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Honey Nut Cheerios is one of my very favorite cereals.
This stuff is YUMMY!

Honey Nut Cheerios was introduced in 1979 by the General Mills as the first variation from their very popular regular Cheerios.

When it first came out they actually had nuts stuck to the cheerios with sticky honey and sugar.
In 2006 for some reason they took away the nuts and changed up the flavor.
At first I wasn’t impressed with the change, but it grew on me and I ended up loving the cereal all the more for it’s new flavor and texture.

Honey Nut Cheerios has a great mascot.
Buzz The Bee or as some still call him… “BuzzBee“.

Honey Nut Cheerios Buzz The Bee Tattoo

This cereal mascot character has been one of the most popular ever.
It was introduced with the very first television commercials for the cereal and has never needed replaced to keep people interest.
Both adults and children alike love the bee.

Originally this funny little bee didn’t have a name. He got his name in 2000 when a fifth grade girl won a national contest to name the bee, dubbing him “BuzzBee”.
Later this was shortned to just “Buzz”.

My favorite Honey Nut Cheerios tag-line was (and is) “It’s a honey of an O.”
It’s kinda naughty and very yummy… I love stuff like that.

A few other good ones existed though. My faves in order….

1. It’s a honey of an O.
2. It’s Irrezzzzistable!
3. Little O, Big Taste!
4. Nobody can say “No” to Honey Nut Cheerios

The most disliked tag-lines for the cereal (my least favorites) are…

1. Bee happy, bee healthy! (the current one)
2. Race for the taste!
3. It’s Honey Nut Cheerios! (duh?)

So… as a tattoo is Buzz cool?

Heck yes he is.

Buzz makes a great tattoo and like a slinky he is fun for a girl or a boy.
Buzz has appeal to both sexes and doesn’t seem to be a pansy, but he is no tough guy either… and he represents one of the most yummy cereals in existence that actually isn’t 100% bad for you.

Honey Nut Cheerios actually still has some nutrition and is semi high on fiber.
Yay for bad for you cereals that we can pretend to be eating semi healthy with!

In short… “The Honey Nut Cheerios Bee is a rock’n tattoo!”

Like the bee? Check out more of my cereal mascot tattoos here.

I seem to have been getting to serious lately with my posts so I think it is time to share another one of my  cereal character tattoos.

Today we have Jose.

This fabulous little monkey may look like he is eating a poop ball… but nope.

Jose The Cocoa Krispies Monkey As A Tattoo

What we got here is a cocoa krispie.
Jose was the first mascot for Cocoa Krispies when it came out back in 1958.
They traded him in pretty fast for Coco the elephant, but Jose the monkey was first.

I guess Kellogg’s figured out it looked like this funny little monkey was eating a turd. Maybe somebody complained… I don’t know.

Certainly  makes a pimp cereal tattoo though.

Just for fun I will give you some Cocoa Krispies mascot history.

• 1958 is the one and only Jose. A super pimp chimp with a taste for poo.
• 1959 we get Coco the elephant who just happens to look like a pink Dumbo.
• 1963 The Hanna-Barbera character ‘Snagglepuss’  took the job of  Mascot.
• 1965 Cocoa the ape man came and went.
• 1965 Snagglepuss returns.
• 1968 brings us Ogg the Caveman. He sucked! Total dork of a caveman in my opinion.
• 1971 brings us Tusk the brown elephant. He acts just like Coco, but is brown with tusks.
• 1981 Kellogg’s gets smart and just gives the job to Snap, Crackle and Pop.
• 1990  They make Coco the Monkey the Mascot again, but this time he is a bad ass and doesn’t eat poo.
• 2001 Someone at Kellogg’s realizes people like Snap, Crackle and Pop , so give them the job back.

Yep… Seems Kellogg’s just doesn’t know what direction to go with this particular cereal and the mascots for it’s publicity campaigns… but that’s cool.

Chocolate cereals kinda sell themselves.

During our big weekend we picked up a really cute kite featuring a pony on it for our 2 year old.

We then called our 2 year old and told her we got a surprise for her.
She asked if it was a kite and we responded with a yes.

