Company: General Mills
Years: 1980-83/84
Powdered Donutz Cereal (using the Z instead of the S before it was cool to do that) was basically a fat powdered Cheerio. They didn't think that was a very good slogan, so they went with their second choice, "A Crispy, Sweetened 3 Grain Cereal".
Doesn't quite catch the eye like "Just A Fat Powdered Cheerios", does it?
I don't honestly remember this cereal either, but what was with all the Donut Cereals in the 80's/90's? Powdered Donutz, Dinky Donuts, Dunkin Donuts Cereal.....
Anyway, much like Urkel-Os, General Mills tried to dress up Cheerios and give it a new name, but to no avail. It was around to see the early 80's and then it was gone.
What did you think of Powdered Donutz Cereal?
I liked the cereal a lot... I can still my remember my neighbor singing the commercial jingle while we were shooting hoops in his drive way.
ReplyDeleteThey were do-licious!
ReplyDeleteI remember eating these!! I liked them, although I don't think they would be popular now
ReplyDeleteMy favorite cereal, ever!! They were only around for about 3 years, but I still miss them! (I know...crazy, right?)
ReplyDeleteI think they might do quite well in today's market, where most cereals are just clones of some other one....Donutz was truly unique. Once in a while, I catch a whiff of something that I swear smells like Donutz...guess it made quite an impression on my 10 to 12-year-old taste buds!!
Me too!!! I wish they would bring them back!
DeleteMy favorite EVER!!!! I wish they'd bring this one back!!!!
ReplyDeleteI remember when they hit the market and I loved them. I think Dinky Donuts were developed to compete with the former (but Donutz were far superior). I don't remember a Dunkin Donuts cereal, perhaps those came out a little later. I turned 12 in 1980, and that was about the last year of my sugary cereal phase.
ReplyDeleteI'll disagree with most: Powered Donutz was, until this week, the worst-tasting cereal I ever ate. I may have had a second bowl, but I'm pretty sure I didn't finish the box. I've now found something that's tied for last place with this abomination.
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