"The Quazy Energy Cereal", c'est-à-dire, a morning
sugar fix for the little lad or lass. Katie bar the door. Introduced in the mid-
60s by
Quaker Foods; its
mascot was a hyperactive cartoon
space alien named Quisp - it was an era of
US spacemania - drawn by
Jay Ward's
Bullwinkle team. We shall forgive them. Quisp was followed by a companion
cereal called Quake, with an übermacho
cartoon character (named Quake, of course). Quisp and Quake staged, perhaps, the first
breakfast cereal feud. There was also, later on I think, Orange Quangaroos. Sometimes we don't know when to stop.
Quisp's voice in the commercials was done by Daws Butler, famous at the time for being the voice of Yogi Bear. The voice of Mother Lode was June Foray, who was also the voice of Rocket J. Squirrel, a.k.a. Rocky.