WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:05.879 It's nice side with Boston's news Radio. 2 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:08.919 We are the Freakki's. We are the Freaki's. This is 3 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:10.039 a freaky tree e. 4 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:11.800 D. 5 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:15.960 Why am I humming that? Because that was my favorite 6 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:19.760 cereal and that was a jingle about my favorite cereal. 7 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:25.280 Periodically we talk about cereal here on WBZ, whether it's 8 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:29.559 The Morgan Show or Night Side, and it's always to 9 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:40.000 for Ellis tofa good evening, Happy holidays. Oh and I mean, 10 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:40.759 can you hear me? 11 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:44.079 I'm hoping so I can you hear me now? 12 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:45.479 Loud and clear? 13 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:46.719 Excellent? 14 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:52.200 So let me start again. Of all the premiums that 15 00:00:52.359 --> 00:00:58.479 came in Cereal boxes, two separate questions. What is the 16 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:04.760 most soughtmium everybody wants to own that the winning of 17 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:09.760 the Pool spoon sliders or the deed to Land from 18 00:01:09.879 --> 00:01:15.200 Quaker Oats. And what items would bring the most at 19 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:19.760 a auction for Cereal items. 20 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:26.200 Oh, great question. My personal favorite. You've just named both 21 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:28.799 of them. The wing of the Pooh Spoon Sitters, of 22 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:31.159 which the whole collection of the different winning the Pool 23 00:01:31.239 --> 00:01:34.799 characters would either slide onto your spoon and sit right 24 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:36.879 on your spoon, or they could also hang on the 25 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:39.719 side of your bowl. They came in nice colors and 26 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:43.879 they came into Bisco packages of cereal. Absolutely love those 27 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:46.959 a lot of fun. My other favorite one is the 28 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:52.439 Yukon Land Rush, Quaker Roats, Klondike Big inch Land Deeds. 29 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:57.959 Those are really beautiful little certificates that you could still 30 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:01.120 find as well on any day that has a really 31 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:04.560 nice story behind it relative to the ones that make 32 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:08.759 the most. That really gets down to how good a 33 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:13.319 condition any particular premium is, how where that premium is 34 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:18.680 and how badly somebody wants that premium from. You know, 35 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:21.199 an any given day, one could go for a lot 36 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:23.360 more than anyone else. That gets as worth, But it's 37 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:26.000 worth something to somebody who remembered it, wanted it, and 38 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:26.719 just has to. 39 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:31.039 Have it right. I still have my Boss Moss T 40 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:36.879 shirt and my snow Holdorf T shirt from the Freakis. Naturally, 41 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:41.719 when those cereals are popular and I ordered them, I 42 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:45.680 was a different size then. I couldn't put them on 43 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:51.960 now if my life depended on it. But I remember. 44 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:55.639 I even remember the jingle for the Spoonsitters. We need 45 00:02:55.919 --> 00:03:00.639 the pool we NEI the pool Cuddliobar has a prize 46 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:04.960 for you, A prize for you to do. Do it's 47 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:07.639 your own. We need the pooh there. 48 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:10.879 How's that outstanding? 49 00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:16.080 Thank you? How many people could do that? Lo these 50 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:17.479 forty to fifty years. 51 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:21.840 Later, I'd say, you're in the minority. 52 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:27.919 Story of my life. I am going to ask I'm 53 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:30.719 going to ask people to call in if you have 54 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:35.439 memories of a certain cereal. You want to know the backstory. 55 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:39.800 You want to know what happened to the fourth elf 56 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:44.159 in rice krispies. Yes there was a fourth one. Anything 57 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:48.159 you might want to know about a cereal, hot cereal, 58 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:53.280 cold cereal, anything in between six one, seven, two, five, 59 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:56.879 four ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine, 60 00:03:56.919 --> 00:04:00.919 ten thirty. And I want to talk about the cereals 61 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:10.560 that were real ercles. Julia White as Erkele was on 62 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:15.360 a cereal box, Mister t was on a cereal box. 63 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:19.680 Did those cereals do well when they first came out? 64 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:24.079 Well, they were. They didn't do well enough to hang 65 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:28.399 around for very many years, but they were wildly popular 66 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:32.040 for nostalgic reasons much later, And of course they show 67 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:34.079 up occasionally in movies and things like that. 68 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:40.480 How about C three POS, the Star Wars serial. 