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March 2, 2014
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. 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. Ace of Spades HQ
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 2, 2014 9:20 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
Most Epic Thread. Ever.
I don't know if I should be proud to say so, or not.....but, I was there when it happened.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 2, 2014 9:58 AM
I thought so too, until I saw this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ts2HpaW_xxM
Posted by: Jewel at March 2, 2014 12:11 PM
Seriously? We were PUFFED RICE WITH RECONSTITUTED POWDERED MILK people. It was like eating styrofoam in iridescent pale green water. Breakfast at our house was the first punishment of the day. And when we weren't eating Diet of the Bland, we had to eat my mother's successor's hideous rice gruel. It was like paste, but didn't taste as well. I wouldn't eat rice of any kind for nearly 12 years, when I learned how to make it correctly.
Posted by: Jewel at March 2, 2014 12:37 PM
What about the store brand? Magic Stars, Apple Dapple, etc
Posted by: Potsie at March 2, 2014 1:27 PM
Cereal in little individual cardboard boxes with wax paper liners that you opened, folded back the flaps and poured whole milk into and pretended it was a good way to eat cereal.
Posted by: tripletap at March 2, 2014 1:45 PM
I, too, was there for the Kaboom thread. It was an epic cry for help, for therapy. For an application of Trix or Froot Loops before it was too late.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at March 2, 2014 1:56 PM
That was kind of psychotic.
Posted by: Fat Man at March 2, 2014 2:54 PM
Store brands didn't come until the late 80s, at least where I live. This is something from the 70s or early 80s as far as I can tell.
Posted by: Jewel at March 2, 2014 3:37 PM
Never ate Kaboom- we were just a little too old for that crap. But at one time or other we kids had a crack at all the junk that General Foods and Kellog could throw at us. We survived. But the all time worst gag you and wretch cereal of all time was Quaker Life. Parents bought it because the commercial said it was healthy. Stuff was pure evil with sugar. I still get woozy looking at the box.
JW(traumatized by Life)M
Posted by: jwm at March 2, 2014 5:49 PM
Sheesh, I musta had a sheltered childhood. Corn flakes and Cheerios made me what I am today. I didn't try granola until one time back in the day I was with this one chick and we, uh, we ... er, I don't remember a lot of them days so good. But granola and the smell of patchouli oil sure do trigger me ...
Posted by: chasmatic at March 2, 2014 7:11 PM
I had never heard of Kaboom until a friend of mine had mentioned them. Whenever I wanted a big surprise for them, I'd show up with a half dozen boxes of them for her.
Until the last several years, you could still buy them, they finally stopped making them. Can't buy them any more, at least in my area.
Posted by: Geo at March 2, 2014 8:13 PM
This is something from the 70s or early 80s as far as I can tell.
No, I'm pretty sure I remember it from the 1960s. I think I may even have persuaded my mother to buy me a box. Fortunately, I don't remember the taste.
We were pretty much an oatmeal or cream of wheat family. Cold cereals were mostly for mornings we were (more) rushed.
Posted by: waltj at March 3, 2014 11:14 AM