If you’re reading this, my mission was a success: I’ve hacked the Kelloggian satellite array and beamed my desperate plea directly into the heads of the cereal company’s board of directors. Now that I have the c-suite’s attention, I only have one request:
Please, please make a Peanut Butter Crunch Krave.
It’s true: while eating this new Strawberry Crunch Krave, I couldn’t help but think, yearn, and mentally mewl for a crunchy companion worth combining into my favorite (also crunchy…or creamy) elementary school sandwich. This urge was so strong that I even wished Cinnamon Crunch Krave, which I already enjoyed, could be sacrificed to whatever shadowy cabal of choco-vores hold the cosmic power to make my dream a reality.
While it may sound like I’m deflecting, this is the best compliment I can give Strawberry Crunch Krave. Because it’s good. So good, in fact, that I could eat it pureed and spread onto toast. Allow me to elaborate—oh, and if the Kellogg’s execs are still reading this, PayPal-ing me a dowry for my courageous Kravery wouldn’t be a bad idea either.
How’s about a few bucks and an ivory steed?
Much like Cinnamon Crunch, Strawberry Crunch Krave is remarkably soft and sugarcoated with flavored dust, giving each pillow a cute rosy blush. But unlike Cinnamon Crunch, the strawberry and chocolate flavors at play here don’t smoothly splice together into a single, potently brown flavor. Rather, there is distinct interplay between the outer powder and the milky middling, not to mention the biscuity bits in between.
That is to say, the strawberry flavor hits first, with pops of candied, dehydrated strawberry jam, before the shell shatters to release the much-needed temperance of a multigrain bread slice. Even in these split seconds before chocolatey impact, the combo of strawberry and shell bring to mind tiny toasts slathered in jelly, echoing a certain extinct cereal with a similar concept.
May you make lil lunches for the angels now, old friend.
The chocolate just completes the inverted fondue trifecta—tragic that if peanut butter were here, I could call it an alliterative foursome—with more simple and simply tasty milk chocolate that makes the whole thing taste like a dessert, albeit a thankfully tame enough one to endure at any hour of the day. Especially after your first dessert(s).
Milk is ideal for Strawberry Crunch Krave for two reasons:
One, its sheer liquidity mitigates the cereal’s biggest weakness: the explosively parching powder that makes dry mouthfuls especially arid. Granted, this introduces the same issue found in Cinnamon Crunch—that of rapid soggification—but if you’re like me, you’ll scarf/snarf down this stuff before the strawberry dust can even martyr itself into the endmilk. Which you should let it do, because…
Two, pre-loading your cereal spoon of choice with a dollop of real peanut butter allows PB & J alike to delightfully enhance both bowl and endmilk alike with a salty sweetness and a chocolate kicker.
There’s less for me to say here after a thorough exploration of Cinnamon Crunch’s comparable composition, but Strawberry Crunch Krave really deserves top billing between the pair. Outside of Love Crunch, this is probably the most successful union of fruit and chocolate the cereal aisle has seen lately, beating out boring shredded wheat, lazy Cap’n Crunch, and whatever this is. Probably, at least.
Will it win over khronic Krave haters? Maybe if they’re feeling a candlelit breakfast. But for the noble rest of us who can tolerate this modern classic pillow cereal, Strawberry Crunch Krave is a no-brainer and a whole-grainer. The strawberry flavor may come off as too artificial for people who prefer the likes of Strawberry Cheerios, but if pink candies are your favorite, your spoon-clenching fingers will be in good hands. Just be sure to B.Y.O.P.B., or at least one of those high pressure water-frackers from the dentist—because these babies are romantic enough to hug your molars like clingy lovers.
Now I just wonder if I could fondue these, too?
The Bowl: Strawberry Crunch Krave
The Breakdown: A clever combo of strawberry and chocolate that actually delivers for a change, these milk-mandatory pinkened pillows are sure to please anyone itching for a swee-toothsome post-dinner J + pantry-pillaged PB.
The Bottom Line: 8.5 milk mares out of 10
This is the best cereal ever! If any of you that plan to throw it out would like to sell your unopened boxes to me – send me an email. I will pay you through paypal. Can’t find this anymore in my area and I will buy all the boxes I can get my hands on!!
Forgot the email: mac10@semo.net
I found these last week at Walmart, marked down to $0.50 a box. So I thought I’d try it, considering it got 8.5 out of 10. No. No. After one spoonful I realized I made a terrible mistake. The taste was revolting, the texture made me queasy. I threw it out. Never eat this.
I bought 8 boxes ! Bad mistake it gets soggy within seconds ” right about your 2nd spoon full ” .. It tastes pretty good out of the box but I kind off like milk with my cereal.. Like many will say there is definitely no crunch to this cereal which is highly misleading and would even say maybe dishonest to the consumer.. Walmart does have it now ” clearanced for 50 cent a box ” wonder why “, put it in milk and you’ll see why .. Major fail for Kellogg’s..
I have to report that this was truly awful. Between the taste, after taste, and mouthfeel, this was a very bad experience. I will throw this out.
“post-dinner J + pantry-pillaged PB”?
This cereal tastes as if you left Berry Colossals setting in milk for too long then attempted to eat the rainbow mush left in the bowl.Theres no “crunch” and barely any strawberry.
Horrible. My teenage son who eats anything and everything won’t eat this.
I bought this a few weeks back and immediately threw it out after one bowl. I never tried Krave before this, but the texture is awful. Krave can come out with all the flavors it wants, but I’ll be staying far away from them all.