What were your favorite cereals growing up (besides Cap’n Crunch) but completely tore up your mouth?

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I love Cracklin Oat Bran (Which I lovingly call cat food because it looked like a larger version of my grandma's cat's food growing up) I buy it still even though I know I'm going to have instant regret.

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ure_not_my_dad@reddit

A cup of grape nuts with 2 cups of sugar

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

A cup of gravel with 2 cups of sugar is what I read 🤣

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discostud1515@reddit

Craklin Oat Bran

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PSN-Colinp42@reddit

I love it but it is NOT cheap!

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Kitchen_Ad6227@reddit

I loved these as a kid but I had it recently and it was way too sweet...16 grams of sugar!

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adam5280@reddit

This cereal slaps!!!

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

I swear it was like sweet sandpaper!

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SweetPrism@reddit

Kaboom.

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roonilwonwonweasly@reddit

Rice Krispies treats cereal

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PrincessSarahHippo@reddit

I loved that crap but eating it was self flagellation.

I googled self flagellation to check the spelling and Google brought up the number for a crisis hotline.

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roonilwonwonweasly@reddit

Another thing to check off on the "do not Google" list

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Hot_Pricey@reddit

This was my favorite cereal in high school lol!

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

Memory unlocked! Completely forgot about this one. Chipped concrete pieces

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ad_astra81@reddit

There was a cereal called Hidden Treasures that would leave you raw for sure!

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Snugglebunny1983@reddit

Fruity pebbles and Frosted Flakes. I also liked Frosted Mini Wheats. Absolutely hate grape nuts though! It tastes like muddy gravel!

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

Everyone always refers to grape nuts as gravel 🤣

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No-Regular-4281@reddit

Corn Pops will do it if you eat enough of them

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red286@reddit

By "enough" you mean any more than 3.

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bikeonychus@reddit

Weetos - I loved them, but Di didn't like the mouth bleeding part.

They're chocolate flavoured O shaped cereal similar to Cheerios, but Weetos are super sharp and crunchy for some reason.

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ComplexImmediate5140@reddit

Apple Jacks

(Also, OP, go Noles)

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

Waves in tomahawk chop

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ComplexImmediate5140@reddit

It’s a shame we were absolutely terrible again this year. Did you go there?

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

Had some family that lived there growing up, so I started liking them in 92 and been a fan since. Being trash doesn’t bother me as much, it’s losing to the fuckin Gators. We can go 1-11 but as long as we beat the Gators I’m happy lol.

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ComplexImmediate5140@reddit

Gotcha. I went there. And yes, losing to both Miami and the gators hurt a lot. But hey, we beat bama! 🙄

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

That’s cool as hell! You went there when we had some solid players like Cromartie, Leon Washington, Rix, GJomes, etc.

Right, beating Bama was nice but where was that energy vs our rivals?! 😤

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ComplexImmediate5140@reddit

Please don’t count Chris rix as being a solid player. Actually he wasn’t bad, just dumb. I had a shirt that had a handicapped sign on the back and the front said shit happens with shit crossed out and Rix written there. I do remember my friends and I pining over him though bc he was hot. 🤣🤣

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

🤣🤣 I hesitated typing his name but it was mainly bc he had that last second TD vs FL to PK Sam haha. It then dawned upon me that he overslept for a final and couldn’t play against Georgia in the bowl game and Anquan Bolden started at qb. I take back what I said lol

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ComplexImmediate5140@reddit

Not only did he oversleep, once he got there he parked in a damn handicapped parking space!

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

Ok ok, Chris Rix was definitely NOT a solid player. I’ll replace him with Darnell Dockett 😌

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DisgruntledEwok@reddit

A is for Apple!

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ailish@reddit

Cocoa Pebbles. I still buy it now and then. ☺️

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UnrecoveredSatellite@reddit

Im 48 and still love em.

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HAYYme@reddit

King Vitamin. That stuff was the best.

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Atillion@reddit

Y'all rich kids will never have known the atrocities that is King Vitamin on WIC.

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spitfiredaggers@reddit

We ate king vitamin and kaboom!! Loved those cereals!!

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

Shiiiit I completely forgot to mention King Vitamin! Roof raw 😭

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Atillion@reddit

But only if you ate it in the first 3 minutes, after that it became a soggy goop 🤣

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fubo@reddit

Mom wouldn't buy sugary cereal so we got Shredded Wheat and put lots of sugar on it in the bowl.

Dad ate Kellogg's All-Bran, which Mom called "All-Twigs".

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elkniodaphs@reddit

Mr. T Cereal. It was very much like Cap'n Crunch, but in the shape of the letter T, so it had plenty of sharp edges to hit the roof of your mouth.

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

Maybe since I idolized Mr T when I was little I subconsciously felt that his cereal could do no wrong lol

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morrisboris@reddit

Apple Jacks

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HughPajooped@reddit

Smurfberry Crunch. I miss it dearly along with my pudding pops.

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

Someone posted the official pudding pops recipe on here a few months ago. I went and bought pudding and popsicle molds and made them at home, and they're legit.

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HughPajooped@reddit

Wah?!

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heyitscory@reddit

Occasionally some weird thing will remind me of this flavor and I remember Smurf cereal existed.

Rice Krispies with marshmallow, and Orange Juice flavored Kix were also lost cereals of that era.

