sugar smacks and boner
Tonight Ian, Brandon, and I were staying up too late talking, just blatantly ignoring the fact that we had two shows today, survived the mayhem of Beale street afterward, and have another two shows tomorrow.
But sandwiched somewhere between discussions of bacon flavored ice cream (I know, it horrified me as well), family members (don’t worry, they don’t horrify me), how my brother almost accidentally killed my pop with a tractor (we’re grateful it didn’t happen, too), and whether or not an article of clothing I was wearing was magenta or pink (it was pink, I was so right), the topic of cereal came up.
Remember Cookie Crunch? one of us said. And the soggies? another chimed in.
Then we just started naming them, one by one, the cereals that made our sleepovers, our birthdays, our Saturday mornings.
Cap’N Crunch! Oh no, Peanut Butter Crunch! Fruity Pebbles! At that one we all paused and said Mmmmmmmm…Coco Puffs! We all agreed that was especially tasty because of the added bonus of it turning your milk to chocolate milk.
And then Brandon asked, What about the one with the frog?
I have to admit we were stumped for a few moments. But just a few, cause then we very quickly remembered Sugar Smacks.
And then we all looked at each other, because, no that just can’t be right.
I mean, think about it.
A cereal, the way by which a parent is supposed to start off his beloved kid’s day right, begins the title with the word SUGAR?
Cavity-producing, addictive, bouncing off the walls, gives you a high only to drop you right down again, sugar?!?!
Risky.
But that’s not even the worst. Not by a long shot.
Let’s evaluate the word smack, shall we? Because it’s a euphemism for drugs. And not just pot, either. Hard drugs. Devastating drugs.
And when I did a quick google search, this is what I saw:
smack – 25 definitions – [Heroin]. Most frequently used in the 60s.
It’s a term from the 60s, folks; meaning, you can’t even say that the word wasn’t used in that way yet.
Because it was, it was!
So I gotta wonder what, exactly, good old Kellog’s was thinking with this one.
Sugar Smacks. Really.
And now that I am on the subject of weird names from back in the day, why, oh why was that one kid’s name Boner on Growing Pains?
And did Boner ever enjoy some Sugar Smacks, I wonder?
These are the things we ponder late at night, you guys.
Don’t judge. That’s not nice.
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