Monthly Archives: December 2015

Cereal Time with Gabe Fonseca: Honey Nut Cheerios with Florida Honey and Olympics Cereals

Are you hungry to unwrap a couple early Christmas presents? Well look no further than the latest two entries we want to share from modern day cereal Santa Claus Gabe Fonseca’s (by “cereal Santa Claus, I mean in terms of giving great gifts, not in terms of appearance, of course 😉) Cereal Time YouTube series. Cereal Time provides a list of nostalgic and fun cereal tribute videos that’s longer than Santa’s naughty list after Happy Hour.

The first video to share is about a very special box of Honey Nut Cheerios. And no, I don’t mean that lucky box of Cheerios that you ate for breakfast on the same morning you won $500 on a scratch off ticket.

I’m sure that video’s coming later.

No, this rare box of HNC was made with genuine Florida honey and was released as a tie-in with a recent campaign in which General Mills made a “living billboard” filled with bees (sounds like the start of a bad Nicolas Cage horror movie). These boxes were given out to a select few lucky recipients, including Gabe. You’ll have to watch to see what he thinks of this now mythic, one of a kind honey talisman!

Oh, and guess who’s still unhappily buzzing about not getting a box? Continue reading →

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Dec. ’15

Review: Trader Joe’s Organic Triple Ginger Instant Oatmeal

Oh…oh dear. Am I ready for this?

I’m still trying to treat my tongue gingerly after the unexpected burn from the ginger land mines it had the misfortune to provoke while eating Trader Joe’s Cranberry Gingerbread Granola earlier this week. But now the mysterious, faceless Trader Joe is serving up a steamy bowl of oats that contains not just single ginger or double ginger, but triple ginger!

That’s like, “you must be over 18 in order to eat this” levels of ginger. (Side note: I wouldn’t recommend searching for “triple ginger” with Google SafeSearch off. Things will get steamy for a whole different reason).

Regardless, it’s time to expose my tongue to all 3 degrees of ginger, even if that means exposing it to 3rd degree burns, too.

Continue reading →

Posted by dan g.. Categories: Reviews. Tags: 8 rating, non cereal, oatmeal, trader joe's. 3 Comments

Dec. ’15

Spooned & Spotted: Batman vs. Superman Cereals

(UPDATE: I reviewed both cereals here!)

No Joker-ing around here, folks! Coming in just in time to promote the upcoming Batman vs. Superman movie, General Mills has released two new cereals, one for each of the two titular heroes.

So call Alfred over and have him pour you a bowl of Batman cereal, which has chocolate and strawberry flavored bats (even though they look more like brown X-wings!). I was wondering where Count Chocula and Franken Berry went now that Halloween is over: they must have merged their life essences together for this cereal. Somewhere, the left out Lex Boo-ther is brooding.

And speaking of Superman, the Man of Steel gets his own cereal, too, though it hopefully doesn’t contain any actual steel (35% of my daily iron will suffice). These little tan, Chaos Emerald-shaped pieces are caramel flavored. I can only assume their mission is to take down Cap’n Crunch’s current monopoly on the caramel cereal market. Look out, Cap’n: your empire is about to be…a-salted.

These cereals were spotted by Toronto Batman himself at his (presumably Gotham City-based) grocery store. I’m sure he pushed all of Superman’s cereal boxes to the back, too. I mean, a guy’s gotta get whatever strategic advantage he can when his opponent is nearly invincible!

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Posted by dan g.. Categories: Specials. Tags: general mills, spooned & spotted. 1 Comment

Dec. ’15

Review: Froot Loops with Winter Blast Marshmallows Cereal

Cash registers cha-ching, are you listening?

In the checkout lane, my bought milk is glistening.

A fruity sweet sight, I’ll be eating tonight:

Chalkin’ in a Winter Blast ‘mallow land!

Good luck topping that instant classic, Michael Bublé! That’s right, my fellow cereal-loving, holiday-hyping friends, today’s seasonally appropriate review will be of Froot Loops with Winter Blast Marshmallows, a new offering from Kellogg’s for 2015 that takes the Froot Loops we all know and love (to chug down with milk!) and pairs them with little white and blue winter chalk nuggets…I mean marshmallows!

