For what did the 'O' originally stand in the name of the breakfast cereal, Cheerios?
"Mr. T Cereal Mr. T Cereal was a sweetened breakfast cereal manufactured by the Quaker Oats Company. The cereal was prepared with corn and oats as primary ingredients, and was fortified with iron and B vitamins. The cereal box had a cartoon likeness of Mr. T on the box as the cereal's mascot. The cereal was manufactured in the shape of the letter ""T"". It has been described as being similar in flavor to Cap'n Crunch cereal. Mr. T Cereal debuted in 1984 and was a popular cereal in the U.S. during the 1980s. The cereal was the first licensed"
"2014, the brand was sold to Post Cereals. In early 2018, Post reformulated the cereal as ""Honey Oh's"" along with a box redesign. The new formulation no longer contains graham flour, oats and other original ingredients including declining quality control and only 10% of the Oh's contain filling. Oh's Honey Graham Oh's (or Oh's! or Ohs ) is a cereal brand introduced in the mid-1980s by the Quaker Oats Company. The pieces are crunchy corn and oat rings filled with graham cracker bits, crispy rice, and honey. Oh's originally came in two varieties: ""Crunchy Graham"" and ""Honey Nut"". In 1988,"
"on top of Joey's fridge in ""Friends"" for nearly the entire run of the show. It has also become a major staple in the ""90's Kids"" fandom, along with other formerly-discontinued foods including Surge. Oreo O's Oreo O's is a breakfast cereal made by Post Cereals which consists of Oreo-flavored O-shaped pieces of cereal. As of 2001 the cereal got a new recipe with real creme filling. A variation of Oreo O's called Extreme Creme Taste Oreo O's contained Oreo filling-flavored marshmallows. The cereal was launched in 1997 and discontinued in 2007 everywhere outside South Korea. In May 2017, Post"
"in New York City. The bee did not have a name until 2000, when Kristine Tong, a fifth grade student from Coolidge, Texas, won a national contest to name the bee, dubbing him ""BuzzBee"". Many of this cereal's taglines overlapped with each other. They were used on different advertisements. Honey Nut Cheerios maintains most of the same health claims as the original Cheerios, due to its soluble fiber. Package nutritional information asserts that ""three grams of soluble fiber daily from whole grain oat foods, like Honey Nut Cheerios, in a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the"
"Cheerios, introduced in 1979. Highly effective marketing led to the cereal's great success for General Mills, which sold approximately 1.8 million cases of Honey Nut Cheerios in its first year alone. In January 2014, General Mills announced that it would halt the use of genetically modified ingredients in original Cheerios. In February 2015, the company announced they would be making Cheerios gluten-free by removing the traces of wheat, rye, and barley that usually come into contact with the oat supply used to make Cheerios during transportation to the General Mills plant in Buffalo, New York along Lake Erie. Many television"
"Oreo O's Oreo O's is a breakfast cereal made by Post Cereals which consists of Oreo-flavored O-shaped pieces of cereal. As of 2001 the cereal got a new recipe with real creme filling. A variation of Oreo O's called Extreme Creme Taste Oreo O's contained Oreo filling-flavored marshmallows. The cereal was launched in 1997 and discontinued in 2007 everywhere outside South Korea. In May 2017, Post Cereals announced that it would restart production of Oreo O's indefinitely starting June 23. Several advertisements were run on television for Oreo O's during the late 1990s and early 2000s. The variation Extreme Crème"
"Oh's Honey Graham Oh's (or Oh's! or Ohs ) is a cereal brand introduced in the mid-1980s by the Quaker Oats Company. The pieces are crunchy corn and oat rings filled with graham cracker bits, crispy rice, and honey. Oh's originally came in two varieties: ""Crunchy Graham"" and ""Honey Nut"". In 1988, the names of the two versions were renamed ""Honey Graham"" and ""Crunchy Nut."" Eventually, Crunchy Nut was discontinued; today, only Honey Graham is available. In 1989, Quaker went on to introduce a variety of flavors, among them including ""Apple Cinnamon Oh's"", ""Apple Oh's"", and ""Fruitangy Oh's"". In late"
"included, the cereal contained artificial flavors and it didn't use the Oreo name for licensing reasons. Instead, the cereal was called ""Cookies & Cream"", and was sold in bags in many Walmart stores. Due to high sales and a marketing deal made by Walmart, Post announced that Nabisco will once again co-brand. Soon after, Oreo O's were rereleased with its original 1997 recipe worldwide as a Walmart Exclusive Product, including the United States on June 23. The cereal made an appearance in ""Daddy Day Care"" as one of the cereals in the cereal aisle at the supermarket. It was also"
"Honey Nut Cheerios Honey Nut Cheerios is a variation of Cheerios breakfast cereal, introduced in 1979 by the General Mills cereal company. The second variation from the original Cheerios, it is sweeter than the original, with a honey and almond flavor. While this product used to be made with actual nuts, as of 2006, the nuts were discontinued, and natural flavor, from peach and apricot pit, is used instead. In 2011, Honey Nut Cheerios was the best-selling cereal in the United States. Their mascot is an anthropomorphic bee, designed for the first commercials by Dean Yeagle at Zander's Animation Parlour"
