The world of breakfast cereal is a lawless desert of chaos, with flavors, mascots, and ideas that rarely feel cut from the same cloth. In the 1970s, it was even more untethered; themes ranged from ...

Just a little anecdote from the history of products for children: During the 1970s, Franken Berry cereal sent some number of kids to the ER, because it turned their poop an alarming shade of pink.

Snack foods, instant meals, cereals, and drinks tend to come and go, but the ones we remember from childhood seem to stick with us. Children of the 1970s and 1980s had a veritable smorgasbord of ...

Baby Boomers grew up in the golden age of breakfast cereal—an era of bold mascots, sugary flavors, and Saturday-morning cartoon tie-ins. While many classics survived the decades, plenty of beloved ...