[cold] breakfast cereal

[rugessnome]

I was listening to The Cereal Bowl podcast (with Justin McElroy) last night in hopes of it sending me off to sleep but uh... I ended up reading the co-host, Dan Goubert's Cerealously blog instead.

It's very interesting reading, but I am pretty certain from scattered references to familiar cereals which I do enjoy that our tastes in cereal differ. Like, I like soggy cereal in at least some cases.



*= it has been a long time since I ate this so I'm less sure of this ranking relative to the unmarked ones.

My top tier favorite cereals, that I'll accept almost any time, in no particular order:

• Rice Krispies. (yes. just regular rice krispies)
• Kellogg's* Raisin Bran (I'm ...not sure I've had non Kellogg's raisin bran o.O )
• Grape-Nuts, with a small spoonful of sugar on top (and for some reason I associate them with grapefruit? maybe just cause the sugar was in common as a child, or/and maybe the "grape" part of their name)
• Honey-Nut Cheerios - excellent cereal milk
• plain Cheerios, which are one of the only cereals i can just... comfortably eat dry (I overload on uncomplicated sugar pretty easily)
• cocoa pebbles and/or probably cocoa krispies and also cocoa dyno-bytes
• ? i'm not thinking of any others

Other good ones:

• Fruity Pebbles/fruity dyno-bytes
• Trix
• *Kashi Black Currant Walnut (discontinued! :( )
• *Kashi Cinnamon Harvest
• *? Kashi Heart to Heart Honey Oat Cereal (but I read something such that it may have been reformulated since I had it)
• Trader Joe's Mango-O's
• Dulce de Leche Cheerios (gone but fondly remembered)
• * Corn Pops
• * Honey Smacks, I think
• Puffed millet, wheat, corn, rice (mostly because they feel more snack-ish than cereal-like to me)
• Honey grahams (pref. from Meijer) in milk
• plain popped popcorn with a spoonful of sugar in milk.
• *regular Froot Loops
• Apple-Cinnamon, Frosted, Maple, Multi-grain, *Chocolate Peanut butter(?), or Fruity Cheerios
• probably most plain chex? I haven't had the flavored chex. Also Crispex
• *? Cracklin' Oat Bran (I suspect it has undergone a reformulation since I last ate it)
• Total/Wheaties, etc.
• tbc, maybe?

Acceptable, as in, I'm willing to eat them, but I'm won't swear that I like them:

• Lucky Charms
• Golden Grahams
• French Toast Crunch
• Cinnamon Toast Crunch
• Frosted Mini Wheats and Frosted Mini-Wheats Little Bites Chocolate and big Shredded Wheat biscuits (it's a textural thing)
• Reese's Puffs
• *Cocoa Puffs
• *Apple Jacks
• Kix? (I've *mostly* had these in a snack mix recipe, but they're not revolting)
• Frosted Flakes
• Corn Flakes
• ...