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239classiccartooner remembers...i rember this cereal i rember my mom would buy this and the pac man pasta i rember seeing the ... More »
Posted on 07/11/08
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No decent video game-slash-cartoon would be complete without their own cereal line… at least not in the 80s. General Mills’ creation of another healthy part of our complete breakfast, Pac-Man Cereal, hit the shelves in 1983, and little has been the same since. A combination of an extra-sugary Kix and marshmallow bits shaped like Pac-Man, the Ghosts, and the feminist-movement inspired Ms. Pac-Man proved a short-term, though winning success for the cereal manufacturers.
Pac Man cereal also sits among the few cereals that carried a maximum daily allowance of heroes and villains, allowing kids around the country to munch on Pac Man Cereal, in their Pac Man Cereal Bowl, while watching the Saturday-morning cartoon, Pac Man. Heck, for lunch you might have even had a bowl of Pac-Pasta, Chef Boyardee’s Pac-Man shaped pasta in… chicken sauce. MMmmmm not so much. Since then, movies and cartoons have used cereal as a mechanism for advertising. Couldn’t walk far down the breakfast aisle without catching a glimpse of the Looney Tunes Gang, Mickey and Friends, Star Trek, the Muppets, or even something as modern as Spongebob Squarepants!
Though the time may have come and gone for Pac Man’s exceptionally sugary cereal, many of us continue to have fond memories of chomping down our breakfasts. Wakka wakka wakka wakka!
