???? – 1994retired
Fingos
“A snack that ate like a cereal, gone before we figured out which it was.”
“Spangled every angle for exactly one year, then folded its little stars.”
In 1993, General Mills handed kids breakfast cereal shaped like stars and covered in multi-colored sprinkles, launching it the same year as Hidden Treasures. The pitch was joyful and impossible to misread: commercials claimed they spangled every angle with sprinkles. For a moment, dessert cosplayed as breakfast and nobody filed a complaint.
By 1994, Sprinkle Spangles was gone — barely a year in the bowl. A cereal that promised full angular coverage simply didn't get the chance to cover enough angles. Still, few cereals have ever been so honest about what they were.
Spotted something wrong? Every fact on this page traces to a dated source. Fixes make the graveyard better for everyone.