20th Anniversary Repost: Kaboom Kids

Originally published September 4, 2013. I don't know why I thought of this, but it's true. I really was jealous of kids who got to eat the brand-name cereals.

We Can Run, But We Can Never Outrun Our Childhood Breakfast Cereals

I don't want to admit this, really, but -- and what you're about to read is pretty much actually true -- since I was a child, I've had a strong revulsion to Kaboom cereal, due to what may be called a early-childhood type of social dysmorphia.

And, ultimately, self-hatred.

You say you've never heard of Kaboom? You think I'm making Kaboom up?

Well let me explain this. You've heard of Apple Jacks, right? Sure you have. Everyone has.

I wanted to be an Apple Jacks kid.

Apple Jacks kids had so much fun in the commercials. Fresh-faced, healthy, and free, and hopeful for the future. Singing and dancing and just loving on their Apple Jacks.

And the cereal was awesome too. I had it once in a Snack-Pack that fell off a truck.

But there were no commercials for Kaboom.

It was just a dirty little secret, like massage parlors and the back room at a pawnbroker's.

That's why you never heard of it.

But Kaboom kids know. Kaboom kids understand.

Apple Jacks was for winners.
Kaboom was the cereal of The Defeated

I mean, look at this box. Who is that box for? Who is the intended demographic here ?

People who are coming up in the world? People who are upwardly mobile?

No. Kaboom was for people -- children, I mean -- who had decided to give up on life. And it's a sad thing for a six-year-old to have already thrown in the towel and said, "Ah well. The hopes and dreams of kindergarten are ultimately exposed as so much folly. Give me the Kaboom, Ma. I'm ready to settle."

Because that's all such a cereal is fit for, those who settle, who accept, those who lower their gaze in defeat and shame. This, this horrid Clown Cereal that looks like it's some kind of weird generic brand but it's actually marketed by General Mills. I suppose this was General Mills' attempt to tap the "downscale demographic" in six-year-olds.

First of all, children hate clowns. All children. There's a joke that everyone's afraid of clowns. Well that's not true. But everyone does hate them. Children most of all, because clowns get up in your grill with horrible jokes and diseased breath, eyes glassy with vodka and pedophilia.

So who's this cereal for exactly? I suppose clowns might buy it for their victims and abductees, but that's not a large market. Well, not that large, anyway. Couple hundred thousand units a year, tops.

When marketers found that most children
described the Kaboom clown as "creepy,"
they called a meeting, and then added
a creepy bear and creepy hippo into the mix.
Note that the hippo is not really your classic circus animal
but this is in line with Kaboom's "Who Cares?" design parameters

And look at that box. Look at the colors. They're horrible. And this was not a color scheme that was in vogue back in the day, either. No, among all the other breakfast cereals, Kaboom stood out as a cereal where the manufacturers simply were not even trying, because they wanted to appeal to children who had already decided that Track 3 in reading class was probably a bridge too far and not really worth the effort.

It's like they gave a bunch of crayons and construction paper to illiterate hobos and said, "Do your best. Or your worst. We don't care. We're aiming for the dregs of second grade. Try to include a clown. Or don't. It really won't matter either way."

And the cereal was not even good. You would think that if you're selling this abortion of a breakfast cereal to the primary school underclass -- the emerging nihilistic YOLO demographic -- you would at least load it up with sugar because, what does it even matter?, the sort of kids who eat Kaboom know they're going to die young anyway. They have no illusions.

But you'd be wrong. Actually Kaboom was not very sweet at all.

I think they decided to skimp on sugar so they could put extra sugar on the more upscale cereals like Frosted Flakes and Frosted Mini-Wheats.

It was mostly just... oats.

You know: Like what they feed to the animals.

Prize at the bottom of the box? Oh no way, not with Kaboom cereal. No way they're throwing a ha'penny whistle in there for the poor kids. You're lucky they even bothered putting the cereal into a box, instead of just distributing it off a government assistance truck into your cupped hands.

I think occasionally they had mail-in sweepstakes where you could win a welfare voucher.

Or maybe a coupon for the orphanage PX. So you could buy some extra gruel and sewing supplies for the weekend.

A "prize," if you can call it that, included in Kaboom cereal,
when they briefly offered such toys in 1972.
Kaboom cereal pioneered Choking Hazard technology
until tepid public criticism forced them to end the practice
and to issue a halfhearted apology.

And it was unappetizing looking in the bowl as well. The colors were off. They weren't bright friendly colors like you might find in more respectable, upwardly mobile cereals like Lucky Charms. They didn't even pay for regular food coloring. They made Kaboom with discount irregular food coloring usually used for cat treats.

Kaboom's color palette was like the bright hues of a poisonous toad designed to warn off predators, a mixture of the garishly day-glo and and bizzrrely dark (the purple was that of a deep bruise, still bleeding beneath the skin). When milk was added, Kaboom became a nightmarish swirl of ugly, angry colors not to be found in nature, making your milk look as if it was just curdling into a loathesome cheese produced by an alien mold.

Detail of Kaboom Cereal.
Nothing says "part of a balanced breakfast"
like the Faces of the Unquiet Dead.
The famous "death mask imagery" of Kaboom
teaches children that aspiration is vanity
and all dreams are lies

They should have called it "Kabul." Just come right out with it. Let the people know what they're in for.

This is a cereal intended for bulk purchase by the United States Department of Agriculture to feed dirty foreign children. And their animals, too. One stop shopping-- they can all feed out of the same trough.

The cereal's chief use was as a humanitarian insult.

You might wonder at this point, What possible connection is there between the clown theme and explosions, as suggested by the name "Kaboom"? Well, don't bother thinking about it too hard. They sure didn't. This product was slapped together more or less randomly by People Who Didn't Even Care, intended for sale to People Who Care Just a Little Bit Less Than That.

Kaboom is not really a product designed for those who enjoy the life of the mind. Quite the opposite. It's a product designed for those whose subnormal IQs locate them in the brutish twilight existence that divides, hazily, the crude human from the cunning beast.

The cereal is essentially designed with an eye towards the inevitable devolution of the species. Future-proof, if you will.

If the Morlocks had a cereal it would be Kaboom. But they'd insist on more flavor.

Wow, Kaboom, 45% of some vitamins and iron.
Way to swing for the fences on nutrition.
You know what 45% is in school? That's right, it's a failure.
Kaboom relentlessly transmits the message that Failure Is Freedom.
And I can't wait to cut out that "Circus Game" and
play with some cardboard, either.
It's like it's designed to teach kids that the power
of imagination will only end in embarrassment.

Kaboom was made with a special secret ingredient: Contempt.

Did I eat Kaboom as a kid? You bet I did. If I didn't, I wouldn't have such a strong memory about it. If I never ate Kaboom, I would have just said, "Oh, that's the cereal that other children whose parents don't love them eat."

But no. I ate Kaboom. Quite a few times. More times I care to remember. And every time my mom brought home that garish yellow box of sorrows, I had the same thought: "Ohhh... we're that sort of people then, eh? We're just not even keeping up appearances anymore, are we, Mother?"

We weren't. And although we struggled to deny it to ourselves, we were now Kaboom People.

The truth is a relentless hunter.

Oh, we didn't quite sink to Kaboom's level. Not at first.

We strove to endure.

We were fighters.

But the cereal did drag the family down. It very nearly ruined us all.

And this is hard to say, but -- in the end we surrendered ourselves to Kaboom.

The "New Look" of Kaboom attempted
to make the cereal more "relevant" to kids in the 80s,
apparently seeking to play on fears of nuclear holocaust.

Ultimately, our sin wasn't in consuming Kaboom. Our sin was in letting Kaboom consume us.

We Descended.

We found the Kaboom Folk, or rather, they found us. The Kaboom Folk know their own. The downcast eyes, the twitch in a shameful smile. The know the Signs.

And then together we went wild into the night, without shame and without shoe, running petty scams at the carnival, stealing newspapers out of boxes and selling them for a nickel, eking out a rough existence at the grubby margins of human habitation.

Half-feral urban nomads living in communion with packs of wild dogs. For six months I wore nothing but a a fur jerkin and a genital sock.

My pack name was Mokh-Mokh.

And each night we came back from our scavengings to our shelterpit to eat our Kaboom, our shabby bowl of weirdly-colored animal feed and shame. But we no longer cared. We were free, but it was not true freedom.

It was only the dark, oatey freedom of Kaboom. A freedom I would not wish upon my worst enemy, or even the urban dogs who would fight us for pigeon carcasses.

Nowadays I can afford any sort of cereal I like. I can even spring the extra quarter for the high-class muesli-inflected Eurocereals if I like.

But I'll never escape where I came from. And where I came from was Kaboomville. Population: A ghastly clown, his stupid pink-purple parasol, and me. With my spoon, crying into my oddly discolored milk.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:00 PM

Comments

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1 Kaboom!

Posted by: Beartooth at December 28, 2023 04:02 PM (kxx6d)

2 I think Kaboom might be my favorite AoS post of all time.

This one always gets me.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 28, 2023 04:03 PM (fKIdX)

3 Holy crap this was 20 years ago?! I was only 8 when I read this the first time...

Posted by: steevy at December 28, 2023 04:03 PM (FQmDC)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 28, 2023 04:03 PM (Zz0t1)

5 Oldie but a goodie.

Can't wait for the previous thread to spill over to this one and ruin it for everyone. Kaboom style.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 28, 2023 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

6 People talk about The Great Books. There should also be a list of The Great Blog Posts. This is certainly one of them.

Posted by: Paco at December 28, 2023 04:04 PM (njExo)

7 I've never tasted Kaboom. I've never even seen a box of Kaboom. I think this is some kind of science fiction fantasy.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 28, 2023 04:05 PM (x42Y3)

8 Afternoon.

"20th Anniversary"

Lies!

Posted by: Robert, in complete denial at December 28, 2023 04:05 PM (1Yy3c)

9 Dear Lord, has it been 10 years?! Feels like a lifetime.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 28, 2023 04:05 PM (di6C2)

10 This crap is part and parcel why this country has such health problems. People begin eating sugar and additives from early childhood and keep on going.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 28, 2023 04:06 PM (KAi1n)

11 The greatest story ever!

Posted by: Ron at December 28, 2023 04:06 PM (AtKtr)

12 I like Boom Boom. In my pants!

Posted by: Joey Sponge Brain Shitz Pantz at December 28, 2023 04:06 PM (jF/Z6)

13 7 I've never tasted Kaboom. I've never even seen a box of Kaboom. I think this is some kind of science fiction fantasy.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 28, 2023 04:05 PM (x42Y3)

At around the same time, there was an explosion of Kaboom refs everywhere. I always wondered if ace started it or just continued it. I like to think he started it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 28, 2023 04:06 PM (di6C2)

14 Lincoln invented Kaboom!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 28, 2023 04:07 PM (9yWhg)

15 I think I recall seeing this on the shelf as a yoot. Never had it

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 28, 2023 04:07 PM (/6GbT)

16 I've lost track of the number of people I've sent that Kaboom post to over the years. Everyone who's read it has laughed their ass off.

And I've shocked more than a few elderly relatives with the Paul Anka post.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2023 04:07 PM (wb1YC)

17 I remember this column and felt...kinship.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 28, 2023 04:07 PM (RIvkX)

18 Kaboom is an example of the Mandela effect.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 28, 2023 04:07 PM (x42Y3)

19 Happy 20th Anniversary, Ace!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 28, 2023 04:08 PM (9yWhg)

20 20th Anniversary Repost: Kaboom Kids

This is Penultimate Ace. One of the greatest posts ever recorded on the Internets.

Posted by: mrp at December 28, 2023 04:08 PM (rj6Yv)

21 Epic comedy, take a victory lap Ace

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at December 28, 2023 04:08 PM (xcxpd)

22 Happy 20th anniversary! Seems like longer.

Posted by: gp Embraces The Suck at December 28, 2023 04:09 PM (MvF+J)

23 My Daughter Ashley loved Kaboom Cereal for breakfast after we had our shower.

Posted by: Joey Sponge Brain Shitz Pantz at December 28, 2023 04:09 PM (jF/Z6)

24 Well, the joke's on all you Kaboom-hating clownish troglodytes, because Kaboom was rated Number One of the "13 Classic Cereals That We Miss"! Well ahead of that equally awesome classic "Mr. T" cereal.

http://tinyurl.com/5644m458

"1. Kaboom. Yet another General Mills cereal with marshmallows. In fact, they invented and cornered the market. First created for Lucky Charms in 1964, General Mills produced 22 years’ worth of “marbits” before any other cereal company gave it a go. Kaboom was released in 1969 and the star-shaped marshmallows and colorful smiley face oat cereal were a big hit. The circus themed box was a staple of store shelves for decades, until it was retired in 2010. It made its pop culture impact when it was used in a scene in 2003’s KIll Bill: Volume 1. A similar circus themed cereal, Circus Fun, had a short run (1986-89) while Kaboom was still available. But it’s Kaboom that was tops. Out of all the cereals on this list, its the one I think that would be head and shoulders above the crowd if it returned to stores. After all, you can’t keep a good clown down."

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 28, 2023 04:09 PM (iFTx/)

25 I'll bet Ace was reading The Bernstein Bears while eating this.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 28, 2023 04:09 PM (x42Y3)

26 This is the post that got me hooked. A gateway post, if you will...

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 28, 2023 04:09 PM (GTqXr)

27 I think Kaboom might be my favorite AoS post of all time.

Yeah, I briefly considered using the Kaboom box as the icon for my vintage foods site. I still use the Kaboom apron I made up for it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 28, 2023 04:09 PM (4CoR6)

28 This remains one of the greatest posts in all of internet history.

Posted by: Alexthechick at December 28, 2023 04:10 PM (x5P3+)

29 a classic, ace.