But what do these “Winter Blast” marshmallows have that differentiates them from regular Froot Loops with Marshmallows, or even with this past October’s Halloween Froot Loops with Skeleton Marshmallows? I know you’re shaking with anticipation, so please just watch the entirety of this video, and then I’ll tell you! Continue reading →

Posted by dan g.. Categories: Reviews. Tags: 5 rating, froot loops, holiday, kelloggs. 4 Comments

Dec. ’15

Review: Trader Joe’s Cranberry Gingerbread Granola

I love gingerbread. I’m saying it now. I’m saying it in short, staccato sentences. I love gingerbread men. I love gingerbread houses. I love the character of Gingy in the Shrek films. I insist people call me “Gingerbread Dan” around Christmastime. I’d give up an arm and a leg of my own if it meant getting the chance to bite the arms and legs off of a discontinued Kemps Gingerbread Man ice cream sandwich again.

I love their earthy color. I love the blend of spices. I love the molasses. But most of all, I love the sadistic joy of tearing a soft, pliable sugar man limb from tasty limb all in the name of holiday spirit. Please mention that last sentence in my eulogy.

To any cereal company reading this, I have only 3 words:
Gingerbread. Cereal. PLEASE.

— Cerealously 🥛🥣 (@cerealouslynet) November 30, 2015

I’ve campaigned for gingerbread flavored cereals before to no avail. So that’s why when I heard about Trader Joe’s new Cranberry Gingerbread Granola, my heart started pumping faster than the Gingerbread Man’s when he’s running away from those who chase him. But will this mix of “whole grain oats with dried cranberries, ginger, and wintry spices” be a winter win? Continue reading →

Posted by dan g.. Categories: Reviews. Tags: 7 rating, granola, holiday, trader joe's. 5 Comments

Dec. ’15

Review: Quaker Real Medleys Steel Cut Apple Pear Pecan Flavor Oatmeal

As the days get shorter, the names of all the Quaker oatmeal products out there keep getting longer. And while I may be about a month late on the “autumnal apple cinnamon” trend, I thought I’d toss out another oatmeal review for all of you out there who want to snuggle up by the fire with a warm bowl of mushy ‘meal.

So allow me to introduce the possibly new (who really knows when these things are new anymore? I think there are more Quaker oatmeal varieties than there are actual Quakers) Quaker Real Medleys Steel Cut Apple Pear Pecan Flavor Oatmeal!

Hey, these are steel cut! And steely is a synonym for cold-blooded! You know what else is cold?

Snow!

There’s the obvious winter connection. Phew, now I’m off the hook for being so late.

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Posted by dan g.. Categories: Reviews. Tags: 2 rating, non cereal, oatmeal, quaker. 2 Comments

Dec. ’15

Review: Trix Cereal without Artificial Flavors & Colors

Times change, friends.

When they debuted in 1955, Trix were in spherical shapes. But in the 1990s, they became the fruit-shaped pieces that many today insist they always have been. It wasn’t until 2007 that Trix became spheres once more, and the fruit-shapes were left to populate every single BuzzFeed “Top 25 Foods from our Childhood that We Want Back NOW! You Won’t BELIEVE #12!” article from now until eternity.

Oh, and apparently fruit-shaped Trix are still a thing in Mexico. I smell a fruit-scented roadtrip!

And now that General Mills has removed artificial colors and flavors from Trix, some are, again, mourning the loss of a childhood staple. But wait! Back when they debuted, Trix only came in orange, lemon, and raspberry flavors! As these artificial color-free Trix adopt a similar color scheme, it can be said that the cereal really has come full circle.

Or should I say full sphere?

Either way, I’m here to answer the hard-hitting question that you, your family, and probably even the United Nations have been debating: will they taste the same as”regular” Trix? Continue reading →

Posted by dan g.. Categories: Reviews. Tags: 7 rating, general mills, trix. 10 Comments