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When Count Chocula Courted Controversy

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General Mills’s popular “Monster Cereals” and its scaredy-cat mascot Count Chocula weren’t always widely celebrated. Through the ’70s and ’80s, the spooky cereal seemed to cause one controversy after the next.

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When Count Chocula Courted Controversy

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