My step-mother made me cornmeal much with raisins and love

she also, for a short while, made me scrambled eggs contaminated with lighter fluid, but that was more a problem of storage of lighter fluid, than any actual malice.

Posted by: Klandis1222cyberis.net at December 28, 2023 04:10 PM (D7oie)

30 15 I think I recall seeing this on the shelf as a yoot. Never had it
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 28, 2023 04:07 PM (/6GbT)

We were more a raisin bran family. We never got the Cap'n Crunch or other really obviously pure sugar carb stuff.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 28, 2023 04:10 PM (di6C2)

31 BBC News (UK)
Dec 28, 2023
@BBCNews
Trump denies bullying his way into Home Alone 2

-
That lying bastard!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at December 28, 2023 04:10 PM (FVME7)

32 I was hoping this one would come up!

KABOOM!

mac :]

Posted by: macbrooks at December 28, 2023 04:10 PM (sWzaJ)

33 Sleeping over at a friend's house, you never knew what kind of madness lay within their strange cubbards the next morning.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 28, 2023 04:10 PM (RIvkX)

34 I will not move my army without onions.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 28, 2023 04:11 PM (J3ryZ)

35 I vaguely recall this cereal being given to us by an aunt, or maybe grandmother. The box is forgettable, but the distressed little faces being rapidly dissolved in colored milk is something I can't forget.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 28, 2023 04:11 PM (Q4IgG)

36 "shelterpit"

Kills me for some reason.

Posted by: DOYLE at December 28, 2023 04:11 PM (Z8Yh2)

37 This is Penultimate Ace.

I hope not! Only one more post?

Posted by: mikeski at December 28, 2023 04:11 PM (Sn1bJ)

38 I would have expected this to be the anniversary day post, as this ended up transcending the horde, and becoming known by people who probably don't even know what this peculiar little blog is.

Posted by: Rbastid at December 28, 2023 04:12 PM (K7RBV)

39 I remember reading this and howling with laughter.

And then it came back to me: I am a Kaboom Kid. Like Ace I have suffered.

The laughter faltered, then died.

*cue the ennui*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 28, 2023 04:12 PM (T/Lqj)

40 Happy blog anniversary, Mokh-Mokh.

And thanks for 20 awesome years.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 28, 2023 04:12 PM (/QIWP)

41 We were more a raisin bran family. We never got the Cap'n Crunch or other really obviously pure sugar carb stuff.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 28, 2023 04:10 PM (di6C2)

Handfuls of dry Cap'n Crunch. RIP roof of mouth

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 28, 2023 04:12 PM (/6GbT)

42 28 This remains one of the greatest posts in all of internet history.
Posted by: Alexthechick at December 28, 2023 04:10 PM

It is known.

Posted by: Physics Geek at December 28, 2023 04:13 PM (CaTb6)

43 Jill and I remember our romantic early morning breakfasts of KaBoom Cereal when she stayed the night "Babysitting the Kids."

Posted by: Joey Sponge Brain Shitz Pantz at December 28, 2023 04:13 PM (jF/Z6)

44 Or Grape Nuts. That shit was horrible. I don't care if you microwaved it, then it became mushy horror.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 28, 2023 04:13 PM (di6C2)

45 This was aces greatest post so much that not even Lamont could top it

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger at December 28, 2023 04:13 PM (VTu1l)

46 Never had Kaboom or even heard of it before this blog. But in all fairness, Kaboom looks just like all the other nasty, sugar-overdosed, weird alien-colored, mopey, nutrition abominations that passed for kids' cereal back then.

Kaboom vs Lucky Charms is like Kamala vs Big Mike . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 28, 2023 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

47 stupid fingers.

Posted by: Kindltot - arbiter of taste, relevancy and oral biofilms at December 28, 2023 04:13 PM (D7oie)

48 I never saw Kaboom! growing up in Michigan.

My mother would let me have Froot Loops on my birtthday, but that was all the sugary cereal I was allowed.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 28, 2023 04:13 PM (9yWhg)

49 >We were more a raisin bran family. We never got the Cap'n Crunch or other really obviously pure sugar carb stuff.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 28, 2023 04:10 PM (di6C2)

Every now and then my old man would spring for Cap'n Crunch with Crunchberries™. The breakfast cereal equivalent of taking a belt sander to the roof of the mouth.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 28, 2023 04:13 PM (GTqXr)

50
Yay! Kaboom!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 28, 2023 04:13 PM (n+4am)

51 Handfuls of dry Cap'n Crunch. RIP roof of mouth
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 28, 2023 04:12 PM (/6GbT)

My freshman year in the dorms, I gorged myself on Cap'n Crunch (with crunchberries.) It pretty much satisfied me of ever needing to have it again.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 28, 2023 04:14 PM (di6C2)

52 thank you all for being so nice and indulging a nearly-29 year old man as he slips into his post-29 dottage.

Posted by: ace at December 28, 2023 04:14 PM (KRtlO)

53 Now I truly understand your affinity for Hobo tartare.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 28, 2023 04:15 PM (zpw81)

54 A timeless classic.

Thanks, ace.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at December 28, 2023 04:15 PM (tT6L1)

55 Sleeping over at a friend's house, you never knew what kind of madness lay within their strange cubbards the next morning.

I first had Grape-Nuts at a cousin’s. I loved it—it had a nice malty flavor (I was very disappointed discovering that Malt-o-Meal cereals have no malt flavored) and was crunchy and chewy at the same time if left in milk for just the right amount of time.

My mom would never buy it because it was too expensive. Most kid cereals are meant to eat a cup or so—i.e. to fill the bowl. A Grape-Nuts serving was much smaller, but of course we ignored that.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 28, 2023 04:15 PM (4CoR6)

56 Not all heroes wear capes.

Canada awards Meritorious Service Medal to trans activist who got nation's oldest rape relief shelter defunded because it said "transgender women were men"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at December 28, 2023 04:15 PM (FVME7)

57 Kaboom , now with mRNA!!!

Posted by: ET at December 28, 2023 04:16 PM (plqnc)

58 Sleeping over at a friend's house, you never knew what kind of madness lay within their strange cubbards the next morning.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 28, 2023 04:10 PM

I read a great thing - the fun of staying at a friend's house is discovering what foods they were taught had to be kept in the refrigerator.

Posted by: alexthechick at December 28, 2023 04:16 PM (x5P3+)

59 btw, Kaboom is the title to a memoir of the first gulf war by Matt Gallagher

Kaboom: embracing the suck in a savage little war

Posted by: Kindltot - arbiter of taste, relevancy and oral biofilms at December 28, 2023 04:16 PM (D7oie)

60 Well, hello old friend. We meet again.

Honey Bunches of Poots.

Posted by: RichJ at December 28, 2023 04:16 PM (u5+U7)

61 Kaboom vs Lucky Charms is like Kamala vs Big Mike . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 28, 2023 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

Lucky Charms was a boring one. The sweet bits were fine, but the non-candy part was just boring.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 28, 2023 04:16 PM (di6C2)

62 I will not move my army without onions.
Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 28, 2023 04:11 PM (J3ryZ)
.......

I will, and I'm not running for president.

Posted by: wth at December 28, 2023 04:16 PM (v0R5T)

63 I just realized the cereal came in 7oz boxes, a size which i thought was reserved for those like cereal supplements that you sprinkle on your lucky charms to get some fiber in your life.

Posted by: Rbastid at December 28, 2023 04:17 PM (K7RBV)

64 Ace, avoid dottage and go straight to curmudgeon. You'll thank me later.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at December 28, 2023 04:17 PM (tT6L1)

65 This was one of the funniest posts ever here. I remember genuinely laughing out loud reading it.

Hey and it was posted the week I met my now wife, man time really flies.

Posted by: brak at December 28, 2023 04:17 PM (AR07F)

66 We would sometimes get the good stuff after Dad got a raise. But it was mostly Kix, Wheaties, Corn Flakes.

We would add Hershey's chocolate milk powder to our Kix. Poverty kid version of Cocoa Puffs. I actually liked it more.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 28, 2023 04:17 PM (T/Lqj)

67 Holy shit, this was 10 years ago? What have I done with my life?

Anyways, I’ll see your Kaboom and raise you a box of generic cereal in a black and white box from the navy commissary. And we’re having black and white Mac and Cheese for dinner.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 28, 2023 04:17 PM (uKeRS)

68
I've never tasted Kaboom. I've never even seen a box of Kaboom. I think this is some kind of science fiction fantasy.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 28, 2023 04:05 PM (x42Y3)

Soylent Kaboom

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 28, 2023 04:17 PM (n+4am)

69 A classic, Ace. Thanks for everything through the years.

Posted by: Darles Chickens at December 28, 2023 04:17 PM (nVIIg)

70 Thread soon to be oddly discolored, like a still bleeding bruise, when the troll reads Kaboom for the first time and tells us that it was a metaphor of the Trump presidency.

Posted by: Funny because it's true at December 28, 2023 04:17 PM (KGMB7)

71 Grape nuts were good with sugar on them

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 28, 2023 04:18 PM (/6GbT)

72 Trump secretly eats KaBoom....and likes it!!! Fight me!!

Posted by: Terry from last thread, probably at December 28, 2023 04:18 PM (RTI79)

73 Thanks Ace and all the cobs for all your work. Love this post.

Hit the tip jar everyone.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:18 PM (QuqX7)

74 Best. Repost. Ever!!!11!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 28, 2023 04:18 PM (4I/2K)

75 So, who was the “cerial killer” who stopped production of Kaboom

Posted by: SMOD at December 28, 2023 04:19 PM (RovqD)

76 I think they make pot scrubbers now that are modeled after the look and texture of kaboom pieces

Posted by: Rbastid at December 28, 2023 04:19 PM (K7RBV)

77 Grape nuts were good with sugar on them.

Cereals that needed sugar added were pretty much all we got. Corn Flakes, Wheaties, Cheerios.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 28, 2023 04:19 PM (4CoR6)

78 Sugar Frosted Flakes, Sugar Pops, Captain Crunch. On Saturday mornings I was allowed to binge cereal and watch the cartoons and westerns on the black and white TV.

Posted by: RM at December 28, 2023 04:19 PM (urbih)

79 Trump secretly eats KaBoom....and likes it!!! Fight me!!
Posted by: Terry from last thread, probably at December 28, 2023 04:18 PM (RTI79)
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Only if he pours ketchup all over it....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 28, 2023 04:20 PM (BpYfr)

80 ... due to what may be called a early-childhood type of social dysmorphia.

-------------

Today you would have been affirmed by being forced to take hormone blockers and then having your genitals mutilated.

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 28, 2023 04:20 PM (+7062)

81 When you first posted this, my wife was driving and I read it to her. I remember the exact place (we were in the middle of nowhere, over 200 miles from home). Every time we drive this particular stretch of road, we remember the Kaboom post and start laughing again.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at December 28, 2023 04:20 PM (gf7Ez)

82 This is us today.

http://tinyurl.com/4shudayk

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at December 28, 2023 04:20 PM (FVME7)

83 For six months I wore nothing but a a fur jerkin and a genital sock.

***

Ace was a trailblazer for today.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2023 04:21 PM (wb1YC)

84 I always like “Tony” aka Zucaritas

Posted by: SMOD at December 28, 2023 04:21 PM (RovqD)

85 I think my favorite cereal was peanut butter Cap'n Crunch.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:21 PM (QuqX7)

86 I heard Kix are so expensive now due to gov acceptability for WIC type programs.

Captain Crunch teaches patience and control.

Posted by: DOYLE at December 28, 2023 04:21 PM (Z8Yh2)

87 Breakfast Horror Story:

BrotherA and I stay home from school with some stomach bug. MomA leaves us on the couch in the family room and goes ?. We get up and eat an entire box of Orange Quangaroos. We go back to couch. We both leap up run opposite directions out of family room thru kitchen headed to toilet. We do not make it.

Orange puke spectacular.
IIRC we never bought Quangaroos again.

Posted by: DaveA at December 28, 2023 04:22 PM (FhXTo)

88 But Kaboom kids know. Kaboom kids understand.‘
How awful for you. I hope you got counseling.

No matter how you felt earring Kaboom as a child, I want you to know that you’re just as good as normal kids.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 28, 2023 04:22 PM (jbnUc)

89 The sweetest cereal I've ever eaten is Honey Nuts Cheerios.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 28, 2023 04:22 PM (x42Y3)

90 Handfuls of dry Cap'n Crunch. RIP roof of mouth
Posted by: A dude in MI

Adding milk didn't really help, unless you let them soak for 30+ minutes. Everyone above mentions the mouth trauma the Cap'n inflicts, and yet, we all ate and loved that shit. It's either REALLY good, or a frighteningly large percentage of the population are unknown masochists.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 28, 2023 04:22 PM (RTI79)

91 Everyone knows that Quisp was the true cereal of champions!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 28, 2023 04:22 PM (BpYfr)

92 Posted by: Elric Blade at December 28, 2023 04:09 PM (iFTx/)

I would bet anything that they only named Kaboom number one because they saw this post, and wanted to make it seem like they were hip and retro, and knew what they were talking about.