"Cruncheroos Cruncheroos is a whole grain oat breakfast cereal manufactured by Kellogg's, originally available in the United States and Canada in two flavors, apple and cinnamon or honey and almonds. As the name states, the cereal was crunchy and O-shaped. The cereal was created in the early 1990s and featured a mascot named ""Crunchosaurus Rex"", an anthropomorphic purple dinosaur who, in television advertisements, used stealth and cunning to steal the cereal from another character who was consuming it, such as a hungry museum guard working late at night. Kellogg's discontinued the cereal from the retail market by the late 1990s,"
"possibly due to its similarity to Apple Jacks, Apple Cinnamon Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios, which were already popular. However, a plain version, much less sweet than the original, is still marketed to the food service industry, without the Crunchosaurus Rex mascot. Cruncheroos Cruncheroos is a whole grain oat breakfast cereal manufactured by Kellogg's, originally available in the United States and Canada in two flavors, apple and cinnamon or honey and almonds. As the name states, the cereal was crunchy and O-shaped. The cereal was created in the early 1990s and featured a mascot named ""Crunchosaurus Rex"", an anthropomorphic purple"
"Oreo O's had its own television commercial starring the ""Créme Team,"" a troupe of humanoid marshmallows sporting sunglasses, in 2001. The advertisement promoted the Extreme Crème Oreo O's variation as more chocolatey in taste, and more creamy. The cereal was a joint product from Post Cereals and Kraft Foods, which allowed both companies to share the rights, distribution and profits after 1997. The cereal was very successful when it came to sales, and parental approval as a suitable breakfast food. In 2007, both companies ceased co-branding, which made the cereal impossible to produce. Kraft foods owned the copyrights to the"
"oat-produced ""Big-G, little-o"" ""Go-power"". The character was revived briefly in the late 1980s in similar commercials. In 2012, The Cheerios Kid and sidekick Sue were revived in an online internet video that showed how Cheerios ""can lower cholesterol"". Video clips of ""the Kid"" and Sue are part of a montage included in a 2014 TV commercial, along with clips of the Honey Nut Cheerios bee's early commercials. In 1984 and 1985, characters from the comic strip Peanuts were featured in many Cheerios commercials. In the commercials, the characters become tired at the middle of something (e.g. a dance lesson, playing"
"wheat. Consumer Reports recommended parents to choose cereal brands with better nutritional ratings for their children. Golden Crisp Golden Crisp is a breakfast cereal made by Post Cereals that consists of sweetened, candy-coated puffed wheat. It was introduced in the US in 1947. At the 1904 World Fair, the Quaker Oats Company made a candy-coated puffed cereal, a wheat-based product similar to Cracker Jack's candy-coated popcorn. The product concept was re-introduced unsuccessfully in 1939 by another business as ""Ranger Joe"", the first pre-sweetened, candy-coated breakfast cereal. Post Foods introduced their own version in 1948. The Post version was originally called"
"be seen imprinted on Oreo cookies in addition to Nabisco product boxes and literature. It has been claimed in company promotional material to be an early European symbol for quality. It may be derived from a medieval Italian printer's mark that represented ""'the triumph of the moral and spiritual over the evil and the material'"", or to represent the act of winnowing, separating grain from chaff. In 1792, Pearson & Sons Bakery opened in Massachusetts. They made a biscuit called pilot bread for consumption on long sea voyages. Josiah Bent coined the term ""cracker"" for a crunchy biscuit they produced"
"The next scene features the father waking up as a pile of Cheerios spill down his chest, which the daughter placed there having taken her father's words literally. The commercial received unintentional notoriety due to the racist anger at the commercial showing a biracial family. This was so extreme that General Mills disabled further comments on the video. In 2014, General Mills released a Super Bowl ad titled ""Gracie"", featuring the same family: in the commercial, the father, using Cheerios to illustrate his meaning, tells the daughter that a new baby is coming, that her mother is pregnant, and the"
"Many of the different types of porridge were made specially for the royal family including a type of porridge called ""pea porridge"". This specific dish was made for King Richard II. Oatmeal is popular in the United States however, cereal and oatmeal are not as popular as they used to be due to other portable options. Cereal in the United States is no longer the desired breakfast it once was. A widely popular cereal in the United States is Cheerios, part of the General Mills production. Wheat-based cereals (Cream of Wheat, Malt-o-Meal, Wheatena, etc.) are widely available if less popular."
