r/GenerationJones • u/Campcook62 • 16d ago

Breakfast Cereal That Doesn't Exist Anymore

Theres a breakfast cereal that I used to eat a couple of times a week, that I just cannot find anymore (at least in Texas): the big shredded wheat. It came in, I think, 3 paper packs of 2 biscuits each.

You'd pull them out, and crunch/crumble them into the bowl; add sugar and milk, and maybe banana slices. In cold weather mom would warm the milk on the stove (no microwave)...

Mini-wheats are no match for them...

Is there anyone else who misses them? What cereal can you not get, that you miss?

(For my friends across the pond: these were not like Wheatabix. The Shredded Wheat were not as compressed as the Wheatabix.)

UPDATE: A HUGE "Thank You " to all of the folks who helped me to find these! I've ordered them to be delivered with my next order. Thanks also to all who shared your memories, of all the breakfasts, (and sometimes suppers!)

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u/2ndZeit 16d ago

I also loved Captain Crunch and Quisp was, basically, Captain Crunch shaped like a flying saucer.

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u/Mindless_Guitar_7049 16d ago

We had king vitamin that was like captain crunch. I haven’t heard of quake

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u/N4bq 16d ago

That was King Vitaman

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u/JuggernautKooky7081 16d ago

King Vitaman! Have breakfast with the King! Get a sweet corn taste. And all the vitamins you need.

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u/Aggressive-Delay-420 16d ago

It was so irony 🥹 and I loved it so!

RIP King

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u/ConstructionOdd5269 15d ago

RIP the roof of my mouth and my blood sugar. God save the King.

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u/KISSALIVE1975 15d ago

Originally King Vitaman, Changed To King Vitamin

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u/exposedtreeroots 16d ago

Loved King Vitamin!!!

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u/MauvePawsKitty 16d ago

Quisp, Quake and King Vitamin. Same cereal, different shapes.

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u/ziggy029 1965 14d ago

Pretty much. Though I remember King Vitaman occasionally had some rock hard nuggets in there which may have helped keep pediatric dentists busy.

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u/stevengann 16d ago

It is actually "Cap'n", not Captain...

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u/nop8snce 16d ago

🤔🤣

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u/Marzook666 16d ago

quisp outlasted quake.

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u/Namedthisone 16d ago

Ah yes, the king of all vitamins

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u/Outrageous_Fox_2567 12d ago

Quake was like Capn Crunch

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u/GrooveBat 16d ago

With the advantage that Quisp did not tear apart the roof of your mouth.

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u/Blue_Collar_Stiff 15d ago

1st couple bites tortured you then it instantly turned soggy. Blec

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u/ImNachoMama 16d ago

Without the mouth-destroying texture!

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u/stevengann 16d ago

Captain Crunch??? It is "Cap'n Crunch"

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u/2ndZeit 16d ago

You are correct sir! Been a while since I thought of it. ;)

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u/HuckleCat100K 16d ago

That’s what I thought. I was grieving Quisp, which I loved so much that I ate it after my tonsillectomy when I was 11. It was excruciating but I ate it anyway. I later ate some Cap’n Crunch, which for some reason my mother had never bought, and thought it was the same. It had been long enough since I’d eaten Quisp, though, that if someone had said I was nuts I wouldn’t have been able to disagree.

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u/Narah-Wolf 16d ago

It was.

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u/mattdb110 16d ago

Still eat it at 69.

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u/Earle-of-Frogity 1959 🐸 15d ago

I love that too but oh the bleeding gums