Posted by: Rbastid at December 28, 2023 04:22 PM (K7RBV)

93 This is my number one favorite post of all time.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 28, 2023 04:22 PM (lTGtQ)

94 I think my favorite cereal was peanut butter Cap'n Crunch.

***

When I was in college in the '80s, I used to grab a box of that after every major exam and eat it while watching TV all night long. It's about as healthy for you as a gunshot to the face but I was a hell of a lot younger then.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2023 04:23 PM (wb1YC)

95 I used to claim My Son Beau died in Iraq fighting off Iraqi Insurgents and saving his men; but I know the truth.

Beau died of brain cancer here in the United States. Brain cancer caused by Kaboom cereal and burn pit contaminated polluted air, but mostly burn pit contaminated air.

Posted by: Joey Sponge Brain Shitz Pantz at December 28, 2023 04:23 PM (afwGe)

96 Frosted Mini-Wheats FTW!

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 28, 2023 04:23 PM (+7062)

97 We were the Giant Multipack of Kelloggs cereals family, with the ONE tiny box of Froot Loops over which there was strategery and ultimately a death match, followed by slow strategizing down the Kelloggs ladder which ultimately ended up with the lone sad tiny box of Kelloggs Corn Flakes or whatever their current "healthy" box of hippie sand was. That one languished in the cupboard for a long time until someone made it mysteriously disappear and then we could restart the cycle.
And yes, every now and then we actually cut the tiny boxes open on the perforated lines and used the box as a bowl, just because every box admonished you to do that.
Now we don't even purchase cereal because it's all carbs!

Posted by: Rocky at December 28, 2023 04:23 PM (rrG5/)

98 Stone. Cold. Classic.

Posted by: Wiserbud at December 28, 2023 04:23 PM (ahS5E)

99 This re-post is one of the reasons I remain ridiculously devoted to AoSHQ, while drifting away from so many others.

Lord bless Ace, the Cobs and the Horde.

Happy New Year. (please)

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 28, 2023 04:23 PM (T/Lqj)

100 "Is this what people want to return to?": Read this thread that says you'll never make America great by returning to beer and "juggies" mediocrity

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The reference is to The Man Show. And I ask, how do we know unless we try?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at December 28, 2023 04:23 PM (FVME7)

101 My mom would never buy it because it was too expensive. Most kid cereals are meant to eat a cup or so—i.e. to fill the bowl. A Grape-Nuts serving was much smaller, but of course we ignored that.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 28, 2023 04:15 PM (4CoR6)

My mom would buy grape nuts with the sole reason that us kids wouldn't eat it. It was like a bowl of rocks. I never like it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:23 PM (QuqX7)

102 I think my favorite cereal was peanut butter Cap'n Crunch.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:21 PM

Except for the roof of your mouth after eating it. Might as well take a belt sander with 80 grit to it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 28, 2023 04:23 PM (SzI2j)

103 Captain Crunch teaches patience and control.
Posted by: DOYLE at December 28, 2023 04:21 PM (Z8Yh2)
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Something I as a 16 tear old stoner lacked.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at December 28, 2023 04:24 PM (tT6L1)

104 In our household, when we added water to Kaboom, we used those little faces in the bath to clean ourselves and to scrub the fixtures.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 28, 2023 04:24 PM (J3ryZ)

105 That "toy" in Kaboom looks like an IUD. Maybe not a bad idea.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 28, 2023 04:24 PM (SzI2j)

106 After years of store-brand 'Puffed Rice' and 'Puffed Wheat' and those gawd-awful bales of shredded wheat (you know, those big blocks of wicker you had to break up before consuming)--

Kaboom was a *treat*
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- - - - - -

*hangs head in shame*

Posted by: JQ at December 28, 2023 04:24 PM (njWTi)

107 Happy 20th Anniversary, Ace!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at December 28, 2023 04:24 PM (T4tVD)

108 The first time I read this I laughed so hard I cried.

I cried because we, too, were Kaboom folk.

Posted by: Chainsaw at December 28, 2023 04:24 PM (p7g/X)

109 It was just a dirty little secret, like massage parlors and the back room at a pawnbroker's.

Went out to lunch a while back with my several of my leftist cow-workers.

At one point they started talking about the local Asian rub and tugs. Note, they not only knew where they were they debated the merits of each.

And each one of them was married.

I love living in a blue area. Its so...enlightening.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2023 04:24 PM (XqcwY)

110 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 28, 2023 04:25 PM (T4tVD)

111 75 So, who was the “cerial killer” who stopped production of Kaboom
Posted by: SMOD

Trick question...the clown on the front is actually inspired by John Wayne Gacy. If any cereal embraced homicide, it's KaBoom. Or the weirdos that eat Grape Nuts...but they're probably more "Unibomber" types.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 28, 2023 04:25 PM (RTI79)

112 Except for the roof of your mouth after eating it. Might as well take a belt sander with 80 grit to it.

***

Peanut butter Captain crunch wasn't quite so bad because it was roundish in shape. You could tumble pistol brass with regular Captain crunch.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2023 04:25 PM (wb1YC)

113
'Except for the roof of your mouth after eating it. Might as well take a belt sander with 80 grit to it."

Never noticed that with Captain Crunch. Huh.

Posted by: RM at December 28, 2023 04:25 PM (urbih)

114 We we also Sears Toughskins folk.

Posted by: Chainsaw at December 28, 2023 04:26 PM (p7g/X)

115 Cereal either tastes like crap, or it is basically just candy.

I don't get the point in eating either.

Grab a piece of fruit or actually make toast and some eggs instead.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2023 04:26 PM (XqcwY)

116 That "toy" is a whistle ring that you assemble. DIY cheap!

Posted by: JQ at December 28, 2023 04:26 PM (njWTi)

117 I only ate Wheaties because it's the breakfast of champions and that's what I am, you losers - A champion. hahahaha!

Posted by: Archer at December 28, 2023 04:26 PM (gmo/4)

118 This was after my arrival so remember this well

Posted by: Skip at December 28, 2023 04:26 PM (fwDg9)

119 88
Fucking autocorrect.
earring —> eating.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 28, 2023 04:26 PM (jbnUc)

120 Read this thread that says you'll never make America great by returning to beer and "juggies
===
HERESY. that deserves a sack over the head and a good stabbing, it does.

Posted by: Books, and beer are completely good at December 28, 2023 04:26 PM (KGMB7)

121 All I've ever eaten is Kellogg' Corn Flakes.

I still remember Saturday mornings with Grandfather Poppins: soft-boiled egg in an egg cup, toast, bacon, corn flakes, tea and the morning paper.

I'd give almost anything to go back there again.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 28, 2023 04:26 PM (Q0kLU)

122 "Originally published September 4, 2013."

This is a typo.

Posted by: Chainsaw at December 28, 2023 04:27 PM (p7g/X)

123 I had perused AoS several times before this post.

Kaboom got me, hook, line and sinker.

Thank you for the laughs and the snorts and the coffee through the nose and onto the computer guffaws, ace.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 28, 2023 04:27 PM (XgKq6)

124 114 We we also Sears Toughskins folk.
Posted by: Chainsaw at December 28, 2023 04:26 PM (p7g/X)

Ah, the days when blue jeans were BLUE and could be stood up in a corner when brand new.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 28, 2023 04:27 PM (di6C2)

125 Coco Beach, FL had 24 hour massage parlors all over the place. Don’t know if it still does. I was amazed at the demand for being jerked off in that town.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 28, 2023 04:27 PM (uKeRS)

126 Books!?!?! Really auto correct ?? Really!!!
Books = boobs

Posted by: Books, and beer are completely good at December 28, 2023 04:27 PM (KGMB7)

127 I read a great thing - the fun of staying at a friend's house is discovering what foods they were taught had to be kept in the refrigerator.
Posted by: alexthechick

Ketchup, rice wine vinegar, soy sauce. Still not sure.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 28, 2023 04:28 PM (IG4Id)

128 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 56m
JUST IN - A judge has approved new Georgia congressional and state legislative districts likely to retain Republican majorities. - AP

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 28, 2023 04:28 PM (2yu8s)

129 The name brand versus store brand thing always amused me.

Some things are fundamentally different - knock off sodas don't taste the same for example, but for most things its good enough. Seriously...why buy named brand paper towels or trash bags?

Though the one caveat to this - if you are a guy trying to attract female attention pay for the name brands on whatever you'll be wearing on dates. Even if they are worse then the no name versions.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2023 04:28 PM (XqcwY)

130 When I was in college in the '80s, I used to grab a box of that after every major exam and eat it while watching TV all night long. It's about as healthy for you as a gunshot to the face but I was a hell of a lot younger then.
Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2023 04:23 PM (

I remember my brother would come home from college, go surfing all day and come home with a half gallon of vanilla ice cream, quart of milk and a small can of Hersheys syrup and eat the whole thing. He's still in good shape now....years later but none of us can eat like that anymore. And if I think about it there was only like one chubby kid in my class. I don't know what changed but I think it's processed food and corn for sugar/sugar.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:28 PM (QuqX7)

131 I gotta admit, I cant remember if I've never had Kaboom. But I have a distinct memory of enjoying cinnamon flavored Apple Jacks and Cap'n Crunch with Crunchberries. And I absolutely hated Chex.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 28, 2023 04:28 PM (YRsIm)

132 Cereal commercials used to show a bowl of cereal as only a part of a good breakfast. Not anymore. It's just sugar, sugar, sugar.

Posted by: Archer at December 28, 2023 04:28 PM (gmo/4)

133 No idea why my parents would buy puffed rice or puffed wheat. Whatever money they thought they were saving was lost due to the amount of sugar required to make the stuff palatable.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at December 28, 2023 04:28 PM (tT6L1)

134 Happy 20th ace. great work over the years. I think Taranto sent me here back then. someday I'll come up with a decent nic.

Posted by: x at December 28, 2023 04:29 PM (C3l/P)

135 Coco Beach, FL had 24 hour massage parlors all over the place. Don’t know if it still does. I was amazed at the demand for being jerked off in that town.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 28, 2023 04:27 PM (uKeRS)

Thanks for the tip!

Posted by: Bob Kraft, NFL Owner Who Likes The Yellow at December 28, 2023 04:29 PM (Edu7X)

136 Grab a piece of fruit or actually make toast and some eggs instead.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2023 04:26 PM (XqcwY)

*pauses crunching Crunch Berries*

What was that?

JK. I actually like old fashioned oat meal. Because I am old. Takes longer to cook, but it's worth it. I need to get some steel gut Irish oat meal.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 28, 2023 04:30 PM (T/Lqj)

137 I just stopped having nightmares from that cereal.

Merry Christmas, ace!

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 28, 2023 04:30 PM (d4FMw)

138 99 This re-post is one of the reasons I remain ridiculously devoted to AoSHQ, while drifting away from so many others.

Lord bless Ace, the Cobs and the Horde.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger

I've always hoped for another DnD version of candidates. I just remeber something about Al Sharpton being...maybe an illusionist? With a ring, cloak or staff of Racial Inflammation +5 or some shit. Ahhh....good times. The last two elections could have been great...this one, not so much.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 28, 2023 04:30 PM (RTI79)

139 Pay the extra for brand name hot pockets. I've done the science. It's settled.

Posted by: DOYLE at December 28, 2023 04:30 PM (Z8Yh2)

140 I don't get the point in eating either.

Grab a piece of fruit or actually make toast and some eggs instead.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2023 04:26 PM (XqcwY)

What!? Sitting in the chair with a box of cereal after school watching gi joe and transformers - the high life

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 28, 2023 04:30 PM (/6GbT)

141 Can't wait for the previous thread to spill over to this one and ruin it for everyone. Kaboom style.

I was going to argue with Sponge, but it's not worth it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 28, 2023 04:30 PM (Q0kLU)

142 I don't like any breakfast cereals. I never understood why they were a billion-dollar industry. I'm not a big breakfast eater anyway, but for breakfast I'll have a bagel, cornbread, a donut, or occasionally some bacon or sausage. I'd never even think about opening a box of garbage cereal and eat that. Seems nasty.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 28, 2023 04:30 PM (iFTx/)

143 someone needs to get this for Ace...

http://tinyurl.com/yvsycm3m

... it's a Funco pop!™ Kaboom mascot!

Posted by: TheBmaN at December 28, 2023 04:30 PM (TTsp/)

144 "gut" should be" cut."

Can't blame autocorrupt for that one.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 28, 2023 04:30 PM (T/Lqj)

145 Those who've met me probably won't believe it but I'd down eggs, bacon and toast in the am before school, then pound down a couple of bowls of Corn Flakes.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at December 28, 2023 04:31 PM (tT6L1)

146 114 We we also Sears Toughskins folk.
Posted by: Chainsaw at December 28, 2023 04:26 PM (p7g/X)

Fist bump. Did anyone else's mom patch the knees of their toughskins? Mine did.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:31 PM (QuqX7)

147 puffed rice or puffed wheat.

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The closest thing to selling a bag of air ever devised by the mind of man.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at December 28, 2023 04:31 PM (FVME7)

148 >114 We we also Sears Toughskins folk.

Posted by: Chainsaw at December 28, 2023 04:26 PM (p7g/X)

*fist bump*

Any resemblance to actual denim is purely coincidental. Hell, they were some odd shade of grey/blue.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 28, 2023 04:31 PM (GTqXr)

149 Cap'n Crunch isn't so bad if you run a cup of it through a blender first.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 28, 2023 04:31 PM (lTGtQ)

150 As a kid, our family visited Battlecreek MI and toured the Kellogg's factory. It was impressive to a little kid like me. Plus at the end, we all got a free variety pack of Kellogg cereals to take home. Free loot!

