Everything about Franken Berry totally explained
Franken Berry is a member of the line of
monster-themed
breakfast cereals produced by
General Mills for the North American market. It contains
strawberry-flavoured corn cereal bits and
marshmallows. Franken Berry is also the name of the cereal's
mascot, a variant of
Frankenstein's monster.
Monster themed cereals of the 1970s
In
1971, the first two cereals in the line were introduced, the still-available
Count Chocula and (strawberry flavored)
Franken Berry. Franken Berry was very popular at that time, even though the initial batches of the cereal used a dye that didn't break down in the body, causing many children's feces to be bright pink, a symptom sometimes referred to as "Frankenberry Stool."
Boo Berry was released two years later, in
1973, and
Fruit Brute appeared a year after that, in
1974.
Fruit Brute was discontinued by
1983. General Mills tried replacing Fruit Brute in the late 1980's with
Yummy Mummy in 1988, but that too had a short life and was discontinued in 1993.
Boo Berry and
Franken Berry are sometimes mistakenly thought to be discontinued as well. In reality, their distribution is just much lower and more sporadic than that of the flagship cereal
Count Chocula. The best time of the year to find
Boo Berry and
Franken Berry is around
Halloween.
Target and
Wal-Mart are among the stores that have been known to carry these more scarce cereals during October. They can be found year-round in the Midwest at
Wal-Mart Supercenters and on Amazon.com, and in the Southeast in many stores. In addition, they've been spotted year-round in some Wal-Mart Supercenters in the East.
Cameos: He has appeared in
South Park,
Family Guy,
The Simpsons,
robot chicken,
Dead Like Me (as "Frankenfruity"),
Drawn Together. He is also mentioned as looking like a Russian who conned Randy in
My Name is Earl.
Further Information
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