State College relived childhood memories of sugary cereal and cartoons yesterday as Cereality, a cereal bar and café, opened on College Avenue.

Inside Cereality, 134 W. College Ave., pajama-clad "Cereologists" served up more than 30 name-brand cereals and 40 toppings from white kitchen cabinets.

Cereal lovers can try their own unique creations as well as choosing combinations from the menu, co-owner Lara Koppmann said.

Popular blends include "Banana Brown Betty," which features Quaker oatmeal with banana syrup and molasses sugar topped with streusel and bananas, and the "Life Experience," which features Life cereal with sliced almonds, bananas and honey.

"There have been the more health-conscious people, who get Cheerios with bananas," Koppmann said. "Then we had someone who got watermelon-flavored Pop Rocks and Hershey's syrup over Lucky Charms and Cocoa Puffs."

Customers create unique mixes of cereal suited to their personal tastes. They choose from two scoops of cereal, two toppings and milk or one serving of hot cereal and two toppings for $3.99. The café also offers Cereality Bakery Bars and Slurreality smoothies, both made with cereal. Fresh parfaits are available ready-made or made-to-order, with a choice of cereal and topping layered with yogurt.

Cereality also sells a variety of hot and cold beverages, including espresso drinks and flavored hot drinks. The 1,400-square-foot café -- which will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. every day except Sunday -- has space for 20 customers to enjoy their cereal, with a large kitchen table and chairs in the center of the restaurant. A kitchen island topped with fresh flowers allows diners a clear view of the cartoons playing on a flat-screen television.

"It's Saturday morning every day," Lara Koppmann said. "It's supposed to feel like home."

Customers can also stretch out and wirelessly surf the Internet on a living-room couch arranged near the front window or spell out words with the alphabet refrigerator magnets decorating the milk machines.

"It's a really nice atmosphere. You really feel like you're at home, sitting in your kitchen," Jessica Pan (sophomore-economics) said.

Business has been going smoothly, Koppmann said.

"It's been packed. We've had a lot of students from the high school and Penn State," she said. "We've also had moms come in with their children."