Posted by: Archer at December 28, 2023 04:32 PM (gmo/4)

151 135 Coco Beach, FL had 24 hour massage parlors all over the place. Don’t know if it still does. I was amazed at the demand for being jerked off in that town.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 28, 2023 04:27 PM (uKeRS)

Thanks for the tip!
Posted by: Bob Kraft, NFL Owner Who Likes The Yellow at December 28, 2023 04:29 PM (Edu7X)
_______

I think every vacation destination has jerkoff shops all over the place. Goes with the territory.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 28, 2023 04:32 PM (iFTx/)

152 Kaboom : The Cereal from the mind of Edvard Munch.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 28, 2023 04:32 PM (d4FMw)

153 I'll bet Ace was reading The Bernstein Bears while eating this.

Berenstein Bears. Berenstein.

Bernstein bears write preciously twee music and host Black Panther tea parties.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 28, 2023 04:32 PM (Q0kLU)

154 You think you had it bad as a Kaboom kid?

We ate it with Carnation Instant Milk..

I’ve never known a mother’s love…

Posted by: Wiserbud at December 28, 2023 04:32 PM (ahS5E)

155

I'm still laughing my ass off at this. Arguably the greatest blog post on any website ever.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 28, 2023 04:32 PM (x0n13)

156 Fist bump. Did anyone else's mom patch the knees of their toughskins? Mine did.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:31 PM (QuqX7)

The iron on patches.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 28, 2023 04:32 PM (di6C2)

157 Too funny! I never had Kaboom but now wish I did.

Posted by: leber at December 28, 2023 04:32 PM (rovGg)

158 142 I don't like any breakfast cereals. I never understood why they were a billion-dollar industry. I'm not a big breakfast eater anyway, but for breakfast I'll have a bagel, cornbread, a donut, or occasionally some bacon or sausage. I'd never even think about opening a box of garbage cereal and eat that. Seems nasty.
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 28, 2023 04:30 PM (iFTx/)

You aren't 29 yet, are you? Growing up as a kid in the 70s, cereal and cartoons on Saturday morning were a huge thing.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:32 PM (QuqX7)

159 The Chex cereals were progressive punishment. Rice, wheat and corn. Not even the dog would eat that shit, even if it was in a full bowl of powdered milk.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 28, 2023 04:32 PM (J3ryZ)

160 Capitan Vitamin!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 28, 2023 04:33 PM (SzI2j)

161 Everyone knows that Quisp was the true cereal of champions!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 28, 2023 04:22 PM (BpYfr)
===
We got Quisp at grandma's. She also stored pop-tarts and chef boyardee.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 28, 2023 04:33 PM (RIvkX)

162 This is why I refuse all Windows 11 update "offers":

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 7h
NEW: Putin ally Vladimir Egorov 'falls to his death from third-floor window'.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 28, 2023 04:33 PM (2yu8s)

163 ap'n Crunch isn't so bad if you run a cup of it through a blender first.

That's what I do.
Then I sprinkle it on the icy walkway for traction

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at December 28, 2023 04:33 PM (Rn/yD)

164 Still one of the greatest pieces of writing I've ever read. I think of this often and understand its true TRUTH.

Posted by: jocon307 at December 28, 2023 04:33 PM (EuROc)

165 Crispy hobo skin with encrusted grime is healthier than Kaboom.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 28, 2023 04:33 PM (x42Y3)

166 I ate lumpy Cream of Wheat instant.

And occasionally Apple Jacks or Cocoa Puffs.

Those were the days.

It explains a lot about Gen X.

Posted by: Czech Chick at December 28, 2023 04:33 PM (xeuBx)

167 152 Kaboom : The Cereal from the mind of Edvard Munch.
Posted by: Dr Spank at December 28, 2023 04:32 PM (d4FMw)

Or the naked ottoman man but not Mark Rothko!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 28, 2023 04:33 PM (x0n13)

168 I suspect since kids spend less and less time outdoors getting their clothes dirty and ripped up that buying cheap Toughskins like clothes matters less then before.

But the quality of name brand jeans sucks now too.

Had a girlfriend that let me know Lee jeans do NOT count as name brand though.

Poor Lee, all his statues go down and now his jeans aren't cool anymore either...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2023 04:33 PM (XqcwY)

169 Sounds like Kaboom was the Winn Dixie Quik Check of cereals

Posted by: Lancelot_Link at December 28, 2023 04:34 PM (nAdqU)

170 Handfuls of dry Cap'n Crunch. RIP roof of mouth
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 28, 2023 04:12 PM (/6GbT)

You don't know shit.

Posted by: Shredded Wheat at December 28, 2023 04:34 PM (Q0kLU)

171 I remember Kaboom from my childhood. My grandma in Modesto bought a box when I was 5 or 6. And it lasted for like 3 years.

It was better as time went on and the more stale it became... Oh wait. That was Apple Jacks. #NotKidding

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at December 28, 2023 04:34 PM (AD14M)

172 Fist bump. Did anyone else's mom patch the knees of their toughskins? Mine did.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:31 PM (QuqX7)

We couldn't even wear them until mom put the patches on!

Posted by: Archer at December 28, 2023 04:34 PM (gmo/4)

173 156 Fist bump. Did anyone else's mom patch the knees of their toughskins? Mine did.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:31 PM (QuqX7)

The iron on patches.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 28, 2023

Yup, those are the ones.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:34 PM (QuqX7)

174 I ate Kaboom as a kid. Yes, you and I are both scarred by this distant memory, Ace. We're like the Brady Bunch Kids. Only we know what it was like. Our inner circle of disadvantaged kids who have spent a lifetime trying to erase the stigma.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 28, 2023 04:34 PM (4RMpV)

175 >156 Fist bump. Did anyone else's mom patch the knees of their toughskins? Mine did.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:31 PM (QuqX7)

The iron on patches.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 28, 2023 04:32 PM (di6C2)

Yep. The smell of industrial solvent and desperation hung heavy in the air when my Mom patched the knees of my Toughskins™.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 28, 2023 04:34 PM (GTqXr)

176 Fist bump. Did anyone else's mom patch the knees of their toughskins? Mine did.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:31 PM (QuqX7)

The iron on patches.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

My mom did.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at December 28, 2023 04:34 PM (FVME7)

177 Chex is only good in Bits N Bites.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 28, 2023 04:34 PM (2yu8s)

178 146 114 We we also Sears Toughskins folk.
Posted by: Chainsaw at December 28, 2023 04:26 PM (p7g/X)

Fist bump. Did anyone else's mom patch the knees of their toughskins? Mine did.

My mom would install those iron-on patches before we even wore them once in anticipation of a blow-out.

Posted by: Chainsaw at December 28, 2023 04:34 PM (p7g/X)

179 The Chex cereals were progressive punishment. Rice, wheat and corn. Not even the dog would eat that shit, even if it was in a full bowl of powdered milk.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 28, 2023 04:32 PM (J3ryZ)
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The only purpose Rice Chex serves is as the foundation for homemade Chex Mix. The other Chexes aren't even worth the bother.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 28, 2023 04:35 PM (BpYfr)

180 if you search for "Kaboom cereal" on Amazon, you'll find a Funco pop!™ Kaboom mascot...

someone should get that for Ace. :-)

Posted by: TheBmaN at December 28, 2023 04:35 PM (TTsp/)

181 Neil Stephenson spends a whole chapter in Cryptonomicon on the correct technique for eating Captain Crunch.

Posted by: Eromero at December 28, 2023 04:35 PM (hJsHd)

182 We couldn't even wear them until mom put the patches on!

Posted by: Archer at December 28, 2023 04:34 PM (gmo/4)

Preemptive patching? Bold strategy

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 28, 2023 04:35 PM (/6GbT)

183 I often try to recall when I first stumbled across this site. Certainly in 2004, but did not follow it regularly for a couple more years. I think I made my first comment sometime around 2006. it was not memorable, kind of a "great post, Ace" thing. And I had a different nic then.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 28, 2023 04:35 PM (T/Lqj)

184 158 142 I don't like any breakfast cereals. I never understood why they were a billion-dollar industry. I'm not a big breakfast eater anyway, but for breakfast I'll have a bagel, cornbread, a donut, or occasionally some bacon or sausage. I'd never even think about opening a box of garbage cereal and eat that. Seems nasty.
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 28, 2023 04:30 PM (iFTx/)

You aren't 29 yet, are you? Growing up as a kid in the 70s, cereal and cartoons on Saturday morning were a huge thing.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:32 PM (QuqX7)
___________

That was a little before my time. But I was fed breakfast cereal as a kid. I didn't like it, so my mom eventually stopped serving it. I can't imagine eating it now.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 28, 2023 04:35 PM (iFTx/)

185 This is why I refuse all Windows 11 update "offers":

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 7h
NEW: Putin ally Vladimir Egorov 'falls to his death from third-floor window'.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 28, 2023 04:33 PM (2yu8s)
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Eventually they will make an offer you can't refuse...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 28, 2023 04:36 PM (BpYfr)

186 As a kid, our family visited Battlecreek MI and toured the Kellogg's factory. It was impressive to a little kid like me. Plus at the end, we all got a free variety pack of Kellogg cereals to take home. Free loot!

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Now they just pass out transgender pamphlets.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 28, 2023 04:36 PM (4RMpV)

187 Fist bump. Did anyone else's mom patch the knees of their toughskins? Mine did.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:31 PM

Yep, mom was an avid sewist! She also. Made a lot of our clothes.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 28, 2023 04:36 PM (SzI2j)

188 Neil Stephenson spends a whole chapter in Cryptonomicon on the correct technique for eating Captain Crunch.

He stole that from the cannibalism section in the Necronomicon

Posted by: Abdul Alhazred at December 28, 2023 04:36 PM (XqcwY)

189 Would Kaboom get washed down with an ice cold glass of Strawberry Quick?

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 28, 2023 04:36 PM (x42Y3)

190 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 7h
NEW: Putin ally Vladimir Egorov 'falls to his death from third-floor window'.
Posted by: andycanuck

A lot of people fall out of a lot of windows in Russia.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at December 28, 2023 04:37 PM (FVME7)

191 181 Neil Stephenson spends a whole chapter in Cryptonomicon on the correct technique for eating Captain Crunch.
Posted by: Eromero at December 28, 2023 04:35 PM (hJsHd)

First, soak the cereal for 18 months until semi-soft.

Literally eating sugar coated concertina wire in milk.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 28, 2023 04:37 PM (x0n13)

192 We we also Sears Toughskins folk.
Posted by: Chainsaw at December 28, 2023 04:26 PM (p7g/X)

Fist bump. Did anyone else's mom patch the knees of their toughskins? Mine did.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:31 PM (QuqX7)

Our patches had patches. Mom would even patch the hole in the knee from inside the pants too.

Posted by: Beartooth at December 28, 2023 04:37 PM (kxx6d)

193 NEW: Putin ally Vladimir Egorov 'falls to his death from third-floor window'.

When will these failed muggings stop?!?

Posted by: The DC Police at December 28, 2023 04:37 PM (XqcwY)

194 It's sort of funny to think growing up just how much sugar we ingested. Yet, I don't recall anyone being fat. Of course, we lived on our bicycles and spent our days running around outside. Which might explain things.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at December 28, 2023 04:37 PM (tT6L1)

195 The worst cereal to eat as a kid was All-Bran. The stuff that looked like rabbit pellets and tasted like cardboard.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 28, 2023 04:37 PM (4RMpV)

196 Congratulations on 20 years of blogging, Ace!

I started lurking in late 2015 and first commented in 2016. At first, I didn't even know about the comments so never read them. Only after I heard that Andrew Breitbart liked the comments did it occur to me to look them over. Glad I did!

Keep up the great work, Ace. And many thanks to the Cobs for keeping things going, and going great guns!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 28, 2023 04:38 PM (a8Rgt)

197
That was a little before my time. But I was fed breakfast cereal as a kid. I didn't like it, so my mom eventually stopped serving it. I can't imagine eating it now.
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 28, 2023 04:35 PM

Breakfast cereal is for parents who have kids just old enough to feed themselves in the A.M so they could sleep in.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 28, 2023 04:38 PM (SzI2j)

198 My own childhood breakfasts were as follows:

Hot cereal of some kind 4-5 days a week. (Oatmeal, Cream of Wheat, cooked rice, etc.)

Eggo waffles maybe once a week.

Cold cereal on Saturdays and Sundays.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 28, 2023 04:38 PM (BpYfr)

199 We we also Sears Toughskins folk.
Posted by: Chainsaw at December 28, 2023 04:26 PM (p7g/X)

Fist bump. Did anyone else's mom patch the knees of their toughskins? Mine did.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:31 PM (QuqX7)

Our patches had patches. Mom would even patch the hole in the knee from inside the pants too.
Posted by: Beartooth at December 28, 2023 04:37 PM (kxx6d)

*raises hand*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 28, 2023 04:38 PM (T/Lqj)

200 Edith Bunker being the celebrity spokesperson for the cereal was not "big name" enough for you?

Posted by: sven at December 28, 2023 04:38 PM (X0I7i)

201 Our patches had patches. Mom would even patch the hole in the knee from inside the pants too.
Posted by: Beartooth at December 28, 2023 04:

Patches. I'm depending on you son.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 28, 2023 04:38 PM (x42Y3)

202 I was a Quisp and Quake fan

Posted by: Skip at December 28, 2023 04:39 PM (houa1)

203 193 NEW: Putin ally Vladimir Egorov 'falls to his death from third-floor window'.

