![]() “Those 21st-century people were into some strange stuff,” they’ll say. Cap’n Crunch: Oops! All Horrorberries With Spooky Glow-in-the-Dark Hallow-Mallow Shapes! The spooky shapes are indistinct blobs of sugar-dusted baked Styrofoam that might look like a ghost, so kids can drown their ectoplasmic forebears in milk and eat them.įuture historians will conclude this was some strange ritual that combined ancestor worship and the suckling of infants. Now every cereal seems compelled to issue a seasonal variant. Then came the trio: Count Chocula, an undead nobleman who expected to bite people’s necks and drink Quik Boo Berry, the ghost of a deceased fruit farmer, I guess, and Franken Berry, who was cobbled together from the corpses of strawberries. Imagine it’s a white blood cell trying to cope with a Soviet biological weapon.” “You want scary? Here’s your Wheaties and a magazine article about the Cuban missile crisis.” “Mom, it’s the first of October, shouldn’t my breakfast reflect the banal, denatured occultism of the season? Shouldn’t my cereal be scary?” ![]() ![]() When I was a kid, we didn’t have cereal with scary shapes. If I wanted that, I’d move to a Miami Beach retirement community. It would be the middle of September, and you’d have motion-activated skeletons screaming at you in the Target aisles. Look at those people complaining about Pumpkin Spice Motor Oil without a care in the world!įor years, I was annoyed by the over-Halloweening of October. We get nostalgic for the time when people could express actual annoyance over the issue. Or, perhaps we have a limited amount of energy to care, because the news feels like an enormous leech attached our heads. Maybe our complaining is starting to run its course. We’re tired of being annoyed when we see Pumpkin Spice Borscht and Pumpkin Spice Charcoal Briquettes. On January 19th, 2017, Instagram user dj_spookyname.7z posted a variation with the cereal "Oops! All Tarantula Eggs." The post (shown below) received more than 595 likes in less than one year.It seems as if our seasonal dismay over excessive pumpkin spice has abated somewhat. Several months later, on June 18th, 2012, Urban Dictonary user by Dane Cook, Facebook SpaceCrook posted a definition of "Oops! All Berries." They wrote, "A typically sarcastic or apathetic exclamation made when a miscalculation or mistake has been made most often, this applies when an individual has missed some cue to stop, thus creating a useless or bothersome excess." Lovenstein posted a parody entitled "Oops! All Shards of Glass." Two years later, on March 2nd, 2012, the webcomics artist Mr. In the picture, the word "berries" was replaced with "oral lacerations," playing on the common complaint that Cap'n Crunch is a very sharp cereal that can cut your mouth. On August 21st, 2010, Wordpress user Jimmi Bannanas posted the earliest known parody. The article was posted on November 3rd, 1999. One of the earliest includes satirical newspaper The Onion article "Quaker Oats Assembly-Line Worker Fired For 'Oops! All Berries' Incident," which treats the production of the cereal seriously and tells of a person fired for the cereal. Jokes about the cereal Oops! All Berries have existed since the release of the product. The cereal's ad campaign and product name created a narrative that the cereal had been created as a mistake hence, the "oops." In 1997, the Quaker Oats Company introduced "Oops! All Berries" breakfast cereal, a line of Cap'n Crunch cereal that only contained berry-flavored crunch berries rather than a mix of traditional Cap'n Crunch pieces and crunch berries.
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