WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:05.639 It's Night Side with Dan Ray on w BZY, Boston's 2 00:00:05.719 --> 00:00:06.320 news video. 3 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:09.640 Thank you Madison. This is my last night filling in 4 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:13.519 for Dan Ray. This is my fifth show. I started 5 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:18.760 last Thursday, then I did Monday, Wednesday, Yesterday Thursday, and 6 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:24.480 now today Friday. And today's show will be a bit 7 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:28.320 more light than I have done this week. And we're 8 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:30.559 going to start off today the way it should be. 9 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:35.280 Started off with Breakfast Cereal. Maybe you heard the conversation 10 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:37.240 Bradley Jay and I were have in the other day 11 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:40.439 and somehow we get on the subject of Captain Crunch 12 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:44.439 and I had to teach Bradley about Captain Crunch's crew, 13 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:49.240 Brunhilda the only female of the crew, and Alf and 14 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:53.520 Dave and Carlisle and Sea Dog. They were all in 15 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:59.320 those commercials from the mid sixties. Now, yeah, I remember 16 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:03.640 these things. But the man who is better at remembering 17 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:10.319 all of those commercials and history woven through Breakfast Cereal 18 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:15.719 since the early nineteen hundreds up to present, is here, 19 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:20.359 mister Tufer. Ellis and Tofa wrote a book called the 20 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:26.280 Great American Cereal Book, amongst others. Tofer welcome back. It's 21 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:26.680 been a. 22 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:29.879 While, it has been thank you very much. I'm glad 23 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:30.439 to be here. 24 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:33.359 Well, I'm glad to have you. And did I get 25 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:39.680 Captain Crunch's crew front center and accounted for? Of course 26 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:46.959 you did. And I even remember. I'm not playing trivia 27 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:49.400 with you. I know better, but I'm just going to 28 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:53.000 ask you if you remember Sea Dog's cereal. 29 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:59.120 Yes, that was the Nilli Crunch on the nose, on. 30 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:06.480 The nose, because they've they've had several Captain crunch varieties. 31 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:12.639 And I remember when Crunchberry's was a seasonal cereal for 32 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:16.120 several years and it became so popular they just had 33 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:18.879 to make sure you could get it any month of 34 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:20.560 the twelve months of the year. 35 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:28.240 Yes, absolutely, with the Crunchberry Beast from Crunchberry Island in 36 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:29.120 the Sea of Milk. 37 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:33.080 You see the stuff that you can do just stuff 38 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:39.439 the top of your head. I am impressed. Tell people 39 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:41.719 how you got into breakfast cereals. 40 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:47.439 Ah, Well, as a kid, I had two brothers and 41 00:02:47.479 --> 00:02:51.159 we all liked This was in the early sixties, so 42 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:54.199 that was kind of the heyday of having prizes inside 43 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:57.919 boxes of cereal and we would all fight for the 44 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:01.400 privilege of getting the prize in the bottom of the 45 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:05.439 box and so we would have quite a few different 46 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:09.319 boxes of cereal at home and taking turns and who 47 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:10.280 gets the prize. 48 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:19.360 I remember tricks had the Whirligig, which was basically a 49 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:24.120 propeller on something akin to a swizzle stick, and you 50 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:28.759 put it between your hands and you just quickly rubbed 51 00:03:28.759 --> 00:03:33.000 your right hand fast against your left hand, and that 52 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:34.879 thing would fly all the way up to the ceiling 53 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:41.000 and rotate back down to the floor. I don't know why, 54 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:42.919 but that thing just captivated my attention. 55 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:49.360 There was no That's clearly one of the fun prizes 56 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:52.240 in side. Back in the day, one of my favorites 57 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:57.520 was the spoon Sitters, Yes, the winning of the poohspoon 58 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:02.479 Sitters or the spoon men, for these nice plastic characters 59 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:04.240 that you can always play with, but they would also 60 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:06.840 sit on your spoon, or they would kind of sit 61 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:09.039 on the hands inside your bowl. 62 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:15.879 You mentioned you mentioned we need the pool, and you're 63 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:19.120 just setting me up to take a golf shot straight 64 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:22.959 down the fairway. We need the pool, we need the 65 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:27.000 Pooh Caddlio Bear has a prize for you. That was 66 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:33.399 the jingle for you, WENI the pool spoon Sitter from 67 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:36.720 the Bisco I could have done the whole thing, but 68 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:40.120 I I try to restrain myself when I catch myself 69 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:43.439 going off in a tangent of singing one of these jingles. 