69 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:44.360 That came and went it was it was promotional for 70 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:47.000 one of the movies. As you know, a lot of 71 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:49.879 the serials have these movie tie ins will come out 72 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:52.160 at the same time as the movie, and it's a 73 00:04:52.360 --> 00:04:55.480 one shot deal typically, okay. 74 00:04:56.040 --> 00:05:00.360 And I'm trying to think of the unusual serials that 75 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:04.399 offered something more than the cereal in the box, and 76 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:09.920 I know alphabets and a few of the post serials 77 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:18.600 offered the Monkeys, the Jackson five, and if I'm not mistaken, 78 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:23.639 the Osmans record on the back of the box. Oh 79 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:25.879 you're really right, a real record. 80 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:30.319 Yes, these were thirty three and a third speed records, 81 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:34.920 a little but not sebut the size of a forty five. 82 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:38.079 But there were three and a third. To understand, Bobby 83 00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:40.600 Sherman had three different records. The Archies I think had 84 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:43.839 three different records, Sandwich Jackson five, and the Monkeys. I 85 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:47.079 think Gary Lewis and the Playboys also had a record. 86 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:51.199 Those are the ones I'm I'm sure of, and I'll 87 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:52.240 bet there's others as well. 88 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:57.720 Are they with any money? If you kept them without 89 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:01.720 being scratched up, maybe left them alone on the box, 90 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:02.720 not cut them off. 91 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:08.399 Yes, if the box is intact, it's certainly worth a 92 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:10.639 lot more than if you clipped it off the box 93 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:12.439 and actually listen to it. 94 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:20.600 Unfortunately, mine a gone went away the Dodo bird because 95 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:28.639 I did save some of those. But oh well, and 96 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.199 give me a second. I lost my train of thought 97 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:42.199 talking about Cereal boxes. Some of them had a mask 98 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:46.839 that if you wanted to look like Frankenberry you could 99 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:49.920 cut the mask off the back of the box and 100 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:54.360 where it did Halloween with the appropriate costume, a sheet 101 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:57.160 or whatever. Speak to those. 102 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:02.560 Oh okay, There any number of boxes that offer different 103 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:05.079 things you had. I mean, if you go back even further, 104 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:09.560 like a Lone Ranger or a Tato mask, did you 105 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:12.800 clip off the side of the box. Simptically, there'd be 106 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:16.519 like little characters that you could clip off the box. 107 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:21.199 There would be you could cut houses and whatnot out 108 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:25.199 of the back of the box. Lots of of course, 109 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:30.959 games and other things like that you can do with them. 110 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:37.160 Now, how often are there conventions around the country that 111 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:41.160 you can attend and meet other collectors in trade seeal 112 00:07:41.319 --> 00:07:46.240 boxes and the premiums that are in them. How often 113 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:47.120 does that happen? 114 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:54.480 I don't see very many of that type of convention 115 00:07:54.839 --> 00:07:58.160 just for Cereal. I have seen conventions which are like 116 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:03.240 pop conventions or nostalgic type conventions where you'll see a 117 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:07.399 little bit of this tucked in different areas that the 118 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:15.279 cons the I don't know what that would be like 119 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:17.920 an example of where you'd see some of this there. 120 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:23.240 All right, and tell me about the last one of 121 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:24.480 those you attended. 122 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:29.160 Oh, okay, I was in one in Chicago. That was 123 00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:33.399 a lot of fun. We had our Great American Cereal 124 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:36.279 book out at the time, so we were promoting that, 125 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:40.159 and as different characters came by. Let's say someone was 126 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:42.679 dressed as Spider Man, I would flip to a page 127 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:45.120 that had a Spider Man cereal and he'd hold up 128 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:47.320 the book and take a picture of them. So we 129 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:51.519 had any number of comic con characters come by that 130 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:54.240 were on cereal boxes, so we took advantage of it. 131 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:59.039 Okay, let me take my break. I have a call 132 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:02.200 already in hall. John Redding will be our first call. 133 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:05.600 Anyone else out there, you want to talk about breakfast cereal, 134 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:10.679 your favorite anything unique you might remember about the particular 135 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:15.440 cereal you and your family loved. