(Update: We reviewed Cocoa Puffs Ice Cream Scoops!)
Drink it in, folks: Cocoa Puffs Ice Cream Scoops, the first (American*) neapolitan cereal, is here.
Err, perhaps “drink it in” isn’t fitting enough. “Lick it in”? “Cone it in”? “Do everything but bite it in because you have sensitive teeth and a chronically frozen brain”?
It doesn’t matter. What matters is that we can finally taste strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate all in the same cereal bowl without Frankenstein-ing some weird mix of Tiny Toast, Life, and crumbled-up Halloween Pop-Tarts (I know there are many chocolate cereals, but if you’re going to be a mad breakfast scientist, you might as well go borderline bonkers).
Spotted at Jewel-Osco and graciously shared by fellow snack scholar The Junk Food Aisle, Ice Cream Scoops Cocoa Puffs appropriately combine corn puffs bearing the three fruity, beany, and fudgy flavors of neapolitan ice cream. Vanilla and chocolate have crossed paths beneath Sonny’s bill before, but strawberry is a welcome newcomer. It’s so welcome that it makes me forget that last year’s greatest ice cream cereal (and simply greatest cereal), Cap’n Crunch’s Orange Creampop Crunch, has passed on to the great cosmic creamsicle in the sky.
Here’s hoping that if these Cocoa Puffs Ice Cream Scoops work out, we’ll get different frozen novelty flavors in the future. Superman Puffs, anyone?
Thanks again to Junk Food Aisle for sharing the scoop—literally. Got a freshly spotted flavor of your own to dish out? Spoon it over to cerealously.net@gmail.com for a chance to see it on the site.
*There has been a neapolitan cereal before…in New Zealand! As usual, Cereal Time time traveller Gabe Fonseca knows all about it.
I’m not saying I got the first box, but Walmart didn’t have any on the shelf and I spotted a crate of Ice Cream Scoops at the bottom of a pile of boxes and found an accommodating employee to get a box out for me.
My excitement turned to disappointment, however, this morning.
For one thing the pieces are smaller than regular Cocoa Puffs and the picture on the box is misleading.
This cereal has more in common with Trix than Cocoa Puffs.
I couldn’t really taste a whole lot of chocolate or vanilla.
True confession: sometimes I eat cereal with milk that has gone sour when necessary (not curdled, just sour) and I recently realized that Strawberry Tiny Toast and Ice Cream Scoops have a very similar taste. The strawberries taste like sour milk.
So unfortunately, I won’t be buying any more of this.
Dang! Well at least you could find it. :'(
Any word on this being a wide release or exclusive?
I’m told it should be rolling out everywhere in due time!
I hope I can find this cereal at my local supermarkets. I was never able to find that Mocha flavored cereal in your other article/post. But I’m looking to try this one. The Blueberry Lemon Special K was tasty.
Wow, you’ve had the Blueberry Lemon Special K? Where’d you find it?
Yeah, the Blueberry Lemon Special K is a great cereal. Very tasty. Not overly lemony. I found it at my local Wegmans and ShopRites in Central NJ. I definitely recommend it. It has a taste similar to that of Trix cereal, but only in the form of healthy flakes with lemony pieces.
hm… im actually not THAT excited about this “new” cereal, though i’m pretty curious how it turns out to taste and looking forward to your review dan! 🙂
Why am i not? It’s not because of the strawberry flavor, which i hate, it’s more about maybe putting to much in one cereal again or thge fact, that i never got the enjoyment of neapolitan ice cream either xD
Why throwing too much in one cereal? We have Duo Nesquik here in germany, which are more or likely the normal chocolate balls (like cocoa puffs) mixed with white chocolate balls and, at least for me, they don’t deliver. The chocolate flavor overwhelms the white chocolate flavor completely and all my attemps to mix vanilla flavored cereal with chocolate flavored cereal had the same result.
We even once had a similar cereal whioch was just shell shaped in i had the same experince… so either i’m pretty sensitive to chocolate or such combination don’t work for cereals like they should work. (sometimes i guess it’s the first ^^)
Nevertheless the chocolate balls seem to be not that chocolately like cocoa puffs, so maybe it will work out here. 🙂
I’m looking forward to a review though 🙂
I absolutely hate this cereal! Purchased at the dollar store, it tastes super artificial and the strawberry overpowers the chocolate and vanilla. Plus I never was a fan of neopolitan ice cream. I give it a thumbs down!
Holy Crow!!
I pray these make their way to all areas and stores.
You know what sucks about this product potentially?
Not one gosh darn thing!!!!