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Then, sometime in [[The Eighties]], sugar wasn't so popular with parents anymore. So cereal makers took the offending word out of the title, although the cereals still had the sugar in them if you [[Read the Fine Print]]. This seems to have happened around the same time they [[Orwellian Retcon|edited]] [[Bowdlerization|all the violence]] out of ''[[Looney Tunes]]''.
This is an [[Advertising Tropes|advertising trope]], and covers situations when a food or drink is renamed or restyled to try to keep with the changing times, without ''actually'' changing the product in any significant way.
By the way, as of 2009, the sugar censorship itself is proving to be a [[Cyclic Trope]]. With "High Fructose Corn Syrup" now the new boogeyman, brands like Snapple and Pepsi [[Inverted Trope|are proudly declaring]] that they use "real sugar!"
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