What?! No Mercurys??

Here's a mid-1950s box of Post Sugar Rice Krinkles with Krinkles the Clown on it.

Who Was Worse?

Krinkles the Clown, who appeared in what looked like a late 1950s commercial for Post Rice Krinkles or So-Hi, a Chinese cartoon stereotype who was a regular on the mid-1960's Linus the Lionhearted TV series?

Here's Krinkles.