Cocoa Pebbles, a breakfast cereal brand from Post Foods, was introduced in 1971 alongside its sister, Fruity Pebbles. Both cereals feature characters from the original animated TV show, “The Flintstones”, as spokestoons. The cereal is known for its tie-in with the show and is endorsed by Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, beloved characters from the show. Fred Flintstone, of cartoon fame, breaks into his famous “Yabba Dabba Doo!” dance right on the 9-ounce package.
Cocoa Pebbles has a “coco moco” taste and is a timeless breakfast classic. Fruity Pebbles, on the other hand, contains crisp rice cereal bits in various fruit flavors. The mascot for these cereals is Fred Flintstone, who is recognizable on boxes of Fruity and Cocoa PEBBLES.
Frank Corey, Benton and Bowles’ creative head for the Post Cereal business suggested alternative names for Cocoa Pebbles and Fruity Pebbles, which were adopted. Peanut Butter and Cocoa Pebbles have a distinctive chocolate-PB flavor that sets it apart from other Reese’s doppelgängers in the category. Fruity Pebbles’ working names included “Flint Chips” and “Rubble Stones”.
The Rubbles had a son, Bam-Bam, and the Flintstones had a daughter, Pebbles, who inspired the cereal’s name. The combination of a delicious product named after the characters from the show and the iconic characters from the show has made Pebbles a popular choice for kids.
📹 Cocoa Pebbles vs. Cocoa Krispies
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Who is the villain in Cocoa?
In the 2017 Disney• Pixar animated feature film Coco, Ernesto de la Cruz, a famous singer, musician, and actor, is trapped in the Land of the Dead after his untimely death. Miguel, Miguel’s true great-great-grandfather, embarks on a quest to find Ernesto, who he believes is his long-lost great-great-grandfather. However, Miguel learns a different story from his heritage. Ernesto was the former best friend and music partner of Héctor, Miguel’s true great-great-grandfather, who he murdered to take credit for his music and become a famous musician.
Born in 1896, Ernesto started his musical career as a guitarist with his childhood friend Héctor as his songwriter. Héctor felt remorse for leaving his wife and daughter behind and intended to quit his career to return to them. Ernesto tried to convince Héctor to stay, but to no avail. Unknown to Héctor, Ernesto poisoned the drink, and Héctor succumbed to the poison and died. Ernesto took Héctor’s songbook and guitar and passed them off as his own. With Héctor’s songs, Ernesto became a musical legend and a star in renowned films, winning crowds with his noble appearance.
What is Coco cereal mascot?
In 1973, Tusk the Elephant became the mascot of Rice Krispies cereal, which was later replaced by Snap, Crackle, and Pop in 1982. In 1991, Coco the Monkey was introduced, and in 2001, Snap, Crackle, and Pop returned as the product’s mascots. The cereal was introduced in the UK under the “Coco Pops” name in 1961, with Mr. Jinks as the mascot. In the 1960s, Sweep became the mascot for Coco Pops. In 1963, Coco the Monkey was introduced, and he remains the mascot in countries where the cereal is known as Coco Pops and Choco Pops, and some others named Choco Krispies.
In recent years, Coco’s design has been refined to give him a younger look. He has friends such as Shortie Giraffe, Alan Anteater, Heftie Hippo, Ozmelda Ostrich, Kylie Kangaroo, and Rocky Raccoon, while Crafty Croc and gorillas are his arch enemies. In the late 2000s, Kellogg’s advertisements in the UK opted for dancing milkmen and astronauts instead of Coco and his friends. In 2011, Kellogg’s brought Coco, his friends, and Croc back under a space age-style campaign called the “Coco Pops Promise”.
Who is the Cocoa Pebbles mascot?
Fred Flintstone, from the popular cartoon “The Flintstones”, has been a recognizable character on Fruity and Cocoa PEBBLES™ cereals for over 50 years. In 1971, the iconic duo became the first TV characters to appear on a cereal box through a licensing agreement by Post. As television and cartoons gained popularity, more brands followed suit, and Fred and Barney are now synonymous with PEBBLES.
What is Pebbles Flintstones middle name?
Pebbles Wilma Flintstone-Rubble is a fictional character from the original series, The Flintstones, and the franchise. Born on February 22, 10, 000 B. C., she is the daughter of Fred Flintstone and Wilma Flintstone, granddaughter to Pearl Slaghoople, goddaughter/daughter-in-law to Barney Rubble and Betty Rubble, wife to Bamm-Bamm Rubble, and mother to Chip and Roxy Rubble. Pebbles was an excellent baseball player as a preteen, leading to a misadventure involving her father, as seen in the prime-time special, The Flintstones: Little Big League.