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten, 136 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:19.600 thirty eight, eight, eight, nine, two, nine, ten thirty For 137 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:23.440 the final hour of Nightside, I try to pick something 138 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:28.559 light that is fun to discuss. Last hour we talked 139 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:33.240 about scams and whatnot. This time, this hour until midnight, 140 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:38.320 we're talking about your favorite breakfast Cereal. Put it in 141 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:42.399 the bowl, Sprinkle on sugar, pour on the milk, and 142 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:49.799 dive in time and temperature here on Nightside eleven, fifteen 143 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:51.799 thirty five degrees. 144 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:55.679 Now back to Dan Way Mike from the Window World 145 00:09:55.840 --> 00:10:03.279 night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. 146 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:11.759 Beyond behind a great thank you. This is the boss 147 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:14.120 we call them make curious, spell. 148 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:16.600 It right, snuggled what they call them so handsome and 149 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:22.759 think he's doing a weird No, I really have to see. 150 00:10:23.639 --> 00:10:24.600 My name is Gumbo. 151 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:26.960 You're standing on. 152 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:29.440 My foot his mom. 153 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:30.279 This is my game. 154 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:33.600 I know more than you do it, so don't I'm 155 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:36.559 pretty goody ie O you what's right? Prince? 156 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:38.879 I freaky serials because. 157 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:38.840 It's not. 158 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:44.399 Youpe Joe Canna have crunky freaky siel is part of 159 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:45.519 your good breakfast. 160 00:10:45.639 --> 00:11:00.279 Then there's a free freaky especially Mark Foxes. Okay, Bob, 161 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:04.440 thank you very much. That was a trip down memory 162 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:07.480 lane for me. John and Redding, You're next here on 163 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:09.360 night side. Good evening to you, John. 164 00:11:10.519 --> 00:11:12.279 Hey, Moryan, how you doing all right? 165 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:13.159 Happy holiday? 166 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:17.039 Happy holiday? Hey. I think it's just interesting to go 167 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:19.519 over the cereal for the next hour. I think that's 168 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:20.799 an interesting topic. 169 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:23.360 Well, that's what we're going to do up until midnight. 170 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:25.320 What was your favorite cereal? 171 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:31.919 Honestly, I like pops, you know, regular pops. That's my 172 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:34.559 favorite cereal. My sister here likes. 173 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:39.320 Grape grain, grape grain, great brain. 174 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:40.200 I've never heard of it. 175 00:11:40.759 --> 00:11:42.480 I've heard a grape nuts. 176 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:45.039 Grape nuts. I've never heard a great brain. 177 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:47.000 Yeah, I've heard a great mess. 178 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:50.120 He likes all sorts of good food, but just be 179 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:54.080 very picky eata, you know, grape brain. But I was wondering, 180 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:57.039 is it you guys know a lot about there's so 181 00:11:57.120 --> 00:12:00.120 many foreign cereals, do or any of US cereals. 182 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:06.840 Far to my question, Let's talk about going both ways, 183 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:11.279 foreign cereals that we got here and our cereals that 184 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:13.240 do well in foreign countries. 185 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:16.919 That's that's an interesting interesting thing. 186 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:21.120 Okay, First, I think he might be referring to great 187 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:29.120 grains g R E A T. Great that's from posts. 188 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:32.039 They have a number of great grain cereals out that 189 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:40.440 are out based with different mixims into them relative relative international. Yeah, 190 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:44.559 a lot of our cereals do show up overseas. Uh, 191 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:47.799 but they might, but but they won't be called like 192 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:50.120 sugar pops, will be called like meal pops. In the 193 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:54.960 I L. I know that General Mills and Nestley had 194 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:57.840 a co marketing deal, so a lot of Nestley stuff 195 00:12:57.879 --> 00:13:01.120 would show up here under the g A banner and 196 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:03.399 the gym series which you're up under the Nesley banner. 197 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:10.679 Frosted flakes are huge in a number of countries, but 198 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:12.600 they go under slightly different names. 