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Today on Weird History Food, we're chowing down on forgotten cereals we need to bring back
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Made with sweetened corn and oats, Mr. T's cereal was shaped like, well, a tea
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It tasted pretty much like Captain Crunch, before ultimately being discontinued in 1993
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Debuting in 1993, the identical sweet corn squares belied the cereal's main appeal
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Once you bit into hidden treasures, you'd encounter icing that was either cherry, grave, or orange
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One year after Return of the Jedi hit theaters, Kellogg's debuted C3PO's
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What does C3PO taste like? Basically like Alphabet cereal, but with twice the crunch
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Sadly, Callagullogs only produced C3PO for two years. In 1985, Ralston's went all in on the Ghostbusters IP
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creating a breakfast mixture of fruit-flavored oes with marshmallow ghosts. It took Ralston's four years to catch on to Slimer's new star status
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But when they did, oh, buddy. In 1982, the creators over at Kellogg's decided to cut everyone a break
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and save us the trouble of having to make the gooey treats our damn selves by releasing marshmallow Krispies
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a marshmallow rice cluster combo to pour directly into milk. But Kellogg's wasn't done
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In 1987, these crazy Willy Wonkas expanded their idea to fruity marshmallow Krispies
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The smash success of Pac led to some interesting merchandising opportunities one of which was General Mills 1983 Pac cereal featuring crunch sweetened corn cereal with marshmallow bits but like most things
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Atari-based, by the late 80s, it was game over for Pac-Man cereal. Just like the candy
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each box of nerd cereal was split into two separate flavors. There was the orange cherry version
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and the strawberry grape version. Nerds only lasted on the market for a brief, glorious 12 months
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released in 1980, powdered donuts looked like puffier powdered Cheerios. Described as a cereal that looks and tastes like real donuts
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there were probably a few healthier breakfast options for 80's kids, and in 1989, General Mills shut it down
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In 1988, Nintendo paired with Ralston's to introduce the Nintendo Serial System
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Sort of like nerd cereal, the Nintendo Serial System was actually two cereals in one
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One side of the box featured Super Mario Bros. The other themed cereal, while the other had The Legend of Zelda
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The Nintendo's serial system lasted exactly one year, until it was discontinued in 1989, along with most of the other cereals on this list
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We would be remiss if we did not highlight a cereal so popular and yet so fleeting
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it could only exist in the brief year of Our Lord 1989. Batman cereal was made from natural honeynut flavors and was shaped like, you guessed it, bats
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Subsequent Batman cereals were brought back to promote Batman and returns and other projects, but none could offer the thrill of that first black box
