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