Cereal Wednesday

This week’s choice of Cookie Crisp happened for two reasons.

1) I couldn’t find the Oreo Cereal that Avitable had suggested during his dinner video at the store this past weekend.  I’ve seen it there before but for whatever reason they were sold out.  Maybe he came to visit New York and forgot to tell me.

2) I was going to do the whole bowl on camera so I needed something I’d be able to stomach in one fail swoop.  The truth is, I normally eat it over an hour+ while I edit, render, and upload or while I watch television.  I figured it would take me 15 minutes… and ended up taking 24.  I never realized just how FILLING cereal was.  Afterwards, I quite literally had the “itis” and wanted to do nothing but lay down.  This actually isn’t anything new… because I’ve been sleepy all week… but this was a stronger urge than normal.

Now when I refer to Cookie Crisp as a “comfort” cereal… I truly mean that… at least for my generation.  I don’t know about the younger generation.  See… when my parents were kids, and they got home from school, they got milk and fresh baked cookies.  When I got home from school, I usually had either Oreos or Chips Ahoy because Entenmann’s Chocolate Chip cookies were really for “company”.  I would get the fresh baked from my grandma (my mother’s mother to be exact; my father’s mother gave us homemade apple strudle) with a nice cold glass of milk… even on the day she died.  So I’ve always identified cookies and milk as comfort food.  I wonder about my son… who seems to have more of an attraction to things fruit roll up and ice cream than anything else.

The cereal is, in my opinion, as close as your likely to come to real chocolate chip cookies and milk without ACTUALLY eating chocolate chip cookies and milk.  Granted your missing the crumbs, and its more the after taste than the actual taste, but the memory evoking essence is still there.  Overall its a good cereal… but still… no toys.

So the Reese’s Puffs cereal tries to mix chocolate and peanut butter together to have a similar success they have had with the candy.  In the end, it is really a poor imitation with a severely disgusting aftertaste.  I think the aftertaste actually came from their attempt to do the peanut butter.  I find it hard to believe that someone would be able to screw up the taste of chocolate considering the wide variety of chocolate cereals out there already.

Reese’s Puffs is another General Mills cereal.  I found it pretty odd that their list of “Things To Do Before Your Eighteen” included bungee jumping and going backstage at a “gig”.  To me, that shows a company that is really out of touch with the youth of today.  Bungee jumping is in fact a dangerous sport… and no one under legal age should be doing it.  Kids who’s parents actually have brain cells will not allow them to do it… so that results in kids going into illegal stuff like fake ids, or dangerous stuff like trying to rig a bungee themselves.  Want to know the worst of it all?  No toys.  Go figure.

Overall, the cereal sucks.  The packaging however rocks!