What is the cocoa bird called?
Cocoa Puffs, an American brand of chocolate-flavored puffed grain breakfast cereal, was first introduced in 1956. The cereal is composed of small orbs of corn and rice flavored with cocoa, bearing resemblance to the composition of Kix and Trix cereal. The product was first introduced in 1956 and is currently sold under the Nesquik brand in Canada, Latin America, and Europe, in accordance with the Cereal Partners Worldwide agreement between Nestlé and General Mills.
Are Cocoa Pebbles GF?
The product contains rice, sugar, canola or soybean oil, cocoa, salt, caramel color, natural and artificial flavor, BHT, niacinamide, reduced iron, zinc oxide, vitamin A palmitate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, vitamin D3, and vitamin B12. It should be noted that product formulations may be subject to change. Therefore, it is advisable to consult the product packaging for the most up-to-date information.
What is the mascot of the Kellogg’s company?
Tony the Tiger, a trademark for Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes, was first used in 1952 as a cartoon character on every box. It was federally registered under food products. Twelve years later, oil company Esso (now ExxonMobil) began using a similar tiger as a promotional mascot for gasoline products, which was later federally registered under petroleum products. The two companies shared peaceful relations and spent over a billion and a half dollars in advertising between 1952 and 1995.
However, in 1992, ExxonMobil opened a new business sector and product line through the promotion of the existing Exxon Tiger. The company failed to expand its federal trademark registration to its newest product line, leading to a lawsuit filed by Kellogg. The confusion of using very similar tigers as a mascot for food products did not sit well with Kellogg, leading to a lawsuit involving trademark infringement and dilution. After several court appearances, millions of dollars, different rulings, and years of waiting, the two parties settled the case.
In 1986, Kellogg faced a different situation regarding trademarks. During the 1988 Summer Olympics, South Korean organizers agreed on the games’ mascot Hodori, which was very similar to Tony the Tiger. Kellogg had concerns about the similarity and raised red flags with trademark registration that same year. The “Hold That Tiger” battle for the tiger trademark was remembered as a significant controversy.
What are Kellogg’s animal names?
In 1952, the cereal company was rolling out a brand-new product, Sugar Frosted Flakes. In the spirit of competition, they put Tony head-to-head against three other cereal-loving animals, Elmo the Elephant, Katy the Kangaroo and Newt the Gnu.
Apparently, consumers felt a connection with the big cat, and Tony wound up winning out.
The next year, after the company’s advertising agency helped develop Tony further, he wound up with a four-page spread in LIFE magazine. (That’s something many human celebrities could only wish to achieve!)
Why are The Flintstones on Cocoa PEBBLES?
Post Cereals reintroduced Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles Cereal, a low-market-share children’s cereal brand, in 1969. The product group manager, Larry Weiss, licensed the use of The Flintstones for cereal from Hanna-Barbera to reinvigorate the cereal business. The brand was marketed despite internal concerns it would be a fad and not last more than a year. Fruity Pebbles was introduced on the West Coast in 1969 under the name “Pebbles”, and strong consumer demand led to national distribution under the cereal re-name “Fruity Pebbles”.
In 1970, Cocoa Pebbles was introduced as a second flavor. The brand has been one of the most consistent best sellers ever since. The original working names for the companion cereals were Flint Chips and Rubble Stones, consistent with the appearance of the cereal and The Flintstones’ Stone Age imagery. Frank Corey, Benton and Bowles’ creative head for the Post Cereal business, suggested the alternative names Cocoa Pebbles and Fruity Pebbles, which were adopted.
The basic product retained the Sugar Rice Krinkles form, using the existing expander process and Battle Creek production facilities. In the early-2010s industry-led sugar reduction effort, both Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles were reformulated, with the original formulation containing 12 grams per 3/4 cup serving and the 2011 reformulation containing 9 grams.
What is the Coco Pebbles mascot?
Fred Flintstone, from the popular cartoon “The Flintstones”, has been a recognizable character on Fruity and Cocoa PEBBLES™ cereals for over 50 years. In 1971, the iconic duo became the first TV characters to appear on a cereal box through a licensing agreement by Post. As television and cartoons gained popularity, more brands followed suit, and Fred and Barney are now synonymous with PEBBLES.
📹 Fruity Pebbles: from failure to massive success
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My affair with cereal is life long.🥣..and even before Seinfeld was a thing, I always had several boxes of cereal at really all times….in my early 20s girls would ask me, how do you stay so thin, I’d say cereal, three times a day…so this website here is made for a girl like me!! ❤️ It!! As for Krispies vs pebbles.. Krispies all the way.. though I’ve definitely had my share of pebbles, chocolate and fruity, to me, they just turn to mush too quickly…good taste, and leave tasty milk..they, for me, just get too mushy too fast… P.S. love your bowl man!!
