General Mills monster-themed breakfast cereals (officially referred to collectively as the Monster Cereals) are five current and formerly distributed breakfast cereal brands in North America. The series includes Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry, and the discontinued Fruit Brute and Fruity Yummy Mummy.
In October 1971, the first two cereals in the line were introduced, Count Chocula (originally called “Dr. Count Chocula”) and the strawberry-flavored Franken Berry. In February 1972, Franken Berry cereal included dye that turned some children’s feces pink due to an inability to break down the heavily dyed breakfast food, a symptom sometimes referred to as “Frankenberry Stool.” Boo Berry, reputedly the first blueberry-flavored cereal,was released in 1973, and Fruit Brute the following year. Fruit Brute was discontinued by 1983 and replaced in 1988 by Fruity Yummy Mummy, which also had a short life as it was discontinued in 1993.
Since 2010, Frankenberry, Boo Berry, and Count Chocula cereals are manufactured and sold only for a few months during the fall/Halloween season in October. These cereals are not made and sold the rest of the year.
