Speaker 1: It's nice side with Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: We are the Freakki's. We are the Freaki's. This is
Speaker 2: a freaky tree e.
Speaker 3: D.
Speaker 2: Why am I humming that? Because that was my favorite
Speaker 2: cereal and that was a jingle about my favorite cereal.
Speaker 2: Periodically we talk about cereal here on WBZ, whether it's
Speaker 2: The Morgan Show or Night Side, and it's always to
Speaker 2: for Ellis tofa good evening, Happy holidays. Oh and I mean,
Speaker 2: can you hear me?
Speaker 3: I'm hoping so I can you hear me now?
Speaker 2: Loud and clear?
Speaker 3: Excellent?
Speaker 2: So let me start again. Of all the premiums that
Speaker 2: came in Cereal boxes, two separate questions. What is the
Speaker 2: most soughtmium everybody wants to own that the winning of
Speaker 2: the Pool spoon sliders or the deed to Land from
Speaker 2: Quaker Oats. And what items would bring the most at
Speaker 2: a auction for Cereal items.
Speaker 3: Oh, great question. My personal favorite. You've just named both
Speaker 3: of them. The wing of the Pooh Spoon Sitters, of
Speaker 3: which the whole collection of the different winning the Pool
Speaker 3: characters would either slide onto your spoon and sit right
Speaker 3: on your spoon, or they could also hang on the
Speaker 3: side of your bowl. They came in nice colors and
Speaker 3: they came into Bisco packages of cereal. Absolutely love those
Speaker 3: a lot of fun. My other favorite one is the
Speaker 3: Yukon Land Rush, Quaker Roats, Klondike Big inch Land Deeds.
Speaker 3: Those are really beautiful little certificates that you could still
Speaker 3: find as well on any day that has a really
Speaker 3: nice story behind it relative to the ones that make
Speaker 3: the most. That really gets down to how good a
Speaker 3: condition any particular premium is, how where that premium is
Speaker 3: and how badly somebody wants that premium from. You know,
Speaker 3: an any given day, one could go for a lot
Speaker 3: more than anyone else. That gets as worth, But it's
Speaker 3: worth something to somebody who remembered it, wanted it, and
Speaker 3: just has to.
Speaker 2: Have it right. I still have my Boss Moss T
Speaker 2: shirt and my snow Holdorf T shirt from the Freakis. Naturally,
Speaker 2: when those cereals are popular and I ordered them, I
Speaker 2: was a different size then. I couldn't put them on
Speaker 2: now if my life depended on it. But I remember.
Speaker 2: I even remember the jingle for the Spoonsitters. We need
Speaker 2: the pool we NEI the pool Cuddliobar has a prize
Speaker 2: for you, A prize for you to do. Do it's
Speaker 2: your own. We need the pooh there.
Speaker 3: How's that outstanding?
Speaker 2: Thank you? How many people could do that? Lo these
Speaker 2: forty to fifty years.
Speaker 3: Later, I'd say, you're in the minority.
Speaker 2: Story of my life. I am going to ask I'm
Speaker 2: going to ask people to call in if you have
Speaker 2: memories of a certain cereal. You want to know the backstory.
Speaker 2: You want to know what happened to the fourth elf
Speaker 2: in rice krispies. Yes there was a fourth one. Anything
Speaker 2: you might want to know about a cereal, hot cereal,
Speaker 2: cold cereal, anything in between six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. And I want to talk about the cereals
Speaker 2: that were real ercles. Julia White as Erkele was on
Speaker 2: a cereal box, Mister t was on a cereal box.
Speaker 2: Did those cereals do well when they first came out?
Speaker 3: Well, they were. They didn't do well enough to hang
Speaker 3: around for very many years, but they were wildly popular
Speaker 3: for nostalgic reasons much later, And of course they show
Speaker 3: up occasionally in movies and things like that.
Speaker 2: How about C three POS, the Star Wars serial.
Speaker 3: That came and went it was it was promotional for
Speaker 3: one of the movies. As you know, a lot of
Speaker 3: the serials have these movie tie ins will come out
Speaker 3: at the same time as the movie, and it's a
Speaker 3: one shot deal typically, okay.
Speaker 2: And I'm trying to think of the unusual serials that
Speaker 2: offered something more than the cereal in the box, and
Speaker 2: I know alphabets and a few of the post serials
Speaker 2: offered the Monkeys, the Jackson five, and if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 2: the Osmans record on the back of the box. Oh
Speaker 2: you're really right, a real record.
