Pebbles cereal
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Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles are brands of breakfast cereal introduced by Post Cereals in 1971, featuring characters from the animated series The Flintstones. Cocoa Pebbles contains chocolate-flavored crispy rice cereal bits, while Fruity Pebbles contains crispy rice cereal bits that come in a variety of fruit flavors.
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[edit] Product history
Unlike its sister cereal Cocoa Pebbles (which has remained essentially the same product, except for the addition of polydextrose in 2006), Fruity Pebbles has undergone many formula additions and variants such as "Fiesta Fruity Pebbles", "Half Sugar Fruity Pebbles", "Cinna-Crunch Pebbles"(1999-2000), "Dino Pebbles(1980s-1990s)", "Marshmallow Mania Pebbles(2005)", "Bronto Bright Pebbles", and "Bamm-Bamm Pebbles". The cereal started out with three flavors: Orange, cherry, and lemon. New flavors were added over time such as grape in 1980, lime in 1984, Berry Blue in 1994, Incrediberry Purple in 1995 and Bedrock Berry Pink in 2005. A berry cereal called Bamm-Bamm Berry Pebbles was released in 2007, although they are like Fruity Pebbles, they only feature berry flavors.
[edit] Dino Pebbles
The original Dino Pebbles was available from the mid-1980s to the early-1990s. Dino Pebbles consisted of vanilla flavored cereal with marshmallows. It had the distinction of having the most marshmallows per box of any cereal. In 2005 Dino Pebbles cereal was resurrected under the name Marshmallow Mania Pebbles. Marshmallow Mania Pebbles differed from Dino Pebbles only in that it had sprinkles added to the cereal. Marshmallow Mania Pebbles was also discontinued. In early 2008 a new variety of Dino Pebbles has been released called "Dino Smores Pebbles". It is a cereal with graham cracker bones and cocoa nuggets, along with marshmallow boulders, all the ingredients of s'mores.
The formula for both versions of Pebbles had a major addition in 2006: polydextrose became a key ingredient.
[edit] Television commercials
The classic television commercials for both Pebbles cereals have a recurring theme: Barney Rubble attempts to trick Fred Flintstone out of his cereal, or to simply steal it outright. Barney is often in disguise in these attempts, and sometimes, he pulls off his gag with some help from Dino. In protest, of his breakfast being swiped, Fred would yell, "Barney! My Pebbles!" and often gives chase.
