Here's What Breakfast Cereal Came Out The Year You Were Born

Developed by brothers, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg, this cereal was first introduced as Sanitas Toasted Corn Flakes in 1898. Will Keith eventually bought out his brother's share of the company and changed the name of the company to the Kellogg Company.

The public first got a look at Quaker Puffed Rice at the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904, when eight bronze cannons exploded rice over the heads of a huge crowd. How flashy!

Its hilarious original slogans were "for that bran new feeling" and "the delicious way to gentle regularity." So good luck looking at a box of this stuff the same way again.

In magazine advertisements at the time, this cereal was described as "packed with nature's own health-bringing elements. Keeps you robust, alert, alive!" And also that "Pep preserves the family pep."

Rice Krispies was known as "The Talking Cereal" because of its distinctive popping sound when milk is poured on it. So it makes sense that the famous "Snap! Crackle! Pop!" slogan was then used a year later, in 1929.

Fun fact: This now iconic brand was originally known as "Cheeri Oats" until General Mills decided to change the name in 1944.

Though this number has been around since the '40s, it wasn't until 20 years later that the brand started boasting "two scoops of raisins in every box."

Tony the Tiger arrived hand-in-hand with the debut of Frosted Flakes. The distinctive tenor voice that's so easily recognizable came from singer/actor Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft.

Before becoming an animated cereal spokesman, the Trix Rabbit was first a floppy hand puppet that filmed introductions (sponsored by General Mills, of course) for popular TV show at the time, like Rocky & Bullwinkle and Captain Kangaroo.

Special K was the first cereal fortified with seven vitamins and iron, thus giving it its "special" designation.

General Mills had a stroke of genius after it developed Kix: Make different flavored versions of its corn puff pieces. And Cocoa Puffs is the chocolate-flavored brainchild of said idea. (P.S. Trix is also essentially souped-up Kix cereal.)

Lucky Charms was the first cereal to add marshmallows to the mix. The original sugary pieces were pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers.

When it first launched, Honeycomb lauded itself for being bigger than bite size with this jingle: "Honeycomb's big. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not small. No, no, no. Honeycomb's got... a big, big taste... a big, big crunch... for a big, big bite!"

After discovering a competitor's plans to introduce cereal with an apple-cinnamon coating and dried apple pieces, Kellogg's decided its newest cereal would have an apple-cinnamon flavor.

Introduced first as only "Pebbles," this cereal is simply an amped-up version of Post's Rice Krinkles. Coincindentally, the creators of the animated series The Flinstones were looking for licensing partners and things just clicked.

Like Fruity Pebbles, Cocoa Pebbles are a modification of Post's more simple Rice Krinkles thanks to added chocolate flavoring.