It's the cereal that thinks it's a milkshake!
Do you ever have those moments where a memory exists on the edges of your brain? Every now and then it pops to the forefront in brief flashes, before it disappears just as fast as it came, like a bad tracking line on a tape. The flashes are consistent though, they come back around just frequently enough to itch your brain, like a record skipping a beat. For some people, that might be a hazy recollection of their first day of school; for others, a glance of their first crush. For me, it’s breakfast cereal.
For decades I have been living with the burden of this particular flashback phantom. I get hit by brief glimpses of neon-yellow summer pool parties, of a nerdy 90s white guy screaming at the camera, and a frenzied, cereal-fueled party. Oh, and bananas. Lots and lots of bananas.
Enter: Banana Bubbles.
I did a full deep dive and linked to the OG commercial here, for anyone interested: https://djnostalgia.substack.com/p/cereal-wars-banana-bubbles