I’ve been putting off trying Funko Pop’s self-populating ecosystem of pop culture FunkO’s Cereals, mostly due to the cartoon eye-popping prices charged by each flavor’s exclusive home store—a common trend amongst premium tie-in cereals, even those that don’t include prizes.

Now preparing for its third series of Tony-Hawk-Pro Skater-cheat-code-headed character cereals, Funko has chosen a litany of increasingly obscure locales, from Hot Topic to Books-a-Million, to up the scavenger hunt-esque collector’s potential—and most of them, like FYE, prefer to charge around $12 a box for the toy-stuffed treats.

I resisted the urge to go on a golden goose-priced wild goose chase, and instead succumbed to a different type of temptation: that of Cuphead’s GameStop-exclusive Don’t Deal with the Devil Cereal, for just $8.

Now that’s a great de…uh, bargain! I mean bargain! Please don’t let this cereal become soul food.

I chose the game’s Beelzebubbly antagonist mostly for three reasons: my appreciation for his retro animated source material, the nefarious novelty of black cereal pieces, and my discomfort with the signature Funko trend of giving most characters purely pupiled eyes—which, ironically, gives them the uncanny hollowness of someone possessed by a demon.

While the chunky, food-colored loops that constitute every FunkO’s Cereal isn’t pitch black, its bubonic indigo rings—which turn your tongue into a black viper within minutes—are nevertheless thickly glazed with sticky, sugar-baked flavor.

But it’s not a sinfully sweet flavor, mind you. In fact, there’s a strangely bitter and slightly stale prototaste (the opposite of an aftertaste, of course) that comes from breaking each piece’s thick, shimmering seal. When I took my first bite and reacted like cerberus getting hit by a spray bottle, I was worried I had indeed been dealt a crooked hand. But thankfully, Cuphead’s Don’t Deal with the Devil Cereal—perhaps the only cereal whose name gives coherently practical advice—isn’t like most cereals that lose their flavor the more you chew them.

No, these horned and corned rings quickly ditch their puckering exterior in favor of a blossoming array of artificial. Orangey and lemony, with perhaps a touch of lime and guest-starring blueberry, Don’t Deal with the Devil Cereal is pretty good—if you can get past the drywall opener and consistently molar-gumming texture—as the fruit flavor lingers for a while before fading out to nothingness, rather than the tart blandness of its cheap opening move.

Though he lacks irises, the Devil’s eyes make him way cuter than other Funko collectibles, funnily enough. I do wish he was taller than an egg, though. Prince of Hell? What a yolk.

It’s for these textural reasons—and some colorful consequences—that milk is an ideal choice for this Cuphead cereal, at least until I can afford to pair my black cereal loops iwth the ritzier tastes of sarcophagus juice.

Ideally served in a soup mug, these silver-spooned devils lose the harsher edges around their flavor and mouthfeel. These nitpicks never really goes away, but the enhancements of dairy—including fun endmilk that looks like Gengar blood—make me realize just what other cereal this tastes like: Trix! Both cereals share a citrus-led blend of fake fruit that’s both tropical and biting—kind of like the dog on Coppertone bottles.

So it might not be delightfully devilish, but DDwtD a good cereal with a unique gimmick and a neat toy. I’d recommend buying it once if you’re a fan of Cuphead or any other FunkO’s frontperson, but the price tag can’t really justify regular breakfasting. Especially because, from the reviews I’ve seen, this flavor is identically consistent across every FunkO’s Cereal in the lineup. Yet, I’m convinced this particular childhood cereal ode makes Cuphead Deal with the Devil objectively the best cereal in the company’s edible lineup. And why is that?

Because silly rabbit, and silly kids, too: Trix are for the Devil!

The Bowl: FunkO’s Cereal – Cuphead Don’t Deal with the Devil!

The Breakdown: A fun piece of edible art for Cuphead fans, this is basically gothic Trix cereal with a bit of a plasticky primer. I enjoyed it, but unless they bring Kirby into the Funko world, I’ll just be buying two boxes of Oreo O’s instead for the same price.

The Bottom Line: 6.5 fingers crossed for an iridescent-colored cereal out of 10