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25

Oct. ’15

Spooned & Spotted: Monster Cereal Mask Boxes!

CSH1ZlTWsAE7YSNNo time for a cheesy opening line: the monster cereal mask boxes are here! I can’t possibly mask my excitement!

Okay, I guess there was time for just one.

While the rest of us have been on a scary scavenger hunt (scare-venger hunt?) for the past two months, looking for the promised Walmart-exclusive, glow-in-the-dark masks on boxes of Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry, General Mills very sneakily decided to put them on the backs of non-monster cereals!

Stunned by this news, I quickly learned that GM have even updated their earlier blog post with this picture confirmation.12074975_895208750557697_5210404237571895701_n

That’s right, this is a trick and a treat all wrapped up in one. But we can forgive them, because Frute Brute and Yummy Mummy actually get to join in on the fun! As the picture above shows, in order to collect every monster’s detached cardboard visage, you’ll have to buy a family-sized version of 5 different General Mills cereals at Walmart. Frute Brute graces Cookie Crisp (an intentional reference to Chip the Wolf?), Yummy Mummy is on Lucky Charms, Count Chocula is on Cocoa Puffs (which tastes a lot like the Count’s cereal), Boo Berry is on Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and Franken Berry is on Reese’s Puffs.12087087_955813281149302_7153979240774261524_o copy

In short: worth it. So worth it!

These are actually different than the Chocula and Boo masks released in Canada that we mentioned earlier, so if you want every single monster box from this season, you’re looking at a lofty 13 boxes! What an appropriate number.

Many thanks (more than 13 thanks) to Matt from Dinosaur Dracula, The Monster Cereals Army, and Mike H. for providing the photos! It’s this kind of wild goose ghost chase that makes the season feel so much more exciting and adventurous. If you’d like to see your picture or thoughts featured on a “Spooned & Spotted” post, click yourself right on over to our submissions page, or just email us at cerealously.net@gmail.com.

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22

Oct. ’15

Spooned & Spotted: Monster Cereal Mania!

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A gorgeous sight, isn’t it?

As the season of spooks is only just over a week away from its triumphant climax, our much-beloved monster cereals have left their marshmallowy mark in stores everywhere.

Judging by this photo from Spooned & Spotted regular Marc P., which he captioned “Ahhh. Heaven finally,” most people should have no trouble finding Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry this time around. But as the 31st approaches, this is a friendly reminder to stock up while you can.

I’m hoping to have enough to last me at least through Groundhog Day…2017.

But despite this, it seems no one has been able to find the cut-out mask boxes that are reportedly Walmart exclusives. Mask boxes have been seen in Canada, but nothing in the U.S. as of yet. If you have seen these mythical masks, please let us know via the comments or our submission page! You could’ve stumbled on a real cereal unicorn!

In other monster cereal news, General Mills just released an entire podcast about them! From interviews with the box designers to a guest appearance by the voice of Count Chocula himself, the podcast even features recorded responses from monster cereal fans who called into General Mills’ hotline to profess their love.

You can check that podcast out here. Need one more good reason to listen?

Yours truly makes an appearance as one of those aforementioned fans!

Thanks again to Marc for the photo! If you’d like to see your picture or thoughts featured on a “Spooned & Spotted” post, click yourself right on over to our submissions page, or just email us at cerealously.net@gmail.com.

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21

Oct. ’15

Spooned & Spotted: Honey Nut Cheerios Star Wars Boxes

IMG_0132Are you a Star Wars fan looking to Chew-bacca a sweet spoonful of honey glazed cereal?

Well then General Mills has just the limited edition box for you!

I spotted this cool new Honey Nut Cheerios box at Meijer recently. The cereal inside is the same Honey Nut Cheerios that everyone knows and loves, but seeing Buzz the Bee in full Darth Vader garb is enough to play a persuasive Jedi Mind Trick on any passing consumer. You’ll have bought 3 boxes of it and walked out of the store faster than you can say “wait a minute, I came here looking for droids!”

Alongside Star Wars cereal, these Cheerios will be the perfect couch co-pilot as you marathon all 6 Star Wars movies in anticipation of this December’s Episode VII. 

But this box doesn’t stop with gorgeous artwork. No, these Cheerios revive the nearly dead cereal tradition of including a prize inside, as each box contains one of 6 different “droid viewers” that lets you see View-Master-esque images. Here’s hoping this sparks a renewed interest in cereal prizes; if the Jedi can come back from near extinction, so can plastic premiums.

Will there be more Star Wars cereals and boxes between now and December? My midichlorian count isn’t high enough to know.

I can only hope that my dream of “Wookie Crisp” becomes a reality.

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10

Oct. ’15

Special: Spooned & Spotted — Rice Krispies Cereal with Holiday Colors

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Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the…wait, no way!

It’s still early October, but it appears Kellogg’s has already decided to start putting Christmas HOLIDAY products onto shelves. I can see maybe doing this around Thanksgiving, but at this point, it’s the cereal equivalent of camping outside Walmart for Black Friday in late August. I expect bright red Valentine’s Day Krispies within a week.

The only logical explanation I can think of is that this actually is a Halloween cereal, and Snap, Crackle, and Pop just decided to dress up as scarf-wearing hipsters.

These special edition Krispies appear to mix red and green pieces with the traditional beige. There is a heavy emphasis on making treats with these in exchange for a toy donation. According to the box, you can easily shape these into spearheads or venomous serpents for your next ceremonial sacrifice.

Wait, you say those are trees and candy canes? Sorry, still got Halloween on the mind.

These Rice Krispies with Holiday Colors were spotted by yours truly at Meijer just last week. I posted a photo of them on Twitter earlier, so be sure to follow if you want to stay on top of cereal happenings.