She then proceeded to tell us that she thought it was a monkey kite and that she was really excited for her monkey kite.
My response was something like… “yes , it is a monkey kite and it is really kool. We will go kite flying as soon as we get back.”

So… we went on a wild hunt all over Ocean Shores seeking a monkey kite.
Lucky for us Ocean Shores is a huge kite town and they have many specialty shops.
We did find a monkey kite.

The pony kite was put into use by myself while in ocean shores with our special friends.
I felt so macho flying my little pony kite on the beach that I just can’t put it into words.

When we arrived home our child immediately wanted to see her new kite.
It was a hit.

We told her however that he kite flying must wait until morning because we just happened to be more tired than Rip Van Winkle.

All that night and the next morning she sang…
 

“Oh, oh, oh!
Let’s go fly a kite
Up to the highest height!
Let’s go fly a kite and send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let’s go fly a kite!”

Yes, she is a big Poppin’s fan, and yes she knows all the words.

The next day we headed to our favorite kite flying field.

Our favorite kite flying field

flying monkey!

I have always loved kites.

Kites are to me what fishing is to some men.

It is relaxation and a chance to think.

My little daughter shares my joy in kite flying and I think that when she hits 5 or 6 she may even do as i did and get into making kites herself.

I hope it goes that way… It will be fun to make kites with her and then go and fly them together.

For some weekend fun we went to a sand sculpture contest.

The theme was Science fiction.
I thought it was a strange theme for sand… but what the heck, I love sci-fi and sand sculpture can be cool.

My favorite one was based on the three laws of robotics.
In science fiction, the Three Laws of Robotics are a set of three rules written by Isaac Asimov, which pretty much all thinking robots in his books must obey.

The laws are:
1.A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2.A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3.A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

The robot holds a man in it's arms representing the connection between man and robot.

This next sculpture I thought was pretty awesome, but I actually have no idea what it was about. It just looked cool to me.

I think it looks like a time travel type thing, but maybe I am wrong.

Maybe something to do with time travel?

My other favorite at the event was one made with a lot of humor in it.
Bender from Futurama vs the Alien from the Aliens movie series.
Talk about awesome!

Considering how Bender always seems to survive and have a drink... this Alien may be about to bite off more than it can chew.

Looking at these things makes me want to try and lern the art.
One of the things that makes sand sculpture so cool to me is how temporary it is.
To create and know that any day – even tomorrow – the wind and rain will sweep it away.
I like that.

Honey Smacks or Sugar Smacks or just SMACKS …. Ya gotta “Dig’em” says the frog.

When I was a kid these tasty puffed wheat yummies had the name of Sugar Smacks and for good reason.
Back in those days Sugar Smacks had more sugar than any other cereal on the market.
Does the idea of a cereal with more than 50 percent (by weight) of the product sound crazy?
It does to me… but back then I just thought. “Yummy!”

In the 80′s Sugar Smacks got re-named Honey Smacks to shy away from the tooth decay and bad health issues.
It was becoming hip to be square and watch what one ate… the word sugar didn’t sit well with some parents and honey sounded oh so much nicer.

In the 90′s Honey Smacks became just Smacks.
No Honey – No Sugar?
How sad…. Nope, just as sugar filled as before, but a new name.

The name change came because that is what the kids called them.
The kids called them Smacks because the popular advertising campaign that featured the Dig’em Frog had the frog just calling them Smacks.
Gotta Dig’em.

They have now re-named them again (back to Honey Smacks) and I think it is gonna stick for a while at least.

I still however call them Sugar Smacks.
Can’t help it. That’s what they had for a name when I was a kid, so that is what they are in my mind forever I guess.
Sugar Smacks has had many mascots, but by far the most popular and memorable one was the Dig’em Frog.

The Dig'em Frog

So let me ad the Kellogg’s Dig’em Frog to my collection of cereal mascot tattoos.

Ain’t he a cute little bugger?
I think so.
Who got this happy sugar fiend of a frog as a tattoo?
A gal who just LOVES Honey Smacks and has absolutely no recall of them ever being called anything else.