Froot Loops
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Froot Loops is a brand of breakfast cereal produced by Kelloggs and sold in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and Latin America as well as South Africa. The cereal pieces come in a variety of bright colors and a blend of artificial flavors. Kellogg's introduced Froot Loops in 1963.
Other varieties of the cereal include Froot Loops 1/3 Less Sugar and Marshmallow Froot Loops.
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[edit] Toucan Sam
The cereal's mascot is Toucan Sam, a blue cartoon toucan with a striped beak. Although his beak originally had two pink stripes, during the 1970s it became a tradition that each stripe on his beak represented one of the flavors of the pieces in the cereal. (red = cherry, yellow = lemon, orange = orange) The additions of new flavors have made this color scheme no longer accurate. There are now, in fact, 7 different flavors of this cereal.
The colors perhaps represent different flavors present in the cereal, but each color has the same flavor. [1]
The cartoon character Toucan Sam was originally voiced by Mel Blanc, using an ordinary American accent. Blanc's original commercials were noted for their use of Pig Latin (referring to the cereal as OOT-fray OOPS-lay). The ad agency later decided to switch to the English accent more commonly associated with the character. They then employed Paul Frees to do what is, in effect, an imitation of Ronald Colman. In the most recent cartoon advertisements for Froot Loops, Toucan Sam's voice has been performed by Canadian voice actor Maurice LaMarche.
Biologically speaking, Toucan Sam is a Keel-billed Toucan, also known as Ramphastos sulfuratus.
Since 1994, Toucan Sam has been joined onscreen by three nephews, not unlike Donald Duck's nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie. The nephews real names were Puey, Susey , and Louis.
[edit] Other products
A variation of the Froot Loops cereal was manufactured starting in 1998 called Marshmallow-Blasted Froot Loops. This cereal was Froot Loops with marshmallows added. New marshmallows were introduced usually every year. It started out with Toucan Sam marshmallows, followed by frogs, then number 2's, then mummies, and finally sharks and piranhas. The commercials followed a story of Toucan Sam traveling through a marshmallow temple. The cereal was discontinued in 2005. Marshmallow-Blasted Froot Loops were not marketed in Australia to comply with local dietary requirements for products marketed to children.
Besides the breakfast cereal, there are other products currently available in the North American retail market:
- Froot Loops fruit snacks come in a variety of fruit flavors: green apple, watermelon, blue raspberry, orange, cherry, and grape.
- Eggo Froot Loops is a spin-off product to both Eggo and Froot Loops. They are waffles with multiple flavors of fruity filling inside.
- Cereal Milk Bars - milk cream are at the bottom of cereal pieces attached together.
[edit] Taglines
- Follow your nose.....wherever it goes.
- Follow my nose...it always knows!
[edit] Froot Loops in Films
In the 1986 film Wimps the character Tracy (a prostitute) played by Veronica Hart orders a bowl of Froot Loops with beer chaser in a scene set in an upmarket restaurant.