Speaker 3: Yes, these were thirty three and a third speed records,
Speaker 3: a little but not sebut the size of a forty five.
Speaker 3: But there were three and a third. To understand, Bobby
Speaker 3: Sherman had three different records. The Archies I think had
Speaker 3: three different records, Sandwich Jackson five, and the Monkeys. I
Speaker 3: think Gary Lewis and the Playboys also had a record.
Speaker 3: Those are the ones I'm I'm sure of, and I'll
Speaker 3: bet there's others as well.
Speaker 2: Are they with any money? If you kept them without
Speaker 2: being scratched up, maybe left them alone on the box,
Speaker 2: not cut them off.
Speaker 3: Yes, if the box is intact, it's certainly worth a
Speaker 3: lot more than if you clipped it off the box
Speaker 3: and actually listen to it.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, mine a gone went away the Dodo bird because
Speaker 2: I did save some of those. But oh well, and
Speaker 2: give me a second. I lost my train of thought
Speaker 2: talking about Cereal boxes. Some of them had a mask
Speaker 2: that if you wanted to look like Frankenberry you could
Speaker 2: cut the mask off the back of the box and
Speaker 2: where it did Halloween with the appropriate costume, a sheet
Speaker 2: or whatever. Speak to those.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, There any number of boxes that offer different
Speaker 3: things you had. I mean, if you go back even further,
Speaker 3: like a Lone Ranger or a Tato mask, did you
Speaker 3: clip off the side of the box. Simptically, there'd be
Speaker 3: like little characters that you could clip off the box.
Speaker 3: There would be you could cut houses and whatnot out
Speaker 3: of the back of the box. Lots of of course,
Speaker 3: games and other things like that you can do with them.
Speaker 2: Now, how often are there conventions around the country that
Speaker 2: you can attend and meet other collectors in trade seeal
Speaker 2: boxes and the premiums that are in them. How often
Speaker 2: does that happen?
Speaker 3: I don't see very many of that type of convention
Speaker 3: just for Cereal. I have seen conventions which are like
Speaker 3: pop conventions or nostalgic type conventions where you'll see a
Speaker 3: little bit of this tucked in different areas that the
Speaker 3: cons the I don't know what that would be like
Speaker 3: an example of where you'd see some of this there.
Speaker 2: All right, and tell me about the last one of
Speaker 2: those you attended.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, I was in one in Chicago. That was
Speaker 3: a lot of fun. We had our Great American Cereal
Speaker 3: book out at the time, so we were promoting that,
Speaker 3: and as different characters came by. Let's say someone was
Speaker 3: dressed as Spider Man, I would flip to a page
Speaker 3: that had a Spider Man cereal and he'd hold up
Speaker 3: the book and take a picture of them. So we
Speaker 3: had any number of comic con characters come by that
Speaker 3: were on cereal boxes, so we took advantage of it.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me take my break. I have a call
Speaker 2: already in hall. John Redding will be our first call.
Speaker 2: Anyone else out there, you want to talk about breakfast cereal,
Speaker 2: your favorite anything unique you might remember about the particular
Speaker 2: cereal you and your family loved. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten,
Speaker 2: thirty eight, eight, eight, nine, two, nine, ten thirty For
Speaker 2: the final hour of Nightside, I try to pick something
Speaker 2: light that is fun to discuss. Last hour we talked
Speaker 2: about scams and whatnot. This time, this hour until midnight,
Speaker 2: we're talking about your favorite breakfast Cereal. Put it in
Speaker 2: the bowl, Sprinkle on sugar, pour on the milk, and
Speaker 2: dive in time and temperature here on Nightside eleven, fifteen
Speaker 2: thirty five degrees.
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Speaker 4: we call them make curious, spell.
Speaker 3: It right, snuggled what they call them so handsome and
Speaker 3: think he's doing a weird No, I really have to see.
Speaker 2: My name is Gumbo.
Speaker 3: You're standing on.
Speaker 5: My foot his mom.
Speaker 2: This is my game.
Speaker 6: I know more than you do it, so don't I'm
Speaker 6: pretty goody ie O you what's right? Prince?
Speaker 3: I freaky serials because.
Speaker 5: It's not.
Speaker 4: Youpe Joe Canna have crunky freaky siel is part of
Speaker 4: your good breakfast.
Speaker 2: Then there's a free freaky especially Mark Foxes. Okay, Bob,
Speaker 2: thank you very much. That was a trip down memory
Speaker 2: lane for me. John and Redding, You're next here on
Speaker 2: night side. Good evening to you, John.
