From: Quaker
Introduced in 1940

• During World War II, Sparkies cereal (via their sponsored radio program, Terry and the Pirates) offered kids the chance to have their names added to a microfilm list that was given to an actual B-25 bomber crew. The message on the list read, "Drop one on the Japs and Nazis for me!" The opportunity cost one box top.

This cereal also came in a Puffed Wheat Sparkies variety.

The most popular slogan for the cereal was "rice shot from guns", referring to the process used to puff rice. "Gun puffing" is a high pressure cooking method which causes the rice grains to quickly expand or "explode".

Company Description: The Quaker Oats Company was founded in 1901 with the merger of three oat milling operations in the Mid-Western United States. Since then, the company has expanded operations to include a number of grocery sectors. In addition to hot and cold breakfast cereals, their products include... Read on and see all cereals from Quaker

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Overall Average Rating = 5 (out of 5)

By forest

The cereal was okay but the theme song was bad.

Comment submitted: 2/29/2012 (#6649)



By Tina Scott

Cereal Rating (out of 5):

I found an old jingle for Puffed Rice Sparkies. It's from Thomas Sisi at thoughts.com and he says a couple of the words could be wrong. Anyways...

"Quaker Puffed Rice Sparkies,
Rice shot from a gun.
The family's favorite breakfast
Makes eating lots of fun.

"Quaker Puffed Rice Sparkies.
No better taste 'Do Tell!'
The extra step gives extra pep,
And, Boy, the taste is swell.

"Yes, here comes Quaker with a bang, bang.
Ruhd-dut-ee-dut, bang, bang."

Comment submitted: 8/11/2009 (#305)

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