(RNN) – General Mills hopes to capitalize on a trend that drove consumers crazy with delight last year. The company is weeks away – possibly sooner – from rolling out pumpkin spice-flavored Cheerios. The head of General Mills’ cereal division, Jim Murphy, confirmed in April they would release the specialty flavor of the iconic cereal around Labor […]
Cheerios has just presented their new commercial with the return of the biracial family, and not everyone was excited to see them back. One caller, however, took her thoughts to another level as she called in on “The D.L. Hughley Show.” Hear her bizarre views below: Picture Courtesy of The D.L. Hughley […]
The interracial family from the controversial Cheerios commercial is back just in time for the Super Bowl! While every one else is upset, we know the…
*A number of Republicans got riled up on Wednesday over a tweet from MSNBC regarding Cheerios’ new Super Bowl ad featuring the biracial family. “Maybe the rightwing will hate it, but everyone else will go awww: the adorable new #Cheerios ad w/ biracial family,” MSNBC tweeted, while also linking to its report on the […]
Cheerios 2014 Game Day Ad | “Gracie” *For its first ever Super Bowl ad, Cheerios is bringing back the interracial family that sparked both a vicious racist backlash, as well as calls of support for the cereal maker. The original ad last May showed a biracial girl asking her white mom about the heart-health of […]
Despite the ugly backlash incited by a Cheerios commercial featuring a mixed race family, the ad’s six-year-old star is all smiles. Grace Colbert, the adorable actress who plays the daughter in the recent ad, sat down with her biological parents, Janet and Christopher Colbert, for an interview on MSNBC on Tuesday. When asked what Grace […]
TAMPA, Fla. – The commercial starts with a curly-haired cutie talking to her mom, a white woman, about Cheerios. “Dad told me that Cheerios is good for your heart. Is that true,” she asks. The little girl then runs off and you see her dad, a black man, covered in Cheerios. The joke is that […]
Cheerios released an ad earlier this week of an interracial family. While many viewed the ad as a progressive step forward in the advertising world,…