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Cookie Crisp
Cookie Crisp – Naturally Flavored Sweetened Cereal with milk
Product typeBreakfast cereal
OwnerGeneral Mills (1997–pres)
Produced byGeneral Mills (US)
Nestlé (outside US)
Introduced1977; 47 years ago (1977)
MarketsWorldwide
Previous ownersRalston Purina (1977–97)
Websitegeneralmills.com/cookiecrisp

Cookie Crisp is a breakfast cereal that is manufactured to look like chocolate chip cookies. It is produced by General Mills in the United States[1][2][3] and Cereal Partners in other countries. Introduced in 1977, it was originally produced by Ralston Purina until they sold the trademark to General Mills in 1997.[1]

Varieties

From its introduction in 1977 until the early 1990s, Cookie Crisp was available in three varieties: Chocolate Chip Cookie Crisp, Vanilla Wafer Cookie Crisp and Oatmeal Cookie Crisp.[4]

Peanut Butter Cookie Crisp[5] was introduced in 2005 but was phased out by 2007.[citation needed]

Double Chocolate Cookie Crisp[6] was introduced in 2007. [citation needed]

Sprinkles Cookie Crisp[2] was introduced in July 2009.[citation needed] This variety contains crisps shaped like tiny vanilla cookies topped with tiny multicolored sprinkles.

Birthday Cake Cookie Crisp was introduced in March 2018.[7][8]

Imitations

In 1997, Ralston sold their cereal line to General Mills, who soon after changed the recipe.[citation needed]

Keebler Cookie Crunch[9] was introduced by Kellogg's in 2008. This cereal has cookie pieces. It also includes round O shapes.

Advertising

A box of Cookie Crisp from 1984, featuring Cookie Jarvis[1]

Introduced in 1977, the first Cookie Crisp mascot, Cookie Jarvis,[1][10] was a wizard in the Merlin mold, who with one wave of his wand, magically turned cookie jars into cereal bowls, usually chanting rhyming incantations along with it. He was voiced by Lennie Weinrib.

In 1980, Cookie Jarvis was joined[11] by Cookie Crook,[1] an anti-hero robber who attempts to steal the Cookie Crisp; in 1984 he was followed by his opponent, The Cookie Cop (full name Officer Crumb), a police officer (reminiscent of the Keystone Cops) with an Irish accent who thwarts the Cookie Crook's attempts to steal the Cookie Crisp.

A typical ad would begin with the Cookie Crook attempting to steal the cereal from a live-action breakfast table; often he and the Cookie Cop were portrayed as no larger than mice, so their pictures on the cereal bowl were "life-size". The Crook would have some new gadget or scheme to steal the cereal, but then the Cookie Cop would arrive and save the kid's cereal in the nick of time. Eventually, the format of the ads changed to full animation, and the duo was portrayed as the size of normal humans; an even more slapstick approach (similar to Looney Tunes) was used in these commercials.[citation needed]

Chip the Dog

The Cookie Crook, the Cookie Cop, and Chip the Dog

In 1990, the Cookie Crook was given a sidekick named Chip the Dog.[1] From 1990 to 1996, while serving alongside the Cookie Crook in his schemes to steal Cookie Crisp, Chip would serve as a partial foil to the Cookie Crook, often by howling "Cooookie Crisp!" (with cookies in place of the Os in the word "cookie"), exposing them to Cookie Cop and, in some commercials, often saying "Doggone it" after his and the Cookie Crook's plans are foiled.

After General Mills bought the Cookie Crisp trademark Chip the Dog continued to be the mascot with the Cookie Crook and Cookie Cop from 1997 to 2005, with Cookie Crook and Cookie Cop unfortunately removed from the commercials entirely. In the format of the advertisements, Chip was a friendly pooch, no longer wearing a mask, who offered Cookie Crisp to a group of kids. Typically an adult would interfere on the grounds that cookies are not breakfast food. Near the end of the ads, the adults would change their minds once Chip gave them a taste of his Cookie Crisp.[citation needed]

Chip the Wolf

In 2005, Chip was redesigned into a wolf which possessed the same thieving characteristics as Cookie Crook.[12] His commercials have Chip attempting to steal Cookie Crisp cereal from children (mainly by creating decoy cookies to lure them away from the cereal) only to be foiled every time, he was introduced earlier in the UK since Cookie Crisp was launched in the UK back in 2002.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f COOKIE: A Love Story. Sember Resources. 2012. ISBN 9780984502691.
  2. ^ a b Knapp, Sarah (December 9, 2009). "General Mills to Shrink Sugar Content in Cereals". AdWeek. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
  3. ^ McKinney, Matt (December 9, 2009). "General Mills is dialing back its sugary cereals another notch". Star Tribune. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
  4. ^ dodoadmin (2019-03-18). "A Brief History of the Cookie". DoDo Cookie Dough & Ice Cream. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  5. ^ MacGregor, Hilary E. "On the edges: Nutrition in the grocery store". MailTribune.com. Archived from the original on January 12, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
  6. ^ Ritzer, G. (2014). Essentials of Sociology. SAGE Publications. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-4833-5979-3. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
  7. ^ Jackson, Danielle (March 13, 2018). "Every Day Is Your Birthday Thanks To This New Cookie Crisp Flavor". Delish.com. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. Retrieved June 14, 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Fonseca, Gabe (March 10, 2018). "Peach Cheerios (2018) & Birthday Cake Cookie Crisp (2018)". YouTube. Retrieved June 14, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ Abigail Goldman (August 11, 2010). "If Nevada and other states have their way, you'll know immediately what you're eating". LasVegasSun.com. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
  10. ^ Geis, Michael L. (1982). The Language of Television Advertising. ISBN 9780122789809.
  11. ^ "Saturday Morning Commercials from 1980-1989". uploaded by Stephen Payne. at 5:02. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved April 10, 2019 – via YouTube.
  12. ^ "General Mills Is Bringing Back Cereal Toys". Morning Drive with Christie Live. Retrieved September 21, 2022.

References

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