70 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:49.839 And is your great American serial book still available? 71 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:54.560 It's not currently in print, but folks have found that 72 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:58.000 occasion occasionally on eBay or used copies on Amazon. 73 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:02.720 Okay, and that's not the only book that you have written. 74 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:05.240 What others have you written? 75 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:09.680 Psh, No, that's that's it. There was a there was 76 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:14.040 a pre quoll to that called Milking that Crazy Cow. Okay, 77 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:17.680 he's really lucky to find that one out there that 78 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:24.879 was different press. Outside of that, we got the serial. 79 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:30.120 Website, all right, And I want you to tell the story. 80 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:32.800 I'm going to take a break in about a minute, 81 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:39.480 but how people, everyday people could own property in Alaska 82 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:44.120 thanks to a breakfast cereal. Every time you tell that story, 83 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:47.399 I just love hearing it. And I'm going to invite 84 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:51.040 people to call in. If you have a vague memory 85 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:55.079 of a cereal or its commercial, but you're not one 86 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:59.040 sure of the details, give us a call six one, seven, 87 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:04.199 four ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine 88 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:10.279 ten thirty. It's a guarantee that Toufort will help your 89 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:13.680 memory and fill in the blanks and talk about the 90 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:16.240 fact that Yogi Bear used to be on a cereal 91 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:23.519 from Kellogg's called Okay's, or that there was from Ralston 92 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:29.120 Purina a cereal called Freakis which I loved that cereal 93 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:32.920 in the nineteen seventies. And I even got some of 94 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:39.160 the stuff that you could send away for t shirts 95 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:46.040 and other things somewhere. I still have patches from Freakys cereals. 96 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:50.240 They lived in a freaky tree. So if you want 97 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:54.160 to call in and talk about Freaky's or Kellogg's Okays 98 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:58.680 or Captain Crunch or Tricks or what have you, I've 99 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:02.839 got demand for your car station. Here he is, mister 100 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:07.800 taufer Ellis. And on that note, let me take my 101 00:07:07.879 --> 00:07:11.720 break here on Nightside, Dan Ray is off. He'll be 102 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:16.759 back on Monday. I'm Morgan filling in and Nightside comes along. 103 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:20.600 Whether Dan is here or not. Time and temperature eight 104 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:24.240 point fifteen eighty one degrees. 105 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:29.399 Now back to Dan Way Live from the Window World 106 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:32.639 Life Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. 107 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:34.800 Dan has been off for over a week, but he 108 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:37.439 will be back on Monday. I'm Morgan. Been proud of 109 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:41.240 the BZ fabric. Oh good grief since the mid nineties, 110 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:45.920 and tonight we're talking about breakfast cereals. And before I 111 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:49.120 take some calls that are already cued in line, by 112 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:52.040 the way, there's a line available if you want at 113 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:55.800 six one, seven, two, four, ten thirty, eight, eight, eight, 114 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:58.720 nine to nine ten thirty is there for your use 115 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:03.279 as well. This is a true story. Tofer Elis, who 116 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:07.720 is my serial historian, is here and he's going to 117 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:10.600 tell you how you could have by buying a box 118 00:08:10.639 --> 00:08:15.519 of cereal, wound up owning land in Alaska tofa taken away. 119 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:21.319 Thank you. Back in the mid fifties, Quaker Oaths was 120 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:24.759 punted in a radio show called Start Impressedon of the Yukon, 121 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:28.199 and they wanted to promote that show, so they went 122 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:31.800 out and purchased nineteen point one one wilderness acres in 123 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:36.440 the Yukon Territory, divided up those parcels into one square 124 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:41.080 inch tracks, created a Fox certificate essentially a deed of 125 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:45.679 land called the Klondike Big Inch Land Deed, and they 126 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:51.200 made those available through Quaker puffed wheat, Quaker puffed rice 127 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:57.080 and Muppets treaded wheat. Essentially the idea was, hey, wow, 128 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:01.720 maybe your parcel, your parcel, your one inch parcel might 129 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:05.600 have that golden nugget in it. And so in nineteen 130 