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Friday, February 01, 2008

Random question: Can you name a female cartoon cereal mascot?

At 11:29 AM, Anonymous said...: The only one I can think of was "Strawberry Shortcake". Do they still make that cereal? It was gross.

I can think of a few gender-neutral characters, and a few gender-confused characters, though. Lots of sidekicks/extras too (normally if there is a pack of kids there is at least one girl in it). I think there was a rain-bran once that had the sun-maid raisin girl on it.

There are also the special occurrences, like when Disney or Warner Bros. licenses their characters for a while (Have you seen the Disney Princesses Cereal?)

It is a decidedly male-dominated space, though.
At 3:36 PM, Anonymous said...: The only ones I could think of were the short-lived Powerpuff Girls cereal (which, for the record, was awesome) and the Disney Princess cereal.

No particular importance to the question, it just occurred to me while at the market that there were no "girl cereals" on the shelves. This is only odd because I've noticed that just about everything else that is marketed to kids will have a girl (read: pink) version these days
At 12:30 AM, Walrus said...: Kid and whatshername, the Cheerios kids from my childhood. Kid would run out of steam and she'd say, "You should have had a Cheerios breakfast, Kid..."

The internet has completely let me down, like it does when I assume that somewhere there should be a picture of Charlie Tuna next to a note on a hook saying "Sorry, Charlie."