"risk of heart disease . Honey Nut Cheerios has 0.75g per serving."" As with Cheerios, the American Heart Association certified the cereal as ""heart-healthy"" for meeting the food criteria for saturated fat and cholesterol content. Honey Nut Cheerios also contains more sugar (9.6 Grams/serving) than General Mills' Cheerios, which contain 1.2 Grams/serving. Of the top six ingredients three are sweeteners (sugar, brown sugar, and honey). The Environmental Working Group placed the sugar content of Honey Nut Cheerios as second of all breakfast cereal varieties tested (behind Fruity Pebbles). Honey Nut Cheerios Honey Nut Cheerios is a variation of Cheerios breakfast"
"T.O.'s Honey Toasted Oats T.O.’s Honey Toasted Oats or ""T.O.'s"" is the name of a brand of Honey Nut Toasted Oats breakfast cereal named after wide receiver Terrell Owens. Terrell Owens T.O.'s Cereal was officially unveiled on Thursday, July 30, 2009 nearly four months after he signed a one-year contract with the Buffalo Bills. The cereal was offered at $2.50 per 14oz box and was a big hit, selling out within hours of initial release. The cereal was made available exclusively at the Tops Markets LLC grocery store chain in upstate New York, and online thru PLB Sports, a Pittsburgh-based"
"of Cheerios cereal reduced bad cholesterol when eaten as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol."" The FDA letter indicated that General Mills needed to change the way it marketed Cheerios or apply for federal approval to sell Cheerios as a drug. General Mills responded with a statement that their claim of soluble fiber content had been approved by the FDA, and that claims about lowering cholesterol had been featured on the box for two years. In 2012, the FDA followed up with a letter approving the Cheerios labeling and declaring that the matter was moot and"
"Weetos Weetos is a brand of chocolate-flavoured breakfast cereal produced by Weetabix Food Company. The name comes from the fact that its primary ingredient is wheat (Weet-) and the cereal pieces are in O shapes (-Os), the same naming convention that is used on the company's flagship cereal Weetabix (Wheat Biscuits). The brand initially began with the Weetos cereal, officially known as Weetos Chocolate Flavour, and has expanded to include Weetos Meteors, Weetos Bars (which are cereal snacks in bar-form), and Weetos Vs. Alien Invasion. Weetos is the only cereal by Weetabix Food Company that is marketed toward the youth"
"S. Campbell developed a hot wheat breakfast cereal he called Malt-O-Meal. The company officially adopted the name The Malt-O-Meal Company in 1953 (renamed MOM Brands in February 2012). By 1965, the company had entered the ready-to-eat non-hot breakfast sector with the introduction of Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat cereals. While the company is best known for its line of hot cereals, it derives a large percentage of its sales from its 20-plus discount-priced bagged cold cereals, many of which are imitations of better-known national brands. The following are per 30 g serving. Marshmallow Mateys Marshmallow Mateys is a brand of"
"to granulated gelatin and sugar. Then in 1899, Jell-O was sold to Orator Francis Woodward (1856–1906), whose Genesee Pure Food Company produced the successful Grain-O health drink. Part of the legal agreement between Woodward and Wait dealt with the similar Jell-O name. Various elements were key to Jell-O becoming a mainstream product: new technologies, such as refrigeration, powdered gelatin and machine packaging, home economics classes, and the company's marketing. Initially Woodward struggled to sell the powdered product. Beginning in 1902, to raise awareness, Woodward's Genesee Pure Food Company placed advertisements in the ""Ladies' Home Journal"" proclaiming Jell-O to be ""America's"
"of the name Oreo is unknown, but there are many hypotheses, including derivations from the French word ""or"", meaning gold, or the Greek word ωραίο (/ɔ.ˈrɛ.ɔ/), meaning tasty, beautiful, nice or well done. Others believe that the cookie was named Oreo simply because the name was short and easy to pronounce. Another theory is that the name derives from the Latin ""Oreodaphne"", a genus of the laurel family. Food writer Stella Parks notes in her book ""BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts"" that the original design of the Oreo includes a laurel wreath; and the names of several of Nabisco's cookies at"
"across America along with other ""The Simpsons Movie"" related products. In 2007, Malt-O-Meal began construction on their new manufacturing facility in Asheboro, North Carolina. The building, formerly occupied by Unilever Best Foods, became the fourth manufacturing facility for Malt-O-Meal. Operations at the plant began in late 2008. In December 2009, Malt-O-Meal acquired the Farina brand of hot cereal from U.S. Mills. Farina was started by Pillsbury in 1898. On February 21, 2012, the Malt-O-Meal Company re-branded as MOM Brandsthe new name is intended to reflect the company's wider product range, while still acknowledging its flagship product through the use of"
