Boo Berry Review! HORROR WITH MILK #2!

 

I'm back, and school has kept me super busy lately, sorry for the kinda long wait for this review. But anyways, it's time for General Mills' annual monster cereals, only available around the Halloween season. I'm also aware of the return of two abandoned monster cereals, but we'll review them next time.

The taste of the cereal, which is blueberry marshmallows, was great. I liked the regular pieces better because I'm a big fan of chocolate, which these ghoulishly ghost shaped pieces were really delicious. The marshmallows, which I have stated I don't usually like before, were actually superb in this case. I liked the different fruity tastes of the marshmallows, it was good.

The look really ties in with the Halloween season, with the ghost shaped pieces and the marshmallows resembling Halloween figures and scary animals. It's all fun and games over at Boo Berry.

As for the commercials, I love the monster cereal ads. Boo Berry isn't really fitting into the Frankenberry/Count Chocula rivalry, but still is kinda a mysterious and cool little ghost. The character is likable, just like the cereal. These cereals are really ones to look forward to, it's only a once a year thing. Thumbs up to Boo Berry!

See you tomorrow when I review the ghoulish new return of Fruit Brute! Eat on, cereal lovers!

Taste: 10/10

Look: 9/10

Commercials: 8/10 (only because there's not enough!)

Cap'n Crunch's Halloween Crunch! HORROR WITH MILK #1!

Well, so much for August 15. Hopefully September 3rd is okay enough. Welcome, everybody, to the brand new installments of the Imperial Cereal! A new cereal review every three days, and that's a promise! Except the best of the best as my little 1,000 views present! Thank you all for looking at this pointless blog and reading me reviewing cereals of all things.
As Halloween is only one month left, a lot of Halloween cereals have been popping up lately, like Count Chocula and his buddies and other annually Halloween themed cereals. So, here's a segment I call "Horror With Milk". Yeah, dumb name. But anyway, let's get to our first cereal in three months or so: Cap'n Crunch's Halloween Crunch.

Tastewise, it's PHENOMENAL. I loved the taste of this cereal, it's just like Cap'n Crunch's awesome taste with a mix of berries and other flavors with some flavored milk that turns green after a while. It's awesome. The taste of the cereal really was appealing to me, gets a 10 out of 10.

The look of the cereal is really cool, too, it uses a lot of orange and green and also really gets you in the spooky halloween spirit. The whole cereal's look and taste is awesome and I love it.

There's no commercial that I've seen or heard of yet, but the look and taste of the cereal is so great and it gets you in the holiday's spirit, and I think that makes up for it. See you on Friday for a spooky review of Boo Berry!

-Jordan


Taste: 10/10
Look: 10/10
Commercial: NONE

The Triumphant Return of Imperial Cereal!

Everybody needs a summer break, I'd say. But hey, it's me again, and I'm back to review more cereal again! I've noticed I've gotten a lot more views and followers than before, and thanks to everybody who has checked out the blog! The Imperial Cereal will officially return on August 15, 2013. Thanks!

-Jordan

Monsters University Cereal Review!

I'm pretty excited to review my very first "tie-in" cereal, which usually promotes TV shows and movies by giving them their very own cereals for around 2 or 3 weeks. Basically, if you got it, you're pretty lucky, because it may be rare someday. Kellogg's usually teams up with Disney and Pixar to make cereals of their films. Thus, we have a tie in cereal promoting the Monsters, Inc. prequel, Monsters University.

The cereal's pretty good, and definitely very creative just like the Pixar films themselves. The look of the regular bits of cereal is pretty bland, but the marshmallow pieces resembling Mike and Sulley are pretty colorful, even if doesn't capture them quite clearly. The marshmallows taste good, too, and this is coming from a guy who really hates marshmallow cereals but still is willing to do anything for a review.
The taste of the cereal is good. Like I said, I usually don't like marshmallows but it unusually fitted in with the regular bits to make one good cereal. Also, if you wait a little while, the milk literally turns into a shade of light green. How cool is that?
Most tie in cereals usually don't have commercials to fit in (with the exception of the famous Nintendo Cereal System), and this one doesn't have a commercial, either. I'm actually pretty curious to see Kellogg's make a commercial for the cereal, it'd be fun.
Thanks for reading another cereal review. I'll probably write another review tonight, which is ANOTHER tie-in cereal I recently bought. Thanks for reading!

Look: 8/10

Taste: 9/10

Commercial: NONE

Vrooms Review!