199 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:16.559 Do they still have Tony the Tiger run them? 200 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:19.600 Yes, in many cases they do, but there are some 201 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:22.960 other critters that also appear depending on the country. 202 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:27.879 Okay, and. 203 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:36.360 About toys. The other question of toys, is there any 204 00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:40.399 rules against toys in the cereals? Is that a regulated thing? 205 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:42.399 Good question. 206 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:48.720 The toys you'll see occasionally. I think the last great 207 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:50.919 that we saw there was maybe like a hot Wheels 208 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:54.519 toy inside a box of Hot Wheels cereal, But it's 209 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:57.120 been a while. Most of the time they now like 210 00:13:57.200 --> 00:13:59.840 to do like a mail in that way, they don't 211 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:03.559 have to worry about someone accidentally swallowing it or you 212 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:08.480 know those type of lawsuits, right, and you will see 213 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:13.840 characters occasionally little plastic characters inside of plastic package inside 214 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:17.000 the box, but typically not in the cereal itself. It 215 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:20.840 will be just between the box pop and the packaging itself. 216 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:24.759 Again to try to prevent the enough swallowing things, I guess, 217 00:14:25.399 --> 00:14:25.840 and to for. 218 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:28.759 I'm going to set you up to answer for John. 219 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:35.000 His first cereal mentioned was sugar Pops. Tell the story 220 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:38.960 of that, why the name change roughly around nineteen seventy 221 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:43.679 to seventy two, and who was on the box back 222 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:45.399 in the sixties. 223 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:49.759 Oh okay, well, sugar Pops. Pete was one of the 224 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:55.000 main characters for the Sugar Pops back in the day, right, 225 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:59.639 primarily the reason to get the you know, the sugar. 226 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:02.360 Of course, back in the sixties there was a congressional 227 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:06.159 hearings and things like that into the health of cereals. 228 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:11.120 Sugar started working its way out. I mean, if you 229 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:12.679 really want to take them back a little bit further, 230 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:17.399 sugar sugar wasn't originally in cereals back in the twenties, 231 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:20.799 thirties and then, but they noticed that people were taking 232 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:23.000 spoonfuls of sugar and adding them to their cereal to 233 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:27.799 make them more palatable. So someone came out with honey 234 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:29.919 Joe's I don't know the name quite. 235 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:30.080 Right, but. 236 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:34.360 So they came out with a sugar cereal and it 237 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:37.879 was wildly popular for about thirty years, and then it 238 00:15:38.039 --> 00:15:41.000 just swung up as a direction, Hey, you can't. We 239 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:42.840 don't want sugar in the cereal, get it out of there. 240 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:46.600 So the sixties seventies they started working it out or 241 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:49.120 change it, so it went from super sugar to sugar 242 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:53.559 to just playing honey or some other words like that, 243 00:15:53.679 --> 00:15:57.559 and then just become specs. For example, used to be 244 00:15:57.639 --> 00:16:02.399 super sugar crisp. Now it's just what is it name anyway, 245 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:06.279 it's just they took trigger out of it, not just 246 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:07.440 out of the cereal. 247 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:10.080 That's out of the name, and they went to honey smacks. 248 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:14.000 Honey Smacks, here you go. And it doesn't mean that 249 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:16.519 there's a lot less sure, and it just it's just 250 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:20.879 less advertised because it's not what people want anymore. They 251 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:24.399 did want it, ali don't necessarily want well. Bottom line 252 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:25.759 is they want it, but they don't want to know 253 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:26.279 they want it. 254 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:30.200 John, thank you for the call. Happy New Year, today, 255 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:34.759 willyambe all right? Anyone else wants to call in and 256 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:40.720 talk cereals six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty eight, eight, eight, nine, two, nine, 257 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:44.000 ten thirty. I still have a huge smile on my 258 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:48.720 face because Rob found the original commercial for Freakys by 259 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:54.919 Ralston Purina, and I teased about this information. But so 260 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:57.080 that's why I have you here. I'll let you tell 261 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:03.399 the story of the fourth elf in Rice Chrispies. 