Some cereal mascots faced a bumpier road ... companies found a way to have their Cookie Crisp and eat it too. They produced ads claiming that the sugar in cereal gave kids the energy they needed ...

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If your childhood took place in the 1990s or the 2000s, you may remember certain faces popping up on your television screens and on the front of your cereal ... the sale of Cookie Crisp yet ...