When will these failed muggings stop?!?
Posted by: The DC Police at December 28, 2023 04:37 PM (XqcwY)

That's nothing. His enemies fall up to the fourth floor.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 28, 2023 04:39 PM (x0n13)

204 And on the cereal, we didn't even rate Kaboom. We had Cream of Wheat, oatmeal, and some pre-generic form of flaked cereal. And we were damn glad to get it!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 28, 2023 04:39 PM (a8Rgt)

205 We rarely got sugar cereals as kids. When I went off to university, I tried many of them, and came to the conclusion that they really weren't intended to be mixed with milk.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 28, 2023 04:39 PM (lTGtQ)

206 > Fist bump. Did anyone else's mom patch the knees of their toughskins? Mine did.
Posted by: CaliGirl
______________

Yup. Iron on patches. That didn't match the original denim color.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 28, 2023 04:39 PM (Q4IgG)

207 Did you guys ever drink Carnation instant breakfast in a glass of milk?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 28, 2023 04:40 PM (YRsIm)

208 You had store bought clothes? Luxury!

We had to scavenge clothes off the bodies of dead hobos.

Posted by: Archer at December 28, 2023 04:40 PM (gmo/4)

209 Breakfast in Italy was a bowl of hot caffelatte and bread. At home in Africa it was a fried egg and toast. A cup of caffelatte to drink. At boarding school part of breakfast was porridge except Sundays when it was cornflakes. Occasionally rice crispies or shredded wheat. To this day I detest all that except cornflakes. Around age 25 I gave up on breakfast as I tended to heave after that, particularly while brushing teeth. So no breakfast except when on the road in which case I was hungry.
At the first boarding school (grade school and junior high) the food was pretty bad. The porridge was often burnt so tasted of smoke. (This is where my antipathy with cinnamon was born). The second school (high school) the food was better. The last school (also high school) was the best for food and the porridge was acceptable - it was an American school (Opus Dei).

Posted by: Ciampino - To this day cinnamon is a no-no at December 28, 2023 04:40 PM (qfLjt)

210 As best I can remember, I starting hanging around AoS some time around Obummer's second run, so 2012 or maybe late '11. "Kaboom Kids" was when I knew I'd found a home.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 28, 2023 04:40 PM (sNc8Y)

211 207 Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 28, 2023 04:40 PM (YRsIm)

Yup, I definitely preferred Nestle's offering.

Posted by: sven at December 28, 2023 04:40 PM (X0I7i)

212 Bran Buds are awesome.

Posted by: Jamaica at December 28, 2023 04:40 PM (Eeb9P)

213 The worst cereal to eat as a kid was All-Bran. The stuff that looked like rabbit pellets and tasted like cardboard.

Posted by: Lady in Black

Lucky you. Mine was just the opposite.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 28, 2023 04:40 PM (lTGtQ)

214 All you uncool fools with ironed-on patches on your jeans. Don't you know the Cool Look is to have holes all over your pants?? Jeez get with the program!

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 28, 2023 04:41 PM (iFTx/)

215 Would Kaboom get washed down with an ice cold glass of Strawberry Quick?
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 28, 2023 04:36 PM

Tang!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 28, 2023 04:41 PM (SzI2j)

216 24 Well, the joke's on all you Kaboom-hating clownish troglodytes, because Kaboom was rated Number One of the "13 Classic Cereals That We Miss"! Well ahead of that equally awesome classic "Mr. T" cereal.

http://tinyurl.com/5644m458

Elric, this list does not include MY great, dearly departed cereal...Product 19.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 28, 2023 04:41 PM (Sjb4u)

217 I've been here since 2007 and distinctly remember it was right after a Democrat primary debate. I remember thinking, "what's a Barack Hussein Obama?" Little did I know the evil that he would unleash on this nation or the immense damage he would cause to the country's unity as a whole. Little did I know the fundamental transformation that would culminate to where we are now. What I don't remember is how I found the HQ. I'm thinking I saw others posting about this great site at Breitbart. Congrats on 20 years, Ace!

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 28, 2023 04:41 PM (4RMpV)

218 Congratulations on 20 years of blogging, Ace!

Same here. I don't know when I first started lurking - 2004, perhaps? - but there's no other place that is my daily destination than here.

And without getting into details, this place has saved me from one instance of making a final solution of my life. I am grateful for that.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 28, 2023 04:41 PM (Q0kLU)

219 Happy Anniversary, ace!

Posted by: Methos at December 28, 2023 04:41 PM (Dnobf)

220 I don't remember exactly when I started lurking here but I was here for Jugears first election.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 28, 2023 04:42 PM (x42Y3)

221 I've told this story before but in the 70s I had Levi's perfected with holes on each knee that had taken me considerable time and effort to achieve the right styling.

In h.s. I was on exchange in Alabama and my host mom did laundry, and horrified at finding my Levi's in such condition completely patched and repaired both holes, to my chagrin.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 28, 2023 04:42 PM (RIvkX)

222 207 Did you guys ever drink Carnation instant breakfast in a glass of milk?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 28, 2023 04:40 PM (YRsIm)

We had the fancy brown plastic carnation shaker mixer thing

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 28, 2023 04:42 PM (/6GbT)

223 I was a Quisp and Quake fan
Posted by: Skip at December 28, 2023 04:39 PM (houa1

I remember a couple of kids getting into a fight about which was better, Quisp or Quake

Posted by: Beartooth at December 28, 2023 04:43 PM (kxx6d)

224 FIN FACT: It's said that if you substitute ground-up Kaboom for malted barley in the mash, you can produce a prison-quality Irish whiskey at home.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 28, 2023 04:43 PM (eaI2m)

225 Not only Happy 20th anniversary, hope there is 20 more

Posted by: Skip at December 28, 2023 04:43 PM (fwDg9)

226 Fist bump. Did anyone else's mom patch the knees of their toughskins? Mine did.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:31 PM (QuqX7)

Our patches had patches. Mom would even patch the hole in the knee from inside the pants too.
Posted by: Beartooth at December 28, 2023 04:37 PM (kxx6d)

*raises hand*
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 28, 2023 04:38 P

Nods.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 28, 2023 04:43 PM (SzI2j)

227 Ever have Cream of Wheat? The taste and consistency of wallpaper paste. Kaboom would have been a treat. Well, maybe not a treat, but it would have made our poops some color other than gray.

Posted by: huerfano at December 28, 2023 04:43 PM (Q4KYm)

228 I was a Quisp and Quake fan

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*fist bump* Quisp with the slight advantage. I still remember the contest where you had to call a number on the back of the cereal box. Whichever cereal, Quisp or Quake, got the most "votes" would stay in production. Quisp won.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 28, 2023 04:43 PM (4RMpV)

229 Not really a palate cleanser post, lol.

Posted by: Max Power at December 28, 2023 04:43 PM (2g3Eg)

230 Did you guys ever drink Carnation instant breakfast in a glass of milk?

Luxury. We had to drink powdered milk when I was a child.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 28, 2023 04:43 PM (Q0kLU)

231 Anybody else not partake of King Vitamin?

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 28, 2023 04:44 PM (SzI2j)

232 Cream of wheat, big pat of butter and sugar sprinkled on top

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 28, 2023 04:44 PM (/6GbT)

233 Cereals that needed sugar added were pretty much all we got. Corn Flakes, Wheaties, Cheerios.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 28, 2023 04:19 PM (4CoR6)

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Same. Although I mostly had to eat Total.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 28, 2023 04:44 PM (DRSnL)

234 And without getting into details, this place has saved me from one instance of making a final solution of my life. I am grateful for that.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 28, 2023 04:41 PM (Q0kLU)
* * * *
(hug)

Glad you are here! Place would not be the same without you.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 28, 2023 04:44 PM (a8Rgt)

235 That was a little before my time. But I was fed breakfast cereal as a kid. I didn't like it, so my mom eventually stopped serving it. I can't imagine eating it now.
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 28, 2023 04:35 PM

I thought you were young. I had never met a kid that didn't like cereal. We may have like the prizes in the boxes too. Now I'd rather have an omelette.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:44 PM (QuqX7)

236 176 Fist bump. Did anyone else's mom patch the knees of their toughskins? Mine did.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:31 PM (QuqX7)

The iron on patches.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

My mom did.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024

My mom did too!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 28, 2023 04:45 PM (X0iLW)

237 Cream of Wheat with butter and brown sugar is a decent breakfast when it's combined with eggs and toast.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 28, 2023 04:45 PM (YRsIm)

238 It's been longer than 20 years hasn't it?

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 28, 2023 04:45 PM (d4FMw)

239 216 24 Well, the joke's on all you Kaboom-hating clownish troglodytes, because Kaboom was rated Number One of the "13 Classic Cereals That We Miss"! Well ahead of that equally awesome classic "Mr. T" cereal.

http://tinyurl.com/5644m458

Elric, this list does not include MY great, dearly departed cereal...Product 19.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 28, 2023 04:41 PM (Sjb4u)
______________

If only this was a list of the 14 missed cereals . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 28, 2023 04:45 PM (iFTx/)

240 When I was a little kid, I never had cereal for breakfast. Dad was a baker, for the win. A couple fried cakes (plain deep fried donuts) and a cup of coffee (Finnish household, good for the kids) with a little condensed milk mixed in. Graduated to Rye Krisp and some of that herring that comes in a jar.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 28, 2023 04:45 PM (0EOe9)

241 Ever have Cream of Wheat? The taste and consistency of wallpaper paste.

Posted by: huerfano

All winter, we would have Cream of Wheat, Malto-Meal, Oatmeal, or some chocolate flavored hot cereal that gave me the heaves every time.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 28, 2023 04:45 PM (lTGtQ)

242 Ever have Cream of Wheat? The taste and consistency of wallpaper paste. Kaboom would have been a treat. Well, maybe not a treat, but it would have made our poops some color other than gray.
Posted by: huerfano at December 28, 2023 04:43 PM (Q4KYm)

Add Nesquik chocolate milk powder to it. Boom: Malto-Meal

Follow me for more poverty kid recipes.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 28, 2023 04:45 PM (T/Lqj)

243 Did you guys ever drink Carnation instant breakfast in a glass of milk?

Luxury. We had to drink powdered milk when I was a child.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 28, 2023 04:43 PM (Q0kLU)

My mom sent us kids to school with a packet of instant oatmeal in our brown bag. If we got really hungry we ate it dry.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 28, 2023 04:45 PM (eaI2m)

244 My little brother would spend a half and hour choosing his cereal based on the prize.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 28, 2023 04:46 PM (X0iLW)

245 Did you guys ever drink Carnation instant breakfast in a glass of milk?

Luxury. We had to drink powdered milk when I was a child.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 28, 2023 04:43 PM (Q0kLU)

Us kids knew money was tight when mom brought home powdered milk from the grocery store.

Posted by: Beartooth at December 28, 2023 04:46 PM (kxx6d)

246 Elric, this list does not include MY great, dearly departed cereal...Product 19.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 28, 2023 04:41 PM (Sjb4u)
______________

If only this was a list of the 14 missed cereals . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 28, 2023 04:45 PM

So it was the cereal version of WD40?

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 28, 2023 04:46 PM (SzI2j)

247 I remember eating Red River Cereal as a child.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 28, 2023 04:46 PM (x42Y3)

248 217 Posted by: Lady in Black at December 28, 2023 04:41 PM (4RMpV)

Quite, those of us who has researched Urkle faced an uphill fight getting normies to look past "history!"

Kind of like the early part of the Saint Trayvon saga.

Posted by: sven at December 28, 2023 04:47 PM (X0I7i)

249 Luxury. We had to drink powdered milk when I was a child.

Heh! I had a roommate in A school who ate laundry starch.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 28, 2023 04:47 PM (YRsIm)

250

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 28, 2023 04:47 PM (YRsIm)

251 Elric, this list does not include MY great, dearly departed cereal...Product 19.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 28, 2023 04:41 PM (Sjb4u)

Named by the same marketing geniuses who came up with WD-40 and Formula 409.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 28, 2023 04:47 PM (eaI2m)

252 Fist bump. Did anyone else's mom patch the knees of their toughskins? Mine did.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:31 PM (QuqX7)

The iron on patches.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 28, 2023

Yup, those are the ones.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:34 PM (QuqX7)

My mom used them. Very practical. I was hell on clothes.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 28, 2023 04:47 PM (BdMk6)

253 Ever have Cream of Wheat? The taste and consistency of wallpaper paste.

Posted by: huerfano at December 28, 2023 04:43 PM (Q4KYm)

Don't talk shit about Cream of Wheat!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...liberal esthete at December 28, 2023 04:47 PM (gSZYf)

254 This post is what the Internet was invented for. The Internet can shut itself down tomorrow or anytime it wants. There is nothing else for it to do.

