STRAWBERRY Shortcake, the beloved cartoon character, had her own cereal brand in the 1980s – and fans are still pining for it.
Strawberry Shortcake cereal, made of strawberry-flavored frosted corn puffs, featured a large image of the star pouring milk into the cereal.
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The breakfast favorite was only on sale from General Mills between 1982 and 1985.
A popular Twitter account called Discontinued Foods! (@snackmemory) posted about the sweet treat on Friday.
"A FAVORITE!!! Cereal matched my whole room," said one fan on Twitter who still missed the snack.
"There is a brain cell holding onto this flavor in my head and all the boozy shenanigans of my college years couldn't kill it," another posted.
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"That fake strawberry taste still haunts me to this day."
Discontinued Foods! posted a follow-up tweet sharing that another cereal was ultimately released under the Strawberry Shortcake brand as well.
"There was also a spin-off cereal, based on the character, Orange Blossom (part of the Baked Good Expanded Universe), which featured the same frosted corn puffs, but, as you'd guess, in orange flavor," the tweet said.
The Orange Blossom cereal box has an image of the character pouring milk, much like Strawberry Shortcake's box.
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Cap'n Crunch, sold by Quaker Oats Company, sells a similar strawberry shortcake-flavored cereal that it recently converted into a dessert snack.
Strawberry Shortcake and Orange Blossom cereals were not the only fan favorites to be discontinued over the years.
Kellogg's pulled the plug on their Multi-Grain Start cereal after decades in 2018.
And Kellogg's Eggo cereal, discontinued in 2012, still inspires fans to write the company to ask for it to be brought back.
Post Consumer Brands caused a small uproar when it stopped selling its iconic Chicken & Waffles cereal in 2019.
Oreo stopped selling watermelon-flavored Golden Oreo cookies in 2013 after only one year on the shelves.
