A box of Corn Chex.

This article is about the brand of cereal. For the Peterborough, Ontario TV station, see CHEX-TV. For its sister station in Oshawa, see CHEX-TV-2. For the credit reporting agency, see ChexSystems.

Chex is a brand of breakfast cereal now manufactured by General Mills. It was originally owned by Ralston Purina, and the Chex name reflects the "checkerboard square" logo of Ralston Purina. The product was sold to General Mills in 1997. For many years, advertisements for the cereal featuring the characters from Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" comic strip. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (480 × 640 pixel, file size: 139 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)This is a derivative work comprising artistic contributions from: The photograph The box art Accordingly copyright is jointly owned, and both copyright holders Irreplaceable rationale... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (480 × 640 pixel, file size: 139 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)This is a derivative work comprising artistic contributions from: The photograph The box art Accordingly copyright is jointly owned, and both copyright holders Irreplaceable rationale... Nickname: Motto: Dat natura, elaborant artes (Nature Provides, Industry Develops) Map of Ontario with Peterborough indicated with a red dot Coordinates: Country Canada  Province Ontario  County Peterborough County Established 1819 - Scotts Plains Incorporated as town 1850 - Peterborough Incorporated as city July 1, 1905 Government  - Mayor Paul Ayotte  - MP Dean... CHEX-TV is a television station in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and an affiliate of the CBC Television network. ... Oshawa (estimated 2004 population 150 000; metropolitan population 296 298) is a city on Lake Ontario located approximately 60 km east of downtown Toronto in Ontario, Canada. ... CHEX-TV-2, branded as Channel 12 Durham (for its cable position; its broadcast channel is 22), is a CBC-affiliated television station in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, serving the Durham Region. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... General Mills (NYSE: GIS) is a Fortune 500 corporation, mainly concerned with food products, which is headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. ... Ralston Purina was a major American corporation best known for its production and marketing of animal feeds. ... 5 by 5 checkerboard pattern A checkerboard (or chequerboard) is a board on which American checkers is played. ... Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 - February 12, 2000) was a 20th-century American cartoonist best known for his Peanuts comic strip. ... Peanuts book cover Peanuts was a syndicated comic strip written and drawn by American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. ...

Its flavors include:

• Wheat Chex Cereal
• Corn Chex Cereal
• Rice Chex Cereal
• Multi-Bran Chex Cereal
• Honey Nut Chex Cereal
• Frosted Mini-Chex Cereal
• Chocolate Chex Cereal
• Chex Morning Party Mix

Chex is also known as the basis of a baked snack called Chex Mix. Chex Mix recipes were regularly featured on Chex cereal boxes, and later, commercially prepared Chex Mix snacks began to be sold in supermarkets. // Chex Mix is a family of snack mixes sold by General Mills, based on its Chex line of breakfast cereals. ...

Video game

Chex was featured in a first person shooter video game entitled Chex Quest, in which the player takes on the role of an anthropomorphic piece of Chex cereal. In actuality, it is nothing more than a modified version of DOOM's IWAD (graphics, sounds, levels, etc.) and executable. However, two new games based on Chex are a sequel entitled Chex Trek using a modified Doom 3 engine and a prequel using the Wolfenstein 3D engine respectively. A first-person shooter (FPS) is a computer or video game where the players on-screen view of the game world simulates that of the character, and there is some element of shooting involved. ... Chex Quest is a total conversion of the computer game Doom (specifically Ultimate Doom). ... Doom (or DOOM)[1] is a 1993 computer game by id Software that is a landmark title in the first-person shooter genre. ... Doom Construction Kit: Mastering and modifying Doom was one of many guide books for creating WADs. ... Doom 3 is a science fiction horror first-person shooter computer game. ... Wolfenstein 3D (commonly abbreviated to Wolf 3D) is the computer game that started the first person shooter genre on the PC. It was created by id Software and published by Apogee Software on May 5, 1992. ...

External links

• Chex home page
• Chex Trek: Beyond the Quest homepage
• Nutrition facts