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:09.000 fifty five they just started distributing those deeds. They were 131 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:12.279 really pretty. You can find them on eBay, probably for 132 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:16.120 between ten and twenty bucks, but demand was so great 133 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:20.159 they were running two and three ships to get these out. Originally, 134 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:22.679 you had to send in a box top to trade 135 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:27.480 in for a deed, but as the Ohio Securities Division 136 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:30.799 ruled that Quaker couldn't trade a square inch of Yukon 137 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:33.519 for a box stop unless they received the state license 138 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:38.080 for the sale of foreign land, Quaker eliminated that aspect 139 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:42.399 of other and started sticking them in boxes. So they 140 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:44.759 ended up doing about like I mentioned, about twenty one 141 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:48.799 million deeds. And then in about nineteen sixty five, the 142 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:53.039 Klondike Big Inch Land Company dissolved and allowed as Yukon 143 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:55.960 Land to revert back to Canadians government because of non 144 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:58.840 ponment of thirty seven dollars and twenty cents in taxes. 145 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:08.480 Aw, now did your friend get together? So everybody in 146 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:12.559 your neighborhood put their piece together, and now they were 147 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:17.879 something of a conglomerate amongst themselves. 148 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:21.840 There were some of that going on. Absolutely. There was 149 00:10:21.879 --> 00:10:26.279 a fella who acquired three square inches and donated those 150 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:29.600 as for use as a national park. There was one 151 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:32.080 guy that went all over the United States collecting deeds. 152 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:35.759 He finally ended up with eighty of those deeds, which 153 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.799 amounted the seventy five square feet, and he wrote to 154 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:41.240 a Quaker to see if he couldn't consolidate his holdings 155 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:43.519 in the one hunk, and he said he preferred land 156 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:46.519 close to the water and as quiet as possible. There 157 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:50.440 was one other fellow that officially succeeded from Canada. His 158 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:53.440 three square inches be a letter. And then there was 159 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:56.080 one of the There was one of the fellow that 160 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:59.240 sent a bunch of toothpicks to a Quaker asked him 161 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:00.879 to put a fifth round his property. 162 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:05.679 Now that's creative. That's creative. Tell you what. We've got 163 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:09.120 some people that have called in and let's first go 164 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:12.519 to Lowell and speak to Ryan. Ryan, I bet you 165 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:13.679 have a question for tofa. 166 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:16.799 Yeah, guys, hey, I appreciate the blast in the past. 167 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:19.639 And uh talking about the prize in the box of 168 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:23.799 cereal coming from three other brothers. It was. I can't 169 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:25.679 tell you what the breakfast table looked like. Fighting for 170 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:26.279 the prize. 171 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:33.080 Yeah, name name one instance, be specific. 172 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:36.399 Uh. There was something in the bottom of the tricks 173 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:38.240 and I forget what it was, but it was like 174 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:39.840 we fight, fight to get it. 175 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:44.440 Tricks had tiddley winks at the bottom, a little cup 176 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:49.559 with a variety of tiddley winks, a number of Go ahead. 177 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:53.080 I'm sorry the tricks I thing you were talking about 178 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:54.840 when you spun it in your hands and went flying 179 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:56.759 up in the air. Yeah, I remember that. 180 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:57.720 A whirligig. 181 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:02.720 The whirligig the reason I'm calling you guys if I 182 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:06.759 my memory correct, what I remember some box that you 183 00:12:06.799 --> 00:12:08.879 could cut out the box and it was a record. 184 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:10.240 You could play it on a record player. 185 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:12.320 Oh, yes, we've talked about this to. 186 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:14.320 Fa Am I am I correct or not? 187 00:12:14.679 --> 00:12:18.200 You're one correct tefer tell them all about it. 188 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:21.720 Yes, Post had a number of those boxes on Sherman 189 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:26.759 I think was one. I know some of those names 190 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:27.200 are coming. 191 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:33.519 The Monkeys, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson, five, the Monkeys, the Archies. 192 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:41.159 At various times on the backs of alphabets and sugar 193 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:45.679 Crisp cereal. You had a real forty five record. 