I, Dan G. of Cerealously, formally swear to make it through this entire post without making any juvenile “nuts” jokes.
Okay, now that we’ve finished all the formalities, let’s put our honey where our mouth is. It’s that time again: time to share the latest two videos in cereal honcho Gabe Fonseca’s YouTube series. Cereal Time covers a different cereal each week, and each episode is sure to teach you more than your middle school American History class ever did.
The first episode we’d like to share with you covers Kellogg’s Nut & Honey Crunch cereal. Despite the simplicity of its name and ingredients, you’d be surprised just how complicated this cereal’s history is. Continue reading →
Could it be? Do I really no longer have to waste my time mixing Honey Bunches of Oats with Honey Nut Cheerios to create my favorite FrankenCereal creation: Honey Nut Bunches of CheeriOats?
There are few cereal combos I love more than the sticky, nutty rings of Honey Nut Cheerios tag-teaming it with the crispy flakes and earthy, rich clusters of Honey Bunches of Oats. But think of the hassle it takes to prepare a bowl: I have to grab a box, pour it into a bowl, then grab another box, and pour that one too! Even Atlas couldn’t shoulder this burden.
Oh, and did I mention that I have to physically mix the two with my spoon like some antiquated pilgrim on her butter churn? C’mon, it’s the 21st century, people!
But no longer, because Post has released Honey Bunches of Oats Crunch O’s, in both Honey and Almond flavors. These cereals combine the Honey Bunches we know and love with crunchy oat ovals, thus maximizing my morning laziness.
But do the flavors of these cereals stack up to my manual concoctions? Well churn my butter and call me Jebediah, because we’re about to find out. Continue reading →
That’s right, fellow cerealists, the greatest day of the year has come once more! March 7th is National Cereal Day, and it’s better than 25 Christmases stuffed into a Thanksgiving turkey that’s been strapped to a 4th of July firework and launched into a jack-o-lantern carved to look like the Easter bunny.
Today, cereal munchers everywhere are paying loving tribute to the fun, delicious, and ever-nostalgic breakfast classic that faithfully serves us 365 days a year (or 366, on years like this one).
Since Cerealously was only born in July of 2015, this is our first National Cereal Day as a blog. Despite this, I want to do a brief throwback to National Cereal Day 2015, when General Mills sent a few lucky cereal fans this rockin’ jigsaw puzzle that is way too cool not to share with the Internet.
I will say, though, that even though this jigsaw puzzle is cool, it was difficult enough to put together that Jigsaw from Saw must have been the one who designed it. If you can imagine a slightly sweaty grown man hunched over and swearing while trying to fit a Lucky Charms horseshoe piece into a Cheerio-shaped hole, you wouldn’t be far from the truth.
In reality, I was much sweatier.
This year, General Mills teamed up with the Food Network’s Justin Warner to develop a bunch of exclusive cereal recipes. I’d love to make one, like the above Trix Sunrise Chill Pie, but we all know that my “baking session” would end 10 minutes later with me passed out on the kitchen floor, face down in a puddle of milk with a half-eaten box of Trix spilled around me like fruity crime scene giblets. You can check out this and other recipes here.
Meanwhile, no National Cereal Day would be complete without a contribution from Gabe Fonseca, a friend of Cerealously and a binge watchable cereal YouTuber. Gabe made this awesome tribute video for his channel, which features a whole bunch of cool people sharing their favorite cereals. Look closely, and you might even catch yours truly in the video.
Just don’t blame me if my face makes you go blind.
But Gabe isn’t the only one who’s ever asked me what my favorite cereal is. In fact, I get asked it so often, that I wanted to properly celebrate National Cereal Day here on Cerealously by counting down not 1, not 5, and not even 8.125 of my favorite cereals. No, it’s time to rank my Top 10 Cereals of All Time!* Continue reading →
Well, looks like it’s time to renew my monthly subscription to HBO. And no, I’m not talking about getting my Game of Thrones fix—I mean Honey Bunches of Oats! With two new episodes in cereal squire Gabe Fonseca’s Cereal Time YouTube series, we wanted to share both with you. Cereal Time takes an in-depth look at a different cereal lineage each week, and it’s chock full of vitamins, minerals, and occasionally King Vitaman.