262 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:08.079 Oh okay, Well, as most folks are where, you've got Snap, 263 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:13.400 Crackle and Pop. They came out in the early thirties, 264 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:17.799 and then of course Snap was the first one. He 265 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:20.480 was the youngest. He's the oldest. Brother were born in 266 00:17:20.519 --> 00:17:24.119 nineteen thirty three. Pop was born in forty one, as 267 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:29.119 it was Crackle, But somewhere around the mid nineteen fifties 268 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:33.799 there was a fourth brother named Powell, who was supposed 269 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:40.440 to represent the power of the cereal. He was kind 270 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:43.480 of more of a sort of looked like an alien 271 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:47.920 because he was He actually had a military like an 272 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:51.079 army military hard hat on, but he flew around on 273 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:55.559 a stand up flying saucer type of thing. This was 274 00:17:55.640 --> 00:18:00.160 in the concept Dart. He did not last long and 275 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:02.799 that was really about it. But yeah, there he was 276 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:07.480 chroco pop and pow, and they let. 277 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:09.880 Him go away as fast as they introduced him. 278 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:11.640 Yeah, pretty much. 279 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:20.240 Okay, I've got another question. Tricks raspberry, red, lemon, yellow, orange, orange. 280 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:28.079 Tricks originally was the standard General Mills circle cereal. It 281 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:35.160 was like cocoa puffs where chocolate Tricks was colorful. Kicks 282 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:38.680 had no color, but they had that same round ball 283 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:44.960 look and then they started to do the shapes of 284 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:51.559 fruit like a purple was great. Talk about that transformation 285 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:54.319 and why they went back to the original look. 286 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:59.680 Oh okay, Well, Tricks was originally launched in fifty four 287 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:03.400 as a fruit flavored cereal. It was the first fruit 288 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:07.759 flavored cereal on the market. Of course, they were, as 289 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:10.680 you mentioned, a lot of different types of corn puff 290 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:13.000 cereals that had come out before that, and you know, 291 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:17.839 Jets was also one of the very popular ones. The 292 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:23.240 Tricks of her Kids slogan was incredibly popular, and oh 293 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:29.960 it worked really well, silly Rabbit. About nineteen ninety one 294 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:35.519 to two thousand and six ish, they started puffing fruit 295 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:39.839 shaped pieces to replace that round ball cereal piece, which 296 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:44.160 included like raspberry, red, raspberry clusters, lemon yellow wedges, purple 297 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:50.559 greek clusters, orange balls, basically the you know it was. 298 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:52.759 I thought it was a great innovation, and so when 299 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:54.960 they can innovate like that, they try it, and so 300 00:19:55.119 --> 00:19:56.720 they did, and I thought it looked great on the box, 301 00:19:56.799 --> 00:19:59.640 it looked great in the cereal box. I'm not exactly 302 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:03.039 sure why they pulled them, but it was about two 303 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:06.519 thousand and six, excuse me, about twenty eighteen when the 304 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:12.000 fruit scheet pieces. I'm sorry, So the Tricks balls reappeared 305 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:15.119 in two thousand and six, and yeah, for about twelve years, 306 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:19.839 then about twenty eighteen the fruit came back. I think 307 00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:24.160 we're seeing off and on either the fruit or the 308 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:28.799 balls in any given cereal box from Tricks, you know, 309 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:31.000 in the grocer's ale. 310 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:37.160 And I'm gonna go with that fruit flavor because I 311 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:41.240 remember the mid sixties when they came up with oot 312 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:47.519 frey oop lay the convoluted language to say fruit loops 313 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:51.279 because it was supposed to be a secret. Nobody supposed 314 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:55.720 to know that there was this cereal, and that cereal 315 00:20:55.839 --> 00:21:03.400 has been depending on their commercials for five decades and 316 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:08.039 it's still very popular, I'm assuming because it pretty much 317 00:21:08.079 --> 00:21:11.319 has had the same shape, style and look. 318 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:19.039 Well, fru loops has been one of the key staples 319 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:25.599 from Kellogg's. Certainly the big, the big round pieces of 320 00:21:25.720 --> 00:21:28.359 cereal on the different food flavors with two kin same 321 00:21:28.440 --> 00:21:31.680 on the box right, very popular. 322 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:36.039 And when they came up with two kin Sam, he 323 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:42.440 had nephews. As in all the cartoon characters in Cereal 324 00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:48.559 sixties and seventies, a younger character would be a pest 325 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:52.759 and annoying to an older character, Sonny and Gramps with 326 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:58.359 cocoa puffs as an example. And how come they stopped 327 00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:02.839 with two can Sam's nephews? 