute (which eventually came to be spelled "Frute Brute,") and Fruity Yummy Mummy. Frute Brute and Yummy Mummy haven't been available for twenty-five years, and their boxes, along with the other monsters' boxes from days gone by, fetch quite a bit of money on eBay.
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| Vintage and modern box designs together for the first time! |
Not content with simply resurrecting the Monster Cereals themselves, General Mills has also brought back the vintage box designs, which are only available in Target stores.
So far, we've gone through a box of Boo Berry and a box of Count Chocula, but I'm planning on hitting up Target before Halloween to grab the vintage boxes. If you've never had these cereals before or you haven't had them since you were a kid, or if you just want to grab them again this year, now is the time to get your paws and claws on 'em before they disappear back into the night. In other words, until next year.
Click here to read more about the Monster cereals and their impact on the "old fogies" of our generation.
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