194 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:48.759 Yeah, you know, I really thought I was going crazy, 195 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:50.279 but said, I got to call these guys and see 196 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:52.159 if they recall it, because I remember putting it out 197 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:54.080 and put it, put it on the on the record 198 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:55.120 player and listen to it. 199 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:00.240 Absolutely, but it wasn't healthy for the needle on your record. 200 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:01.759 Player, right right. 201 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:03.200 I mean it wasn't the top quality. 202 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:08.279 No it was not. But you could play Sugar Sugar 203 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:12.879 by the Archiees as you ate your alphabets covered with sugar, 204 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:14.000 all right. 205 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:16.600 I just wanted to make confirm I wasn't going crazy. 206 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:18.039 You were not going crazy. 207 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:21.000 Gentlemen, Thank you so much and keep it up. I 208 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:22.120 love the blast in the past. 209 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:25.000 Ron, thank you for the call. We appreciate your comment. 210 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:29.279 Good night, enjoy your weekend. Let's go, Let's go to 211 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:34.120 San Francisco tofur and speak with my buddy David. So 212 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:38.960 David and San Francisco. Welcome to Night's side. 213 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:46.559 Thank you, borian as A, Hello, Toper, Hello, Nassy, Hello Gray, Hello, Cora, 214 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:51.960 Hello Tody Ohio. On first saw war is I want 215 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:55.399 to thank you very much for ford be the opportunity 216 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:57.360 to shot with Bradley. 217 00:13:56.919 --> 00:13:58.399 Oh, no problem. 218 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:04.200 That just made week. His spirit just really raises me. 219 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:09.799 And uh, he's a very popular personality from the history 220 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:12.960 of BZ and periodically I bring him back. 221 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:18.039 Yes, he's uh, we're all radio buddies, and he just 222 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:20.559 like really, uh, we're about the same age, so we 223 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.480 have to save uh, you know, counterculture experiences. 224 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:29.279 And he and I got into a conversation about Captain crunch. 225 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:35.120 Ah. So you guys were talking to them. Remember who 226 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:36.960 wrote this song, Red rubber Ball? 227 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:42.919 Who wrote it for the Circle? Yeah, uh, I don't know, 228 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:45.440 but we're talking about breakfast cereal tonight. 229 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:48.240 I know this is just a side for you, Paul Simon. 230 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:50.480 Oh okay, thank you, okay. 231 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:55.720 And I was just above a bowl of cereal before 232 00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:59.480 What's school the boy as a child as uh, we 233 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:03.000 all did Rice Christie's or poor Flakes, and always had 234 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:07.519 a banata and sometimes I had it with chocolate bill Okay, 235 00:15:08.200 --> 00:15:12.519 I remember those uh packs of small small boxes of 236 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:17.039 cereal usually comes like eight or tens of packs right 237 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:20.039 cut on the dot. It would be lot with waxed 238 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:23.480 paper and you actually make the cereal in the box. 239 00:15:23.799 --> 00:15:24.720 Yes you could. 240 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:26.960 About those. 241 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:32.200 Uh yeah, let to let to fore. 242 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:35.799 Tell you about the variety packs go ahead to for Oh, yeah, 243 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:36.080 there are. 244 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:39.159 Any number of them, uh, from the different companies, and 245 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:42.600 as he mentioned the you know they typically with your 246 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:46.320 snack pack where you have a little box would be 247 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:49.279 half an ounce or so you you're great, You cut 248 00:15:49.320 --> 00:15:51.639 it open on a kind of an H shape and 249 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:55.679 pull back the two wings. Yeah. You pour pour milk 250 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:59.120 directly into the box itself and then eat directly out 251 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:03.960 of the box. Typically had varieties that included all your 252 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:06.679 favorite sugary cereals and you can still buy them today 253 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:09.440 and anyone between six and six and. 254 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:14.960 Yeah, do you remember they were Rice Christie's and I've 255 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:18.279 had the court Flakes tross the place. 256 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:24.799 Kes Kelloggs did theirs. Every company had their General Mills 257 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:26.320 had theirs. 258 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:34.960 Yeah, and we got Kells right natural a raisin brand. Yeah, 259 00:16:35.159 --> 00:16:37.399 and I think Cheerios is one of them too. 260 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:40.039 No Cheerios would have been in the big G package. 261 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:45.720 Okay, okay, and uh, well that's about it, all right. 262 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:49.080 Trivia question if your mind. 263 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:52.320 Well, you're already led with one, leve with one, and 264 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:54.279 I you're closing with one. What's the question. 