the only season
Remember these?
General Mills says it introduced Count Chocula and the fuchsia-colored Franken Berry in 1971, followed by Boo Berry in 1972. The three cereals feature fingernail-size corn ghouls and multicolored “spooky-fun” marshmallow bats.
Ok – not the most appetizing description of …well, not the most appetizing cereal. But that’s Just Me© There are Count Chocula junkies
But!
At first, the three surviving cereals were year-round familiars. But the cereal maker cut distribution to the period from September to around Halloween in 2010.
What to do? What to do?!?
Walgreen Co. discovered that passion last year. A spokeswoman for the drugstore chain says it doubled its order for the monster cereals this year in response to strong demand in 2011, when it offered them for the first time.
A Wal-Mart Stores Inc. spokesman says its outlets sell “tens of thousands” of boxes of the cereal daily during October.
Stock up!
But those who run out can turn to people like Josh Rhodes, who on eBay charges $7 per box from buyers.
Last year, he says, he sold about 300 boxes and expects to sell about 350 this year.
… [He] buys about 40 boxes at a time for about $2 each at Target….
I love this country!
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You can buy spooky cereal for $7 a box but don’t you dare watch Peanuts Great Pumpkin. Your kids will be traumatized.
Modern Halloween joke: One witch says to another witch: “I want one of those computers that has a spell-checker.”
[...yea-ah I know, about a 3 on the East German Olympic high dive score...]
I prefer a Halloween breakfast of chicken embryos and the fried meat from the side of a pig.
Whaat … no Boobarry?
Some people realize that Crunchberries are the ultimate form of cereal, and some people are losers.
The real sickos are the “Captain Crunch” junkies.
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* ow…the roof of my mouf *
And there’s this too!
Crunchberries with Miracle Whip, you say?
Steve…do you eat your Crunchberries and Miracle Whip while wearing boxers or briefs?
Lemme see if I got this right:This guys buys up a number of limited-edition cereal boxes, then sells them at jacked-up prices when demand is highest… and he’s lauded as a capitalist.
But if the same guy buys up a number of gasoline-powered electric generators in advance of a major storm, then sells them at jacked-up prices when demand is highest ….he’s a price-gouging profiteer.