Around a week ago, I went to a Big Lots and found this cereal honoring NASCAR that I never heard of yet: Vrooms. Noting that it was limited edition, I had to get my hands on it and eat it. So, like any promotion cereal, you can guess what it was like. A bland, tasteless, boring cereal. They just attracted viewers with the race car driver whose name I don't know, and then people just bought it. It's not awful, but they didn't try to make this stand out at the least bit.

The taste is just overly bland. It's not a crunchy cereal, so don't worry about it getting soggy. It looks like crap, it is crap. Not much to say, but it's just awful.

The look of the cereal is like a less exciting version of Cinnamon Jacks. They look better on the box, I can tell you that. The box is alright, if you're a NASCAR fan, which I, for one, am not.

There's no commercial that I'm aware of, which makes this cereal even worse than I thought. So, long story short: it's not good at all. Just boring.

Taste: 1/10

Look: 3/10

Commercial: NONE

Cinnamon Toast Crunch Review!

Cinnamon Toast Crunch, a present I got from my friends Holden and Sam on my birthday (yes, they know about the blog, too), is a good cereal. In fact, it's very tasty. But it's got some major flaws to it and it's not as great as some of the other cinnamon cereals I've tried.

The taste is pretty good. You can really taste the cinnamon in it. Almost too much...I know I'm a complainer when I say that the taste is too strong and that it feels too sweet. Sounds ridiculous, I know, but it's true. It's a little too cinnamon-y.

The look of the cereal is pretty simple. Tan squares with little red swirls representing cinnamon. These squares are just plain simple, but sometimes the pieces are little too big, that you have to open your mouth really wide to just fit the pieces in. Not a major flaw, but it could use readjustments.

The advertising has always been brilliant- until now. The advertisements used to follow a baker named Wendell and his 2 unnamed assistants who made the breakfast cereal- until there was this confusing new advertising campaign featuring Wendell getting stuck inside the TV and the kids who ate the cereal try to get him out. The 2 assistants, strangely, weren't seen again. Then in 2007, Wendell vanished. The new advertising campaign was simply awful, just dumb. An awful lot like the Krave ads, the new campaign featured alive pieces of the cereal trying to eat each other. Yes, you heard me right. So good it is reduced to cannibalism! But who cares about that, it's just plain dumb and not funny. I think the advertisements were great to start with, and nobody should have made the adjustments. This cereal has a few flaws, but it's still a tasty cereal anybody should try out.

Taste: 7/10

Look: 8/10

Commercials: 10/10 for originals...4/10 for new

Fruity Bits Review.

Well, here we go. I dared myself to try one of the generic, lesser known, poor people-esque cereals made by Giant: "Fruity Bits". Before, Fruity Bits was owned by Tops, and now it's owned by Giant, so excuse me for the early 2000s picture above. Anyway, I was expecting a crappy cereal....and I got a crappy cereal. Most of these cereals are major ripoffs of big name cereals, in this case Fruity Pebbles. Yes, it tastes exactly like the fruity dullness of Fruity Pebbles, but much worse. The taste isn't too far from Fruity Pebbles, but....let's just say it may not be sanitary when a crusty piece of corn flake with a dangled black hair on it falls out. This cereal is the epiphany of unsanitary cereals bought at a local Goodwill, and I have complete disregard for this piece of trash. So much that I threw the $2 box, worth as much as the stuff at a store's $1 bin.

The appearance is exactly the same as Fruity Pebbles! Kind of like small, colorful boulder-like cereal, but...this cereal doesn't try. At all. It's almost disgusting as a cereal reviewer to know that Fruity Bits is a major ripoff of a cereal that tastes pretty bland but has a great advertising campaign- this advertising campaign also sucks. It's just a purple dinosaur, without ANY name, and that's it! And an obvious game on the back! I think you get the idea, but the main idea is that you should never eat generic cereal, ever. And I learned that first hand...

Cocoa Puffs Review!

I'm back from my hiatus, and I can finally taste again! And thank goodness I can, because today's cereal, Cocoa Puffs, is like heaven in my mouth. One of my new favorites, Cocoa Puffs is....very chocolate-y. It's true to its name, and the chocolate is so good. Seriously, it tastes great. I can understand why Sonny is so cuckoo.

The shape is good, especially for a chocolate flavored cereal. You can't expect a chocolate cereal to be filled with color, that's a fruit cereal's job. The cereal is brown and circle-shaped, which is great for a chocolate cereal- better than Krave's unneeded shape.

