From its introduction in 1977 until the early 1990s, Cookie Crisp was available in three varieties: Chocolate Chip Cookie Crisp, Vanilla Wafer Cookie Crisp and Oatmeal Cookie Crisp.[4]
Peanut Butter Cookie Crisp[5] was introduced in 2005 but was phased out by 2007.[citation needed]
Double Chocolate Cookie Crisp[6] was introduced in 2007. [citation needed]
Sprinkles Cookie Crisp[2] was introduced in July 2009.[citation needed] This variety contains crisps shaped like tiny vanilla cookies topped with tiny multicolored sprinkles.
Birthday Cake Cookie Crisp was introduced in March 2018.[7][8]
Keebler Cookie Crunch[9] was introduced by Kellogg's in 2008. This cereal has standard cookie pieces as well as round O shapes meant to resemble Keebler Fudge Shoppe Fudge Stripes cookies.[10]
[edit]A box of Cookie Crisp from 1984, featuring Cookie Jarvis[1]
The first Cookie Crisp mascot, Cookie Jarvis, was introduced in 1977.[1][11]Awizard in the Merlin mold, he magically turns cookie jars into cereal bowls with a wave of his wand and rhyming incantations. He was voiced by Lennie Weinrib.
In 1980, Cookie Jarvis was joined[12] by Cookie Crook,[1]ananti-hero robber who attempts to steal the Cookie Crisp; in 1984 he was followed by his opponent, The Cookie Cop (full name Officer Crumb), a police officer (reminiscent of the Keystone Cops) with an Irish accent who thwarts the Cookie Crook's attempts to steal the Cookie Crisp.
Chip the Dog
[edit]The Cookie Crook, the Cookie Cop, and Chip the Dog
In 1990, the Cookie Crook was given a sidekick named Chip the Dog.[1] From 1990 to 1996, while serving alongside the Cookie Crook in his schemes to steal Cookie Crisp, Chip would serve as a partial foil to the Cookie Crook, often by howling "Cooookie Crisp!" (with cookies in place of the Os in the word "cookie"), exposing them to Cookie Cop and, in some commercials, often saying "Doggone it" after his and the Cookie Crook's plans are foiled.
In 2005, Chip was redesigned into a wolf which possessed the same thieving characteristics as Cookie Crook.[13] His commercials have Chip attempting to steal Cookie Crisp cereal from children (mainly by creating decoy cookies to lure them away from the cereal) only to be foiled every time. He has been voiced by Marc Silk and Robb Pruitt.[14][15]
1 Currently manufactured by General Mills in the U.S. and Canada. Produced by Cereal Partners under the Nestlé brand elsewhere. 2 Brand owned by General Mills; U.S. and Canadian production rights controlled by Nestlé under license. 3 U.S. production rights owned by The Hershey Company. 4 U.S. rights and production owned by the Smarties Candy Company with a different product. 5 U.S. rights and specific trade dress owned by Nestlé; rights elsewhere owned by Associated British Foods. 6 Produced by Cereal Partners, branded as Nestlé. 7 Produced by Cereal Partners and branded as Nestlé in the U.K. and Ireland. Produced by Post Foods elsewhere. 8 Philippine production rights owned by Alaska Milk Corporation. 9 Singaporean, Malaysian and Thai production rights owned by Fraser and Neave. 10 Used only in Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia. 11 Used only in the Philippines. 12 U.S. production rights owned by the Ferrara Candy Company. 13NA rights and specific trade dress to all packaged coffee and other products under the Starbucks brand owned by Nestlé since 2019. 14 Brand owned by Mars, sold by Nestlé in Canada. 15 Produced by Froneri in the U.S. since 2020.
