The Best-Selling Products of the 1960s
2. Cereal Quisp
Where It Was Sold: Food Giant, Publix, Winn-Dixie, and Food Lion; Manufacturer: Quaker Oats
Original Price: $0.50* When Quisp was first introduced in 1965, it quickly became a kid's favorite cereal. Its maker, Quaker Oats, claims that since Quisp, the company mascot, arrived on Earth with his "Quazy Cereal," everything has been "better ever since."
Quisp Cereal: @YouTube/TVDays
Kids loved the crunchy, crispy corn cereal in the shape of a saucer. Unfortunately, Quisp didn't persist as long as Quaker Oats had hoped. Its greatest mass-market heyday was the 1960s; lackluster sales led to its withdrawal in the late 1970s.
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