The commercials, which are classic, is very similar to its fellow General Mills cereal Trix. It follows an orange bird named Sonny who is "cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs". This bird usually cannot get his hands off of Cocoa Puffs, and usually tries to get off his addiction to this great tasting cereal. The commercials are actually pretty funny- as long as they are not played to death, which they usually are. But check them out below, and thanks again for reading! Stay tuned for a new review twice a week!

Cereal Eating Hiatus.

Alright guys, I have to take a very short hiatus from my cereal blog, but don't worry. I'll be back with a ton of new reviews, and I might even try to eat limited edition cereals themed after television shows and movies.
Tomorrow, I'm going to Walt Disney World for a week. This is my second time and I really can't wait to go again. I'll try to see if they have any Disney cereals there, because I know that Kellogg's and Disney paired up for a number of different cereals like Magix and Mud & Bugs.
But anyway, I have a cold. One of my many annoying symptoms is that I can't taste anything, so until this goes away I can't do a cereal review. I just wanted to make a very short blog informing you of why I haven't been around. There will be a lot more new cereal reviews when I get back. See you then!

-Jordan

Apple Jacks With Marshmallows Review!

Yesterday I went to the market to find, to my surprise, a new cereal variant I haven't heard of- Apple Jacks with Marshmallows. I didn't expect anything, noting that I hate marshmallows- but it was nothing special at all.
Seriously, it was just regular Apple Jacks with gooey gross marshmallows added in. The marshmallows, for some reason, tasted terrible. I added more Apple Jacks than marshmallows on my spoon, and goodness gracious, this is not profitable. It's pretty much just regular Apple Jacks with marshmallows added in and a cool designed box. That's it.
And the design of the marshmallows are regular marshmallows. Nope, not like Lucky Charms when people take time to go and decorate the marshmallows up- these are boring white marshmallows. The Apple Jacks are colorful, in some way, but the marshmallows have no design whatsoever.
Kellogg's didn't make a commercial for this because it's limited edition (although commercials were made for Apple Clones...), but still, a commercial would have helped this review.

Taste: 1/10
Look: 2/10
Commercial: NONE

Trix Review!

Yup, I've been on a LONG hiatus since my Lucky Charms review, but now expect to see a new review every 3 days. Today I review Trix, another fruity but bad tasting cereal that I've reviewed lately.
Trix is a dumb cereal, in my opinion. Like all of the other fruit cereals I've done, I think it tastes bland and just kinda strange. Yet, knowing this is like any other ordinary fruit cereal, they hype it up with Trix yogurt, t-shirts, tons of Trix spin-offs, and more- it's just cereal! So, yeah, the taste is like what I've said for Froot Loops and Fruity Pebbles.
The design of the cereal is quite pretty, in fact. Most are shaped like colorful flowers or various types of fruit, which is very appealing to look at. The box art is also pretty colorful, too.
The advertising campaign is very simple but also very interesting to look at. It involves a rabbit, simply known as the Trix Rabbit, who simply just wants a bowl of Trix, but these nasty kids tell him it's only for kids. DISCRIMINATION! Most of these advertisements involve the Rabbit going out of his way for a simple bowl of cereal, using disguises and plans of all sorts. In fact, my favorite is a "Got Milk?" advertisement where the Rabbit finally gets his Trix but runs out of milk. It's really frustrating to see that ad, frankly.
Trix tastes like every other fruit flavored cereal- not very good, but the advertisements and look of the cereal is very eye opening and cool.
To end my review, here's a compilation of Trix ads.

Lucky Charms Review!

Happy St. Patrick's Day, folks! May the Irish luck come to ye, and the luck of Lucky Charms came to me in the shape of marshmallow rainbows! Lucky Charms was my first General Mills cereal, and man, was it good. It's now one of my personal favorites, other than Apple Jacks (which still reigns as the top). Lucky Charms is sweet, flavorful, and definitely the most creative cereal I have ever seen. The taste is very sweet, but I'm not a big fan of marshmallows. It's good, but it depends which marshmallow it is to be good or not. The other little boring bits actually aren't as dull as they look, they're actually pretty tasty.
The look of the cereal is awesome. The boring bits are tasty but look dull, but those marshmallow pieces will turn any bad day good by just looking at them. When I said that this was the most creative cereal I've ever seen, I mean they put so much colorful creativity and work into Lucky Charms. They even give the marshmallows names like "Purple Horseshoes", "Magical Green Glovers", and "Red Balloons". Dude, they even have balloons in the cereal.

