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May 2, 2011 06:35 pm PDT
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Quisp Meteorite Ring
As a little kid in the 1960s my favorite breakfast serial was Quisp. It didn't taste quite as good as Cap'n Crunch, but the cereal pieces were shaped like little flying saucers and the mascot was a nerdy, mischievous pink alien with a propeller on its head. What could beat that? The television commercials for Quisp were entertaining, because they often featured Quisp's rival, an arrogant, cowboy-hat-wearing, subterranean jock named Quake, who had his own cereal, too. The two characters hated each other, and I hated Quake, too. I thought Quake cereal tasted horrible (though it was probably made from the same stuff Quisp was made from). In those days, cereal boxes came with cool prizes: little plastic spaceman that slid onto your spoon handle, colorful characters that clung to your cereal bowl, miniature submarines that used baking powder to make them rise and fall in a bathtub. I had many of the cereal box prizes, but the one I was most excited about getting was a Quisp ring that had a clear plastic cylinder that housed a real meteorite. The top of the cylinder even had a small magnifying glass to examine the sample. Unfortunately, General Mills played a dirty trick on me and other Quisp loyalists. They also made a Quake ring (which contained a piece of volcanic pumice) and there was no guarantee which ring you would get when you bought a box of Quisp....
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