So here's where you get the idea that the marketing department live in a camper in the parking lot out by the back gate. Anyways, today's cereal of note is something called Baron Von Redberry, a General Mills offering from 1972.
The idea was to make taste like fruit punch and quite possibly look like it too. Sorry, I was never lucky enough to have generous enough parents to actually pony up for a box of this stuff.
It was an oat-ish cereal with flavoured dried marshmallow fruit things (my favourite cereal add 0n by the way). people who have tried these cereals claim they had a strong fake fruit smell to them in the bowl. But hey, the weird marshmallows dyed the milk red!
If you are curious, the Baron had enemies. His name was Sir Grapefellow and he touted essentially the same damn cereal except it was grape flavoured. Now that sounds harsh. But again, you get nifty purple milk.
No doubt they were aimed at Post's Frankenberry and Count Chockula. What a war!
Hey, do you know the names of the three bakers from Cinnamon Toast Crunch? Come by tomorrow and I'll tell you.
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