Monthly Archives: October 2015

Special: Cereal Time with Gabe Fonseca — Homer’s Cinnamon Donut Cereal & Cat in the Hat Cereal

Nutrition Facts — Cereal Time with Gabe Fonseca

Serving Size — 2 videos

Sugar — 100 grams

Nostalgia — 1000 grams

Cereal Fun — ∞ grams

That’s right, kids and kids-at-heart, this week’s video double feature from cereal sensei Gabe Fonseca’s enlightening and informational Cereal Time YouTube series covers two tie-in cereals with unique concepts. Continue reading

Review: Halloween Apple Jacks and Froot Loops Cereals with Skeleton Marshmallows

IMG_3944Before this Halloween, if you gleefully said you were eating a bowl of milk bones, your friends and family would either look at you strangely for munching on dog treats, or they would say “honey, get the camera: the dog is talking!”

But thanks to Kellogg’s, now you can finally achieve your dream of crunching femurs into dust without fear of social alienation or a life sentence. Along with Halloween Krave, Kellogg’s 2015 Halloween cereal offering features two new seasonal versions of Apple Jacks and Froot Loops, each with orange and white bone marshmallows that let you build a sugary model of a skeleton.

What do I say to this idea? Boo!

(In the cool, ghost way, of course. Not the “you stink” way.) Continue reading

Review: Cap’n Crunch’s Halloween Crunch Cereal (2015)

IMG_3938Does just looking at this cereal box make you green with envy?

Well just wait until you see the milk.

That’s right, boils & ghouls: Cap’n Crunch’s Halloween Crunch has arisen from its annual resting place to haunt your pantry in the absolute best way possible. The base cereal formula is the same as previous years: plain Cap’n Crunch pieces mixed with orange Crunchberry ghosts that are coated in a mystical ectoplasm that turns milk green (this sentence in itself is worth embroidering on a throw pillow).

However, this year’s box art cranks up the spook to a level even Spinal Tap would scoff at. While previous boxes contented themselves with putting the Cap’n on a pumpkin or dressing him up in costumethis year he is literally a zombie! I’m so excited my sentences automatically started italicizing themselves! This is scary! How do I turn this off? Continue reading