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06

Oct. ’15

Special: Spooned & Spotted — Count Chocula Treats

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(Edit 10/17: I was wrong! The bars have finally made their way to U.S. shelves, just without orange chocolate. You can read my review by clicking here!)

See those little undead hands making the “👌” emoji?

Well that was the first thing I did upon seeing this image from user Danse Macabre (thanks!). In my earlier review of Franken Berry and Boo Berry Fruit Roll-Ups, I noted how Count Chocula treats—which have been a mainstay on grocery store shelves for several Halloween seasons—seemed to be M.I.A. for 2015.

But fear not, monster cereal fans (or maybe do fear, because they are, you know, monsters), the snack sized cereal bars are alive! The treats combine chocolate cereal pieces, chocolate chips, and marshmallows with a sweet and gooey sugar binding agent to hold them together into a singular mass.

This just makes me think. If I were to bite the end of a Count Chocula Treat into a point, would I be able to pound it through a vampire’s heart like a stake? What an ironic death that would be.

Interestingly, the icing and milky bottom on these bars appears to be an eerie orange this time around, whereas previous editions simply had the Count’s signature brown.

However, there is a catch. At the moment, these bars might be a Canada exclusive! Danse Macabre spotted them at a local Ontario superstore, and other reports have seen them popping up all over the country. Will the Count’s bar-shaped cereal expansion packs reach the U.S. this season?  I think it’s only a matter of time. After all, it’s like the wise Dwight Schrute once said:

“If a vampire-bat was in the U.S. It would make sense for it to come to a ‘sylvania.’ Like Pennsylvania.”

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29

Sep. ’15

Special: Spooned & Spotted — Austrian Cereals

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For all of the non-American readers of this blog, the above photo might seem like nothing out of the ordinary. But for an amazed Michigander like myself?

Tresor? Chocos? Honey Bsss Loops?

What kind of magical wizardry is this?

This latest entry in our reader-submitted Spooned & Spotted series is of the cereal aisle selection at a store in Vienna, Austria. Frequent contributor Marc P. (thanks as usual, Marc!) sent us this photo from his recent Austrian vacation.

While almost every cereal here has an American equivalent, seeing an international take on some of the favorites that Americans may take for granted is, at least to me, incredibly fascinating. I’m always intrigued to learn about all the many cereals of the world. And man, some of these boxes are just so gorgeous that I want to rub my face all over them frame them!

Why can’t the U.S. have super kawaii female bee mascots? Why can’t we have monkeys advertising our Cocoa Krispies (sorry Snap, Crackle, and Pop, but you can’t top a monkey in a hat)? And most importantly:

Why can’t we have the Nesquik Bunny on the front of a cereal with pieces that look suspiciously like…you know…actual rabbit poop?

Okay, maybe there’s an obvious reason for that last one.

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17

Sep. ’15

Special: Spooned & Spotted — Mini-Wheats Pumpkin Spice Cereal

image1Pop quiz! Without reading ahead, where was this photo taken?

If you answered “a pumpkin patch,” “my dreams,” or “an idealistic utopia in which Halloween occurs 365 days a year,” you would, unfortunately, be incorrect.

Nope, reader Marc P. spotted these elusive Mini-Wheats Pumpkin at his local Wegmans store and, as any true cereal fan would, wanted to share it with the world. Thanks, Marc!

Personally, I’m equally as interested in whatever amazing Halloween confection the Pillsbury Doughboy is hawking. I want to buy it simply so I can coat random passerby in black and orange sprinkles like the world’s most annoying sandman.

Unfortunately, we here at Cerealously are still desperately searching for a box for ourselves. So Marc, if you’d like to pour a bowl and grab a Ouija board, perhaps our ethereal spirit could consume it in lieu of our corporeal bodies. Or maybe I’ve just been watching too many horror movies.

Kellogg’s has been promoting this cereal pretty heavily, so you may have already seen it carving up your Twitter timeline.

This post ended a little short, so how about we brighten your Friday with a classic Mini-Wheats commercial, from before the entire ethos of the cereal became “anthropomorphized squares help kids get to school on time.” This commercial makes one yearn for a simpler era, when the entire world had a VHS filter draped over it and people could drop When Harry Met Sally references with reckless abandon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYleD8C4ECI

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31

Aug. ’15

Special: Spooned & Spotted — Froot Loops Bloopers Cereal

image1Welcome to the first installment of “Spooned & Spotted,” a new feature that spotlights submissions from Cerealously readers regarding what tasty or noteworthy cereals they’ve eaten or seen in stores. We almost called it “Spoon-ted,” but that sounds like the kind of euphemism that you’d look up on Urban Dictionary and immediately regret afterwards.

Today’s cereal was spotted by reader Marc P. (thanks, Marc!). It’s Froot Loops Bloopers, and it puts the familiar tropical explosion flavor of the Froot loops you know and love into a much more Crunchberry-esque shape.

Are these meant to be the factory rejects that got caught in the loopification machine, and now Kellogg’s just wants to profit off the runts of the litter?

Is this merely a nefarious conspiracy to make more cereals in shapes that will scrape the roofs of our mouths?

Only Toucan Sam can know for sure. And as he cradles his technicolor Dragon Balls on the front of the box (which have apparently given him the messiah-like ability to walk on a tsunami of milk), we can only assume that he won’t be spilling the beans on that particular secret.

While Froot Loops Bloopers have actually been around since late last year, Marc stumbled upon them for the first time at his local Target while hunting down the new Pumpkin Puffins cereal. It just goes to show you that sometimes the most interesting cereals are hiding right underneath your nose. Keep hunting, cereal seekers, and as Toucan Sam himself always says…

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