Cocoa Krispies over as the mascot. Ogg the Caveman took over towards the end of 1967. By the end of 1973, Tusk the Elephant became the mascot of the cereal, and he remained until the end of 1982, when Snap, Crackle and Pop (the mascots of Rice Krispies) replaced and retired Tusk the Elephant. In 1991, the mascot became Coco the Monkey. In 2001, Snap, Crackle, and Pop returned and they have remained the product's mascots to date. The cereal was introduced in the United Kingdom under the "Coco Pops" name in 1961, with Mr. Jinks as the mascot. Later in the
Yellowed rice Yellowed rice Yellowed rice (also yellow rice, Japanese: 黄変米 Ouhenmai) refers to three kinds of rice grains contaminated with different strains of Penicillium fungi-- Yellow rice ("P. citreonigrum"), Citrinum yellow rice ("P. citrinum"), and Islandia yellow rice ("P. islandicum"). These rice grains were first identified in Japan in 1964, after the research was interrupted by World War II. The first of the yellowed rice strains has been linked to shoshin-kakke (heart-attacking paralysis). Citrinum yellow rice and Islandia yellow rice are not known to have caused any adverse effects in human populations. In 1891, Junjiro Sakaki began studying molded rice and