Posted by: Mike Zee at December 28, 2023 04:48 PM (WWVl1)

255 I don't remember exactly when I started lurking here but I was here for Jugears first election.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 28, 2023 04:42 PM (x42Y3)

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Me too. I remember thinking how sketchy he was and how murky his background was, and didn't anyone else see that?! And after searching for like minds, here I am.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 28, 2023 04:48 PM (DRSnL)

256 I think the Kaboom post is the best post of all time.

Of course my brother, sister, and I were all Wheaties Kids.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 28, 2023 04:48 PM (ot51Z)

257 I once had a corduroy jacket with patches on the sleeves.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 28, 2023 04:48 PM (x42Y3)

258 Chocolate Malt-O-Meal > Cream of Wheat

FIGHT ME

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 28, 2023 04:48 PM (eaI2m)

259 I wish I could remember how and when I found this place. I think it might have actually been from Hot Air of all places, which is ironic.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 28, 2023 04:49 PM (SzI2j)

260 Ever have Cream of Wheat? The taste and consistency of wallpaper paste.

Posted by: huerfano at December 28, 2023 04:43 PM (Q4KYm)

Don't talk shit about Cream of Wheat!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...liberal esthete at December 28, 2023 04:47 PM (gSZYf)

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My mom made me Cream of Wheat once when I was little, not noticing there were ants in the box. I was traumatized and cannot ever eat Cream of Wheat again.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 28, 2023 04:49 PM (DRSnL)

261 233 Cereals that needed sugar added were pretty much all we got. Corn Flakes, Wheaties, Cheerios.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 28, 2023 04:19 PM (4CoR6)

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Same. Although I mostly had to eat Total.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 28, 2023 04:44 PM (DRSnL)

Total was my backup cereal when I couldn't score any Product 19. 100% on the ingredients box got me all the time.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 28, 2023 04:49 PM (Sjb4u)

262 Fist bump. Did anyone else's mom patch the knees of their toughskins? Mine did.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:31 PM (QuqX7)

I never wore jeans until I bought my first motorcycle. I thought they were low-class. I still do.

Although I will note that a tight pair of properly faded jeans hugging a lovely lady's curved derriere is an exception.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 28, 2023 04:49 PM (Q0kLU)

263 I wish I could remember how and when I found this place. I think it might have actually been from Hot Air of all places, which is ironic.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 28, 2023 04:49 PM (SzI2j)

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I think that's how I ended up here, too.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 28, 2023 04:49 PM (DRSnL)

264 I think the Kaboom post is the best post of all time.

Maybe a tie with "Flaming clown boners." And what's the common element?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 28, 2023 04:50 PM (sNc8Y)

265 I remember sitting out under the crabapple tree in the back yard at the end of the summer picking out clothes for school from the Sears catalog. Toughskins were the worst.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 28, 2023 04:50 PM (YRsIm)

266 The sad thing is, just think of how many grapes had to be castrated to fill a box of Grape Nuts.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 28, 2023 04:50 PM (eaI2m)

267 We got Carnation Instant Breakfast because mom decided we weren't eating breakfast. Which we continued to allow her to believe. Mornings were fairly hectic and only one bathroom.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 28, 2023 04:50 PM (RIvkX)

268 Don't talk shit about Cream of Wheat!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...liberal esthete at December 28, 2023 04:47 PM (gSZYf)

Trivia: the name of the Cream of Wheat chef was "Rastus."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 28, 2023 04:51 PM (Q0kLU)

269 Heavy cream is better than adding sugar. Honey Nut Cheerios are addictive

Posted by: Jamaica at December 28, 2023 04:51 PM (Eeb9P)

270 I wish I could remember how and when I found this place. I think it might have actually been from Hot Air of all places, which is ironic.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 28, 2023 04:49 PM (SzI2j)

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I think that's how I ended up here, too.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 28, 2023 04:49 PM (DRSnL)

Yep. From Hot Gas in 2010.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 28, 2023 04:51 PM (R4t5M)

271 We put so much sugar on our allegedly healthy cereals that the ones my mom bought might as well be "sugar cereals". It was usually corn flakes or Life. Cinamon life is still pretty good of course with added sugar.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 28, 2023 04:51 PM (SzI2j)

272 I just realized the Kaboom Clown is gayer than a bag of dicks at a Tupperware party hosted by Liberace in skinny jeans, standing by a fireplace mantle that has naked pictures of David French on one side and Jonah Goldberg on the other.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 28, 2023 04:51 PM (bNcG+)

273 252 Fist bump. Did anyone else's mom patch the knees of their toughskins? Mine did.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:31 PM (QuqX7)

The iron on patches.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 28, 2023

Yup, those are the ones.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:34 PM (QuqX7)

My mom used them. Very practical. I was hell on clothes.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 28, 2023 04:47 PM (BdMk6)

Next I'm going to read that this crew wore Garanimals.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 28, 2023 04:51 PM (Sjb4u)

274 Mom would even patch the hole in the knee from inside the pants too.
Posted by: Beartooth

Of course.

Patch on the outside means the patch wears out quicker.

On the inside, it's protected. And files all the skin off your knee, since the patch was the only piece of "cloth" rougher than the Toughskins themselves.

But skin grows back, and jeans don't.

Posted by: mikeski at December 28, 2023 04:52 PM (Sn1bJ)

275 Oh Quisp and Quake! I liked Quisp cuz he was an alien. These 2 plus Captain Crunch were cereals we seldom got because mom knew they were guaranteed to make us bounce off the walls.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 28, 2023 04:52 PM (ot51Z)

276 The sad thing is, just think of how many grapes had to be castrated to fill a box of Grape Nuts.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 28, 2023 04:50 PM

And they were hard to find. Like moth balls.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 28, 2023 04:52 PM (SzI2j)

277 Ace’s Kaboom! article is even linked from Wikipedia, the Kaboom! page.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 28, 2023 04:52 PM (9yWhg)

278 Or Grape Nuts. That shit was horrible. I don't care if you microwaved it, then it became mushy horror.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 28, 2023 04:13 PM (di6C2)

I actually like Grape Nuts. Once or twice a week.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 28, 2023 04:52 PM (tkR6S)

279 When I was a little kid, I never had cereal for breakfast. Dad was a baker, for the win. A couple fried cakes (plain deep fried donuts) and a cup of coffee (Finnish household, good for the kids) with a little condensed milk mixed in. Graduated to Rye Krisp and some of that herring that comes in a jar.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 28, 2023 04:45 PM (0EOe9)

We usually had eggs and bacon for breakfast. Mom would cook oatmeal for supper when she was pissed at dad. We all had to suffer when she was pissed at dad.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 28, 2023 04:53 PM (BdMk6)

280 Did you guys ever drink Carnation instant breakfast in a glass of milk?

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Yep. We also had Tang. If you've never had it before, imagine drinking water that sat in a room where orange flavoring was discussed.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2023 04:53 PM (wb1YC)

281 Next I'm going to read that this crew wore Garanimals.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 28, 2023 04:51 PM

Hangs head, leaves blog forever.....

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 28, 2023 04:53 PM (SzI2j)

282 Of course my brother, sister, and I were all Wheaties Kids.

The three cold cereals I've always eaten are Corn Flakes, Wheaties and Cheerios.

I used to pour a tall glass of milk, dip handfuls of Wheaties into it and gobble that down as a snack.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 28, 2023 04:53 PM (Q0kLU)

283 These days its Bob's Red Mill 10-grain hot cereal. That stuff moves through your GI tract with aplomb.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 28, 2023 04:53 PM (RIvkX)

284 My first months here:
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/
235104.php#235104

https://ace.mu.nu/archives/
236701.php#236701

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 28, 2023 04:53 PM (2yu8s)

285 259 Posted by: Minnfidel at December 28, 2023 04:49 PM (SzI2j)

A lot of people considered this "Tepid Err After Dark."

Posted by: sven at December 28, 2023 04:53 PM (X0I7i)

286 I LOVE this. I'm laughing so hard I'm crying.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 28, 2023 04:54 PM (qpPdw)

287 I think the worry for my mom was:

Which would occur first, me outgoing my clothes or wearing out my clothes.

Posted by: Archer at December 28, 2023 04:54 PM (gmo/4)

288 Remember that dude Eule Gibbons or whatever the f his name was pushing Grape Nuts? I thought it pretty ironic he died of heart disease.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 28, 2023 04:54 PM (bNcG+)

289 232 Cream of wheat, big pat of butter and sugar sprinkled on top
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 28, 2023 04:44 PM (/6GbT)

YESSSSS!!!!! For the WIN! And a slice of buttered toast on the side just so I could eat more BUTTER!

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 28, 2023 04:54 PM (e/Osv)

290 Had Garanimals and Toughskins.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 28, 2023 04:54 PM (R4t5M)

291 Do remember getting a lot of Quaker Oatmeal, still make that often

Posted by: Skip at December 28, 2023 04:54 PM (fwDg9)

292 Yep. We also had Tang. If you've never had it before, imagine drinking water that sat in a room where orange flavoring was discussed.
Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2023 04:53 P

Not if you added half the jar! It was like meth baby!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 28, 2023 04:55 PM (SzI2j)

293 Remember that dude Eule Gibbons or whatever the f his name was pushing Grape Nuts? I thought it pretty ironic he died of heart disease.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 28, 2023 04:54 PM (bNcG+)
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He shoulda stuck with Cheerios...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 28, 2023 04:55 PM (BpYfr)

294 Congratulation Ace at 20.
I'm pretty sure I signed up in 2004. I was directed here from either Newsbusters, who had a linked list of conservative sites, or American Thinker. Ace of Spades had to be run by a Black guy right? Cool. However at the moment of joining I was greeted with the message that I was banned from posting (maybe my subnet was flagged as spam source?). At the time I didn't know how to contact anybody to resolve my issue so I visited sporadically. I came back when AT lost Disqus, which I liked as a threading tool similar to my favorite Usenet. To my amazement I discovered that now I could post!! And much to your probable annoyance, here I am, a great fan of the site.

Thanks Ace.

Posted by: Ciampino - The Day Is Today at December 28, 2023 04:55 PM (qfLjt)

295 Ace’s Kaboom! article is even linked from Wikipedia, the Kaboom! page.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 28, 2023 04:52 PM (9yWhg)

The best part of the description in the Wikipedia article is this:

"The site frequently employs obscenity and vulgar language, setting it apart from most conservative media outlets."

F*cking market differentiation, baby. DO. YOU. SPEAK. IT.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 28, 2023 04:55 PM (eaI2m)

296 Cornflakes! Cornflakes. Cornflakes? Cornflakes, cornflakes, cornflakes, cornflakes, cornflakes, cornflakes.

Posted by: Vyvyan Basterd at December 28, 2023 04:55 PM (DZrNt)

297 283 These days its Bob's Red Mill 10-grain hot cereal. That stuff moves through your GI tract with aplomb.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 28, 2023 04:53 PM (RIvkX)

I think you meant to write "with a PLOP!"
-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 28, 2023 04:56 PM (e/Osv)

298 >>My pack name was Mokh-Mokh.

hahaha

Posted by: JackStraw at December 28, 2023 04:56 PM (ZLI7S)

299 If they want to spend money on research, somebody needs to find out what's in Rice Krispies that makes you start eating it and then eventually realize you've had three quarters of the box.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2023 04:56 PM (wb1YC)

300 "The site frequently employs obscenity and vulgar language, setting it apart from most conservative media outlets."

Fuck you.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 28, 2023 04:56 PM (R4t5M)

301 >>Yep. We also had Tang. If you've never had it before, imagine drinking water that sat in a room where orange flavoring was discussed.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2023 04:53 PM

Astronauts drank Tang because they were in space and couldn't get anything good.

Posted by: huerfano at December 28, 2023 04:56 PM (Q4KYm)

302 I hate Tang, even the thought of it makes me ill.

/turns around

Uh...except yours Michelle. Yours is great.

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 28, 2023 04:56 PM (XqcwY)

303 Yep. We also had Tang. If you've never had it before, imagine drinking water that sat in a room where orange flavoring was discussed.

--

But the astronauts drank it! That and those space sticks that were flavored like chocolate or peanut butter.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 28, 2023 04:56 PM (4RMpV)

304 They laid that Eule Gibbons shit on pretty thick. Like, here a guy who walks around eating blossoms and nuts of trees. Be like him. It was obviously total bullshit. Dude was probably eating bacon by the pound and stuffing cheeseburgers in his maw.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 28, 2023 04:57 PM (bNcG+)

305 Ace --

When are we going to get the Satan Pit post?

You are going to post the Satan Pit, right?

Posted by: A Concerned Citizen at December 28, 2023 04:57 PM (zcPgo)

306 All I can say is God Bless Me Mum. Born in Hull, England on the channel in 1925.
The woman could stretch a food budget. She had seven kids to feed and sometimes breakfast was puffed rice or wheat that came in a huge clear plastic bag. Like others who posted here we too had the dreaded powdered nonfat stuff supposed to be milk. Meh other days like Sunday we ate big time home cooked meals. But yeah we could cajole cry and stomp our feet in the cereal isle at the supermarket the answer was always a stern NO! you can not have any sweetened cereal.. heh. good ole Mom. RIP

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 28, 2023 04:57 PM (WPHuI)

307 Don't talk shit about Cream of Wheat!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...liberal esthete at December 28, 2023 04:47 PM (gSZYf)

This is like that post, ten years ago, where Jack introduced me to the Jerry Garcia Band. I liked Cream of Wheat - it was a nice change of pace from instant oatmeal. The flavors were different. I always made mine with extremely hot water, and less water than recommended. It was pretty good back in the day. And Mom and Dad appreciated that it was something cheap, that I could make myself and also for my little sisters, while they got ready for work.

So no, I see no reason to talk shit about Cream of Wheat as well. It was good. I think I went on, from that, to just making Minute Rice for breakfast. Which was also good.

Posted by: Tired of Waiting at December 28, 2023 04:57 PM (AKRZz)

308 ""106 After years of store-brand 'Puffed Rice' and 'Puffed Wheat' and those gawd-awful bales of shredded wheat (you know, those big blocks of wicker you had to break up before consuming)--

Kaboom was a *treat*
-
- - - - - -

*hangs head in shame*
Posted by: JQ at December 28, 2023 04:24 PM (njWTi)""

........

My Grand-Pop used to eat the honkin' bales of shredded wheat for breakfast. Loved them.
He took a bowl, threw the brick in, added hot coffee, cream, and sugar and broke it up.

not gonna lie, as an 8 year old, I loved it too...with 2 heaping spoons of sugar... Was a treat when I went to stay with them...