Honey Bunches of Oats takes the honey-soaked stage first. As Gabe describes, Honey Bunches of Oats have humble beginnings, ever since 1986 when good ol’ Vernon Herzing first mixed 4 different Post cereals into a single Frankenstein’s cereal monster (not to be confused with Franken Berry, of course). Honey Bunches first started as “Battle Creek Cereal,” and even though I’m a Michigan native and would have loved for that name to catch on, it was the much more literal “Honey Bunches of Oats” that finally stuck (both literally and metaphorically: honey is sticky!).
Maybe “Battle Creek Cereal” sounds too much like a cereal killer horror movie. Continue reading →
These 6 words looped in my head approximately 1 gorillion (an enormous, gorilla-sized number, for the unaware) times as I finally managed to lay my quivering hands on a box of Chocolate Honey Bunches in the year 2016.
Those who have been following the blog should be familiar with my love for Honey Bunches of Oats with Chocolate Clusters, a cereal that was discontinued some 6 years ago in a decision by Post Foods that I’m still convinced was somehow a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
I won’t bore you with the details, but Chocolate Honey Bunches were a pivotal part of my personal cereal mythology back in their heyday. Let’s just say that without Honey Bunches of Oats with Chocolate Clusters, this site probably wouldn’t exist today.
But now, I no longer need to cry forlorn tears over faded Polaroids of the cereal, because it’s back. Does it live up to my own super high standards? I’m willing to undergo a sugar high to find out. Continue reading →
Just this week, I was melodramatically lamenting (in layman’s terms: I whined and complained) Post’s discontinuation of Honey Bunches of Oats with Chocolate Clusters some 6 years or so ago. And immediately, and I mean immediately after posting that review, Adam, a fellow cereal enthusiast, alerted me that Chocolate Honey Bunches were back, baby!
Okay, no one said “baby,” but my overexcited self certainly thought it.
I was still in skeptical disbelief (this was pretty much my version of Half-Life 3) until Adam sent me the above photo that he snapped at a Walmart. Note that the return of Chocolate Honey Bunches is now gluten-free, too. I’ve never had a gluten-less Honey Bunches, but I’m going to remain optimistic, because how can I not be optimistic after this great news?
I can barely contain my excitement! I need to go anxiously scour the globe and find myself a box. If I accidentally end this post mid-sentence, you’ll know where I
If you’re an American fan of cereal, Star Wars, or both (and really, who isn’t a fan of both?), it might be time to Force your way over the northern border, because Post Foods in Canada has released a line of 7 limited edition boxes to promote the upcoming release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, which is set to release this December.
Man, I’m not sure which I’m more excited for anymore: the holiday season, or the holi-Dagobah season.
Either way, we want to make today a little bit better by sharing a few more cereal history lessons from cereal archaeologist Gabe Fonseca, whose Cereal Time YouTube series covers so many wild and colorful cereal that may have faded from your memory as time passed.
First up is King Vitaman cereal, and while it isn’t the crowning achievement of Quaker, this crown-shaped Cap-n Crunch taste-alike has had some royally clever advertising campaigns over the years.
Next up is a cinnamon double feature that covers both Cinnamon Mini-Buns and Churros cereal. Gabe takes viewers on a trip down the long, swirling history of Cinnamon Mini-Buns as it evolved into what we know and love today as Cinnabon cereal.
Likewise, the regional Mini Cinnamon Churros is Post’s attempt to compete with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. You’d be hard-pressed to find a box of it today (it was focused around Mexico), but if you do, you’ll be smacking your cinnamon sugar-coated lips and singing “Churr-oh yeah!” in no time.
If you love Gabe’s videos as much as the rest of us, be sure to watch ’em all! Every Cereal Time video can be found here, and you can check out Gabe’s Twitter, as well.
