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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.

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.

Cap’n Crunch comes in 4 types currently.

• Original Crunch
• Crunch Berries
• Peanut Butter Crunch
• Christmas Crunch

I thoroughly enjoy every single one of them…
and obviously my client does too!

Cap'n Crunch with his sword, ready to battle the dreaded “Soggies”

 How to describe Cap’n Crunch? I would say “Yummy!”
It is some “good shit” so to speak.

What the heck is it that tastes so good?

Let us check the ingredients:

CORN FLOUR, SUGAR, OAT FLOUR, BROWN SUGAR, COCONUT OIL, SALT, NIACINAMIDE*, YELLOW 5, REDUCED IRON, ZINC OXIDE, YELLOW 6, THIAMIN MONONITRATE*, BHT (A PRESERVATIVE), PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE*, RIBOFLAVIN*, FOLIC ACID*.

*ONE OF THE B VITAMINS (I find that part funny)

Doesn’t sound so yummy when you read the ingredients, but hey… sometimes it is good to just eat for the flavor and not worry about nutrition.

The little Cap’n Crunch tattoo was done in about 30 minutes… yep it was a hard days work.  Whoa was I tired.
I had to buy me some Cap’n (not captain) Crunch afterwards to celebrate the completion of yet another cereal tattoo!
I went with the peanut butter stuff for some reason
(It was a hard decision) -and ate like half the box.
Mmmm, yummy.
Now to avoid the stuff again for another year (big belly ain’t very sexy)
and just live with the cravings.

Some fun facts:

• The Good Ship Guppy is the name of Cap’n Crunch’s boat.
• His arch enemy was Jean Lafoote AKA The barefoot pirate.
• Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch is actually the full name of our Cap’n.
• The Cap’n has spent much of his life battling  the evil “Soggies” who attempt to “sog out” cereal.
• Cap’n Crunch cereal is simply one of the best tasting cereal treats ever made.
• Some people  like this cereal enough to want a tattoo of it’s mascot.

Happy Crunching!

Are Corn Flakes the most famous type of cereal in the world?
I think so.
If they are, then that makes the Kellogg’s brand of corn flake the most known cereal in the world.

Good… they should be.

Tattoo Of Cornelius Rooster AKA The Corn Flakes Rooster.

 I have done three different versions of  Cornelius, but for the life of me I can’t find the picture of the third version.
Trust me when I say - that I am very annoyed.
I have only misplaced a few of my cereal pictures before.
I am thinking maybe I lost it when I moved out of my last shop… which means I have lost an entire box of tattoo pictures.
Grrr!
Anyways… all three of the clients who got the corn flakes rooster tattoos claim to have grown up on corn flakes.
It was a staple of their diet.
The cereal reminds them of childhood.

One of the clients mentioned that he had them as a youth because they could not afford the sugar filled novelty cereals, so his mother just got the corn flakes.
Now as an adult he sticks with them just because he loves them.

Another version of Cornelius the Corn flakes rooster tattooed on an ankle.

Back in 1894, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a total nut job and  the superintendent of The Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan who was a hardcore Adventist created corn flakes.

It was an accident really. He prescribed a strict vegetarian regimen for his patients, and allowed NO stimulants (like coffee , sugar, booze,  etc… The diet  consisted entirely of bland foods.

Kellogg was supporter of sexual abstinence, believing that it could make one week and ill.  He also thought  that sweet and spicy foods made people horny.

Corn flake (being 100% bland) would lower the sex drive and make people less horny.

The accidental creation of corn flakes happened when Dr. Kellogg and his brother, Will  Kellogg, left some cooked wheat to sitting out when they were called away to deal with a problem in the sanitarium.. When they finally returned, the wheat had gone stale. They decided to continue to process it by forcing it through rollers, hoping to obtain long sheets of the dough. To their surprise, what they found instead were flakes. Being on a very small budget they decided to toast them and  serve them to the patients.

The flakes turned out to be very popular .

Eventually Will  Kellogg decided to try and mass-market the flakes. He created the  Kellogg’s company and he added sugar to the flakes to make them tasty enough to appeal to folks that didn’t think spicy and sweet foods would send them to the pits of hell through sexual desire or make them ill.

There have been a lot of different  mascots for Kellogg’s Cornflakes. The most popular one the rooster that goes by the name of Cornelius. He has been around since the beginning and still remains. When i was a kid he used to talk. His big catchphrase was “Wake up, up, up to Kellogg’s Cornflakes.” Now he  just crows.

I think they should have kept him talking… but whatever. I certainly can’t say that the marketing for Kellogg’s hasn’t worked. As I mentioned at the beginning of the post… It’s the famous cereal in the world.