The monster cereals are a line of breakfast cereals produced by General Mills in North America. Since the line was introduced in 1971, it has been associated with three enduring brands: Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry. The brands Frute Brute (originally Fruit Brute) and Yummy Mummy have had more limited production and availability.[9] The Carmella Creeper brand was introduced in 2023.
History
In March 1971, the first two cereals in the line were introduced, the chocolate-flavored Count Chocula and the strawberry-flavored Franken Berry. In the commercials, the two monsters, Count Alfred[10] Chocula and Franken Berry, would engage in comic bickering over which cereal was better, when something or someone else interfered in their verbal sparring and scared them.
In February 1972, Franken Berry cereal included an indigestible pigment that turned some children's feces pink, a symptom sometimes referred to as "Franken Berry stool".[11][12]