Speaker 5: Hey, Moryan, how you doing all right?
Speaker 2: Happy holiday?
Speaker 5: Happy holiday? Hey. I think it's just interesting to go
Speaker 5: over the cereal for the next hour. I think that's
Speaker 5: an interesting topic.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what we're going to do up until midnight.
Speaker 2: What was your favorite cereal?
Speaker 5: Honestly, I like pops, you know, regular pops. That's my
Speaker 5: favorite cereal. My sister here likes.
Speaker 2: Grape grain, grape grain, great brain.
Speaker 5: I've never heard of it.
Speaker 2: I've heard a grape nuts.
Speaker 5: Grape nuts. I've never heard a great brain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard a great mess.
Speaker 5: He likes all sorts of good food, but just be
Speaker 5: very picky eata, you know, grape brain. But I was wondering,
Speaker 5: is it you guys know a lot about there's so
Speaker 5: many foreign cereals, do or any of US cereals.
Speaker 2: Far to my question, Let's talk about going both ways,
Speaker 2: foreign cereals that we got here and our cereals that
Speaker 2: do well in foreign countries.
Speaker 5: That's that's an interesting interesting thing.
Speaker 3: Okay, First, I think he might be referring to great
Speaker 3: grains g R E A T. Great that's from posts.
Speaker 3: They have a number of great grain cereals out that
Speaker 3: are out based with different mixims into them relative relative international. Yeah,
Speaker 3: a lot of our cereals do show up overseas. Uh,
Speaker 3: but they might, but but they won't be called like
Speaker 3: sugar pops, will be called like meal pops. In the
Speaker 3: I L. I know that General Mills and Nestley had
Speaker 3: a co marketing deal, so a lot of Nestley stuff
Speaker 3: would show up here under the g A banner and
Speaker 3: the gym series which you're up under the Nesley banner.
Speaker 3: Frosted flakes are huge in a number of countries, but
Speaker 3: they go under slightly different names.
Speaker 2: Do they still have Tony the Tiger run them?
Speaker 3: Yes, in many cases they do, but there are some
Speaker 3: other critters that also appear depending on the country.
Speaker 2: Okay, and.
Speaker 5: About toys. The other question of toys, is there any
Speaker 5: rules against toys in the cereals? Is that a regulated thing?
Speaker 2: Good question.
Speaker 3: The toys you'll see occasionally. I think the last great
Speaker 3: that we saw there was maybe like a hot Wheels
Speaker 3: toy inside a box of Hot Wheels cereal, But it's
Speaker 3: been a while. Most of the time they now like
Speaker 3: to do like a mail in that way, they don't
Speaker 3: have to worry about someone accidentally swallowing it or you
Speaker 3: know those type of lawsuits, right, and you will see
Speaker 3: characters occasionally little plastic characters inside of plastic package inside
Speaker 3: the box, but typically not in the cereal itself. It
Speaker 3: will be just between the box pop and the packaging itself.
Speaker 3: Again to try to prevent the enough swallowing things, I guess,
Speaker 3: and to for.
Speaker 2: I'm going to set you up to answer for John.
Speaker 2: His first cereal mentioned was sugar Pops. Tell the story
Speaker 2: of that, why the name change roughly around nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: to seventy two, and who was on the box back
Speaker 2: in the sixties.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, well, sugar Pops. Pete was one of the
Speaker 3: main characters for the Sugar Pops back in the day, right,
Speaker 3: primarily the reason to get the you know, the sugar.
Speaker 3: Of course, back in the sixties there was a congressional
Speaker 3: hearings and things like that into the health of cereals.
Speaker 3: Sugar started working its way out. I mean, if you
Speaker 3: really want to take them back a little bit further,
Speaker 3: sugar sugar wasn't originally in cereals back in the twenties,
Speaker 3: thirties and then, but they noticed that people were taking
Speaker 3: spoonfuls of sugar and adding them to their cereal to
Speaker 3: make them more palatable. So someone came out with honey
Speaker 3: Joe's I don't know the name quite.
Speaker 2: Right, but.
Speaker 3: So they came out with a sugar cereal and it
Speaker 3: was wildly popular for about thirty years, and then it
Speaker 3: just swung up as a direction, Hey, you can't. We
Speaker 3: don't want sugar in the cereal, get it out of there.
Speaker 3: So the sixties seventies they started working it out or
Speaker 3: change it, so it went from super sugar to sugar
Speaker 3: to just playing honey or some other words like that,
Speaker 3: and then just become specs. For example, used to be
Speaker 3: super sugar crisp. Now it's just what is it name anyway,
Speaker 3: it's just they took trigger out of it, not just
Speaker 3: out of the cereal.