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GlomBastic@reddit

Kashi is nine whole grains of sugar coated death punch

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

Omfg Kashi was like eating jacks (the toys) 🤣🤣

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Roland-Of-Eld-19@reddit

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

Memory unlocked 😵

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Roland-Of-Eld-19@reddit

Something for everybody haha

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

Yo that Batman cereal from 1989 will tear a hole in your jaw. That turtles cereal was brutal too. Mr T’s cereal was pretty good

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Munchkin531@reddit

Definitely Quaker Oh's but I still love them! My 8yo son eats them with me on the weekends. I like that they are sweet but still healthy.

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Miz_momo82@reddit

The short lived Swedish Chef Croonchy Stars

But other than that, the OG Trix and Golden Grahams

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WhiskyStandard@reddit

Not a cereal, but this reminds me of how much I miss Doritos 3-D despite the damage they caused.

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

Oh I agree! They might’ve caused more damage than all the cereals mentioned lol

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IllGrapefruit489@reddit

Mom refused to buy sugary cereal so we had Cheerios and Corn Flakes. I was literally 16 before I had Lucky Charms. And yes Capn Crunch is dangerous to your mouth!

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

Like regular Cheerios?? 🫢

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IllGrapefruit489@reddit

Yeah 😭

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

Damn I feel your pain! Regular Corn Flakes are good, but regular Cheerios?? Like eating paper 🤣

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5uck3rpunch@reddit

All three of the Monster cereals (Boo Berry, Frankenberry & Count Chocula). All of the good ol' cereals are tasteless now that the high fructose corn syrup was removed.

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three-sense@reddit

Berry Berry Kix

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PvtHudson093@reddit

As a Brit, it was always Sugar Puffs

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ComplexImmediate5140@reddit

Crunch berries were worse than the OG cap’n crunch

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Epicardiectomist@reddit

it's so fucking weird that this was posted today....just last night my daughter was asking about a tiny cut in her mouth, and I was talking about how eating cereal dry can cause it to happen. She was snacking on Crunch Berries.

Cinnamon Toast Crunch did this to me. Every mouthful was full of tiny square edges.

I once drove from Boston to Detroit and ate an entire box of Frosted Mini Wheats while doing so. When we got to the hotel, the shit I took flooded the bathroom and we had to switch rooms.

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pumalegal@reddit

I keep a box of frosted mini wheats on hand for when I need something crunchy to absentmindedly snack on. Saves me from eating an obscene amount of chips and helps me meet my fibre goals! Or exceed them... oops

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

Omg 😭😭😭🪦🪦

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Quixotegut@reddit

Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch (the true GOAT of mouth tearing uppage) put regular CC to shame.

Quaker Oh's actually were more destructive than regular CC, too.

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flamingknifepenis@reddit

My wife and I always joke that we were destined to meet because even as kids we were the weird ones who liked “old people cereal” because the kids’ ones were too sweet. Frosted mini wheats? Nah, I use regular mini wheats and just added some sugar and sliced banana. Honey Nut Cheerios? Better when cut with regular Cheerios.

My jam was more like Honey Bunches of Oats, Raisin Bran, and Basic 4. Kix was pretty good too.

I did used to really like Trix before they changed the recipe. No, I don’t mean when they got rid of the fruit shapes. I mean when they introduced the fruit shapes in the mid ‘90s. That shit was different from then on out, and not in a good way. The flavors were weird and the texture was awful.

I’ve always suspected the “New Coke” conspiracy theory applied there too because my family hated it so much that my mom wrote a letter to the company, which said that they had gotten a lot of feedback and would be going back to the old recipe, but it definitely wasn’t the same. At one point we found a box of the OG stuff that we had taken camping and forgot about, and it was noticeably different.

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der_innkeeper@reddit

Grape Nuts.

Why anyone thought this cereal was a good idea is beyond me. But, I love it, now.

Still hurts the first couple bites.

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poohfan@reddit

Grape nuts were good in yogurt. My mom would sprinkle some on the top, & that was the only way we'd eat it. My dad used to make it like oatmeal. He'd pour hot milk over a bowl of them, & let them mush up.

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jelloslug@reddit

Honeycomb!

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exitlevelposition@reddit

Oh's were my all time favorite. Still grab a box occasionally.

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

Same! Post makes them now and the box is so small compared to every other cereal, but they’re still good

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BronskiBeatCovid@reddit

C-3PO's in my memory were good from ripping up your mouth! Waffle crisp also had to have a good soak before attempting those.

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_NoleFan6@reddit (OP)

A good soak 🤣

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cookiemonster8u69@reddit

Cracklin Oat Bran slaps! Love that stiff

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strongcoffee2go@reddit

Honeycomb!

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Combatical@reddit

Duuude! Oh's were so good, by the time I started really getting into them they'd started disappearing from the shelves.. Every once and a while you'd get a really hard cluster that would almost crack your teeth but it was worth it!

Lucky Charms is a classic. I'd do this weird thing with it though.. First I'd eat all the cat food out of it and save all the marshmallows for the end, so I'd end up with a sugar bomb and rainbow milk. Then naturally I'd pass out into a sugar induced nap.

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violetstrainj@reddit

We always bought the generic cereals, because we were poor.. They were either instantly mushy or caked with sugar that it repelled milk and tore up your mouth. My favorite of those cereals was the “best choice” apple-cinnamon oat rings.

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