I don’t wanna grow up!
Have you ever taken a responsible adult trip to the grocery store? Then somehow it turns into an all-out child adventure down the cereal aisle, ooooing and awwing whilst grabbing every colorful sugary box of cereal available? Good, me neither!
By now, you all know that I’m a kid trapped in adult form. That being so, it’s no surprise that I do not know how to grocery shop. Almost, at all. Every attempt in my adulthood has always resulted in $60-100 worth of cereal and Lactaid milk. I suppose that’s okay seeing that I’m single and have no children living with me, but I digress.
On this trip to Walmart, I intended to purchase sandwich fixings and other items needed to satisfy my hunger during weekly 8-hour day of volunteering. I failed, miserably. After trotting around Walmart Supercenter in Long Beach, CA for about a hour or so, I had a basket full of Pork jerky, Pepperidge Farm cookies, Pringles, sandwich meats, pepperjack string cheese, juice, and water. How I missed the cereal aisle while packing the basket with these items is beyond me; but despite that I stumbled upon a interesting red box of Cap’n Crunch Christmas cereal and became astonished. I thought aloud, “No! I’m not getting this, they got me last time with Cinnamon Crunch.“ As I noticed the long aisle of colorful and engaging boxes of cereal, I began throwing the most attractive ones into my shopping cart. I have never had these variations of my childhood favorite cereals and I was eager to try them; so I did.
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- Cinnamon. Sugar. HEAVEN! Synonyms for the wonderful bowl of sweet and savory sugar cereal. How do you make an already great cereal better? Dump a crap ton of powdered sugar on top of it. General Mills hit a homerun here. If you already love sweet cereal, this is the bee’s knees of sweet cereal. Take the wonderful taste of a Cinnamon Bun and smash it together with a Powdered doughnut and that is what you have here! A Powered Doughnut Cinnamon Bun!
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- The most positive thing to be said here is that it passes the chocolate milk test. I have a love/hate relationship with chocolate and particular Cocoa Pebbles. Cap’n Crunch has decided that they are going to make Cocoa Pebbles Cap’n Crunch, DON’T! Overall, it’s awful, the aftertaste is not that of chocolate but of some possible nasty cough syrup. I do not hate this cereal, but I possibly will never eat it again. BUT it does pass the chocolate milk test, which is awesome!
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- Oddly enough they actually look like jacks. Apple Jacks are circles, which was always kind of weird to me. As soon as you open the inner bag the aroma of the brown sugar and cinnamon hits you in the head like a ton of bricks. The first bite of the cereal is the best and but declines from there, as it gets soggier the flavor diminishes nad becomes bland. It’s a good cereal but certainly no replacement for Apple Jacks. Of all the cereals displayed here, this has to be the lightest, and least sweet.
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- Fruit Loops has always been a good cereal, in my opinion. Adding the fruity shaped Marshmallows enhances the taste, just a bit. But it more so overpowers the fruity-sweet flavor of Fruit Loops cereal that we all know and love. This Lucky Charms – Fruit Loops hybrid is a tasteful delight but certainly should only be a breakfast treat for the kiddies. Eating this everyday, may very well spend them to school hyper, alert and a really big pain in the teachers’ behinds. It’s a good cereal. In the end, however, it’s just very sweet.
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- Growing up, I remember sifting through Crunch Berrie just to get to the colorful balls or cereal. As an adult, having the Cap’n Crunch original cereal missing from my Opps! All Berries, leaves me in a bit of a nostalgic state. I guess the saying is correct, you never miss what you have until it is gone. Opps! All Berries is hands down my favorite of the 6 cereals I have tried today, but oddly enough, I must confess: I miss the Cap’n Crunch!
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- Have you ever had the Little Debbie’s Strawberry Shortcake Rolls? If so, imagine the strawberry filling of that put into the center of a crunchy cereal. I hated this cereal. It was awful. All I could taste was the strawberry filling. I hated it. I don’t know what more to say…
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- This is why children could never be responsible for grocery shopping. Either that or I am just a terrrible adult!
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