Kids These Days 85

I was talking to my cousin the other day about oatmeal. This is something old people do. We talk about eating healthier and things from our youth. A food called Undercover Bears that came out around 1990 popped into my head and I remembered my mother buying this and loving it. I hated eating oatmeal for the most part except for apple and cinnamon, so seeing one that had pieces of damn candy floating in it appealed to my diabetic family having ass. 

I know kids got a newer version of this that was dinosaur eggs but I got a bootleg McGruff the Crime Dog in bear form sticking Gummi Bears in oatmeal. It was very weird but made eating this way more enjoyable. They need to start making more foods like this for kids. I know they say there is too much sugar in stuff these days, but, whatever. I grew up eating every cereal as a child and I turned out fine...ish.

Looking at that oatmeal above made me look up this other one called Oatmeal Swirlers. This was some nonsense. In the ads you see them swirling what is pretty much the red syrup I used to get from IHOP on top of some regular oatmeal. They making tic tac toes, art, and covering the whole bowl with swirls. Nope. This barely had as much covering as a packet of ketchup. There was also a sea creature one I didn't try. 

This came out in 88/89 around a time where there was this weird ass health kick going on in this country. Weight Watchers was huge. People were eating rice cakes and pretending they were delicious (they are to me oddly enough). When looking up images and such for some of these things I write about they are usually written by people who weren't even born when it existed or hacked their own version. No. If you didn't have the original ask an old person. Like me.

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