102 likes. Crazy Cow Cereal. Crazy Cow came in two flavors, chocolate and strawberry. The front of the Crazy Cow box usually had a large cartoon cow, smiling cheerfully. Even without milk, it provides 25% of 8 important nutrients your children need every day. We also want to note all the failed products that have come and gone without many people even noticing. New Crazy Cow means good, basic nutrition. Retro Records: The Haunted Mansion (1970), Bringing Westworld’s Robots To TV…In 1980. Crazy Cow was a breakfast cereal produced by General Mills during the 1970s. The FDA regarded it with folded arms from the day it hit the shelves.

Ate one bowl. Bottom of bowl was full of sugar after adding milk 3 times!I still miss it though, was so ready to eat Crazy Cow the week it hit the cereal isle! The kind of crazy thing… ahem… about Crazy Cow cereal is that while more like Kix than Trix, in this case General Mills added a drink mix coating to the cereal pieces. [2] These were highly collectible because they were a different variety than those sold in packs. Home of Pop Culture and Retro Related Goodness. Refused to eat the rest. On the box for both strawberry and chocolate Crazy Cow, the cow was white with brown spots and wore a hat and a cowbell around her neck. Actually the reason for this article is because over on Facebook I caught a television commercial for another General Mills offering – Crazy Cow cereal. New Crazy Cow means good, basic nutrition. PS: This isn't an actual online grocery store, so don't email me to ask about buying the products listed. Enjoy, and please stop in again! A year after Star Wars succeeded in becomin nearly everything that I thought about – General Mills offered one Star Wars trading card insides boxes of Lucky Charms, Trix, the Monster cereals, Cocoa Puffs, and of course Crazy Cow.

When milk was added, it would dissolve the powdered coating, and the resultant mixture would resemble in sight, smell, and taste, a flavored milk. Crazy Cow was a breakfast cereal produced by General Mills during the 1970s. If you know of any products you'd like to see added to our shelves, feel free to junp on the intercom and let me know. The cereal was somewhat of a novelty item in that it had an unusual trait. Crazy Cow was a breakfast cereal produced by General Mills during the 1970s. So when you poured your milk on Crazy Cow it would become a tasty treat to drink after your cereal was finished – say like something similar to Nesquik! View more posts. In short, Gone But Not Forgotten Groceries is a fictional supermarket that houses all the grocery products that once were but are no more. The round, multi-grain cereal pellets were coated with an excipient of a drink mix. Crazy Cow hit the shelves in late 1976/early 1977 and took the cereal aisle by storm. One promotional item was Star Wars Trading Cards. What about you though, do you remember Crazy Cow cereal – did you ever get any of those Star Wars cards from General Mills? Now I do remember seeing Crazy Cow in my youth but the truth of the matter is I was never the biggest fan of chocolate flavored cereals – not even the likes of Count Chocula – strawberry flavor though is an entirely different matter. Friends, one of the freedoms that I embraced in my young adulthood was the fact that I could eat cereal any time I wanted to – in truth I probably indulged in that whim far too often – but back then I had an amazing metabolism and could eat recklessly. Strawberry Crazy Cow is featured in the music video for Melanie Martinez's song "Tag, You're It", This article is about the 1970s breakfast cereal. This blog was started to salute all the great sodas, candies, and food products that are no longer with us.