Sunday, August 14, 2016

This week in the cereal aisle: Make up your mind already!



What to name the cereal:  A timeline
  • 1950 | Introduced as Corn Pops
  • 1951 | Name changed to Sugar Corn Pops
  • Late 1950s/early1960s | Sugar Pops (the name I remember from my childhood)
  • 1978 | Sugar Corn Pops
  • 1984 | Corn Pops
  • 2006 | Pops
  • 2006 | Corn Pops

Sugar Pops are tops!  And 'shot with sugar'.



Related reading:
6 cereals from our childhood that got rid of the word 'sugar'.  (MeTV, 4/21/2016)

Related posts:
Remember Nabisco Shredded Wheat?  (7/13/2016)
This week in the cereal aisle features Batman and Superman.  (7/7/2016)
Post wants you to have ice cream for breakfast.  (6/30/2016)
Tiny Toast.  (6/21/2016)

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