328 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:09.400 I was opposed to, Well, each there's lots of reasons 329 00:22:09.480 --> 00:22:13.960 for any given uh line. You've got two kN Sam 330 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:17.480 and he only had the nephews. You've got those other 331 00:22:17.920 --> 00:22:23.039 foils all the times as a villain with several serials, 332 00:22:24.799 --> 00:22:28.640 they're just they're trying to create an image and easy 333 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:34.160 to remember tag for any given any given cereal, and 334 00:22:34.319 --> 00:22:36.200 so you don't want too many of the same thing. 335 00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:39.440 You want to can Sam also having the gramps, it 336 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:40.920 starts getting for folks. 337 00:22:42.039 --> 00:22:46.640 And I'm thinking of Captain Crunch with the Pirate Jehan 338 00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:52.400 the Foot, which was art imitating life because there was 339 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:56.640 a pirate that pretty much almost had that name. Tell 340 00:22:56.680 --> 00:22:59.839 you what Joline and Beverly. Beverly will get to you. 341 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:03.160 After the break, I've got to take a news hit 342 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:07.559 my guest Toefer Ellis and we'll talk more about his 343 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:12.559 book about cereal. Trust me, you'll love this book. It'll 344 00:23:12.599 --> 00:23:15.640 take you back in time, and we'll talk more about 345 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:20.000 that after these messages. Here on night Side, heard only 346 00:23:20.119 --> 00:23:25.799 on WBZ eleven thirty thirty five degrees. 347 00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:32.640 You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w b 348 00:23:32.839 --> 00:23:34.480 Z Boston's news radio. 349 00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:38.039 Well, they the name of Powl. 350 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:42.519 Powell Beaves power and powers Nice Ri Stress face Power, 351 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:48.000 Hello Ray Rice. Yes, Kellogg's famous Fresh guys Snap, Crackle 352 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:50.960 and Pop want you to know their silent partner, Paul 353 00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:55.519 Pow doesn't say much. He just does things like putting 354 00:23:55.640 --> 00:23:59.359 power on everybody, lightweight, spoonful of Kellogg's rice crispies. 355 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:02.480 Oh that's all there was, darn it. I wanted more 356 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:05.119 tof Did you hear that commercial? 357 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:07.079 That was impressive. 358 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:08.039 That's awesome. 359 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:13.279 Rob finds things that I don't. It amazes me how 360 00:24:13.319 --> 00:24:17.039 he locates these things on the system. And we were 361 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:21.920 talking about power before the break and puff no excuse me, Powe, 362 00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:25.880 Rob comes up with a commercial. All right, let's go 363 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:29.519 to the phone. Joline and Beverly. You held about him 364 00:24:29.559 --> 00:24:31.119 and that's too long. 365 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:36.279 I'm the one who called in last time we were 366 00:24:36.359 --> 00:24:40.319 talking about cereals. I have a large cereal box collection. 367 00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:44.400 In fact, I have an aracle cereal box. 368 00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:48.720 Berks what I have, And. 369 00:24:50.400 --> 00:24:53.960 I was just calling in to say, I think that 370 00:24:54.640 --> 00:24:58.799 this cereal is from England called wait a bit. 371 00:24:59.799 --> 00:25:00.680 Oh we to bix? 372 00:25:02.279 --> 00:25:02.799 I think. 373 00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:09.160 Yes it is. And if I'm not mistaken, the Patriots 374 00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:12.119 used to have a field goal kicker named John Smith 375 00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:17.720 and he did we to bix commercials oh here in 376 00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:18.720 the United States? 377 00:25:19.599 --> 00:25:23.920 Yeah, yeah, go ahead. 378 00:25:25.240 --> 00:25:31.960 And I'm wondering if you have an autographed serial boxer. 379 00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:36.960 For an example, Doug Flutie had flute flakes, and I 380 00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:43.319 know for a fact that he autographed some boxes at conventions, 381 00:25:44.359 --> 00:25:48.480 and those boxes with a real Doug Flutie autograph have 382 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:51.440 a value. Telford, do you want to speak to that. 383 00:25:53.720 --> 00:25:54.000 I have. 384 00:25:56.039 --> 00:25:58.920 I would think that that would be a very popular idol. 385 00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:04.319 And yeah, I would certainly consider that a valuable cereal box. 386 00:26:06.279 --> 00:26:09.279 And do you remember weed to Bix an association with 387 00:26:09.400 --> 00:26:10.079 John Smith. 388 00:26:12.279 --> 00:26:17.960 John Smith, No, he was a field goal kicker. 389 00:26:17.799 --> 00:26:23.319 For the Patriots in the seventies. He had about three 390 00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:24.039 or four years. 391 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:28.200 Okay, I can tell you more about Weeda Bex than 392 00:26:28.200 --> 00:26:29.559 I could about John Smith. 393 00:26:29.359 --> 00:26:32.440 Though, tell me about tell me about we debates. 394 00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:33.880 Okay. 395 00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:38.440 Weeda Bex was produced in the United Kingdom since about 396 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:42.400 the early nineteen thirties. It's the British version of the 397 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:47.839 original Australian wheat bix w E t dash bix. They 398 00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:52.519 were both invented by an Australian named Benison and Osborne 399 00:26:53.960 --> 00:26:58.759 for what it's worth. But anyway, so while everyone knows 400 00:26:58.799 --> 00:27:01.720 that it is weed x wed the bits from UK, 401 00:27:01.880 --> 00:27:05.119