Speaker 2: That's out of the name, and they went to honey smacks.
Speaker 3: Honey Smacks, here you go. And it doesn't mean that
Speaker 3: there's a lot less sure, and it just it's just
Speaker 3: less advertised because it's not what people want anymore. They
Speaker 3: did want it, ali don't necessarily want well. Bottom line
Speaker 3: is they want it, but they don't want to know
Speaker 3: they want it.
Speaker 2: John, thank you for the call. Happy New Year, today,
Speaker 2: willyambe all right? Anyone else wants to call in and
Speaker 2: talk cereals six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty eight, eight, eight, nine, two, nine,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. I still have a huge smile on my
Speaker 2: face because Rob found the original commercial for Freakys by
Speaker 2: Ralston Purina, and I teased about this information. But so
Speaker 2: that's why I have you here. I'll let you tell
Speaker 2: the story of the fourth elf in Rice Chrispies.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, Well, as most folks are where, you've got Snap,
Speaker 3: Crackle and Pop. They came out in the early thirties,
Speaker 3: and then of course Snap was the first one. He
Speaker 3: was the youngest. He's the oldest. Brother were born in
Speaker 3: nineteen thirty three. Pop was born in forty one, as
Speaker 3: it was Crackle, But somewhere around the mid nineteen fifties
Speaker 3: there was a fourth brother named Powell, who was supposed
Speaker 3: to represent the power of the cereal. He was kind
Speaker 3: of more of a sort of looked like an alien
Speaker 3: because he was He actually had a military like an
Speaker 3: army military hard hat on, but he flew around on
Speaker 3: a stand up flying saucer type of thing. This was
Speaker 3: in the concept Dart. He did not last long and
Speaker 3: that was really about it. But yeah, there he was
Speaker 3: chroco pop and pow, and they let.
Speaker 2: Him go away as fast as they introduced him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2: Okay, I've got another question. Tricks raspberry, red, lemon, yellow, orange, orange.
Speaker 2: Tricks originally was the standard General Mills circle cereal. It
Speaker 2: was like cocoa puffs where chocolate Tricks was colorful. Kicks
Speaker 2: had no color, but they had that same round ball
Speaker 2: look and then they started to do the shapes of
Speaker 2: fruit like a purple was great. Talk about that transformation
Speaker 2: and why they went back to the original look.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, Well, Tricks was originally launched in fifty four
Speaker 3: as a fruit flavored cereal. It was the first fruit
Speaker 3: flavored cereal on the market. Of course, they were, as
Speaker 3: you mentioned, a lot of different types of corn puff
Speaker 3: cereals that had come out before that, and you know,
Speaker 3: Jets was also one of the very popular ones. The
Speaker 3: Tricks of her Kids slogan was incredibly popular, and oh
Speaker 3: it worked really well, silly Rabbit. About nineteen ninety one
Speaker 3: to two thousand and six ish, they started puffing fruit
Speaker 3: shaped pieces to replace that round ball cereal piece, which
Speaker 3: included like raspberry, red, raspberry clusters, lemon yellow wedges, purple
Speaker 3: greek clusters, orange balls, basically the you know it was.
Speaker 3: I thought it was a great innovation, and so when
Speaker 3: they can innovate like that, they try it, and so
Speaker 3: they did, and I thought it looked great on the box,
Speaker 3: it looked great in the cereal box. I'm not exactly
Speaker 3: sure why they pulled them, but it was about two
Speaker 3: thousand and six, excuse me, about twenty eighteen when the
Speaker 3: fruit scheet pieces. I'm sorry, So the Tricks balls reappeared
Speaker 3: in two thousand and six, and yeah, for about twelve years,
Speaker 3: then about twenty eighteen the fruit came back. I think
Speaker 3: we're seeing off and on either the fruit or the
Speaker 3: balls in any given cereal box from Tricks, you know,
Speaker 3: in the grocer's ale.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna go with that fruit flavor because I
Speaker 2: remember the mid sixties when they came up with oot
Speaker 2: frey oop lay the convoluted language to say fruit loops
Speaker 2: because it was supposed to be a secret. Nobody supposed
Speaker 2: to know that there was this cereal, and that cereal
Speaker 2: has been depending on their commercials for five decades and
Speaker 2: it's still very popular, I'm assuming because it pretty much
Speaker 2: has had the same shape, style and look.
