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10516 No. 10516
Random thread time. What's up with with so many cereal mascots and stealing cereal/having their cereal stolen? Does anyone even remember that Cookie Crisp used to have a cookie cop, crook and dog before the dog was turned into a wolf and became the only mascot? Did anyone else vote for the Trix rabbit to finally get to have a bowl of his own cereal? Then there's the Hamburglar, a rare case of a crook wanting fast food instead of cereal.

Were the companies trying to imply their food was so good, it was worth stealing? Or is it just a marketing gimmick that caught on, so everyone else jumped on the bandwagon? Is it just completely random? Does this happen in other countries or is it only an American thing? This is something I've wondered about since I was a kid.
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>>10516
Were the companies trying to imply their food was so good, it was worth stealing?
I'd presume it at least started like that.
Looking up Cookie Crisp, it apparently started out with a wizard who turned bowls into cookie jars, and Chip was added added around the time Ralston Purina spun it off. Also, apparently Nestle sells some cereals outside the US, but I'm pretty sure that within it, it's mostly just General Mills and Post. Not really enough participants for bandwagonging to be a thing, but they did probably just go with whatever trend seemed to work.
>> No. 10518
>>10516
>Were the companies trying to imply their food was so good, it was worth stealing?
I'd presume it at least started like that.
Looking up Cookie Crisp, it apparently started out with a wizard who turned bowls into cookie jars, and Chip was added added around the time Ralston Purina spun it off. Also, apparently Nestle sells some cereals outside the US, but I'm pretty sure that within it, it's mostly just General Mills and Post. Not really enough participants for bandwagonging to be a thing, but they did probably just go with whatever trend seemed to work.


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