The advertising campaign is stereotypical, like every GM cereal, but is likable and is one of my favorites. Like the Trix Rabbit, it follows our leprechaun friend Lucky, who practically worships his own cereal and takes a bowl with him wherever he goes. Suddenly, a group of kids try to steal it from him. Usually they succeed, but there's been a few times Lucky's gotten away with it, unlike our Trix rabbit friend. The advertisements with Lucky are prehistorically old, possibly 50 years old. Maybe it's because these advertisements are so entertaining to watch.
To sum it up, Lucky Charms are creative, tasty, and fun for any age. It's officially one of my new favorites. If you want to get into the cereal, check out these three commercials below featuring Lucky or the auto-tune remix I posted yesterday.

 

Lucky Charms' Autotune Remix!

If you haven't realized that tomorrow's St. Patrick's Day, well now you know. To honor our beloved March holiday, tomorrow I will review Lucky Charms. For now, I wanted to show you a cool remix I found on the internet of Lucky Charms commercials. Made by the great auto-tuner Melodysheep, it remixes and auto-tunes a series of Lucky Charms commercials in one of my favorite Melodysheep videos. If you don't recognize him, Melodysheep is known for his PBS remixes and his series "Symphony of Science". He's a great autotuner, check him out. For now, watch "Magically Delicious". See you tomorrow for my Lucky Charms review!

Corn Pops Review!

I'm trying my very first cereal that isn't too sweet and tastes just kinda like plain cereal. Here we go- Corn Pops. It's okay. Like I said, the sweet types are better, but I'm a picky eater. I've been like that always. It's not that bad, better than some of the other cereals I've tried, but it could use more flavor. Not terrible, but I definitely like the more flavorful cereals better. It's actually not too bad, but the slogan "Crispy Glazed Crunchy Sweet" is misleading.

Here's a unique ad campaign: optical illusions!

For the look, it's not that bad for a corn-flavored cereal, but it IS generic. But we were expecting this and if they made it any other way, it wouldn't look like a  corn cereal. I give it a good word because the cereal actually looks like its flavor.
I remember the commercials from a few years ago, but I haven't recently seen one. I do remember this one, where there's literally talking Corn Pops on a beach. The idea of the commercial is that there's a Corn Pops world of their own, and by the time the commercial ends, the Corn Pops are devoured by a giant spoon. The jokes told in the commercials are kinda corny (Get it? See what I did there?), but the commercials are unique and fun.

TASTE: 5/10

LOOK: 5/10

COMMERCIALS: 9/10

Froot Loops Review!

Well, here we are, trying Froot Loops. I think I said this in my Fruity Pebbles Xtreme Colors review, but there's a cycle: all of the fruit cereals taste the same, and this rule also goes for Froot Loops. Like Xtreme Colors, Froot Loops looks like a pretty cereal, but I think that's something the cereal focuses on too much is the colors. Yet I like the substance and look of Froot Loops. Anyway, the cereal tasted kinda bland and not so much fruity. I guess following Sam's nose just leads to dry and bland tasting cereal. Speaking of which, let's get to the commercials. I like the character of Toucan Sam, but he's not that much. He could be more imaginative, but he just says "Follow my nose for a fruity taste that shows!" and then just goes away, plain as that. As a DuckTales twist, Sam was given 3 young nephews who, like Huey, Dewey, and Louie, are really annoying. The commercials are somewhat entertaining but also kinda dumb and cheesy, like this one here of Sam and his nephews trying to steal cereal from a greedy ancient mummy. It's dumb, but also entertaining.

Taste: 2/10

Look: 10/10

Commercials: 8/10

Krave Double Chocolate Review!

When I told some of my friends I didn't have cereal when I was a kid and now I have a blog about it, they recommended a few cereals. My friends Holden and Sam recommended Krave the most, a chocolate cereal that is pretty tasty. Indeed it is, and when they say "Double Chocolate", they really mean double chocolate. This is the most chocolate-y cereal I have ever tasted. Sonny the Bird would flip out if he ever ate this stuff. It's a great cereal in my opinion, but for those who don't like chocolate this isn't for you. In fact, my mom hated this cereal when she ate it. I think it's a tasty cereal, but they could have toned down the chocolate, though. I mean, this has A LOT of frickin' chocolate. The milk turns chocolate if it sits too long, so everything is chocolate. Their shape is way too simple, just plain chocolate squares. Their ads are kinda dumb, too. It follows the Krave cereal bits eating chocolate squares to pieces, then prompting to say "Chocolate chocolate yum yum!". It's an overall good cereal, but it's too ordinary.