Speaker 3: Well, fru loops has been one of the key staples
Speaker 3: from Kellogg's. Certainly the big, the big round pieces of
Speaker 3: cereal on the different food flavors with two kin same
Speaker 3: on the box right, very popular.
Speaker 2: And when they came up with two kin Sam, he
Speaker 2: had nephews. As in all the cartoon characters in Cereal
Speaker 2: sixties and seventies, a younger character would be a pest
Speaker 2: and annoying to an older character, Sonny and Gramps with
Speaker 2: cocoa puffs as an example. And how come they stopped
Speaker 2: with two can Sam's nephews?
Speaker 3: I was opposed to, Well, each there's lots of reasons
Speaker 3: for any given uh line. You've got two kN Sam
Speaker 3: and he only had the nephews. You've got those other
Speaker 3: foils all the times as a villain with several serials,
Speaker 3: they're just they're trying to create an image and easy
Speaker 3: to remember tag for any given any given cereal, and
Speaker 3: so you don't want too many of the same thing.
Speaker 3: You want to can Sam also having the gramps, it
Speaker 3: starts getting for folks.
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking of Captain Crunch with the Pirate Jehan
Speaker 2: the Foot, which was art imitating life because there was
Speaker 2: a pirate that pretty much almost had that name. Tell
Speaker 2: you what Joline and Beverly. Beverly will get to you.
Speaker 2: After the break, I've got to take a news hit
Speaker 2: my guest Toefer Ellis and we'll talk more about his
Speaker 2: book about cereal. Trust me, you'll love this book. It'll
Speaker 2: take you back in time, and we'll talk more about
Speaker 2: that after these messages. Here on night Side, heard only
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Speaker 2: Well, they the name of Powl.
Speaker 4: Powell Beaves power and powers Nice Ri Stress face Power,
Speaker 4: Hello Ray Rice. Yes, Kellogg's famous Fresh guys Snap, Crackle
Speaker 4: and Pop want you to know their silent partner, Paul
Speaker 4: Pow doesn't say much. He just does things like putting
Speaker 4: power on everybody, lightweight, spoonful of Kellogg's rice crispies.
Speaker 2: Oh that's all there was, darn it. I wanted more
Speaker 2: tof Did you hear that commercial?
Speaker 6: That was impressive.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: Rob finds things that I don't. It amazes me how
Speaker 2: he locates these things on the system. And we were
Speaker 2: talking about power before the break and puff no excuse me, Powe,
Speaker 2: Rob comes up with a commercial. All right, let's go
Speaker 2: to the phone. Joline and Beverly. You held about him
Speaker 2: and that's too long.
Speaker 7: I'm the one who called in last time we were
Speaker 7: talking about cereals. I have a large cereal box collection.
Speaker 7: In fact, I have an aracle cereal box.
Speaker 5: Berks what I have, And.
Speaker 7: I was just calling in to say, I think that
Speaker 7: this cereal is from England called wait a bit.
Speaker 2: Oh we to bix?
Speaker 7: I think.
Speaker 2: Yes it is. And if I'm not mistaken, the Patriots
Speaker 2: used to have a field goal kicker named John Smith
Speaker 2: and he did we to bix commercials oh here in
Speaker 2: the United States?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2: And I'm wondering if you have an autographed serial boxer.
Speaker 2: For an example, Doug Flutie had flute flakes, and I
Speaker 2: know for a fact that he autographed some boxes at conventions,
Speaker 2: and those boxes with a real Doug Flutie autograph have
Speaker 2: a value. Telford, do you want to speak to that.
Speaker 5: I have.
Speaker 3: I would think that that would be a very popular idol.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I would certainly consider that a valuable cereal box.
Speaker 2: And do you remember weed to Bix an association with
Speaker 2: John Smith.
Speaker 3: John Smith, No, he was a field goal kicker.
Speaker 2: For the Patriots in the seventies. He had about three
Speaker 2: or four years.
Speaker 3: Okay, I can tell you more about Weeda Bex than
Speaker 3: I could about John Smith.
Speaker 2: Though, tell me about tell me about we debates.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 3: Weeda Bex was produced in the United Kingdom since about
Speaker 3: the early nineteen thirties. It's the British version of the
Speaker 3: original Australian wheat bix w E t dash bix. They
Speaker 3: were both invented by an Australian named Benison and Osborne
Speaker 3: for what it's worth. But anyway, so while everyone knows
Speaker 3: that it is weed x wed the bits from UK,
Speaker 3: it's really an original Australian.
Speaker 2: Cereal, all right, Juline, anything else?
