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...