265 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:59.240 Do you know where the term of uh ivy league 266 00:16:59.240 --> 00:16:59.759 came from? 267 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:02.360 Yes? I do, Roman numeru four. 268 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:06.559 You're big, old man. You're good. You are so good. 269 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:10.440 Well call and have a great week, everybody. 270 00:17:10.599 --> 00:17:15.279 David, you take care. Byebye, And I've got about thirty 271 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:18.240 more minutes with TOFA to talk breakfast cereals. I'm about 272 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:20.559 to take a break. Maybe we'll throw a hit a 273 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:23.759 news in there if you want to call in, as 274 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:28.480 the previous two callers did. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten, 275 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:33.440 thirty eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty TOF 276 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:35.519 is here and as you can tell, he can answer 277 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:39.599 any question, at least the one so far dealing with 278 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:43.960 breakfast cereals. And it may take you back to when 279 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:47.599 you were in the fifth grade in the sixties, or 280 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:52.880 you were in junior high in the fifties, or maybe 281 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:56.039 as recent as just two weeks ago, when you're going 282 00:17:56.039 --> 00:18:00.920 down the aisle in the supermarket and you saw uh 283 00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:03.799 a box of your favorite cereal and you said, I'm 284 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:06.480 gonna buy it for all times sake. You do that, 285 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:09.440 you give us a call here on nights side. This 286 00:18:09.799 --> 00:18:14.119 is w b Z time and temperature eight thirty and 287 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:17.480 it's now seventy nine degrees. 288 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:24.319 Oh bed behind a Greek stream. 289 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:30.240 Sunday, the boss. 290 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:32.880 We call them my curious spell it right. 291 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:39.720 But weird. 292 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:41.240 I really have to see. 293 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:47.839 My name is gumble green smell. 294 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:48.759 This is my game. 295 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:52.720 I know more than you do it, so I'm pretty goody. 296 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:57.039 I always do what's right and my freaking serious because 297 00:18:57.079 --> 00:18:59.839 it's not a lot of Minday you. 298 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:02.839 Do, I'm gonna have funky, rinky cereal is part of 299 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:04.000 your good breakfast. 300 00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:06.640 Then there's a brave freaky especially Mark Boxers. 301 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:23.440 It's Night Side with Ray on w Boston's news radio. 302 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:27.519 Rob and I are just reminiscing about all these cereals 303 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:30.359 in our past, and that's what we're doing for the 304 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:33.519 rest of this hour. I've got to for Ellis, who's 305 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:38.319 looked upon as a serial historian, and he's already told 306 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:42.599 us the story about you could have owned property in 307 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:48.559 Alaska thanks to puffed wheat and puffed rice quaker out cereals. 308 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:53.119 And I've got another call, so let's take a phone call, 309 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:55.240 and then I've got some more things to talk about, 310 00:19:55.359 --> 00:20:02.960 specifically with Taufer Douglas. Welcome. Are you calling from Douglass 311 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:09.240 or is your name Douglas? Hello, Yes, you're on the air. 312 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:15.200 Not anymore, You're not on the air called back in 313 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:23.720 and toft, let's talk about the battle between Cisp and 314 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:28.160 Quake and how that just galvanized kids to be on 315 00:20:28.279 --> 00:20:29.440 one side or the other. 316 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:36.400 Okay, you're talking mid sixties. They back in the day. 317 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:40.559 These were Jayward drawn characters, and yes, sure has a good, 318 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:44.880 good series of these, and it was I feel like 319 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:48.640 those ads went on forever because there was constant battle 320 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:52.279 between Cuisp and Quake. Cuisp had a kind of a 321 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:58.319 plat flatterer or fossor shaped serial Quake had. He was 322 00:20:58.359 --> 00:21:01.440 a minor, so he had a little nugget shape cereal, Yes, 323 00:21:01.759 --> 00:21:06.839 basically the same cereal, just different shape, and they battled 324 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:09.000 to be the guy who is going to be the 325 00:21:09.079 --> 00:21:15.160 most popular. Quisp. I was a Quisp guy, was too. 326 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:19.799 I was a Cisp guy. And Quake. I think the 327 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:24.000 you pour milk in and it would become orange because 328 00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:28.400 of the nuggets giving off that type of flavoring. 