“Barney, my Pebbles!” “Barney, my Pebbles!” “Barney, my Pebbles!” What’s up cereal-heads, today we’re gonna talk about ~ M Y P E B B L E S . ~ Personally, I am more into the Pebbles. I do put Coco above all other Krispies mascots. I didn’t experience him too often – I know you did, you lucky SOB (I was but a baby in 1991, and most of my kid memories with the brand are with the three little ear specialists.) It’s probably because it was a more upbeat ad campaign and I would have mostly remember that, with the song, colors, movement, and humor. I was that kind of kid, anyway. 😛 But still, my Pebbles. I am sliiightly a cocoa cereal person, yet haven’t eaten anything of that nature in forevers, but yes, I really like the rice-based cocoa cereals the best. 🙂
In the UK we have cocoa krispies but they’re called coco pops and it’s the most popular chocolate cereal. Coco pops has a bunch of variations (coco pops porridge, coco rocks, coco pops chocos, white chocolate coco pops, etc) and is in every kid’s kitchen! It’s crazy to me how unpopular cocoa krispies are in the US when coco pops are so popular in the UK.
I have definitely never had cocoa pebbles (or fruity pebbles either) and I do not think I have had Kellogg’s cocoa Krispies. My mom refused to buy anything with more sugar than original Life when I was growing up. However, I have tried Whole Foods cocoa rice crisps and I really like them. I would think they taste more like cocoa Krispies than cocoa pebbles, though they have less sugar than either. I find it fascinating that while Rice Krispies had Snap, Crackle and Pop before there were cocoa Krispies, cocoa Krispies didn’t always have Snap, Crackle and Pop. I guess Kellogg’s originally wanted to market cocoa Krispies independently from Rice Krispies and then changed their minds. By the way, I will have to send you some Coco Pops shells (which you can only get in Europe, interestingly enough) next time I go to The Netherlands.
I used to really like both flavors of Pebbles, but something happened to the texture that turned me off. If you ever find Mom’s Best Crispy Cocoa Rice, I recommend giving that a try. Much closer to what Pebbles used to taste like, in my opinion. However, I am really liking both flavors of Pebbles Crunch’d!. Fantastically crunchy version with lots of flavor. I do like Cocoa Krispies but yes, you have to wolf them down before they turn to soup.
I used to like Coco Pebbles more until I bought an 8 pack of those little cereal boxes. Coco Krispies were great and the best cereal in the package. Apple Jacks also tasted better than I can remember and Froot Loops still weren’t very good. As far as Fruity Pebbles, they are superior to the Cocoa ones imo. I bought one of those cheaper big bags of Fruity Pebbles that were an off brand because they didn’t have regular ones. Everything seemed practically identical at first until this orange type of aftertaste lingered in my mouth. If they made strictly Orange Pebbles, then I imagine that’s what they would taste like. Not good imo. Anymore I would pick C Krispies over C Pebbles. There just seems to be more of a cocoa flavor and the milk also tastes better. I think I prefer the texture too. I’d like to try Fruity Krispies if they made them and the flavor was the same as the Pebbles.
Cocoa Pebbles all day. I swear the Coca Krispies from Mexico are better than it’s American counterpart. I’ve only ever been able to find them at Walmart. That version still has an elephant on it. Maybe it’s the same, but I swear it isn’t. I have never compared the ingredients between the two. Maybe I’m way off.
i remember they had a cinamon one but then i serch google to see if i was right & not only i was right! 😱but they had/have marshmellow fruity pebbles bam-bam berry pebbles pb&cocoa pebbles tropical pebbles one with dino called Dino pebbles halloween edition candy corn pebbles PEBBLES summer berry for 4th of july popin pebbles magic fruity pebbles cup cake pebbles marshmallow mania pebbles ice cream pebbles sugar cookies chritmas limited edition dino s’mores pebbles and marsmellow fruity pebbles
While I don’t buy em as often as I used to,I do still have a fondness for fruity pebbles,it’s one of the few childhood cereals that haven’t changed too much to the point of being cloyingly aside from Lucky Charms and Apple Jacks. Used to like Captain Crunch but that stuff is not only way too sweet now, but it can cut the bejeezus out of the roof of your mouth.
I used to eat Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles all the time, and I still do sometimes; those were my go-to cereals as a kid. Had no idea the Hulkster sued Post over something so silly. Oh well, at least we can thank him for body-slamming Gawker out of business. One less hive of yellow journalism in the world. Also, black and white film clowns = all kinds of NOPE.