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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
