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