 

Taste: 9/10

Look: 1/10

Commercials: 3/10

 

 

Fruity Pebbles Rockin' Xtreme Colors Review!

Well, we now know I really don't like fruit flavored cereal. Nope. My Trix Fruitalicious Swirls review is coming up as well as my Froot Loops, but I really don't like fruit cereals. They all taste the same, all sort of bland. Not a terrible taste, but not too great. Most Post cereals aren't as great as Kellogg's or General Mills in my opinion. The taste isn't unbearable, but like I said somewhat bland and not too fruity at all. As for the look, that's pretty cool. These "rockin' xtreme colors" sound so ridiculous, almost like it came from the mid 1990s, promising an "amped-up fruity taste!" Well, it's right, I guess, because this cereal is pretty frickin' bright. I guess that's somewhat impressive and kinda pretty. The commercial is way too simple and also kinda annoying. It show Pebbles and Bam Bam, along with some other kids, in their karate getup kicking massive colors. It's a stupid ad and also kind of annoying. Anyway, I'll probably review the original Fruity Pebbles, too, but I found this to be bland and untasty, yet the design of it is pretty.

Taste: 3/10

Look: 10/10

Commercial: 1/10

Cinnamon Jacks Review!

Well, they made a spinoff to my favorite cereal, Cinnamon Jacks, and all I can say is that's it's good, but not as good as Apple Jacks. Guessing this is one of those cereals that is only for a limited time, Cinnamon Jacks is nothing but cinnamon, which is pretty much what Apple Jacks already is, but this is even MORE cinnamon. It's good, but I already have gotten used to the original cereal, and this was a good cereal, but in the money world, Kellogg's made a bad move since this is still just like the original in my opinion. I ate 3 bowls of the darn thing, so I found it to be pretty tasty. The shape of the cereal varies from the original, as Cinnamon Jacks are shaped almost like flowers. I guess it's okay, but the old Apple Jacks colors were much more colorful. Anyway, the commercial is kind of dumb. Our old racist friend CinnaMon pretty much says "New Cinnamon Jacks!", then proceeds to butcher "Celebrate Good Times" into "CINNabrate Good Times". The Bad Apple, thankfully, is nowhere to be seen. In fact, he has barely anything to do with this cereal other than appearing on the back of the box saying "Try out the original!". You'd think that the Bad Apple would be so PO'ed that CinnaMon had his own cereal that he'd literally kill the guy. Anyway, Cinnamon Jacks is okay, but only okay because it's too much like the original.

Taste: 7/10

Look: 4/10

Commercial: 2/10

Apple Jacks Review!

I've so far tried put 5 or 6 cereals already, and my favorite as of now is Apple Jacks. Not only are the commercials pretty decent, but this cereal tastes great. The name is kind of a lie, it doesn't really taste like apples. It's more contained with cinnamon, but there's some apple in it- I guess you just can't taste it. The milk even has a taste to it, one of those tastes that remains in your mouth for a while until you eat something else. Apple Jacks is great in my opinion. The look of the cereal is decent, with green representing apples and tan representing cinnamon. The milk even has red flavored dots in it.  The commercials between the slightly racist CinnaMon and the Bad Apple is great, because before the characters were invented in 2004 the commercials were too simple and they sucked. An interesting thing to know is that the animation company that made the commercials also made those Chips Ahoy commercials with the talking cookie. To sum things up, I liked it. It was the first cereal I had and have reviewed.

Taste: 9/10
Look: 8/10
Commercials: 9/10

An Introduction.

Hey there, I'm glad you found this blog. It's gonna be me reviewing cereal. Doesn't sound too good, huh? Well, it will be. The thing is I really never grew up with cereal. All I ate as a kid was pretty much pancakes, waffles, and donuts. But now, in my teen years, I'm trying out cereal. My quest: to eat every cereal known to man, maybe even ones that aren't even around any more. I know you're thinking "Wow, you didn't even eat ANY cereal?" Nope, I didn't. Maybe like once or twice. But now I have just begun my cereal quest, and you can join me along the way. Let's start.