Can You Guess the Children's Cereal From Its Slogan?

By: Mark Lichtenstein
Estimated Completion Time
3 min
Can You Guess the Children's Cereal From Its Slogan?
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About This Quiz

Kids remember the slogans attached to their favorite cereals, and that isn't an accident. Marketers spend millions coming up with just the right words to use on their packaging. Can you guess the cereals that go with these slogans?
Me want ________!
Honeycomb
Honecomb's slogan wasn't complicated, and that's what made it effective!
Frosted Flakes
Mickey Crisps
Honey-comb

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Silly rabbit! ____ are for kids!
Trix
You got it! Trix put their product name right in the slogan!
Cheerios
Honey Nut Cheerios
Special K

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They're grrrrrreat!
Cheerios
Corn Flakes
Frosted Flakes
Frosted Flakes are a very normal, in that they are corn flakes with sugar added, but it is an odd cereal because it is advertised by a tiger, which makes no sense at all.
Quaker Oat Squares

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Home baked taste in your cereal bowl.
Banana Nut Crunch
Banana Nut Crunch was an acquired taste.
Pop Tarts Cereal
Toasties
Yogurt Crunch

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The Breakfast of Champions
Wheaties
Perhaps the greatest breakfast cereal of all time, Wheaties cereal was tasty and good for you, and it kept up its wholesome image by embracing admirable people who embraced a healthy lifestyle.
Cheerios
Wheat-a-Bix
Raisin Bran

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Snap, crackle, pop!
Rice Krispies
Rice Krispies was the cereal that started the breakfast fascination with crisped rice. Bland on its own, this cereal was entertaining in its own way, as the addition of milk would produce noise, and who doesn't like to eat something that's making sounds?
Cap'n Crunch
Apple Jacks
Froot Loops

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They're A-B-C-Delicious!
Alpha-Bits
Alpha-Bits was the creation of an Italian pasta lover who worked at Post's parent company, General Foods. This genius combined cool pasta shapes with cereal, creating this classic.
Alpha-Bites
Alfalfa-Bits
Cheeri-ABCDs

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The apple sweet crunch that's sweet to munch.
Apple Cinnamon Cheerios
Apple Cinnamon Cheerios had a slogan that was accurate, if not memorable.
Cinnamon Apple Cheerios
Apple Cheerios
Munchie Crunchies

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Kanodle, Kazoo and how do you do? I'm Cookie Jarvis with good news for you!
Cookie Puffs
Cookie Crisp
Perhaps one of the most requested and least healthy children's cereals, Cookie Crisp was delicious.
Cookie Jars
Cookie Wafers

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I vant to eat your cereal!
Teutonic Flakes
Germanic Bits
Count Chocula
It's hard to imagine what inspired the creation of Count Chocula Cereal, but this stroke of genius created one of the longest lived (unsurprisingly, given that vampires are immortal) and best tasting cereals of all time.
Coco Pops

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Can't get enough of that...
Cocoa Crispies
Golden Chips
Golden Crisp
Golden Crisp never attained the kind of popularity other cereals did, but it had a loyal following.
Cocoa Cookies

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Introducing the Reese's you can eat with a spoon.
Reese's Peanut Butter Crisps
Reese's Peanut Butter Flakes
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Reese's Peanut Butter Puffs
Reese's Peanut Butter Puffs were a sweet, savory cereal and likely culprit of many a childhood cavity.

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I'm coocoo for ____ _____!
Cocoa Puffs
Most likely from the same team that gave us the Trix slogan, this winner.
Cocoa Crisps
Cocoa Wafers
Cocoa Chips

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Looking for the place for taste? Chex marks the spot!
Checks
X-y Cereal
Rice Chex
Chex was an oddly shaped cereal that could be both in the milk and around the milk.
Cheeri-x

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Wholesome sweetened rice cereal with real cocoa!
Cocoa Pebbles
Cocoa Pebbles' slogan wasn't very imaginative, but it was accurate.
Cocoa Puffs
Rice Crispies
Wheaties

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Taste the joy in every spoonful.
Honey Bunches of Oats
Honey Bunches of Oats went through many slogans over the years, but this is the current one.
Joyful Oats
Joyful Crunch
Crunchy Bunch

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Chocolaty grahams and marshmallows galore... it's S'more fun for breakfast.
S'mores Crunch
Perhaps one of the most unhealthy cereals of all time, S'mores Crunch was almost 100 percent sugar.
Smorz
Some Mores
Fluff 'n' Chocolate

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Nothing is better for thee, than me.
Quaker Oatmeal
Quaker Oats, which can be customized to taste by adding honey or maple syrup, is an oldie but a goodie.
Quaker Nuts
Quaker Flakes
Quaker Oatmeal Squares

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Cereal with imitation berries called crunch berries.
Cap'n Crunch with Crunch Berries
Cap'n Crunch with Crunch Berries was part of the movement to make cereal look healthy, because parents were concerned about how many children's cereals were terrible for children's health.
Cap'n Crunch with Smashed Berries
Frosted Flakes with Crunch Berries
Coco Puffs with Crunch Berries

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It's got corn for crunch, oats for punch, and it stays crunchy, even in milk.
Cap'n Crunch
The original slogan for Cap'n Crunch was pretty on the nose.
Peanut Butter Captain Crunch
Corny Oats
Fishy Punch!

