Nerds cereal embraced this approach, releasing boxes that contained either orange and cherry or grape and strawberry flavors ...

At one point, there was an attempt at a Nerds cereal. Like the eponymous candy, the cereal box also featured a divider and duel spouts. Nerds cereal was offered in two flavor combinations ...

In 1991, Steve Urkel—the nerd next door from Family Matters—got his own cereal: boxes of strawberry and banana flavored loops. Somewhere, Eddie Haskell, Mr. Furley, and Kimmy Gibbler are fuming.

With cartoons on the TV and a spoon in hand, you contentedly crunch away at your sugar-loaded cereal of choice: French Toast Crunch, perhaps, or the fluorescent flakes of Nerds cereal. You slurp ...

Post is no doubt hoping the novelty factor will move a few boxes before consumers lose interest—the same strategy employed with Nerds cereal which, coincidently, was also released in 1985 by ...