Posted by: TheBmaN at December 28, 2023 04:57 PM (TTsp/)

309 "The site frequently employs obscenity and vulgar language, setting it apart from most conservative media outlets."

Oh dear!

Posted by: David French adjusting his pad at December 28, 2023 04:57 PM (XqcwY)

310 Yep. We also had Tang. If you've never had it before, imagine drinking water that sat in a room where orange flavoring was discussed.
Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2023 04:53 PM (wb1YC)

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I was not allowed to have Tang. Or Sunny Delight, which I desperately wanted. Orange juice in a carton only.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 28, 2023 04:57 PM (DRSnL)

311 I think you meant to write "with a PLOP!"
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 28, 2023 04:56 PM (e/Osv)
===

Finally someone appreciates my art.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 28, 2023 04:57 PM (RIvkX)

312 I don't remember what kids my age got to keep us entertained in church. It probably involved pork fat.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 28, 2023 04:57 PM (x42Y3)

313
Next I'm going to read that this crew wore Garanimals.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 28, 2023 04:51 PM (Sjb4u)

Pretty much, didn't really have a choice in the matter.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 04:57 PM (QuqX7)

314 290 Had Garanimals and Toughskins.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 28, 2023 04:54 PM (R4t5M)

Hated Toughskins! That plastic knee reinforcement was a sticky sweat inducing piece of crap in the summer.
-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 28, 2023 04:57 PM (e/Osv)

315 I stumbled on this place when Andy was running the vastly inferior weekly gun post, reminding us on a weekly basis he had a Colt 1917.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 28, 2023 04:57 PM (0EOe9)

316 "The site frequently employs obscenity and vulgar language, setting it apart from most conservative media outlets."

***

Why do I get the feeling whoever wrote that on Wikipedia had absolutely no clue what conservative blogs were like in the early 00s?

Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2023 04:58 PM (wb1YC)

317 Still LOL funny after all these years.

And here I thought I had a rough childhood ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 28, 2023 04:59 PM (JjLO6)

318 I think we mostly ate Trix as a breakfast cereal.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 28, 2023 04:59 PM (RSbhh)

319 Next I'm going to read that this crew wore Garanimals.

Yep. It was perfect for my "on the spectrum" younger self. Match the elephant to the elephant, or the blue elephant to the blue tiger. What could possibly go wrong !!!

Posted by: Tired of Waiting at December 28, 2023 04:59 PM (AKRZz)

320 My boys loved carnation instant breakfast! It was their go to every morning before school.

They'd use my little stick blender and chug it down, grab the lunches I had made them and run down the hill to school after they heard the first bell.

Sometimes I'd get home from work and the front door would still be open because they left in such a rush.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 28, 2023 05:00 PM (XIfwF)

321 "Half-feral urban nomads living in communion with packs of wild dogs."

Prophetic.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 28, 2023 05:00 PM (Mzdiz)

322 I arrived here via Little Green Turdballs in 2005. Gak, I'm old.

Posted by: huerfano at December 28, 2023 05:00 PM (Q4KYm)

323 I've eaten some pretty nasty stuff. Like fried Guinea pig. I laugh every time someone has one as a pet. I feel like saying they taste like chicken.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 28, 2023 05:00 PM (bNcG+)

324 I recall doing some research on a wargame and wanted to do some reading. The nascent web searching for "Military Blog" pointed me here.

Circa 2005 or 2006. I know it was at my gig in Silicon Valley which would have been round that timeframe.

My first thoughts were... what the absolute fuck is this shit?

*BOOKMARKED*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 28, 2023 05:00 PM (Q4IgG)

325 Dude was probably eating bacon by the pound and stuffing cheeseburgers in his maw.

You say that like it's a bad thing....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 28, 2023 05:01 PM (YRsIm)

326 I think Kaboom might be my favorite AoS post of all time.

This one always gets me.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 28, 2023 04:03 PM (fKIdX)

Right with you.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 28, 2023 05:01 PM (Mzdiz)

327 My boys loved carnation instant breakfast! It was their go to every morning before school.

If they made a version that had the vodka pre-mixed I might agree with them.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 28, 2023 05:01 PM (eaI2m)

328 Tang was basically sugar that had a brief conversation with an orange. Very brief.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 28, 2023 05:01 PM (bNcG+)

329 I don't know, Ace but those faces look pretty cheerful for the unquiet dead.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 28, 2023 05:02 PM (RSbhh)

330 I've been following Ace's blog so long, I can remember when Charles Johnson and AllahPundit were the scourge of antiwar leftists everywhere.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2023 05:02 PM (wb1YC)

331 I arrived here via Little Green Turdballs in 2005. Gak, I'm old.

I found this place back in the Romney Wars by accident. I was looking for the Ace that wrote the editorials at the back of either Playboy or Penthouse - I can't remember which one. But they were pretty good. This isn't the same Ace. That guy was older.

Posted by: Tired of Waiting at December 28, 2023 05:02 PM (AKRZz)

332 This is Ace's single best posting EVAH. It exceeds 'dystopian' by miles, and deserves to be made into the Ultimate Anti-'It's A Wonderful Life' to be watched for endless hours on every 'holiday'. Theme song? "We are the poor / We are the wretched" ... add other lyrics as you may deem fit for task and purpose. This post deserves to be immortalised as True Classik Lit'rachure!

Posted by: Dr_No at December 28, 2023 05:02 PM (ayRl+)

333
I was not allowed to have Tang. Or Sunny Delight, which I desperately wanted. Orange juice in a carton only.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 28, 2023 04:57 PM (DRSnL)

Frozen orange juice in those cans. We did have koolaid, the kind we added about two cups of sugar to the pitcher.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 05:02 PM (QuqX7)

334 Heh. Remember my Mom stopping over on a Sunday morning to feed the grandchildren a traditional breakfast. Great big box of Dunkin donut holes and a couple quarts of chocolate milk. I only indulged a few times. Mom got over the traditional Finnish shit.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 28, 2023 05:03 PM (0EOe9)

335 Every blogger has one post which is gift from God.

Posted by: A fan, channeling Norman Mailer at December 28, 2023 05:03 PM (Efrrv)

336 I've never tasted Kaboom. I've never even seen a box of Kaboom. I think this is some kind of science fiction fantasy.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 28, 2023 04:05 PM (x42Y3)

It was a dirty secret and your eyes turned away from it. The brain will not see that which it does not wish to acknowledge.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 28, 2023 05:03 PM (Mzdiz)

337 Look up "1973 Toughskins Commercial" on youtube. Sweet momories.

By my math:
$4.99 - Jeans
$4.99 - Iron-on patches from King Soopers
$9.98 all in + plus tax and labor
(not including sanded-down kneecaps from the rough patches)

What the commercial didn't show was the patches ironed on the the undersides of those trampolines for reinforcement.

Maybe not such a great bargain after all.

Posted by: Chainsaw at December 28, 2023 05:04 PM (p7g/X)

338 Geez I'm old. I was in HS when Garanimals came out.

Posted by: Archer at December 28, 2023 05:04 PM (gmo/4)

339 Orange juice...not the pulp!!

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 28, 2023 05:04 PM (/6GbT)

340 We got Hydrox instead of Oreos. I much preferred them to Oreos, so I didn't suffer.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 28, 2023 05:04 PM (Mzdiz)

341 I've never tasted Kaboom. I've never even seen a box of Kaboom. I think this is some kind of science fiction fantasy.

***

That's surprising. On the store shelves, it usually sat right next to the big white box with the word CEREAL on it in big block letters.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2023 05:05 PM (wb1YC)

342 From the 1964 book Why Did They Name It That. . .?

"The Cream of Wheat story begins in the heavy depression that marked the end of the old, self-subsistent economy - the Panic of 1893.

"Almost every whistle-stop town along the tracks had a little flour mill like the one that Emory Mapes, George Bull and George Clifford operated in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Flour, when a buyer could be found, sold for $2 a hundredweight and during the dark days of that depression, it was a desperate struggle for that little mill to stay in business. . .

"the inventor] cut out cardboard cartons by hand for the new cereal and Mapes, who had once been a printer, rummaged around in his stock of old printing plates and found an illustration. . .a colored chef holding a saucepan over his shoulder and was, Mapes wryly commented, "at least remotely connected with cooking." At this time the purely fanciful name of 'Cream of Wheat' was chosen."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 28, 2023 05:05 PM (Q0kLU)

343 I've never tasted Kaboom. I've never even seen a box of Kaboom. I think this is some kind of science fiction fantasy.

It was real. Indiana used to give that shit away on the WIC program. Along with another equally shitty cereal called King Vitamin. And powdered milk.

How do you ruin a perfectly good pitcher of water ? Add powdered milk.

Posted by: Tired of Waiting at December 28, 2023 05:05 PM (AKRZz)

344 Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 28, 2023 05:03 PM (0EOe9)

A bag of hot donut holes and a carton of that chocolate milk that was so thick it was like sludge....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 28, 2023 05:05 PM (YRsIm)

345 If they want to spend money on research, somebody needs to find out what's in Rice Krispies that makes you start eating it and then eventually realize you've had three quarters of the box.
Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2023 04:56 PM (wb1YC
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*whispers*
The secret ingredient is "air."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 28, 2023 05:06 PM (BpYfr)

346 The Kaboom post should be etched in gold and attached to NASA's next interstellar probe.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at December 28, 2023 05:06 PM (tA1/w)

347 Along with another equally shitty cereal called King Vitamin.

***

Oh, God. Thanks for the horrifying flashback.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2023 05:07 PM (wb1YC)

348 Wow, I remember reading this when Ace put this up. 20 years ago??

It was then I realized this blog was different.

Posted by: dantesed at December 28, 2023 05:07 PM (88xKn)

349 We got the Generic Potato Chips. Big, white bag that said POTATO CHIPS 1 POUND in big black letters.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 28, 2023 05:07 PM (R4t5M)

350 Holy Crikey Ace! Congrats on AoSpHq 20 year anniversary !

It seems like yesterday when John McCain was The Maverick, George Allens 'Macaca" moment and soldiers in Iraq roasting John F'n Kerry with that "Halp us John Kerry'. sign..
Good times

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 28, 2023 05:07 PM (WPHuI)

351 Children most of all, because clowns get up in your grill with horrible jokes and diseased breath, eyes glassy with vodka and pedophilia.

----

You use your tongue....ok, fingers....better than a $20 whore.

Posted by: Slim Pickens at December 28, 2023 05:07 PM (phEsr)

352 A bag of hot donut holes and a carton of that chocolate milk that was so thick it was like sludge....

Ummmm, was that before they started putting expiration dates on the carton?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 28, 2023 05:07 PM (sNc8Y)

353 It was real. Indiana used to give that shit away on the WIC program. Along with another equally shitty cereal called King Vitamin. And powdered milk.

How do you ruin a perfectly good pitcher of water ? Add powdered milk.
Posted by: Tired of Waiting at December 28, 2023 05:05 PM (AKRZz)

Hail Hoosier Brother, and yes you are absolutely correct!

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 28, 2023 05:08 PM (e/Osv)

354 Wow, I remember reading this when Ace put this up. 20 years ago??

The original was posted in 2013. The blog is 20 years old.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 28, 2023 05:08 PM (eaI2m)

355 I think I recall seeing this on the shelf as a yoot. Never had it
Posted by: A dude in MI at
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Made it into Mom's pantry for us kids.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 28, 2023 05:08 PM (ju2Fy)

356 "The site frequently employs obscenity and vulgar language, setting it apart from most conservative media outlets."
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That started because a relatively-religious conservative blog did a review of the Top 30 Blogs or the like [both sides or just conservative ones??] and rated the HQ highly except for the language and we went ape-shit in the comments when Ace wrote about it and it stuck.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 28, 2023 05:08 PM (2yu8s)

357 344 Oh yeah. We don't talk much but I make sure the boys get the A1C checked.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 28, 2023 05:08 PM (0EOe9)

358 Dude was probably eating bacon by the pound and stuffing cheeseburgers in his maw.

“At night I’m a junk food junkie. Good lord have pity on me.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 28, 2023 05:09 PM (XArC2)

359 We got the Generic Potato Chips. Big, white bag that said POTATO CHIPS 1 POUND in big black letters.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 28, 2023 05:07 PM (R4t5M)

I remember those. Right below the grey stripe it said FEDERAL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT USE AS ANIMAL FEED

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 28, 2023 05:09 PM (eaI2m)

360 My brother and I begged mom to buy wonder bread so we could toast it, slather it with margarine (butter is BAD for you), sugar and cinnamon.

We'd eat the whole loaf watching Saturday morning cartoons.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 28, 2023 05:09 PM (XIfwF)

361 Along with another equally shitty cereal called King Vitamin.

Yep. He looked like he had kids chained to slab in the basement.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 28, 2023 05:09 PM (R4t5M)

362 I think if your going the genital sock route you might as well pick up a decorative shlong gourd. It's a small step up but really worth the effort.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 28, 2023 05:09 PM (1j/nK)

363 Whenever I see the Kaboom scene in Kill Bill I think about this post. It's among the best prose I've read in the past 10 years.

Posted by: Chainsaw at December 28, 2023 05:10 PM (p7g/X)

364 I've been following Ace's blog so long, I can remember when Charles Johnson and AllahPundit were the scourge of antiwar leftists everywhere.

I'm old enough to remember when Analpundit and Wick Rilson were 'friends of the blog.'

