Cröonchy Stars
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Cröonchy Stars was a breakfast cereal by Post Cereals of North America. The cereal was released in 1988, and was discontinued about a year later. The box featured the Swedish Chef from The Muppet Show, who described the cereal as "cinnamonnamony". The product's name is likely a pseudo-phonetic rendition of how the Chef would pronounce "crunchy." The back of the box featured ridiculous games and puzzles and a memory-type card game was included in every box.
In addition to the gratuitous umlaut in Cröonchy, most of the cereal's labelling and promotional material used the idiosyncratic spelling Swed̈ish Chef, with an umlaut over the letter d. As with Spin̈al Tap, this marks one of the rare instances of an umlaut being used over a consonant.
Originally, Jim Henson created the name of the cereal as "Stoopid Flakes". However, this did not sit well with Post. They renamed the breakfast cereal into Cröonchy Stars.