Speaker 7: I just wanted to say that I think I heard
Speaker 7: this cereal from a guy who was on an afternoon
Speaker 7: show years ago that was co hosted by Robin Young
Speaker 7: from NPR now she works at. And he mentioned piltered
Speaker 7: which was a kind of tuna fish that was inexpensive,
Speaker 7: and he also mentioned that he ate wee to bits
Speaker 7: where I heard about it on the show from like
Speaker 7: the seventies on late afternoon. I think it came on. No,
Speaker 7: it wasn't after dark Shadows. That was in the sixties. Anyway.
Speaker 7: I used to play games with all the cereal boxes
Speaker 7: that I had, from Christy Critters to oh Gosh.
Speaker 2: All the Rispy Critters the one and only cereal that
Speaker 2: comes in the shape of animals.
Speaker 5: That was it.
Speaker 2: That was their jingle.
Speaker 7: And way back when film costs a lot of money.
Speaker 7: With my little Kodak camera and it would cost three
Speaker 7: or four dollars to have twelve prints made, I took
Speaker 7: twelve pictures of cereal boxes and we used to play
Speaker 7: card games with twelve.
Speaker 2: That was creative.
Speaker 7: And then candy Land we had going all through the
Speaker 7: house on rainy days with different boxes that would represent
Speaker 7: the figures that candy Land had and it was played
Speaker 7: like that and if you landed on another one, you'd
Speaker 7: have to go backwards and anyway the rooms. Yeah, that
Speaker 7: was a lot of Well, thank you very much for
Speaker 7: this very interesting trill.
Speaker 2: Joline, thank you for participating with the show. Unhappy Happy
Speaker 2: New Year to you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2: Bye bye. Let's go to Kingston, mass and speak to
Speaker 2: Tom or it could be Kingston, Jamaica, could be Kingston,
Speaker 2: New York.
Speaker 6: I'm assuming mass Massachusetts. All right, Tom, listen, you said
Speaker 6: Krispy Kringles. It's the only going on animals.
Speaker 2: Crispy Critters c R I T T e r s
Speaker 2: not not Kringles, Crispy Critters Critters.
Speaker 6: We used to run around the kitchen table, six of
Speaker 6: us kids, and my mother used to go crazy. He
Speaker 6: was to sing that song. But the other one was
Speaker 6: rice Crinkles, one of my best cereals I had.
Speaker 2: Both of those cereals were from Post and I'll lect
Speaker 2: toe for speak to Crispy Critters, and it became a
Speaker 2: controversial cereal with their characters So High on rice Crinkles tofa.
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll start with the rice crinkles and you're writ
Speaker 3: his post chuber coated rice crinkles. Oh yeah, it was
Speaker 3: basically sugar frosted rice rice Krispies essentially. And if you
Speaker 3: look at the box, it's a really cute little Chinese
Speaker 3: boy or Japanese boy named so High.
Speaker 6: And so you know, basically that looks like a dish
Speaker 6: upside down.
Speaker 3: You're actually, well, I think he had that was a
Speaker 3: bowl of cereal. I think you might have had in
Speaker 3: his head.
Speaker 6: It was. Here's the other one is that I enjoy
Speaker 6: It was my mother brought Kellogg's cornflakes. And in the
Speaker 6: back of that you're talking about records, we have the
Speaker 6: Gary Lewis and the Playboys singing this diamond ring and
Speaker 6: then also on there was doing the flake. Okay, cut
Speaker 6: that out. We used to play that the Siria, I
Speaker 6: loved this an adult that's been gone now for a
Speaker 6: thousand years, about nine hundred years now. It was buckwheats.
Speaker 6: Buckwheats was like wheaties, but it was colder with something
Speaker 6: oh what it was, but it was nice, a nice flavor,
Speaker 6: almost like a maple flavor.
Speaker 2: Well, if you will allow me, I'll give you some
Speaker 2: background information on Crispy Critters. Okay, they post produced a
Speaker 2: cartoon show called Linus the Lion Hearted and they yeah, yes,
Speaker 2: roar for Linus the Lion Lines is the one. I'm out,
Speaker 2: I don't stop singing. I'm sorry, but the key, the
Speaker 2: key is. They had four of their cereals box representaurs
Speaker 2: like sugar Bear was a little bear who got into
Speaker 2: adventures in the woods. Alphabets had a postman Lovable Bee truly,
Speaker 2: and the dog Lawrence h am I leaving off of.
Speaker 6: So high.
