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When Aaron Carter covered “I Want Candy” back in 2000, I wonder how serious he really was about craving Milky Ways, Snickers, and Three Musketeers for three meals a day. Serious enough to book an intercontinental flight just to crunch CRUNCH bars for breakfast?
If so, Mr. Carter better renew that passport, because believe it or not, a breakfast cereal based on Nestlé’s famous chocolate-coated crisp rice bar does exist—but not in America. This cereal does justice to its namesake candy bar by clustering puffed cocoa rice into clusters and flavoring it with cocoa liquor (a.k.a. cocoa mass, which sounds like the best religious ceremony ever), but it only does so in Europe and the Middle East—including Israel, where our Instagram friend Munchiebunchie got the above box.
My apologies to any non-American readers who are shaking their heads at me six time zones away who see CRUNCH Cereal as a commonplace breakfast option; here in the U.S., we’re starving for a fresh candy cereal, between the Lion Cereal we’ll never get and the Jolly Rancher Pop-Tarts we’re not sure we even want.
Maybe Krackel will throw us a bone on this one.
So if you have eaten Nestlé CRUNCH Cereal, please tell me how it is below so I can live vicariously through your taste buds. I hope it tastes as much chocolate corn-off-the-cob as it looks. And if you have a cool foreign or domestic cereal photo of your own (big thanks to Munchiebunchie!), spoon it over to cerealously.net@gmail.com for a chance to see it on the site.
Hey… you get the cookie cereal (girl scouts), ice cream (cap’n orange crunch) and breakfast themed cereals (cap’n again and French Toast Crunch; but this is maybe ok. I mean we have nutella toast cereal… ;))
Let us the fun of candy bar cereal 😉
(though i would still need ti fly to the UK to get it ;))
I had this in Brazil. They don’t have a great cereal selection there, but this was a good one.
Tried the Nestle Crunch cereal in Greece a few years back. I am sure it is the same basic thing as this version, just repackaged… really disappointed by it. Did not even finish the box. Nestle is big in the international cereal world (like EU’s Kelloggs/General Mills) and the have a bunch of cereals we just won’t ever see here. This includes a Nestle Fitness cereal, which has a plain version that is pretty damn good (think Special K but better). Easily one of the best international cereals (actually one of the best cereals period) is the Swiss cereal: Ovamaltine Flakes! https://fedupfood.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/the-secret-swiss-cereal/ It is a malted chocolate cereal that is amazing! More cereals need a malted flavor! I wish we could get that stateside!