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You're Right!
Quisp were those little golden flying saucers of sweet crunchy corn, pitched on tv by a pink, propeller-hatted space guy in cartoons by Jay Ward, the creator of Bullwinkle. Quisp and Quake (a competing cereal) fought mercilessly for kid's attention in quazy cartoon combat.
Quake, after an unsuccessful image makeover, was discontinued in 1972, the remaining morsels used to fill pot holes on our nation's highways. Quisp lasted a few more years and then was also permanently shelved.
Or so I thought.
Three weeks ago, I found a stack of Quisp. This shouldn't have been surprising. If any store would have a long-dead cereal, it would be the wonderfully cluttered Marc's, where the laws of time and certainly the laws of space -- don't apply.
I checked the boxes' expiration dates to see if they said something like "Best used before Watergate." No, they were fresh. I took one home and enjoyed bowlfuls of sweetened, vitamin-enriched nostalgia.
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