This may look like a parody cereal, but it was real. In the late 1980s (I think), The Swedish Chef had his own cereal, called "Croonchy Stars." I was manic for the Muppets--somehow I failed to cut out the games on the back of the box. This cereal did not last very long in stores. I had thought maybe the Swedish Chef wasn't that popular, but I just saw that Hallmark has a Swedish Chef ornament for sale right now (it's pretty funny--it involves lobsters holding guns). I remember hearing the original name for this cereal was supposed to be "Stoopid Flakes."
Maybe another Muppet would have sold more cereal. Maybe "Gonzo's Weird-O's"? Or "Lew Zealand's Fish Flakes"?
Did the actual Swedish Chef puppet have a creepy life-like hand like that? That doesn't look like a "Muppet" hand in the photo!
ReplyDeleteI collect some cereal boxes but have never seen this one!! Thanks for posting!!
ReplyDeleteThe Swedish Chef's hands WERE real!! One of the hands was Jim Henson's!
ReplyDeleteDad, I am kicking myself for throwing away a lot of cereal boxes that I had saved for years. If only I had known that I could post them online years later! This one was a lucky survivor because I only saved the back panel.
Wow...I did not know that!
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