Oof. This one hurts.
It’s National Peanut Butter Day (January 24th), and European cereal lovers are getting a delightful new salted nut butter cereal. Meanwhile, we here in the States are left to go nuts with salty envy.
What’s worse is that it’s a new Crunchy Nut cereal! Crunchy Nut Peanut Butter Clusters is the latest iteration of Kellogg’s peanut shard-speckled, honey-glazed breakfast brand. You know, the one that delighted Americans for decades—it was first known as “Honey & Nut Corn Flakes” in the ’80s—until its untimely demise discontinuation just a couple years ago.
Aside from Crunchy Nut and the nearly mythical Triple Snack, few cereals have contained real peanut hunks, so I look back on Crunchy Nut with the fond remembrance of a native New Yorker who watched a laundromat replace his favorite pizza parlor—the only pizza parlor that topped every slice with freshly diced peanuts.
Unlike their flaky predecessors, Crunchy Nut Peanut Butter Clusters are made of oats and wheat crisps, all gummed up together with real peanut butter to form chunky clusters. Our friend Amy at Amy Seeks New Treats, who generously supplied the above box photo, has a great review. Check it out for the less-salty take of someone who actually gets to try this magnificent-looking cereal.
No, I’m not crying, I’m just, *sniff* so happy for every cereal lover across the pond. I guess I’ll just spoon some Skippy into my Peanut Butter Crunch to try and fill the void.
Big thanks go to Amy for sharing her picture. According to Crunchy Nut, this cereal can be found at Tesco stores, and will be at Asda, Sainsbury’s, and Waitrose soon. But no matter what country you’re in, if you have a cool cereal scoop, we want to see it. Click yourself right on over to our submissions page, or just email us at cerealously.net@gmail.com. There’s a good chance your picture could be featured on the site.
Would love to see a taste test between existing peanut butter cereals on the US market (reese’s, cap’n crunch pb, etc)!
I’d love to write one! But I don’t know of anywhere I can get my hands on this cereal 🙁
Perhaps I misspoke! I meant the peanut butter cereals already available in the US market, not a taste test between US cereals and the above cereal! So I believe that would be cap’n crunch, reese’s puffs, and maybe a few natural brands? Some may be escaping my brain right now, seems such a popular flavor would have more products, but PB cereals seem relatively sparse!
Ohh, I see. Good idea! I’ll add it to my idea bank of things to write once I’m through with all the new cereals.
Awesome!
That’s such a beautiful box. And it even says No. 1 in taste.
My only solace is I haven’t liked most peanut butter cereals (except Jif Peanut Butter Cereal RIP).
are you kidding me? this was like a **** tease when I saw the box and then noticed that it was an overseas spotting.
Hmmmm…..interesting…the commercial ???… Ahhhhh that’s another thought ??!!!!
OMG!
This looks amazing! Crunchy Nut is one of my favorite “classic cereals” (yeah it’s around some time here ^^) and though i like plain cornflakes or frosted flakes too, if i had to choose it would always be the honey and nuts version ^^
Unfortunately i’m no big fan of the “upcoming(?)” trend of of making everything looks healthier by naming it “granola” and making it immediately more expensive 😉
(and the serving size is tiny, ’cause those clusterst are so damn heavy ^^)
I mean Nestle did this with their Nesquik, Lion, Cheerios and CiniMinis (Cinnamon Toast Crunch) Cereals and create some “Granola/Cluster”-versions:
Nesquick
Lion
Cheerios
CiniMinis (Cinnamon Toast Crunch)
So… i hope Kelloggs is also considering bringin the Crunchy Nut Clusters to Germany (although i’m pretty sure they won’t since they somehow seem to be non existing anymore, marketing and new product wise) until then i try to get my head around “finally buying the Nestle granolas” and hope for a “outlet store” to get some remainders from the UK. ^^
Thanks for the news Dan & Amy!
Yeah it was a growing trend here too, but I think American consumers didn’t want to see Frosted Flakes with cluster that bad—apparently we prefer marshmallows
xD
Yeah.. the kids today seem to love marshmallows in all shapes regardless of the cereal-sidekick. 😉
Speaking of the devil:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/theimpulsivebuy/32509375485
^^
btw: Thanks for your reply! Especially because my english seems to suffer A LOT from those “late night shifts” xD
Reading the comment is just embarrassing… -.-
(i wonder how you understand even the half of it -.-)