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Keep your eyes peeled everyone, because it would be a real slip-up if you missed a chance to monkey around with the best banana cereal since sliced bread.

There, I think I got all the requisite banana jokes out of the way: now I can split the real story wide open. Wait, no! That one hardly made any sense!

I really shouldn’t have trusted that Monkey’s Paw to grant my wish for an always appealing style of humor—that damn, dirty ape must’ve heard “a-peel-ing”—but at least my other wish is coming true: Banana Nut Cheerios is back for the merry conclusion of 2018.

Click the image to read our 2017 Banana Nut Cheerios review!

Don’t feel bad if you never even noticed it was gone: this equal parts banana bready and nut muffiny deligjy, which debuted in 2009 to a quick discontinuation and cult following, returned for a limited time last November, too, to the delight of comfy Pyjama wearers everywhere.

See, Banana Nut Cheerios are comfort defined. So while I’m glad to see them back, I also have one qualm: will this become a reliable Thanksgiving-time seasonal cereal? If so, it would be the first instance I can think of where a holiday essentially adopted a previously “perennial” variety.

It would also be a little disappointing. Much like Smash Bros fans who clamor over whether new characters “steal” slots that could otherwise be filled with fan favorites, I worry whether a seasonal Banana Nut Cheerios would keep more innovative Turkey Day cereal ideas—from Pecan Pie Reese’s Puffs to Stuffing Toast Crunch—from ever escaping my imagination.

There’s no sign of nefarious taste-repression yet, but let’s just say I’ll be enjoying my Banana Nut Cheerios with one eye open.

(Because I’m not getting milk up my nostrils again.)