Has 2020 Got You Pining for Simpler Times? General Mills Brings Back Classic Cereal Recipes

Trix, Cocoa Puffs, Golden Grahams and Cookie Crisp are returning to their roots

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To help us all lean into childhood nostalgia—that sweet, sweet respite from the ever-worsening reality we call 2020—General Mills is releasing four breakfast cereals with their classic recipes from the ’80s, though the cereal maker declined to explain exactly which ingredients had changed.

Cocoa Puffs, Cookie Crisp, Golden Grahams and Trix are back the way you remember them. And to celebrate their return, Saved By the Bell’s own Mario Lopez will be joining General Mills for “The Ultimate Saturday Morning Drive-In” at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.,

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