Cocoa Puffs
Cocoa Puffs is a brand of chocolate-flavored breakfast cereal manufactured by General Mills. They are small "puff" spheres that have been flavored with cocoa. Essentially, General Mills took their popular Kix cereal and flavored it with cocoa. Fruit flavoring of Kix led to Trix.
Its mascot is Sonny the Cuckoo Bird, whose catchphrase is "cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs". Sonny was originally dark brown but has since become orange. He wore a striped pink and white shirt, but this has recently been removed since 1994. [citation needed]
A cereal bar of Cocoa Puffs has also been made. [1]
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Cultural References
- Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto is a book by Chuck Klosterman
- In music, becoming mainstream with rapper Nelly's song "Country Grammar", the term "Cocoa Puffs" refers to lightly sprinkling Cocaine over Marijuana, which is typically smoked through a pipe. "Cocoa" refers to Cocaine; "Puffs" refers to the act of smoking the mix.
- In the television show Family Guy, the titular character, Peter Griffin, once tried out for, what looked like, a Cocoa Puffs' commercial for the part of Sonny the Cuckoo Bird, and when he read the lines, while in a full costume resembling Sonny the Cuckoo Bird, he said, "I'm ca-ca for Cuckoo Puffs!" The director of the commercial then said, "No, dammit; take 26."
- Throughout the course of three episodes, Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report unsuccessfully invited Senator Joe Lieberman onto his show by offering him, among other things, a bowl of Cocoa Puffs.
Taglines
- You can go cuckoo too! (1996 - 2006)
- The chocolatey taste you go cuckoo for. (1993 - 1996)
- I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!
- Watch out, it's chocolatey!
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Articles with unsourced statements | Breakfast cereals | General Mills brands | Cereal bars