Speaker 2: Was and I can't remember if he was Chinese or Japanese,
Speaker 2: and that's it's disrespectful to say Asian. But that was
Speaker 2: a cereal that got the company in trouble because they
Speaker 2: felt it was racist with the image that they showed.
Speaker 2: And there's another one that I can't think of right now.
Speaker 2: Oh and Linus the Lionhearted because he promoted Crispy Critters
Speaker 2: and they were a Saturday morning show. They all were
Speaker 2: like five minutes in length cartoon because most cartoons, like
Speaker 2: let's say Warner Brothers, their cartoons were six to seven
Speaker 2: minutes in length, but they had a shorter length to
Speaker 2: the post Crispy Critters show Linus Lionhearted for a main reason.
Speaker 2: They promoted the commercials for these cereals during the spots
Speaker 2: that they would show. And they had they had another
Speaker 2: cereal called Pink Elephants, and they had pink elephants that
Speaker 2: were in your cereal box. So there you go with
Speaker 2: your Crispy Critter's history.
Speaker 6: Well here's the other one. I don't know what cereal was,
Speaker 6: but you talk about masks. They had one the Huckleberry
Speaker 6: Hound that I got to wear around the house.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 6: I don't know what cereal that.
Speaker 2: Was, though I do, and I'm sure Tofer knows tofer.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, you got me on that one.
Speaker 2: Kellogg's All Stars was Huckleberry Hound cereal. Yokie Bear was
Speaker 2: on Okay's right, and I'm trying to think quick drummergraws
Speaker 2: on a cereal. I just can't place it right now,
Speaker 2: bear with me, yes to for thank you? So Tom,
Speaker 2: are you happy?
Speaker 6: What cereal is that?
Speaker 2: Corn pops or sugar pops? I think he preceded sugar
Speaker 2: pop Pete.
Speaker 6: Bring him back a lot of good memories.
Speaker 2: Oh that's why we're here, Tom.
Speaker 6: Yes, you guys have a good New Year's coming up.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 2: You have a great New Years as well, and we'll
Speaker 2: speak to you later. Anybody else who wants to join
Speaker 2: TOFA and I. You'll have about ten minutes of show
Speaker 2: because we end at midnight, and maybe one of you
Speaker 2: out there is a millionaire by now. Maybe it's me.
Speaker 2: Time and temperature here on Nightside eleven forty seven thirty
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Speaker 1: Dan Ray live from the Window World Nightside Studios on
Speaker 1: WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: I have only about seven more minutes with my guest
Speaker 2: tofer is here to for Ellis and to for bring
Speaker 2: people back to the days of Cisp and Quake. Let
Speaker 2: people know who they were and how that rivalry just
Speaker 2: took off in the mid sixties.
Speaker 3: Well, that was certainly one of the big rivalries and
Speaker 3: it was part of the Jay Ward Animation studios. J
Speaker 3: Ward was also responsible for the entire lineup of Captain Crunch,
Speaker 3: among others. Quisp, basically in mid sixties is probably one
Speaker 3: of the most popular animated characters of all time for
Speaker 3: folks that don't remember him. He was a kind of
Speaker 3: a pink skin propeller driven alien who wore a green jumpsuit.
Speaker 3: His eyes are permanently crossed and crisp and Quake, who
Speaker 3: originally was a minor, very strong minor, worked in the mines,
Speaker 3: had a miner's hat on. They would fight over whose
Speaker 3: cereal was better and who could save the day. In
Speaker 3: a series of commercials vitamin powered sugary cerial. Quisp for
Speaker 3: quasi energy was voiced by DAWs Butler very good. The
Speaker 3: original Quake what provided again nineteen mid sixties provided earthquake
Speaker 3: power to those who ate it. He has fired a
Speaker 3: big que on his big muscular chest, and then at
Speaker 3: some point it switched over to kind of an Aussie
Speaker 3: cowboy quake that was about late late sixties, and he
Speaker 3: was voiced by William Conrad, who folks though as from
Speaker 3: the rock to the narrator of the Rocky and Bullwinkles Show,
Speaker 3: Gun Smoke the Radio Show and things like that. Anyway,
Speaker 3: they had these great little commercials where they would fight
Speaker 3: over the ability to whose serial is better and who
Speaker 3: could say the day and eventually basically quist one. But
Speaker 3: they were a lot of fun to watch those commercials.
