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Carmella Creeper

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The monster cereals are a line of breakfast cereal produced by General Mills Corporation in North America. The line was introduced in 1971 and, at various times, has included six brands, each featuring a cartoon version of a classic movie monster: Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry (all produced seasonally from September 1 to October 31), as well as Frute Brute and Yummy Mummy (both are discontinued, except for limited productions) with a sixth character Carmella Creeper introduced in 2023.

In March 1971, the first two cereals in the line were introduced, the chocolate-flavored Count Chocula and the strawberry-flavored Franken Berry. In the commercials, the two monsters, Count Alfred Chocula and Franken Berry, would engage in comic bickering over which cereal was better, when something or someone else (usually Boo Berry) interfered in their verbal sparring and scared them out of their wits.

In February 1972, Franken Berry cereal included an indigestible pigment that turned some children's feces pink, a symptom sometimes referred to as "Franken Berry stool". The Count Chocula and Franken Berry recipes were reformulated to remove this pigment.

Boo Berry, the first blueberry-flavored cereal, was released in December 1972 (released nationally in February 1973), and Frute Brute in 1974. Frute Brute was discontinued by 1982, after an eight-year run. It was replaced in 1988 by Fruity Yummy Mummy, which was discontinued in 1992 after just five years. During this period, Frute Brute made conspicuous appearances in two films by Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, as a visual easter egg. Boo Berry, the blueberry-flavored cereal, was released in 2023.

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