329 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:33.000 Look, yeah, there was kind of a corn meal that 330 00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:36.680 was causing that. Okay, that was the merry ingredient and 331 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:40.079 that was causing that that flavoring coloring of your milk. 332 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:47.559 Okay, and I'm giving Rob credit. He and I during 333 00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:52.359 the commercial break, we were talking about the monster cereals 334 00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:57.839 by General Mills, and I asked him to name all five. 335 00:21:58.519 --> 00:22:01.519 Not only did he name all five, he told me 336 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:05.680 about a newer one, number six. Do you want to 337 00:22:05.759 --> 00:22:08.640 rattle off the five monster cereals for the listeners? 338 00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:18.279 Originally we had Crank and Berry, Count Chocola Boolberry, and 339 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:22.519 then came along Fruit Brute, Yummy Mummy. 340 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:23.319 Yeah. 341 00:22:23.400 --> 00:22:26.119 For whatever reason, General Mills was like, the count Yummy 342 00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:29.119 Mummy is a a monster ceial. I've got no idea why, 343 00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:34.119 but officially it's not. And then most recently they've introduced 344 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:40.519 a DJ character. Their name's not coming to me quickly. 345 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:50.839 Rob, tell me Caramela. Thank you, Caramela. And I remember 346 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:56.079 the controversy because there were and this is long before 347 00:22:56.119 --> 00:23:02.720 the LGBTQ conglomerate of people. They felt that fruit Brute 348 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:10.359 was an unfair representation of a gay character. Now, there 349 00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:16.839 was nothing outwardly noticed by me about Fruit Brute being gay, 350 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:20.680 but people complained about that and they pulled the cereal. 351 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:29.160 Okay, well that's news to me. I never considered them gay, 352 00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:31.680 and I wouldn't have picked up on that anyway. I 353 00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:36.079 don't think me either. Well, we're talking fruit fruit though. 354 00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:39.359 I do think it's interesting that a box of fruit 355 00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:45.759 grout showed up in pulp fiction. Yes, and also in 356 00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:46.799 reservoir Dogs. 357 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:52.759 Okay, I remember it in pulp fiction. Tay, what, let's 358 00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:54.920 go back to the phones this time. We're going to 359 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:58.039 go to Beverly, mass and speak to Joline. Joline. 360 00:23:58.160 --> 00:23:59.640 I'm Morgan Hellotova. 361 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:00.799 Thank you for calling. 362 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:05.279 I love the subject. I'm in my seventies now, but 363 00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:08.799 in the eighties, when my children were young, they knew 364 00:24:08.920 --> 00:24:14.440 that treat cereals such as frosted flakes or tricks right only, 365 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:20.640 and basically they only ate at breakfast time, playing cheerios 366 00:24:20.799 --> 00:24:26.160 or something like corn flakes. And I started saving my 367 00:24:27.319 --> 00:24:30.960 cereal boxes and I would buy throughout the years. Oh 368 00:24:31.119 --> 00:24:34.839 my gosh, I must have walk over one hundreds, and 369 00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:39.839 guess what my favorite one is, weedies. I just don't 370 00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:41.519 know what flavor it is. 371 00:24:42.279 --> 00:24:43.559 What's your favorite? 372 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:46.920 There was an Oracle cereal. 373 00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:51.960 Yes there was, and that that's from the days where 374 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:58.640 real people got on cereal boxes or personalities from the 375 00:24:58.720 --> 00:25:01.599 world of TV and movie these like see three pos 376 00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:05.880 and mister t Yes and ercle cereal was the real thing. 377 00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:10.480 It might have been we used to play a sport. 378 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:14.759 Nocle was not an athlete. 379 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:19.160 I didn't think so. But I had more fun with 380 00:25:19.319 --> 00:25:23.400 those cereal boxes. As the kids grew up, we played 381 00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:30.640 a candy Land game with them on a big rainy day, 382 00:25:31.400 --> 00:25:34.880 set out about fifty of the It would just be 383 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:39.160 the front of the boxes and in a in a bucket. 384 00:25:39.359 --> 00:25:43.480 I would put the the tops of them, like for instance, 385 00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:48.720 cereios would be a yellow box top and then the 386 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:52.440 face of the box itself would go on the floor. Okay, 387 00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:57.079 And the kids would just throughout the house, in the kitchen, 388 00:25:57.480 --> 00:26:01.519 through the living room floor upstairs, and they would make 389 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:06.319 a candy Land game. And each kid would draw a 390 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:10.200 box top from the plastic bag of the bucket, and 391 00:26:10.359 --> 00:26:17.799 they would go forward until they reached that particular cereal box, 392 00:26:18.359 --> 00:26:21.599 and just by candy Land. Sometimes you'd have to go backwards. 393 00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:26.559 We'd put two or three yellow cheerio boxes out and 394 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:30.880 maybe just one of a less popular one. I'd have 395 00:26:31.079 --> 00:26:31.880 fewer of those. 396 00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:34.440 Weren't you a creative interactive mother? 397 00:26:35.559 --> 00:26:38.359 Oh my gosh, it got me to so many rainy days. 398 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:41.680 You wouldn't believe. It's like, oh, you'll talk about they're 399 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:44.640 in their thirties and forties, and I'm betting. 400 00:26:44.359 --> 00:26:46.400 They would tell their friends when they went to school 401 00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:49.039