Cocoa Pebbles Cereal (History, Pictures & Commercials)
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Cocoa Pebbles Cereal (History, Pictures & Commercials)

Cocoa Pebbles is a sweet, crispy rice breakfast cereal with artificial and real cocoa flavoring. Add milk, and you soon have a bowl of crunchy cereal swimming in tasty chocolate milk to start your day. Cocoa Pebbles and its partner breakfast cereal Fruity Pebbles were the first to be created around existing cartoon characters, specifically…

Golden Grahams Cereal (History, Recipes & Commercials)
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Golden Grahams Cereal (History, Recipes & Commercials)

It’s a delicious cinnamon graham, it’s a cereal, and it’s absolutely flavorful and fun! Golden Grahams are made by General Mills and they are one of the best cereals ever created in our humble opinion.  If you like graham crackers, you will be quite pleased with this cereal delight that takes the fun and flavor…

Corn Flakes (History, Marketing, Pictures & Commercials)
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Corn Flakes (History, Marketing, Pictures & Commercials)

Kellogg’s Corn Flakes has been a staple of the kitchen pantry going all the way back to the early 1900s. While some might think Corn Flakes cereal lacks the pizazz of some flashier, sweeter varieties designed to appeal to children, its history more than makes up for any thought that Corn Flakes might be bland….

Cocoa Puffs Cereal (History, FAQ, Pictures & Commercials)
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Cocoa Puffs Cereal (History, FAQ, Pictures & Commercials)

Cocoa Puffs cereal was every child’s dream: Chocolate for breakfast. Even better: Chocolate for breakfast, washed down with milk that, thanks to that crunchy sweet cereal, became chocolate milk to slurp straight out o the bowl.  Cocoa Puffs were introduced to the American breakfast table in 1956 by General Mills. The cereal is puffed corn…

Cheetos Puffs (History, Flavors & Commercials)
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Cheetos Puffs (History, Flavors & Commercials)

Cheetos Puffs, those airy, crunchy, cheesy treats that melt in your mouth and leave their mark on your fingertips, first hit the chip aisle in 1971. But their origin story begins much sooner, with Crunchy Chee-tos, which were introduced to the world in 1948. Fifty years later, the company dropped the hyphen in the name…

Frosted Flakes Cereal (History, FAQ & Commercials)
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Frosted Flakes Cereal (History, FAQ & Commercials)

“Frosted Flakes,” the deliciously crunchy breakfast cereal, has been a staple of many family’s mornings since Kellogg’s introduced it in 1952. Originally called “Sugar Frosted Flakes,” the cereal is a sweetened version of the company’s Corn Flakes. The word “Sugar” was dropped from the name in 1983, though the flakes remain as sweet as they…

Space Food Sticks (History, Pictures & Commercials)
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Space Food Sticks (History, Pictures & Commercials)

Space food sticks are linked indelibly with the first trips to space and they were very popular in the space race era due to this connection. If you have not heard of these snacks, that is because they were discontinued in the 1980s when the original space race craze officially ended. This being said, they…

Sir Grapefellow Cereal (History, Pictures & Commercials)
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Sir Grapefellow Cereal (History, Pictures & Commercials)

There are not many kinds of cereal that have been made by General Mills that did not experience long-term success. The company is famous for creating memorable and exciting cereal blends and styles that were often paired with silly and fun mascots. General Mills has sold some of the same cereals since the early 1900s…

Fruity Yummy Mummy (History, Photos & Commercials)
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Fruity Yummy Mummy (History, Photos & Commercials)

Fruity Yummy Mummy is one of General Mills Monster Cereals. These cereals were first introduced in 1971 and featured a whole group of fun and silly monsters as well as colorful and enjoyable cereal flavors for the benefit of kids and adults alike. The original mascots were Franken Berry and Count Chocula, but an entire…

Kaboom Cereal (History, FAQ, Pictures & Commercials)
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Kaboom Cereal (History, FAQ, Pictures & Commercials)

The General Mills Company has been a leader in the cereal industry for a reason. They’ve turned out some really incredible cereals over the years and Kaboom is just one of those. This cereal was fun, delicious, and even loaded with vitamins. Does it really get much better than that?  History Kaboom was released by…