Review: Rice Krispies with Holiday Colors Cereal

IMG_1217It’s Christmas Eve Eve, or, as some call it: Christmas Adam.

The icing smiles on my gingerbread men are drying, unaware of the gruesome fates that will soon befall them. My cat is snuggled under my tree, equally unaware that presents will soon be infringing on her pine-scented territory. And, of course, there’s me, doing my best Dune voice in front of my refrigerator and whispering, “The nog must flow” to a room populated only by myself, a cat, and an army of doughy gentlemen.

Oh! And there’s this box of Rice Krispies with Holiday Colors!

I’m not gonna draw this out or leave you hanging: there isn’t much to say about these Rice Krispies. Kellogg’s merely colored a select lucky few puffed rice pieces with a coating of festive red or green. I can only imagine that these merry pieces smugly and condescendingly look down on their plain, snowy looking fellows.IMG_1218

And unlike Christmas Crunch, there isn’t a lot of holiday magic to taste here, either, unless you consider eating piles of airy rice wisps that are about as filling and tasty as a snowball to be “magical.” Especially when they’re turned into early-March slush by the addition of milk.

They do produce an atmospheric crackle that brings to mind charming fireplaces, but they radiate about as much warmth as an 8 hour YouTube version.

Also, might I add that the red pieces look like aquarium pebbles and the green ones somehow bring to mind Bumble boogers?

Sorry Rice Krispies, but I’m just one of those guys who think that if you’re not being used in cubic form with marshmallows and butter, then you’re wasting my time. And since my house is fresh out of marshmallows (the hot cocoa addiction is real), I had to use these Rice Krispies for something a little different.

So gather the kids, and I’ll roll up the piano and call the Ella Fitzgerald impersonator: it’s time for a good ol’ fashioned Christmas Krispies carol.IMG_1209

Rice Face the Krispies cookie,

Had a very lumpy face.

And if you ever saw it,

You might search for a hiding place!IMG_1210

All of the other cookies,

Used to laugh and call him names (Like “Sir Francis Flake!”),

They never let poor Rice Face, join in any cookie games (Like dough ball bowling!).IMG_1212

Then one famished Christmas Eve, Santa came to say,

“Rice Face, I don’t feel quite right,

“Won’t you let me take a bite?”IMG_1214

Then all the cookies loved him, and they shouted out with glee,

“Rice Face the Krispies Cookie, you made Santa less hungry!”


 

The Bowl: Rice Krispies with Holiday Colors

The Breakdown: They don’t really taste like anything more than lightly earthy rice. Eat something more flavorful (like a crumbled up gingerbread man in a bowl of milk)!

The Bottom Line: “Aww shucks, it’s the holidays, so I won’t give you a rating that will hurt your feelings” out of 10

***To all my younger readers: don’t worry, kids, Rice Face lived happily ever after. Gingerbread faces grow back!***

***To all my adult readers: Rice Face was delicious.***

One response »

  1. Funny how i had to decide weather i start the christmas holidays (and yes in germany we can’t wait for the 25th to come ^^) with either Lucky’s or Rice Krispies mixed with a huge handful of blueberries that would otherwise go bad. And as you already know: The blueberries are going to become moldy xD

    But that said: Though Rice Krispies are best when they come along with two of their friends (butter and marshmallows), i like them from time to time. Not on their own, ’cause in contrast to their cousin the original cornflakes they always need a wingman, but with fruits, spices and in granola they are sometimes a very welcome change. 🙂
    (For the holiday rice krispies i would’ve gone with pear and cinnamon… oh wait! or apple, cinnamon sugar, vanilla and raisins topped with nuts; and yes that would be a “krispie baked apple cereal” xD)

    btw my gf made some christmas cakes and while they were not gingerbread flavored i have to share a pic since rice face had such a rough time:
    http://www.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/gingerbreadcakoh8qgtrem7.jpg

    And yes after the decapitation: he’s no longer anymore… (sorry kids… ;))

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