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Cereal box prizes and premiums have been distributed in four ways. The first, not frequently used now, was an in-store (or point-of-sale) prize that was handed to the customer with the purchase of one or more specified boxes of cereal. [1]
In 1934, the breakfast cereal Wheaties began the practice of including pictures of athletes on its packaging to coincide with its slogan, "The Breakfast of Champions." In its original form, athletes were depicted on the sides or back of the cereal box, though in 1958 Wheaties began placing the pictures on the front of the box.
The original game concept was created by Dean Hyers and Mike Koenigs as a non-violent CD-ROM computer game to be released with 5.7 million boxes of Rice Chex, Wheat Chex, and Corn Chex cereals [3] in order to cast Chex as a cereal that was exciting and fun for children while appealing to modern sensibilities by targeting home PC owners. [6]
General Mills is digging into its vast cereal archives for a major throwback. This December, ... Retailing for $3.99 a box, the cereal features crunchy flakes with hints of coffee and vanilla, ...
In an episode of The Simpsons called "Co-Dependents' Day", there was a scene where Cosmic Wars creator Randall Curtis gives Bart and Lisa a "Jim-Jam" cereal, saying that "It's just Alpha-Bits with extra Js". In the 1985 Disney movie One Magic Christmas the cereal box is on the kitchen table. This cereal can be seen in the 2003 movie Anger ...
Shoppers in Canada may notice something unusual about the boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios on grocery store shelves -- "Buzz" the iconic honeybee mascot is missing! And there's a specific reason why.
The name of the cereal was based on the Nintendo Entertainment System, and represents two of the most popular video games for the NES at the time: Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. Over the years, the cereal has been sold as memorabilia for collectors on online auction sites, at prices exceeding $100 per box.
Ricky Bowman didn’t expect to return to the workforce at 66 years old — but he’s hoping to get back to painting in order to cope with the rising cost of living.