Speaker 2: I loved them. And when you think of Jay Ward,
Speaker 2: he as you mentioned, he did all of the Captain
Speaker 2: Crunch commercials, and Captain Crunch originally had a crew and
Speaker 2: then they kind of faced out the crew and just
Speaker 2: kept Sea Dog as his crew, and eventually they got
Speaker 2: rid of Sea Dog and it was one upsmanship with
Speaker 2: Jean Lafoote. Now this goes over ten, fifteen, twenty years
Speaker 2: of Captain Crunch, and they had the spin offs of
Speaker 2: Captain Crunch where they had Peanut Butter Crunch with was
Speaker 2: Medley the Elephant, and they also had Vanilla Crunch where
Speaker 2: they had a white whale as the the Box trademark,
Speaker 2: and they did a lot with Captain Crunch, and when
Speaker 2: I called Toffer the other day, I mentioned this. Originally
Speaker 2: they only had seasonal appearances of Captain Crunch with Crunchberries,
Speaker 2: but it became so popular it too joined the year
Speaker 2: round production. Do you want to tell any more about
Speaker 2: Captain Crunch with Crunchberries?
Speaker 3: Absolutely well, as you know, the original crunchberries came out
Speaker 3: in the mid the late sixties where they had the
Speaker 3: crunchberry beast that they found on Crunchberry Island, and the
Speaker 3: Crunchberry Island, of course was found in the seed of milk,
Speaker 3: but the crunchberries tasted like strawberries, and that was a
Speaker 3: very popular cereal. Come about nineteen eighty seven, Captain Crunch
Speaker 3: came out with a holiday Christmas crunch. It contained red
Speaker 3: and green round crunchberries within the Captain Crunch cereal. It
Speaker 3: also came with a Christmas ornament. You had one of
Speaker 3: I don't know, three or four different ones each year,
Speaker 3: and each year they actually put the year on the
Speaker 3: Christmas ornament, so you could collect them every single year
Speaker 3: and put them on your tree. About nineteen ninety three,
Speaker 3: so about six years later they started bringing out different
Speaker 3: crunchberry shapes like trees, reindeer, stars, stockings, trains, Santa still
Speaker 3: then winter hats, that type of thing. And each year,
Speaker 3: I mean one year they had an ugly sweater as
Speaker 3: kind of the box background. Every year they ye know,
Speaker 3: they do something a little bit clever to grab your attention,
Speaker 3: and that's basically your crunchberries within the Christmas crunch.
Speaker 2: And now they had like all the other and that's
Speaker 2: Quake Road Cereals. They are available year round and to
Speaker 2: for before I let you go, what was your favorite
Speaker 2: cereal as a kid?
Speaker 3: Quisp?
Speaker 2: I too had a number of months where I like Quisp.
Speaker 2: I never tried Quake, so I couldn't be a fair
Speaker 2: judge because I only ate quisp and I like the
Speaker 2: way it tasted, and I like the way it fit
Speaker 2: on my spoon. And that's all I needed to be happy, which.
Speaker 3: Was nice because they quite along with like the Captain
Speaker 3: chrisch cereals kind of tore up your mouth.
Speaker 2: Oh you were a little I'm glad I never tried it.
Speaker 2: To Ford, thank you for being a part of my show.
Speaker 2: I love having you on because you bring back such
Speaker 2: pleasant memories, as you heard from some of the callers earlier,
Speaker 2: and I hope you have a very healthy, happy, be
Speaker 2: pleasant twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Sincerely appreciate it, love to be on the show. Thank you, Sam,
Speaker 3: to you, thank you to for take care.
Speaker 2: Bye bye. All right, a couple of things. I'm on
Speaker 2: tomorrow The Morgan Show, Andrew Fielding will be my guest.
Speaker 2: I'll be back Monday and Tuesday. I'm just going to
Speaker 2: give you the Monday lineup. I have Jerry Beck looked
Speaker 2: upon as being one of the more knowledgeable people about animation,
Speaker 2: going back to Disney and Warner Brothers, Hannah Barbera and
Speaker 2: Cleio Campbell. He and I are going to kind of
Speaker 2: extend from Bradley Jay's subject of well known Boston based
Speaker 2: musical performers from rock, from R and B, from pop culture,
Speaker 2: and to David Nathan to talk to you about diabetes.
Speaker 2: How this time of year, all the food you eat
Speaker 2: necessarily isn't doing you a positive thought? And Barbara Feldon,
Speaker 2: aged ninety nine, will be here Monday night. So that's it. Rob,
Speaker 2: Thank you, excellent jar producing. I want to thank all
Speaker 2: my guests, carm Bussemi, Bradley, j Lieutenant Bruce Apothecar again
Speaker 2: just now with Tufa and Nancy and Gray. You two
Speaker 2: by Boston