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• Created by General Mills Cereals, Frankenberry was launched alongside Count Chocula in 1971. Designed to appeal to the Monster Kids (tweens that grew up in the 60s watching 50s sci-fi and horror flicks), the sugar-laden lineup extended in 1973 with the addition of Boo Berry and the now-defunct Fruit Brute. The baby of the bunch is Yummy Mummy, who appeared in 1987.

• The original formula for the cereal used a dye that turned chilren’s skin, saliva and fecal matter a bright reddish-pink colour. It occurd frequently enough that “Frankenberry Stool” is actually a legitimate medical term.

• Frankenberry is a sort of unofficial Gay Pride mascot, with his swinging seventies attire, Elton-esque glasses, pink nail polish and rump-shaped head all cited as proof of poof-dom. Oh yeah, he also released a Disco album.

• Frankenberry is also a strain of marijuana with a surprisingly saturated purple bud. It is refuted by some as a mis-nomer due to the distinct blueberry bouquet and not the appropriate strawberry scent. Of course two things stoners know is their strands and their cereals…

• Frankenberry is a real last name. There are over 5,000 documented Frankenberrys in North American alone, dating back well before the cereal. It is a form of German or Jewish Frankenberger or Frankenberg, meaning “the Franks (read: Germans) of the hill”.

• Comedian Chi MacBride burned Kloe Kardashian on a Oct. 2011 episode of Late Night With Craig Ferguson, asking “What’s the one that look like Frankenberry?” The quip spawned several online photo-comparisons and even a facebook page. (*One should note that little mention has been made of a possible relation to SNL Comedian Al Franken, the resemblance also quite striking.)

So there you have it: a gay German kiddie-poisoner from the 70’s who loves to blaze one at the drive-in and spawned a sex-crazed socialite’s love child. Groovy…

(© c.ohearn - 2012)

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Mills_monster-themed_breakfast_cereals

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/49/2/293.abstract

http://prince.org/msg/100/254366

http://turntabling.net/album/wtf/wtf-records-pink-panther-frankenberry-disco-and-paul-klee/

http://www.marijuana.com/threads/frankenberry-worlds-purplest-weed.265857/

http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=frankenberger

http://www.aoltv.com/2011/08/31/chi-mcbride-khloe-kardashian-looks-like-frankenberry-video/

Image Source: “Frankenberry Vs The Klan” by Sean Starwars (http://www.seanstarwars.com/)

• Created by General Mills Cereals, Frankenberry was launched alongside Count Chocula in 1971. Designed to appeal to the Monster Kids (tweens that grew up in the 60s watching 50s sci-fi and horror flicks), the sugar-laden lineup extended in 1973 with the addition of Boo Berry and the now-defunct Fruit Brute. The baby of the bunch is Yummy Mummy, who appeared in 1987.

• The original formula for the cereal used a dye that turned chilren’s skin, saliva and fecal matter a bright reddish-pink colour. It occurd frequently enough that “Frankenberry Stool” is actually a legitimate medical term.

• Frankenberry is a sort of unofficial Gay Pride mascot, with his swinging seventies attire, Elton-esque glasses, pink nail polish and rump-shaped head all cited as proof of poof-dom. Oh yeah, he also released a Disco album.

• Frankenberry is also a strain of marijuana with a surprisingly saturated purple bud. It is refuted by some as a mis-nomer due to the distinct blueberry bouquet and not the appropriate strawberry scent. Of course two things stoners know is their strands and their cereals…

• Frankenberry is a real last name. There are over 5,000 documented Frankenberrys in North American alone, dating back well before the cereal. It is a form of German or Jewish Frankenberger or Frankenberg, meaning “the Franks (read: Germans) of the hill”.

• Comedian Chi MacBride burned Kloe Kardashian on a Oct. 2011 episode of Late Night With Craig Ferguson, asking “What’s the one that look like Frankenberry?” The quip spawned several online photo-comparisons and even a facebook page. (*One should note that little mention has been made of a possible relation to SNL Comedian Al Franken, the resemblance also quite striking.)

So there you have it: a gay German kiddie-poisoner from the 70’s who loves to blaze one at the drive-in and spawned a sex-crazed socialite’s love child. Groovy…

(© c.ohearn - 2012)

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Mills_monster-themed_breakfast_cereals

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/49/2/293.abstract

http://prince.org/msg/100/254366

http://turntabling.net/album/wtf/wtf-records-pink-panther-frankenberry-disco-and-paul-klee/

http://www.marijuana.com/threads/frankenberry-worlds-purplest-weed.265857/

http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=frankenberger

http://www.aoltv.com/2011/08/31/chi-mcbride-khloe-kardashian-looks-like-frankenberry-video/

Image Source: “Frankenberry Vs The Klan” by Sean Starwars (http://www.seanstarwars.com/)