Thursday, February 18, 2010

When Life Was Good: Batman Returns Cereal (1992)

The When Life Was Good series will be an ongoing feature looking back to past generations of sugar cereals. We're gonna kick it off with my favorite: Batman Returns from Ralston foods.



This cereal was described on the box as "crunchy chocolate cereal with fun-shaped marshmallows". The cereal pieces resembled Chex cereal and the marshmallows came in the shapes of Batman's mask, Batman's famous bat-shield symbol, the bat car and a top hot ala The Penguin's hat.

I fucking loved this little gem of corn and high fructose corn syrup. If I remember correctly, it was a chocolate orgasm: chocolate covered Chex AND chocolate marshmallows. I may be mistaken, but there's no other cereal currently on the market with this combo. 

Here's their fun-filled puzzle box that kept me busy for days. GET IT TOGETHER!


Sigh. Good times...



4 comments:

  1. I loved the Batman cereal as well. Wasn't there a version that wasn't chocolate? Maybe it was just "Batman" and not "Batman Returns"? Not sure.

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  2. That was just the Batman cereal.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUsQ259Ww4Q

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  3. To this day, I still try to recreate just how magnificent it was... Chocolate-y cereals are seldom this chocolate-y! And the fact that it was made for one of my favorite movies ever is just a happy coincidence.

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  4. I remember eating this cereal once and only once. I can remember a hint of chocolate but I guess the impression just wasnt as lasting to me as the others. The marshmallows were actually Penguins top hat, the Batmobile, the Bat-signal and Catwoman. There was not Batman mask.

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