And when Gabe Malor was promising that opposition to gay marriage meant that you weren't secure in your own heterosexularity.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 28, 2023 05:10 PM (Q0kLU)

365 Carnation Instant Breakfast was my go-to during my first semester in college. I'd be starved by the time I got back home about one o'clock and would eat (and drink) all sorts of things that were not good for me. No wonder I gained fifteen pounds my first year. (To be fair, there was also the alcohol I consumed.)

This classic Kaboom! post, I thought, was the one that made me decide to sign in and start posting. But I think I was posting for a couple of years before that, if it originally appeared in 2013.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 28, 2023 05:10 PM (omVj0)

366 >>Frozen orange juice in those cans. We did have koolaid, the kind we added about two cups of sugar to the pitcher.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 05:02 PM

My mom was not a fan of sugar. She made Kool Aid with half the recommended dosage. Very refreshing and you make that cool sour face with every sip.

Posted by: huerfano at December 28, 2023 05:10 PM (Q4KYm)

367 That Kaboom essay almost reads like a Stephen King story; made me picture that clown face looking out of a stormdrain.

Posted by: Ciampino - The Day Is Today. Tomorrow is Never at December 28, 2023 05:10 PM (qfLjt)

368 I remember those. Right below the grey stripe it said FEDERAL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT USE AS ANIMAL FEED

***

The store used to mark them down further if there was visible airdrop damage.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2023 05:11 PM (wb1YC)

369 360 I avoid bread. I substitute those low carb, high fiber, low cal wraps. Until I want to make a great big greasy Oklahoma style onion burger with a half jar of mustard on it. Wonder Bread, or any cheap white bread is the way to go.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 28, 2023 05:12 PM (0EOe9)

370 nood

Ukraine

Posted by: banana Dream at December 28, 2023 05:12 PM (1j/nK)

371 Nood.

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at December 28, 2023 05:13 PM (Rn/yD)

372 I remember, quite clearly, only liking the Kool Air lemonade flavor. I much preferred basic, old fashioned unsweet tea. Which probably wasn't great - drinking two quarts every day. But what the Hell, it was cheap and Mom didn't bitch when you drank all you wanted.

Posted by: Tired of Waiting at December 28, 2023 05:13 PM (AKRZz)

373 Youtuber Giant Gio does a show with The Prudentialist, and he is a terrific political thinker. On par with Auron MacIntyre.

He is slightly younger than me, and so he was a terrible shitlib in the 2000 decade, whilst Ace et al were pulling me out of Plato's cave. People who weren't on blogs were not able to pull back the veil on just how badly TV producers put their thumb on the scale of politics.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 28, 2023 05:13 PM (cf/0E)

374 Frozen orange juice in those cans.

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We used to eat the frozen orange sludge with a spoon. It was like a very tart smushy popsicle.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 28, 2023 05:14 PM (4RMpV)

375 One of my early experiences with breakfast in the military was when the mess cook asked how I wanted my eggs and I said scrambled. He then took the side of his cooking utensil and chopped up some eggs frying on the flat top, scooped them up and said, here's your fucking scrambled eggs.

Posted by: Archer at December 28, 2023 05:14 PM (gmo/4)

376 This has always been and will always be my favorite thing you’ve ever written, ace.

Posted by: Lauren at December 28, 2023 05:15 PM (DYvLt)

377 372 I remember, quite clearly, only liking the Kool Air lemonade flavor.
Posted by: Tired of Waiting at December 28, 2023 05:13 PM (AKRZz)

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE KOOL-AID FLAVOR: BLACK CHERRY!!!!!!

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 28, 2023 05:15 PM (e/Osv)

378 How do you ruin a perfectly good pitcher of water ? Add powdered milk.
Posted by: Tired of Waiting at December 28, 2023 05:05 PM (AKRZz)

I learned to tolerate powdered milk when I was in the military. Seems a lot of mess halls used it as a permanent substitute.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 28, 2023 05:16 PM (BdMk6)

379 360 My brother and I begged mom to buy wonder bread so we could toast it, slather it with margarine (butter is BAD for you), sugar and cinnamon.

We'd eat the whole loaf watching Saturday morning cartoons.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 28, 2023 05:09 PM (XIfwF)

I haven't thought about cinnamon toast in forever. My family switched from real butter to margarine because butter was bad for you as well.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 28, 2023 05:16 PM (QuqX7)

380 For six months I wore nothing but a a fur jerkin and a genital sock.

Hunter Biden has entered the chat...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 28, 2023 05:17 PM (wtvvX)

381 THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE KOOL-AID FLAVOR: BLACK CHERRY!!!!!!

-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 28, 2023 05:15 PM (e/Osv)

Truth.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 28, 2023 05:17 PM (BdMk6)

382 I started coming here during the 2004 election, on a link from Michelle Malkin's site. I've been a daily visitor ever since. One of these years I gotta throw a couple of bucks into the tip jar.

Whatever happened to Malkin, anyway?

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at December 28, 2023 05:18 PM (phEsr)

383 Damn, that was funny. Kaboom FTW!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 28, 2023 05:18 PM (wtvvX)

384 I still have Cream of Wheat often, but more likely to put some fruit jam in it

Posted by: Skip at December 28, 2023 05:20 PM (fwDg9)

385 I nearly forgot about Korppu, Finnish dunking toast. You must dunk it in very hot coffee for a ten count or you will bust teeth.Great stuff, get the cardomon flavored.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 28, 2023 05:20 PM (0EOe9)

386 Somebody needs to run this through an AI speech generator and put it in the voice of Richard Attenborough . . .

Posted by: Hillary's left testicle at December 28, 2023 05:22 PM (zbSM/)

387 People who weren't on blogs were not able to pull back the veil on just how badly TV producers put their thumb on the scale of politics.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 28, 2023 05:13 PM (cf/0E)

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Before the interwebz blogosphere, libertarian & conservative talk radio of the mid-80s & 90s helped me to see the biases of the MDM-MSM and the truth behind their lies of commission -- and more importantly -- omission.

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 28, 2023 05:22 PM (bSVR+)

388 One of my early experiences with breakfast in the military was when the mess cook asked how I wanted my eggs and I said scrambled. He then took the side of his cooking utensil and chopped up some eggs frying on the flat top, scooped them up and said, here's your fucking scrambled eggs.

Posted by: Archer at December 28, 2023 05:14 PM (gmo/4)

Breakfast was my favorite meal in the military. I guess I was lucky because most of the time it was pretty good. Even liked the breakfast sinkers.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 28, 2023 05:22 PM (BdMk6)

389 Somebody needs to run this through an AI speech generator and put it in the voice of Richard Attenborough . . .

Posted by: Hillary's left testicle at December 28, 2023 05:22 PM (zbSM/)

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Would love to hear it in the voice of Orson Welles.

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 28, 2023 05:24 PM (bSVR+)

390 388 Mid Rats for the variety. Leftovers from supper, breakfast stuff or anything the line cook would like to experiment with.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 28, 2023 05:24 PM (0EOe9)

391 "Porridge" by Spike Milligan
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Why is there no monument
To Porridge in our land?
If it's good enough to eat,
It's good enough to stand!

On a plinth in London
A statue we should see
Of Porridge made in Scotland
Signed, "Oatmeal, O.B.E."
(By a young dog of three)

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 28, 2023 05:28 PM (bSVR+)

392 I never had a problem with cream of wheat, but when mom whipped up the rice and raisins, I would revolt because I hated cooked raisins.

It was bad enough we never got butter, and damn, we were lucky if we got cinnamon and a dash of sugar.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 28, 2023 05:28 PM (J3ryZ)

393 Captain Crunch teaches patience and control.

Posted by: DOYLE at December 28, 2023 04:21 PM (Z8Yh2)

Grape Nuts teaches fortitude.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 28, 2023 05:29 PM (Mzdiz)

394 At home Mom bought us the standard sugar cereals, Frosted Flakes, Sugar Corn Pops, all of those. Cheerios too. I don't ever recall seeing Kaboom -- but maybe it was later, after I had quit breakfast cereals for the most part.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 28, 2023 05:30 PM (omVj0)

395 I was going to riot if this classic wasn't reposted. Like BLM riot, not Jan 6 riot.

Posted by: Drunken Yoda at December 28, 2023 05:37 PM (ilHZO)

396 Brilliant then, still holds up!!

Posted by: apb at December 28, 2023 05:47 PM (aFPqY)

397 'Breakfast' cereals today are upper class pseudo nutrients.
Since Seinfeld, the entertainment industry has enshrined breakfast as a holy meal within the elite. They envision breakfast as their validation to daily travails. It is all a superficial facade.

Posted by: john at December 28, 2023 05:49 PM (Aqetp)

398 Nood

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 28, 2023 05:50 PM (omVj0)

399 And thus, a meme was born.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2023 05:54 PM (XeU6L)

400 Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs

Posted by: Calvin at December 28, 2023 05:56 PM (XeU6L)

401 Originally published September 4, 2013

Add 20 years and you get 2033, at least at my school. Maybe AOS uses some kind of gnu math..... ;+)

Posted by: Lump the Chump at December 28, 2023 05:58 PM (1WyDN)

402 This came to mind when somebody on X mentioned off-brand cereals. I replied he should consider the worst: off-brand Kaboom.

Posted by: Epobirs at December 28, 2023 06:10 PM (/0z9K)

403
OK, I know somebody else has covered this but...

PULITZER PRIZE?

What can you say after something like this?

Posted by: Sapwolf at December 28, 2023 06:11 PM (pQQ5j)

404 Kabooms were offered mainly at off brand grocery stores in the "racially diverse" parts of town...they were designed for those who could handle the green sh*ts and humiliation...2 traits that would become just another part of adulthood...

Posted by: J. Peterman at December 28, 2023 06:23 PM (PfHC1)

405 For my family, Kaboom--or any cereal that came in a cardboard box--was too out of reach. I bet you even had it with actual milk. Not the powdered analog swill of my childhood days. And even that was reserved for those special days when my mom splurged and gave us something other than toast or grits.

Posted by: Unquiet Dead at December 28, 2023 06:23 PM (NAuoi)

406 In the 70's milk prices went thru the roof...watery powered milk was the only dairy source many large families were digesting...Gawd do we have it good now...

Posted by: J. Peterman at December 28, 2023 06:28 PM (PfHC1)

407 Now do a rerun of "Ladder Theory"

Posted by: OCBill at December 28, 2023 06:34 PM (SUECK)

408 Do you still have the genital sock?

Posted by: Candidus at December 28, 2023 06:39 PM (Ya7DW)

409 This has to be the greatest AoS post of all time. Even my son memorized it when has was an early teenager.

Posted by: Cpt Camel at December 28, 2023 07:05 PM (RjfJc)

410 This has been my favorite post at any blog ever for ten years now. I still read it periodically from the sidebar.

Posted by: Simon Jester at December 28, 2023 07:20 PM (YqF8J)

411 I remember when this first came out and I kept going back to reread in the first few days and it was still getting fine tuned - I'm pretty sure that the Mohk-Mohk section was added after the fact because I burst out laughing at that part in the reread. Nice holiday memory session today, ace!

Posted by: Ashley Judd at December 28, 2023 07:38 PM (hayL9)

412 LOL!

Kaboom Cereal Box Vintage Americana Sticker and/or Magnet Kaboom are collectibles, $3 each; the graphic t-shirt, more than $10.00. And you mocked.

Youngest brother asked for & got Kaboom Cereal because he was the baby & a brat. He also got about forty, 45 records by the 1910 Fruit Gum Co. for his little kid record collection & played them every single day. He still has those records, hundreds - if not thousands - of LPs & probably a few cardboard boxes from Kaboom cereal.

I can't remember if dad gave him the pack name of 'big head' and the other brother 'a-hole' or vice versa.

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun the bear, they only need to outrun us - for now at December 28, 2023 07:44 PM (GshMh)

413 Great column.

I was tempted to send it to my buddy, but when he was in grade 1, shit broke out in his country and they were killing their dictator.

Hope he sees that twice....

Posted by: Stateless at December 28, 2023 07:47 PM (jvJvP)

414 Crack me up!
I have not laughed that much in a long time.
Thank you, Ace.
You Rock.

Posted by: BrianinTn at December 28, 2023 08:05 PM (9YFSR)

415 Y'all could afford Kaboom?

Always hated you rich kids.

Posted by: bobby b at December 28, 2023 08:11 PM (sfw4e)

416 We ate them because they were cheap and we were poor.
Kaboom did not defeat us, in inspired us to work hard, get a good education and never buy anything this bad again.
Now living the life, Heinz ketchup, Hellman's mayo, yeah, name brands.
And Kaboom is dead, buried in a Superfund Toxic Site, sealed in a crypt so secure those monsters will never see the light of day again.

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at December 28, 2023 08:21 PM (BJgzI)

417 Wait, what year is this???

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at December 28, 2023 08:44 PM (5AVMW)

418 I happened to be very online the day Ace posted this, and what few will remember, and Ace will probably disagree with, is the second draft was the best. He was updating in real time, v1 was hilarious, v2 was peak.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN Was Here for the Original Kaboom Post at December 29, 2023 12:31 AM (he4+l)

419 Kaboom's dark secret was what it did to one's toilet bowl--turning it a lurid green. I still have nightmares...

Posted by: Lostingotham at December 29, 2023 12:57 AM (K+9xA)

420 I was a Quisp kid myself

Posted by: Happy at December 29, 2023 08:41 AM (8wFql)

421 @139/Kindltot:

I've been here too long. My first thought was that the skull needs to be on fire, and the crab needs to be holding a pudding cup.

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