20 Mind-Blowing Facts About The Minions

7. Kids Can Have Minions For Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

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If you are what you eat, do Minions taste like ba-na-na? General Mills has released Minions cereal, full of banana-flavored squares with brown Minions printed on them - at least in theory. Test audiences found the Minions a bit too small to see.

Maybe you'd prefer a Minion Twinkie with your lunch? Aside from the official cross-promotion between Minions and Twinkies, lots of amateur chefs have frosted the snack food - already yellow and pill-shaped - to create the cartoon characters.

As with the second film, McDonald's has a set of Happy Meal toys lined up, and these are talking Minions - though some concerned adults claim that the Caveman Minion toy is saying something he shouldn't, a three-word phrase best represented here as "WTF."

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T Campbell has written quite a few online comics series and selected work for Marvel, Archie and Tokyopop. His longest-running works are Fans, Penny and Aggie-- and his current project with co-writer Phil Kahn, Guilded Age.