No, not serial. Cereal. Cereal is the greatest pre-packaged food available today. All types are great: whole grain, sugary, fruity, nutty… it doesn’t matter.

I love cereal so much that it’s likely responsible for a bout of obesity as a child. Today I keep things regulated by eating bran flakes with a banana and treating any other cereal like a dessert. But that doesn’t mean my love has wavered.

Recently there seems to have been a rush of new varieties of cereal. Have you seen how many different kinds of Cheerios out there? Here’s a list borrowed from Wikipedia of just the kinds currently on the market:

  • Cheerios (1941)
  • Honey Nut Cheerios (1979) (see above)
  • Apple Cinnamon Cheerios (1988)
  • MultiGrain Cheerios (original 1992, relaunched 2009)
  • Frosted Cheerios (1995)
  • Yogurt Burst Cheerios (2005)
  • Fruity Cheerios (2006) (Cheerios sweetened with fruit juice)
  • Oat Cluster Crunch Cheerios (2007) (sweetened Cheerios with oat clusters)
  • Banana Nut Cheerios (2009) (sweetened Cheerios made with banana puree)
  • Chocolate Cheerios (2010) (Cheerios made with cocoa)
  • Cinnamon Burst Cheerios (2011) (Cheerios made with cinnamon)
  • Dulce de Leche Cheerios (2012) (sweetened Cheerios made with caramel)
  • MultiGrain Peanut Butter Cheerios (2012) (Multigrain Cheerios with sorghum, not wheat, and peanut butter)

Honey Nut and Frosted are probably the best in my humble opinion (the peanut butter was bleh).  Seeing all these varieties makes me nostalgic for some of my childhood favorites.  Without a doubt, Cinnamon Toast Crunch is the best cereal out there.  I recently tried Frosted Toast Crunch which is a new derivative product.  It wasn’t too great but it did bring back memories of French Toast Crunch!

French Toast Crunch would never quite replace Cinnamon but it sure was tasty.  I wish they still offered it.

As it turns out, General Mills does still make French Toast Crunch. But they sell it in Canada.  I wonder why there’s demand for it there but not here.

Oh well.  What kind of food can you notput down?  Do you have a cereal problem?  Maybe something else?

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