(Update: We reviewed it!)

I always love seeing a wacky cereal rumor come true, but at what cost? Seriously, you could tell me a Brain-Eating Bacteria Bran cereal was coming out, and I’d probably still excitedly debate about what flavor it would be.

(My money’s on the muted savoriness of a cooked noodle.)

While we may still be a few degrees of silly separation from total cereal annihilation, Post’s now-confirmed Sour Patch Kids Cereal definitely pushes the cereal aisle’s typically sturdy border between sweet flavors and anything else flavors. E

Compared to the imagined bite of a cerealized Sour Patch Kid, even mainstream raspberry cereals are about as “tangy” as lemonade Kool-Aid.

But I won’t let my mind’s tender taste buds stop me from trying Sour Patch Kids Cereal. Leaked but unconfirmed by Candy Hunting, the cereal now has photographic identification via a Facebook cereao fan community’s detective-ry. And despite early public outcry, I haven’t given up on it since trying Apple Raspberry Otees. If that cereal can pull off a convincingly potent sour–sweet flavor, Sour Patch Kids’ iconic gummy blend of various blue raspberries, watermelons, and loose gobs of sour powder could have a better shot than we think.

So until it pops up on shelves around me, I guess I’ll just have to train my palate: with some controlled experiments involving a fishing pole, sour gummy worms, and a farm-fresh milk bucket.