Showing posts with label Cereal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cereal. Show all posts

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Halloween Candy - Post Cereals?


Yeah, I'm trying to imagine the house that handed out corn flakes to trick or treaters. I'm guessing they had a lot of soaped windows and toilet paper in their trees. No wonder they're covering their faces in the ad.

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Grape Nuts!

I don't know, personally I think there's something wrong with your choice of friends if they're willing to openly mock your digestive problems - especially while one of them actually is dressed as a jackass.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Raisins!


If Nyarlathotep were a breakfast cereal, this is what it would look like. Frankly I've never heard raisins and oatmeal called "luscious".

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Puffed Wheat - The Nighttime Food!


An interesting approach to selling puffed wheat and rice - I never thought of flavorless cereal as the "night delight". Frankly, there are a lot of more delightful things that go on at night, especially in 1922 when one could take in a little Fats Waller or Louis Armstrong jazz and then head down to Chinatown to kick the gong around without fear of legal repercussions.

This ad is filled with the linguistic eccentricities of the twenties, mentions of "food cells" and that the manufacturing process involves tumbling at a "fearful heat" and then exploding the grain with steam. Kind of exciting sounding for a food that's usually consumed by infants and the elderly.