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Mountain Berry Punch Kool-Aid! (Cereal, too!)

Buncha buncha updates. First up, the Kool-Aid Section inducts Mountain Berry Punch, one of the true powerhouses of the lot. I can't say it's a must-have favorite of mine, but I appreciate that it is for many of you. Dig the package art, though. Also, finally got around to doing a few updates to the Cereal Prize Project, and now that I'm over that hump, perhaps it can return to a more regularly updated glory. Group 013 and Group 014 have been posted!

Posted by Matt on 08/28/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 61 comments

Thanks for this great story I loved hidden treasures and forgot all about them!!! Does anyone else remember keeblers "magic middles" chocolate chip cookies with the frosting like center??? Yum! Matt if you ever find any info on magic middles let me know! They always went great with my ecto-cooler :)

Chestnuts roasted by brookelynn @ 08/28/2005 4:32 PM

There’s few things worse than finding a delicious, yummy, nice, perfect cake – and discovering it’s covered in those damn little round sprinkles of death.

But oh man, just /reading\ about Mountain Berry Punch makes my mouth water.

Chestnuts roasted by Madcap @ 08/28/2005 4:36 PM

Ah yes, building Sunday papers. Great to hide a sleeping, drooling Jason Mewes. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 08/28/2005 4:38 PM

Matt, you had a rubber fred flintstone figure in group 013 while I have a few rubber dinos. One is riding a skate board. Haw! Do you know if these mysterious dinos are cereal prizes? Any one out there know?

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 08/28/2005 5:08 PM

Yeah, I rememer the Sprinkle Spangle cereal, it totally sucked. I think the box was in our cupboard for a long ass time!

I def. remember Mt. Berry Punch! That was one of the best flavors there was! Black Cherry is kind of close, but no cigar.

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 08/28/2005 5:16 PM

I remember both of those cereals and can’t remember if I ever had either one of them. The second one reminds me of a candy that was for Pop (soda) brands like Mountain Dew and Pepsi. It had sort of a bubblelicious form except the inside was gooey and supposed to taste like the pop (soda). How I got that out of Hidden Treasures I’m not sure.

Chestnuts roasted by Dohopoki @ 08/28/2005 5:20 PM

i remember getting toys in cereal. not many of the kind i’m allowed to eat now a days come with toys oh well.

Chestnuts roasted by 80'skid @ 08/28/2005 6:56 PM

Bleh. I never liked Mountain Berry Punch. Too into the blue stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Road Block @ 08/28/2005 7:56 PM

Oooooh. So that’s what they were. I had always remembered "hidden treasures", but didn’t know what I was remembering. I thought I was just crossing wires and fantasizing about dog kibble.

Chestnuts roasted by Road Block @ 08/28/2005 7:59 PM

Just made some Ice Blue Raspberry Lemonade. Looks a lot like Windex.

Chestnuts roasted by Joe in OH @ 08/28/2005 9:04 PM

Thank you Matt for finally covering this beast. I have to say, this flavor had to have extra sugar. A cold glass would not do. Make it extra sweet, and then add ice cubes. That is the proper way to enjoy this. As much as I’ve said before that this is my KoolAid holy grail, I do remember that this would not taste the best unless you made it as described. And to top it off, I can honestly say that the best food to eat this with is Mexican Food.

(I know it’s not wine, but just trust me.)

Chestnuts roasted by Heathtown @ 08/28/2005 10:07 PM

Oooh, Mountain Berry is probably my favorite of the discontinued Kool-Aids Matt’s reviewed so far. I’d go through gallons of the stuff during the summer. (And I do remember it being a bitch to clean up, too…)

I also remember both of the Group 14 cereals. Never had "Hidden Treasures." It was too expensive, and neither my sisters nor I were eager to eat what looked like fruit snacks stuffed into a couple of random Chexes. "Sprinkle Spangle" did make it’s way onto our table, though, and none of us were any more impressed with it than you. Tiny little hard sugar pebbles probably ARE a bad thing to put in cereal.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 08/28/2005 10:32 PM

Reading this article awakened within me the desire to go make Kool-Aid and then put Gushers fruit snacks in it. Yay, sugar! :)

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 08/28/2005 10:45 PM

brookelynn,
I have been singing the praises for Magic Middle since they debuted in the early 90′s. I have no idea why they stopped making them because they kicked the ever living shit out of every othe rcookie out there. Preach on about the Magic Middles!!!

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 08/28/2005 10:48 PM

Mountain Berry Punch is the only flavor I remember my mom buying when I was really young. I always wanted to try others, and I only did while at friends house. Soon enough me and my sisters got to start picking out flavors ourselves and we never picked MBP. I think that’s why it’s not one of my favorites. I do remember the staining and trying so hard to not end up with a Kool-Aid mustache.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 08/28/2005 10:52 PM

as of this moment (midnite) on amc, the breakfast club is on…i am assuming it is edited, but u never know nowadays…after 10pm on comedy central and fx they have been gettin’ away with f-bombs and everything! best new show on tv: it’s always sunny in philadelphia (fx)

Chestnuts roasted by gerv @ 08/29/2005 12:03 PM

it’s edited and i now have a strange craving for turkey pot pie

Chestnuts roasted by gerv @ 08/29/2005 12:05 PM

I spent my childhood drinking Kool Aid but had forgotten about all the cool flavors that used to be available. Mountain Berry Punch was one of my favorites but your Kool Aid articles has resurrected others to my memory as well. Sunshine Punch, Strawberry Falls… I remember drinking these and loving them. No wonder a few years ago when I hit up the Kool Aid aisle looking for an alternative to my usual Ginger Ale and Coca Cola fix that I left confused and only recognizing like…Grape. Oh well :( They discontinue all the good stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Kittycatgirl @ 08/29/2005 12:13 PM

That’s why they stopped producing them. Too many younglings ate catfood expecting to find fruity goodness. The only reward they found was a tummyache and a lawsuit.

Chestnuts roasted by Warx @ 08/29/2005 12:32 PM

hey matt, i sent you an e-mail about a packet of old kool-aid i have. blue moon berry. i don’t know if you got it or not.

Chestnuts roasted by big jerm @ 08/29/2005 12:45 PM

Off Topic: I just got back from a week vacation watching my grandfathers dog. He has Showtime and they showed The Garbage Pail Kids movie Matt has reviewed. It is definately a so bad its good movie. I liked Ally Gator the best.

They also showed the first Troll film. There’s alot of stars in that movie but I didn’t really catch it.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 08/29/2005 12:46 PM

I found a box of sprakling Jell-o tucked away in the pantry yesterday. Too bad it was hard as a rock :( .

Chestnuts roasted by Mangykid @ 08/29/2005 12:52 PM

Haha, you said younglings. My friends couldn’t stop laughing whenever they said it in Ep. III. I seem to remember them saying they filmed the slaughter scene. Let’s cross our fingers and hope it ends up in our hands Nov 1. I’m not as sadistic as that makes me sound, I swear.

Padme: Obi Wan says you killed younglings!
Darth Glass: I’m sorry! Are you mad at me? :P

Sorry, Hayden fan humor.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 08/29/2005 12:58 PM

My mom mourns the discountuation
Mountain Berry Punch. I never really liked it. She said it tasted like the berry punch from Knott’s berry farm (if you’ve ever had that stuff).

Hidden Treasures tasted horrible and all you had to do was hold the cereal up to the light to see which ones were filled.

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 08/29/2005 2:11 AM

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