"Lucky Charms Lucky Charms is a brand of cereal produced by the General Mills food company since 1964. The cereal consists of toasted oat pieces and multi-colored marshmallow shapes (""marbits"" or marshmallow bits). The label features a leprechaun mascot, Lucky, animated in commercials. Lucky Charms was created in 1964 by product developer John Holahan. General Mills management challenged a team of product developers to use the available manufacturing capacity from either of General Mills' two principal cereal products—Wheaties or Cheerios—and do something unique. Holahan came up with the idea after a visit to the grocery store in which he decided"
"in some markets, and steady and continued growth throughout its history. The number of different types of breakfast cereals in the U.S. has grown from 160 (1970) to 340 (1998) to 4,945 (2012). In this highly competitive market, breakfast cereal companies have developed cereals in an ever-increasing number of flavors. Although many plain wheat and oat based cereals exist, other flavors are sweet. Some of the most popular brands include freeze-dried fruit and others are flavored like dessert or candy. Cereal, oatmeal and porridge quickly became an important breakfast component in North America. Barley was a common grain used, though"
"the beer became a collectors’ item, with one case selling for $US13,000. Duff Beer was not sold at 7-Eleven because the promoters wanted to have “good, responsible fun.” However, a Duff Energy Drink was released in place of the Duff Beer. Krusty-O's is a brand of breakfast cereal endorsed by Krusty the Clown which prominently features his likeness on the box. The real KrustyO's, sold by 7 Eleven, were produced by the Malt-O-Meal corporation. Krusty-Brand Cereal is the catalyst for the episode ""'Round Springfield"", when Bart swallows a ""jagged metal Krusty-O"" included in the box as a premium and is"
"were generated by its Post Foods unit. The spinoff was completed with an IPO for Post Holdings, Inc. on February 7, 2012. In 2015, Post Foods purchased MOM Brands (formerly Malt-O-Meal Co.) creating the third largest breakfast cereal company in the US. The combined company is now called Post Consumer Brands and is headquartered in Lakeville, Minnesota. Post Consumer Brands Post Consumer Brands (previously Post Cereals and Postum Cereals) is an American consumer cereal brand that includes Honey Bunches of Oats, Pebbles, Great Grains, Post Shredded Wheat, Post Raisin Bran, Grape-Nuts, Honeycomb, Frosted Mini Spooners, Golden Puffs, Oh's, Cinnamon Toasters,"
"O-eo O-eo () is a Southern Thai shaved ice dessert with sweet toppings such as red bean, sweet syrup, grass jelly and palm seed. The most important ingredient is ""o-eo"" jelly which is made of banana and Chinese herbs. The dessert is highly popular in Phuket. The dessert is originally from Penang Malaysia and became Phuket local food till nowadays. ""O-eo"" originally came from Penang, Malaysia. The first man who sold ""o-eo"" in Phuket is Chinese refugee named Pa Eng. Until today his family still continue this business. They said that this dessertused to be called Bun Tau Bie in"
"Golden Crisp Golden Crisp is a breakfast cereal made by Post Cereals that consists of sweetened, candy-coated puffed wheat. It was introduced in the US in 1947. At the 1904 World Fair, the Quaker Oats Company made a candy-coated puffed cereal, a wheat-based product similar to Cracker Jack's candy-coated popcorn. The product concept was re-introduced unsuccessfully in 1939 by another business as ""Ranger Joe"", the first pre-sweetened, candy-coated breakfast cereal. Post Foods introduced their own version in 1948. The Post version was originally called Happy Jax, and was renamed to Sugar Crisp the next year. In 1967, The name was"
"the extruder, then the dough is formed into the desired shape by extrusion through a die. It was the first cereal to be manufactured using this process. Experimentation with this puffing process led to other popular brands like Cheerios. In 1947, Kix offered a Lone Ranger atomic bomb ring in exchange for a box top and 15 cents. The ring contained a spinthariscope, so that when the red base (which served as a ""secret message compartment"") was taken off, and after a period of time for dark adaptation, you could look through a small plastic lens at scintillations caused by"
"name Oreo, yet Post owned the copyrights to the cereal recipe itself. Neither company wished to relinquish either rights; therefore forcing the cereal to become discontinued worldwide. Due to an international loop hole with the rights of Oreo O's, they were only produced and available in South Korea, with boxes of the product being available for international purchase on eBay from third-party sellers for well over $10. Korean food manufacturer Dongsuh Foods was established as a joint venture of General Foods and Dongsuh Companies Inc., and had distribution rights to produce Post Foods cereals in Korea. When Kraft Foods acquired"