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Part of a nutritious breakfast!
Corn Flakes
Frosted Flakes
Fruity Pebbles
Fruity Pebbles has been around a long time, riding the coat tails of the animated TV show, The Flintstones. Some say Cocoa Pebbles is better, while others are firmly in the Fruity Pebbles camp.
Fruity Trix

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You'll think you're eating Rice Krispies Treats... What a thought!
Rice Krispies Squares Cereal
Rice Krispies Treats Cereal
Rice Krispies Treats Cereal was a cereal made from candy made from cereal, which made it far less healthy than Rice Crispies, but it also made it the perfect midnight snack.
Rice Krispies
Chocolate Rice Krispies

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These sweet little crispy rice puffs are the perfect combination of flavor AND goodness!
Crunchy Munch
Malt-O-Meal Crunch
Fruity Dyno-Bites
Cocoa Dyno-Bites
This cereal, which often comes in large bags, is rice, sugar, and cocoa.

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Like a chocolate milkshake, only crunchy.
Cocoa Krispies
Cocoa Krispies were one of the tastiest of children's cereals, one so good even adults periodically steal a bowl for themselves.
Cocoa Rice Krispies
Milkshake Crunch
Milkshake Flakes

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The delicious high protein cereal.
Myoplex For Kids
Whey Way!
Whey Waves
Cinnamon Life
Life cereal has been around a long time, and Cinnamon Life was considered a major innovation at the time of its creation.

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Oh's are loaded full of honey graham.
Honey Graham Oh's
"Oh's" is a peculiar name for a cereal. Do they belong to Oh? One thing they don't belong to is General Mills, who makes Cheerios.
Frosted Flakes
Honey Nut Cheerios
Honey Nut Oh's

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Life has the most useful protein - ever in a ready-to-eat cereal!
Life
Life Cereal is another long-lived cereal that isn't totally unhealthy, despite being a kids' cereal.
Life Protein
Life with Protein
Life with Healthy Protein

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Kid tested, mother approved.
Wheaties
Kix
Kix cereal is a simple flavor with a simple slogan.
Cap'n Crunch with Smashberries
Corn Flakes

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Follow my nose!
Cocoa Berries
Nose Oh's
Froot Loops
Perhaps Froot Loops' name existed because it has no real fruit in it, or perhaps it was chosen after a careful study of the common spelling mistakes of children. Either way, it's a classic kids' cereal.
Fruit Loops

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Have a Golden Day.
Golden Grahams
Golden Grahams were a perfect kids' cereal because they tasted of graham crackers and honey, which are two of the things kids love the most. Why they did not also have the obvious ingredients of chocolate and marshmallow however, is a mystery.
Golden Flakes
Golden Mini-Bites
Golden Waffle-Bites

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Dig 'em!
Honey Grahams
Honey Smacks
After a series of mascots, including the racially insensitive choice of an "Indian Chief," Kelloggs chose the Dig 'em Frog as the new mascot, giving the cereal what was no doubt dubbed "an urban appeal" by one of their marketers.
Buried Treasure
Treasure Bites

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Crispy Glazed Crunchy Sweet!
Rice Pops
Corn Flakes
Corn Pops
Corn Pops wasn't an exciting sounding cereal when you were a kid, but it was tasty, and that was all that mattered.
Cap'n Crunch Pops
Rice Krispies

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They're magically delicious!
Wizard Grahams
Sorcerer Cereal
Lucky Charms
When General Mills settled on the leprechaun as the mascot for Lucky Charms, which is basically just marshmallows and milk, they went heavy on the Irish, light on anything else, making some people a bit offended by the mascot. Hopefully the taste won them over.
Magic Flakes

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Cinnamon, toasty Apple Jacks
Apple Jacks
Apple Jacks was a surprisingly addictive cereal featuring the trifecta of savory, sweet, and the thin veneer of health supported by the word "apple."
Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Frosted Mini-Wheats
Honey Nut Cheerios

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Sweetened Corn Wheat and Oat Cereal!
Waffle Crisp
This failed cereal from the 1990s didn't have a great slogan, nor was it very successful.
Corny Cornucopia
Wheaties
Oaties

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