What’s more emotionally resonant than 5,000 candles in the wind? 15,000 cardboard vessels bearing thousands more sugar-smithed unicorn heads riding a manifold wave of cresting rainbows.
And that’s before you add milk.
This ferociously (and fangoriously) devoured fantasy is more likely than you think: once again, Lucky Charms is giving away specially designed boxes of All Marshmallows—but this time, each 270g iridescent treasure chest is full of only rainbows and unicorns.
While I’m not sure this is cooler than having the whole marbit menagerie, I will say if Lucky Charms had to pick marshmallows for a toothsome twosome like this, these are the best two candidates. Rainbow, with its impressive technicolor strata, has long been the coolest star (sorry, Ms. Shooting) of the classic Lucky Charms crew in my eyes. Meanwhile, unicorn is the newest marbit, with a sprawlingly saccharine surface area and divine equine plumage to make it instantly more memorable than ‘mallows past (sorry, Mr. Hourglass; you should’ve known your time would be up eventually).
If you want to win a box of your own, specially marked boxes of Lucky Charms contain codes you can enter at MarshmallowOnly.com to throw your name in the pot of gold. I was lucky enough to have General Mills benevolently bestow a box upon me, though sadly the normal Charms that came with it didn’t net me a second prize—I’d rather let you have it any way.
As for the taste of this stuff? I learned my lesson last time this stuff came around and now know that eating just marshmallows, no matter how beautifully bubblegummed their aesthetics are, is bound to lead to gastrointestinal (if not existential) crisis.
That’s why I’d recommend all winners try something more mixological, albeit more visceral.
It’s hard to look at, but putting rainbow and unicorn marshmallows in oatmeal leads to a swirling cyclone of melted mythological mares and pervasive sweetness. Just make sure you burn this blog post after reading and watch Animal Planet for a few hours to reset your eyes.
Thanks again to General Mills for hooking me up with the awesome box and ostentatious(ly awesome) blazer. Again, you can head to MarshmallowOnly.com to try your luck—just stay away from the dude squatting on MarshmallowsOnly.com to promote his truckin’ YouTube page.