Kellogg's Frosted Flakes Witness Protection TV Television Commercial from 1996
Kellogg's Frosted Flakes or Frosties is a breakfast cereal, produced by the Kellogg Company and consisting of sugar-coated corn flakes. It was introduced in the United States in 1952,[1] as Sugar Frosted Flakes. The word "sugar" was dropped from the name in 1983.
Generic versions, such as store brands, are also available. Unlike many cereals (Cheerios and Rice Krispies, for example), Frosted Flakes shares its name with generic competitors.[citation needed]
Frosted Flakes was the second best selling cereal of 2015, in gross sales.[2]
Tony the Tiger has been the mascot of Frosted Flakes since its introduction. Tony is known for uttering the cereal's slogan: "They're Gr-r-reat!" (the "r"s in "Great" pronounced as drawn-out). Tony the Tiger was originally voiced by Dallas McKennon, but Thurl Ravenscroft voiced him for more than 50 years, until his death in 2005. Tony was later voiced (in Canada and the US) by former professional wrestling play-by-play announcer Lee Marshall[3] until his passing on April 27, 2014.[4] After Marshall's death, he was replaced with Tex Brashear. Van Horne also voiced Tony in a 1997 television commercial. In the UK, Tom Hill voiced Tony after Ravenscroft's death. Tony is drawn wearing a red bandana on all Frosted Flakes cereal boxes.
Sponsorship Kellogg's was a major sponsor of Adventures of Superman throughout most of the 1950s. Many of the Frosted Flakes commercials featuring the show's star George Reeves are available on the DVD release of the series' first season. Frosties is a sponsor of Challenger Sports British Soccer Camps.[5] From the mid 1990s to the mid 2000s, Frosted Flakes was a sponsor of children's programming on PBS.
