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15 Nightmare Food Mascots That Do Not Inspire Peckishness

Sure, Baby Nut was lazy and pandering. And sure, they made the green M&M way too hot. But after you get a load of Apple Guy and Krinkles the Clown, you're gonna come crawling back to The Colonel. 

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Bigg Mixx KELLOGG'S t GG B CRACKED COM In the early 90's, Kellogg's sold a... gigantic orgy of every cereal they had. Appropriately, the mascot looked like the result of 10 generations of chimera inbreeding.

Source: The 8 Most Baffling Food Mascots of All-Time

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The Hamburglar M MCDONALD'S McDonaldland COOKIES CRACKEDO He wasn't always the cherubic little scamp we know and love. The Hamburglar spent the 70's and 80's oody-hopping into various greasy-haired, dead-eyed serial killers.

Source: 7 Famous Mascots (Who Once Looked Scary As Hell)

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Rock-afire Explosion SHOWBIZ PIZZA This animatronic band is what would happen if Jeff Dunham had 10 minutes to build a Chuck E. Cheese from spare puppet parts he had lying around.

Source: YouTube

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Cecil GRINS & SMILES & GIGGLES & LAUGHS Goinnil Gocgsl CRACKED COM This dour, ear-jowled mass of factory equipment vomits boxes of kids' cereal when he laughs. And he only laughs when someone gets hurt.

Source: YouTube

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Franken Berry ono CRACKED COM This Salad Fingers-looking spOKESCORPSE is either Count Chocula's dead roommate, or a collection of human corpses stitched together to sell cereal. Neither should be seen by children first thing on a Sunday morning.

Source: 7 Corporate Mascots With Terrifying Implications

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A dead-eyed, grinning apple aevzt APPLE JACKS Jun APPLE CINNAMON COATED CEREAT WIN ONS CRACKED CON This freaky little fedor-o-lantern with the vapid stare had an equally vapid name: Apple Guy. He haunted children throughout the 60's with the clear implication that they were eating his eyes.

Source: 7 Famous Mascots (Who Once Looked Scary As Hell)

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Big Otis OKS MEET BIG OTIS Os HS This gigantic creep was the mascot for OKs, a cereal that was like Alpha-Bits but with only the letters O and K. His thing was luring brawny lads and bonnie lassies into the woods to hork down some oats.

Source: 7 Famous Mascots (Who Once Looked Scary As Hell)

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Pizza Head PIZZA HUT CRACKED COM Back in the 90's, Pizza Hut thought they needed to sell us pizza by: having a pizza cutter repeatedly murder a liviNG slice of cold pizza. It's pizza! We're gonna get drunk and eat it!

Source: YouTube

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Aunt Jemima CRACKED COM USE Sometimes lost in the recent debates over just what Aunt Jemima represents is this horrifying, minstrel show-inspired caricature that graced Missouri's kitchen shelves in the late 1800's.

Source: 7 Famous Mascots (Who Once Looked Scary As Hell)

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Popsicle Pete PETE: AW THAT'S NO LISTEN GLYS HELLO BOY5 HC HIYA OUR TEACHER. IWOULD YOU'LIK ADVENTURES OF LET'S GO FUN IVE GOT DOWN TO BETTER MR. WINTERS TO BE ACTORS A CORNER GET HAS PUT REAL THE IDEA A ON POPSICLE PETE WE AND HANG THE GANG SWELL SHow>

Source: The 8 Most Baffling Food Mascots of All-Time

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Ronald MCDonald CRACKED COM This is Ronald's first appearance, in 1963. His costume is made of literal fast food trash, like he dumped a McDonalds bathroom garbage can on his head just before trying to sell cheap beef to your kid.

Source: YouTube

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Big Fig NEWTONS DMMERCIAL DMMERCIAL CRACKED COM Back when they had enough fig content to include the word fig in the name, they put an angry-looking, jowly man in... quite honestly a pear costume, and made him box step until his heart exploded.

Source: YouTube

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Krinkles the Clown SUGAR RICE KRINKLES HA H s HA SUGAR HA A HA HA COATED A HA HA RICE! A HA A HA A HA H A HA When Post was forced to replace their kinda racist caricature of a mascot-- a short Chinese boy

Source: The 8 Most Baffling Food Mascots of All-Time

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Peter Wheat PETER WHEAT BREAD CRAOKEDCOM Peter was a 2-inch tall toddler with a kill count higher than Rambo and Blade in a trenchcoat. In the late 40's, he was the star of a monthly comic in which, despite living in and among mostly cupcake batter, he spent most of

Source: The 8 Most Baffling Food Mascots of All-Time

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The Frito Bandito FRITOS CRACKED CON Frito-Lay got voice-acting legend Mel Blanc to voice this gunslinging caricature, who's actively robbing you the viewer in this TV spot.

Source: The 6 Most Clearly Disturbing Mascots in Marketing History

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