For Easter, Millville – the in-house cereal line for ALDI – came out with this whimsically relevant variation on the classic peanut-butter-and-chocolate theme. As an admitted sucker for that combination (if only they’d bring back my beloved Blasted Shreds), I naturally gave it a chance. Note that I’ve already eaten most of the box and…
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Frosted Flakes Chocolate Milkshake Review
One of my favorite cereals as a kid was Nesquik, which turned the milk into something like chocolate milk – which, as a child, I drank religiously. Nowadays you can’t easily get Nesquik cereal in the States (though it’s available in Canada), leaving the notion of a cereal that makes the milk chocolate milk as…
Marias Gamesa Cereal Review
According to their website, Marias Gamesa cookies are “authentic as mom’s love” – and when they were adapted into a cereal (Best Adapted Cereal?) the claim “Made with mom’s authentic love” is right there on the box. Granted, that’s advertising, but it’s a memorably brazen claim, even for someone as advertising-resistant as myself. That the…
ICEE Cereal Review
While researching this article, I learned that Omar Knedlik, the inventor of ICEE, was a fellow Kansan and invented the frozen drink whilst managing a Dairy Queen in Coffeyville, not so far from my hometown of Pittsburg. So that’s cool. Anyway, I hadn’t had much experience with ICEE as such, at least not that I…
Great Value Cinnamon Mini Donut Cereal Review
Full disclosure, I’m several servings into this box and my impressions will not be that of a first tasting. I’m doing this for Ben (of the Words About Books podcast, new episodes every Sunday), who seems to be especially fascinated by my reviewing cereal. To you, Ben. The cereal has a cakey scent with the…
Great Value Strawberry Lemonade Cereal Review
Haven’t done a cereal review in quite some time, but the prospect of a lemonade-flavored cereal fascinates me. Yes, it’s a store-brand cereal rather than the work of, uh, indie cereal auteurs, but for $3 a box I figure it was worth trying. Or is it? Opening the bag, I’m greeted by a surprisingly complex…
Plentifull Peanut Butter Review
I didn’t realize it until WordPress reminded me, but today is the 9th anniversary of this blog! Seven months ago, I reviewed the Cinnamon Almond Butter variety of General Mills’ pricey new kind-of healthy cereal, and found it agreeable, if not quite worth the higher-than-normal price. But I recently saw the other variety, Peanut Butter,…
Pandora Flakes Review
It’s Avatar day. In less than 12 hours, I mean to be sitting in a theater, beholding The Way of Water for three and a quarter hours. That’s a daunting prospect, given my lack of enthusiasm for the first film – but that’s not what I’m here to talk about right now. I’m here to…
Little Debbie® Nutty Buddy Cereal Review
A while back, my friend Troy tipped me off to an upcoming licensed cereal, adapting Little Debbie’s Nutty Buddy bars for the breakfast table. He wrote his own review of the cereal (and has reviewed at least one cereal I haven’t tried yet), and now I, as big a proponent of unifying chocolate and peanut…
Cinnamon Toast Crunch Rolls Review
I love me some cinnamon rolls. And I love me some cereal. But I’ve been disappointed once before, by the alleged Cinnamon Toast Shredded Wheat. To be sure, the textures and warmth of a good, fresh cinnamon roll would be well-nigh impossible to realize in a cold cereal. But let’s see if this isn’t an…
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