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News: Kellogg’s Together with Pride Cereal

Picture this: a new Smash Bros. game drops by total surprise. The catch? Now each and every beloved fighter, from Egg Dinosaur to Hungry Pink Ball and Singing Pink Ball, has been replaced by a generic Mii Fighter costume.

That’s kind of what Kellogg’s upcoming Together with Pride Cereal is like. See, it’s a spiritual successor to Kellogg’s All Together Cereal, which Kellogg’s has sold online for limited times during the past two years, to celebrate Pride month and raise money for GLAAD, an LGTBQ+ rights non-profit. And while All Together Cereal was a preposterously cool amalgamation of several Kellogg’s cereals, Together with Pride Cereal is a heart-shaped cereal whose “delicious new recipe features berry-flavored, rainbow hearts dusted with edible glitter.”

Unfortunately, this is a foreboding flavor descriptor, as it all but guarantees Together with Pride Cereal will taste like Kellogg’s similarly glittered Caticorn Cereal, which had adorable box art but was about as bland and uniform as a real cereal for cats might be.

Not to mention, Kellogg’s Pride Month efforts always end up coming off pretty rainbow capitalism-y. Not saying it’s a bad thing that GLAAD is raising funds through this cereal, but it seems like it’d be way more earnest for Kellogg’s to just donate a bunch of money outright instead of asking people to buy the cereal from stores, and then validate the purchase on Kellogg’s Family Rewards site before the company will donate $3.

My ever-present uneasiness with big corporations signaling solidarity aside, I’d love nothing more than to reanimate John Harvey Kellogg and show him this art of a Mini-Wheat holding a progress pride flag.

Kellogg’s Together with Pride Cereal will debut in select major retailers this May.

Review: Malt-O-Meal ChurrO’s & Fruity Blasts Cereals

New Malt-O-Meal Cereal Reviews

This is a Cinnamon Toast Crunch callout post! Yes, I am weaponizing my half decade of accumulated cereal culture clout to criticize the gratuitous Toast Crunch idolatry  of our times.

Don’t get me wrong, CTC is good, but I’m here to insist that it isn’t flawless and certainly isn’t immune to competition. Just like Honey Maid Cinnamon Graham Cereal before it, Malt-O-Meal’s Churr-O’s Cereal amply evidences this. Ostensibly a cut-and-dry reboot of the early 2010s’ Post Mini Cinnamon Churros, Churr-O’s nevertheless deserves a blind and unprecedented review, as Mini Cinnamon Churros were discontinued before I could use this blog to memorialize their intricacies.

Oh, and there’s a new Malt-O-Meal Not-Trix, too. “Pranks,” if you will. But we’ll get to those. Right now, we’ve got preconceived Toast Crunch-spectations to crush. Continue reading

Review: Kellogg’s Super Mario Cereal

Kellogg's Super Mario Cereal Review Box Amiibo

You know I love you, Mario, but man: you need to work on your personality.

Sure, you can save the princess, grow a killer ‘stache, and kick Goomba buns in every sport (Olympic or otherwise), but plumbing anecdotes and an occasional “Wa-hoo!” isn’t going to make you a hit at parties.

Unless you whip out the big green wind-up boot and cue up Destruction Dance, of course. Just imagine the dance moves!

But really, on my list of favorite little red dudes, you’re pretty far down the list: Pikmin, Cool Spot, that smug M&M, heck, even the Noid would be invited to my wedding before an inarticulate Italian hero whose stats are average in every baseball game.

And that “Thwomp-of-all-trades, Bowser-of-none” problem persists with Kellogg’s and Nintendo’s new Super Mario Cereal, a much-hyped team-up of cereal and video game titans that nearly exploded my website, reputation, and inner child when I leaked news about it last year. Everyone’s excited about the box, which doubles as an Amiibo for Super Mario Odyssey, but since I’m still replaying Super Mario Sunshine on my GameCube and trying to figure out how Game Boy e-Readers work, I don’t have the modern tech to explore that Amiibo functionality.

I do, however, have a spoon, which means we’re all about to see why this fruity marshmallow cereal lives up to the flat (and I’m not talkin’ Paper) legacy of its namesake portly protagonist. Continue reading

Review: Annie’s Organic Berry Bunnies Cereal

Annie's Organic Berry Bunnies Box

“No no, you must have misheard me,” I said to the cashier. “I want to buy Annie’s Berry Bunnies cereal, not Very Moneys cereal. In fact. I don’t think Very Moneys is even grammatically correct.”

And that’s how I ended up making a cashier grimace and walking home with a $5+ box of cereal.

I’ve joked before about how Annie’s three new organic cereals are hare-raisingly expensive, and how in the case of Frosted Oat Flakes, it made me not want to purchase them again. Yet here I am, pouring another bowl of mauve & marmalade colored baby rabbits. If you weren’t impressed enough with those color names, allow me to consult my Behr Paint Color Guide and get even more specific:

“…another bowl of Muscat Grape and Acapulco Sun colored baby rabbits.”

There, that one would make even a Home Depot employee proud.

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Review: Limited Edition Fruity Crisp Oreo Cookies

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Cereal-stuffed, Fruity Pebble Oreos, baby!

Right, right: Nabisco’s new Fruity Crisp Oreos aren’t officially licensed Fruity Pebbles cookies, nor do they even say the word “cereal” on the front. But we all know “Fun, colorful rice crisps” is just Oreo’s way of keeping Fred and Barney from filing a lawsuit.

It’s like how Kellogg’s has “Cookies & Creme” Pop-Tarts, even though everyone and their cookie-dunking grandma calls them Oreo Pop-Tarts. In the eyes of me and Granny Cerealously, these are Fruity Pebble Oreos, so I’m going to review them like they’re cereal in circular, processed cookie form. Continue reading