Seriously Cereal

To cut into the huge cold cereal market, generic major distributors, through testing various blends of grains and sugars, have tried to come as close to the originals as consumers will accept. Names of the original cereals have been trade marked so the counterfeit cereals need to be called something. I can imagine marketers sitting in sterile boardrooms with bowls of the copy cat cereal sitting in front of them trying to come up with an identity. Looking at the names they came up with I think they surveyed first graders.

So, to test your cereal savvy I’ve created a list of a few of these “off” brands. See if you can identify the real, original cereal that the mock cereal is trying to imitate. Some of the cereal names seem to have drifted into the “public domain” category such as Bran Flakes. I’ve made some of these pretty easy. So, test your skills. The original cereal brand is listed below. I don’t mean to ruin anything but my favorite name is “Apple Dapples.” It’s just fun to say. In fact I’ve been saying it over and over again…apple dapples, apple dapples, apple dapples…. Good luck, yeah good luck getting apple dapples out of your head.

1) Golden Puffs 2) Honey & Nut Blenders

3) Berry Colossal Crunch 4) Blue Berry Muffin Tops

5) Crispy Oat Squares 6) Cocoa Crunchies

7) Frosted Fruit Rings 8) Apple Dapples

9) Golden Corn Nuggets 10) Cini-Mini Crunch

11) Magic Stars 12) Crunchy Rice Squares

13) Crispy Berry Crunch 14) Crisp ‘n Fruity Rice

15) Chipmates 16) Cocoa Roos 17) Honey Crisp Medley

18) Nutty Nuggets 19) Frosted Mini Spooners

20) Crispy Rice 21) Active Lifestyle 22) Shining Stars

23) Alien 24) Hexa Grains 25) Fruit & Toasted O’s

26) Corn Flakes 27) Crispy Rice 28) Wheat Pockets

29) Rice Pockets 30) Oats & More 31) Oat Wise

32) Golden Puffs 33) Berry Crackles 34) Cinnamon Toasters

35) Tootie Fruities 36) Marshmallow Mateys

37) Dino Bytes 38) Honey Nut Scooters

39) Silly Circles 40) Frosted Flakes

41) Marshmallow Magic 42) Honey & Nut

43) Cocoa Nuggets 44) Cinnamon Crunch

1) Honey Smacks/Honey Puffs; 2) Honey Nut Cheerios; 3) Captain Crunchberries;

4) Blue Berry Muffin; 5) Life; 6) Cocoa Krispies; 7) Fruit Loops;

8) Apple Jacks; 9) Corn Pops; 10) Cinnamon Toast Crunch;

11) Lucky Charms; 12) Life; 13) Captain Crunch Crunchberries;

14) Fruity Pebbles; 15) Cookie Crisp; 16) Cocoa Puffs;

17) Honey Bunches of Oats; 18) Grape Nuts;

19) Frosted Mini Wheats; 20) Rice Krispies; 21) Special K;

22) Lucky Charms; 23) Combo of Lucky Charms and Trix;

24) Crispix; 25) Fruit Loops; 26) Corn Flakes, duh;

27) Rice Krispies; 28) Wheat Chex; 29) Rice Chex;

30) Honey Bunches of Oats; 31) Life; 32) Honey Crisp/Honey Smacks;

33) Captain Crunch Crunchberries; 34) Cinnamon Toast Crunch;

35) Fruit Loops; 36) Lucky Charms; 37) Fruity Pebbles

38) Honey Nut Cheerios; 39) Fruit Loops;

40) Frosted Flakes, pretty smart answer; 41) Lucky Charms;

42) Honey Nut Cheerios; 43) Cocoa Pebbles;

44) Cinnamon Toast Crunch