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Yes, the cereal was in a little box and 1 side was scored to open up and fold back. The wax paper bag had to be carefully cut and folded though. Just as you have described. They were packed in multiple box variety packs. These were common in the 40s and 50s for sure and I think I saw some in Navy chow lines in the 60s.

Yes, it was/is really a thing, Kellog’s still sells the perforated mini boxes but General Mills changed to a shrink wrapped plastic bowl.

The little boxes were one of things we looked forward to when camping provisions were procured, and yes, we had bowls.

Yep, we would get them once a year, the summer camping trip. 60’s and 70’s. And yes, you could use them as a bowl. We loved them. It was the only time of year my mom would buy cereal with sugar in it.

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My memories of this are from the Sixties.

Darling Uncle Badger—Stoaty is telling you the truth. My mother only bought them when they were on a big sale, because the price per serving was exponentially higher than an ordinary box of cereal equally parceled out. They are still sold; I saw some this morning, prominently displayed in H.E.B.(where I dropped $170), because school starts next week. However, I didn’t look at them, so I don’t know if the boxes can still be made into a serving bowl. Next time I go to the store again, I’ll check.

While on vacation this past week, I stayed in two hotels (Country Inn and Suites, and Wingate) that served breakfast buffets to guests, and these little boxed cereals were available. Of course I chose scrambled eggs, sausage, biscuits, gravy, and a sugar-topped blueberry muffin to go 🙂

P.S. Aldi is now in the U.S. I saw once last week in St. Louis.

Just to clarify, Deborah, we’ve always had the mini boxes – and kids have always loved them ‘cos kids love small things here too. What we didn’t have (as far as I can recall)were boxes you could pour the milk into.

You’ll be telling me you sell ready salted crisps (sorry, I mean potato chips) in the USA next! 😉

Yes. Still is.

Here’s a video.

Here’s a YouTube video, but it seems to be an historic reenactment rather than actual proof. Still, it demonstrates the process.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7uXs5KxBpcA

Did you catch what he said up there? Their potato chips used to come unsalted, with a little packet of salt.

Weird people. Talk funny.

Oh, yes, that was definitely a thing. It was cool because you were pouring milk right into the box and eating out of it. That, of course, now makes me wonder why kids (including me as a kid) think that’s cool. Probably because there’s a hint of transgressive/dangerous behavior about it. “Look, I’m pouring milk into the box! And it’s OK! And I can eat right out of the box!”

Is Badger House tuned in to the Olympics?

I concur. Late 60’s early 70’s the boxes had what could laughingly be called perforations that would never quite perforate in a straight line, but hey, before dishwashers, that was one less bowl in the sink! (Mom, I’m just soaking them, I’ll wash them later! Scooby-doo is on!)

Matter of perspective, sweasel. From their point of view, us here in the colonies are the weirdos.

Badger House is a gloriously Olympics free zone, Deborah. 🙂

From some deep dark recess of the mind came the name KelBowlPak. Not sure of the spelling, but we used them at my Aunt & Uncle’s cabin in Northern MN. They were cool because you could take your breakfast to the dock!

Re: Olympics. This is the first year that I’ve watched in a long time. But the sports I like never make it to prime time viewing.

Other decadent luxuries available to us Merkins include sliced bread, twist-off bottle tops and tea bags with a little string so you can pull it out of the cup without getting tea on your fingers.

Specifically, the crisps with the salt sachet that I remember were Smith’s Salt & Shake. The salt was in a deep blue envelope. It’s not as dumb as it sounds as you didn’t have to use the whole salt packet if you preferred less saline crisps.

Uncle Badger: do you remember Cresta soft drinks, with the polar bear in sunglasses saying, “it’s frothy man!”

God, memories.
Grandpa and Grandma use to buy these for our summer trailer trips all over Oregon. (late 70s)

I probably shouldn’t comment though, cause if we ate them out of the box, grandma would have hit the ceiling.

Sugar Smacks are bitch’n.

Back in the mid 90’s when I was a teen I worked at a golf resort. The breakfast buffet for the guests had those little boxes of cereal with the perforation down the center. I’d say it was probably a little more than half of the peeps who would pour their milk into the box and eat it like that even though bowls were provided. We employees would also eat from the box so we wouldn’t have to restock bowls. 😉

Yes, they existed! They were quite the occasional treat back in the 60s!

First day of school here is tomorrow…first time in many years I’m not in my classroom getting ready, which is pretty depressing.

‘Tis true; I remember it as well! 1960s-70s for us. They used to come as a variety package of eight different cereals, all in little boxes. I remember my brother and I practically fighting over certain cereals and that mom wouldn’t buy a new variety until we’d eaten all eight, even the crummy cereals like total (until we’d learned to throw the total away when she wasn’t looking).

I can confirm that as last as the early and mid 90’s these were a thing, and Stoaty isn’t losing her mind.

Well, no more so than usual. 🙂

David Gillies – indeed I do remember Cresta. But then I’m so bloody ancient I also remember the Corona truck coming round with wooden crates of bottles of pop of all manner of colours (and even a couple of different flavours) selling direct to customers.

“Late 60’s early 70’s the boxes had what could laughingly be called perforations that would never quite perforate in a straight line…”

Yep, and as we occasionally got had them in grade school, we would take out our pocket knives to cut them open. Remarkably, a knife fight never broke out, and no one was stabbed to death.

Mmmm … cereal eaten from a box. Standard Sunday night fare back in the 70s for lil’ sis and me after church while the adults chowed down on the last of the cold fried chicken left over from the mandatory huge mid-day meal. Good times, good times.

Twas a thing, my mom made me that for breakfast every morning.

Weasel and Cheatwood. I wonder if they are affilated with Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe?

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Comment from Tom
Time: August 10, 2016, 10:54 pm

From some deep dark recess of the mind came the name KelBowlPak. Not sure of the spelling, but we used them at my Aunt & Uncle’s cabin in Northern MN. They were cool because you could take your breakfast to the dock!
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That was it — though I *think* it was spelled Kel-Bowl-Pac. I suspect Mom bought them because they were cheaper than one big box of one flavor (Corn Flakes or Raisin Bran or whatever). I think there were six little boxes in one unit, six of Kellogg’s most popular cereals, probably. Haven’t seen ’em in years. But then I rarely eat cereal now.

Kel-Bowl-Pac:

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That’s it! I remember that illustration! Even though milk bottles were long gone before I ever saw it.

Pff! That thumbnail. Nothing less than a sharp knife would do the trick.

I loved those boxes! We used to do a three day car trip from Northern VA to southern Alabama, before interstates. The little boxes for breakies and Vienna sausages on white bread for lunch. Remember the canister shaped “Scotch” coolers?

Uncle B: we kept the Corona bottles and my father used them to bottle homebrew.

Deborah HH @ August 10, 2016, 8:31 pm:
P.S. Aldi is now in the U.S. I saw once last week in St. Louis.

Aldi Sud has been in the U.S. since 1976. Incidentally, Trader Joe’s is owned by Aldi Nord. (The two companies are separate – created when the founding brothers split up the chain in 1966 – but in some ways still function as one.)

Yeah, I remember the split down the middle and eat out of the little box cereals from back in the day.

mmmmm, Frosted Flakes.