Hi there, it’s your favorite terminally inconsistent cereal blogger here with a quick look at all the latest and crunchiest cereal headlines from the past week or so.
First up we have limited-edition Star Wars Frosted Flakes, releasing this July to commemorate the new Obi-Wan Kenobi series releasing later this month. The actual constituent concept behind these Frosted Flakes isn’t particularly groundbreaking—mixing Chocolate Frosted Flakes with like, yogurt or honey-coated ones would be more exciting than this, which will inevitably just taste like diluted Chocolate Frosted Flakes—but I gotta give props to whoever did the box art: imagining Darth Tony slaughtering younglings is one heckuva visceral mental image.
Next up we have Cookie Crisp Oatmeal, which you can see on the far left side in this collection of new General Mills products arriving this summer (just about everything else in here has been addressed on this blog before, except for maybe that abysmally generic-looking LOL Surprise Cereal, the less said about which, the better).
Granted, I’m not terribly optimistic about Cookie Crisp Oatmeal, either. This is a late addition of sorts to the Big G Cereal-inspired oatmeal line, currently consisting of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Lucky Charms, Trix, and Cocoa Puffs Oatmeals, and honestly, none of those were very good. I found the actual oatmeal to be pretty low quality, with extremely scant toppings. Scant, and, in the case of Cocoa Puffs and this Cookie Crisp Oatmeal, borderline scatological. Cookie Crisp Oatmeal uses the same ho-hum crunchy chocolate rabbit crap nibs, with the only difference between the Cocoa Puffs and Cookie Crisp’s being the former’s actual chocolate-infused oats, whereas Cookie Crisp appears to use a plainer oat base.
Who knows though, maybe Chip will surprise us with this one, and I’ll just be the blogger who cried wolf droppings.
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Finally, we have Trix Fireworks, which I haven’t been able to find a picture of outside of those shared by Cereal Life and The Impulsive Buy.
A Sam’s Club exclusive, at least for a couple months, Trix Fireworks takes the same approach as Trix Trax, combining uniquely shaped or colored Trix pieces with some marshmallows. Honestly, I’m not sure about this one. I’m sure it’ll taste fine, but I wish Trix, like just about every non-Toast Crunch, Charms or Cheerios GM cereal, would get some more innovative attention. I mean, could you imagine a Trix Yogurt Cereal complete with creamy pastel clusters? Or at the very least, a Trix Fireworks Cereal that contains Pop Rocks?
Oh well, a silly lad can dream…
What are the small cups in the front? Yogurt with cereal topping?
or could you imagine a trix cereal with the trix shaped like actual fruits!?…oh, wait a minute.