Special: Spooned & Spotted — Count Chocula Treats

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(Edit 10/17: I was wrong! The bars have finally made their way to U.S. shelves, just without orange chocolate. You can read my review by clicking here!)

See those little undead hands making the “👌” emoji?

Well that was the first thing I did upon seeing this image from user Danse Macabre (thanks!). In my earlier review of Franken Berry and Boo Berry Fruit Roll-Ups, I noted how Count Chocula treats—which have been a mainstay on grocery store shelves for several Halloween seasons—seemed to be M.I.A. for 2015.

But fear not, monster cereal fans (or maybe do fear, because they are, you know, monsters), the snack sized cereal bars are alive! The treats combine chocolate cereal pieces, chocolate chips, and marshmallows with a sweet and gooey sugar binding agent to hold them together into a singular mass.

This just makes me think. If I were to bite the end of a Count Chocula Treat into a point, would I be able to pound it through a vampire’s heart like a stake? What an ironic death that would be.

Interestingly, the icing and milky bottom on these bars appears to be an eerie orange this time around, whereas previous editions simply had the Count’s signature brown.

However, there is a catch. At the moment, these bars might be a Canada exclusive! Danse Macabre spotted them at a local Ontario superstore, and other reports have seen them popping up all over the country. Will the Count’s bar-shaped cereal expansion packs reach the U.S. this season?  I think it’s only a matter of time. After all, it’s like the wise Dwight Schrute once said:

“If a vampire-bat was in the U.S. It would make sense for it to come to a ‘sylvania.’ Like Pennsylvania.

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7 responses »

  1. Well…I checked out the expiration date and it says “March 2016,” but the General Mills website says they’ve been discontinued. Sooooo….that means these must have been sitting around in Target’s warehouses since last year (@_@)? Or they were discontinued after they had already been shipped to Target.

    The Count Chocula cereal right next to it had expiration date of April 2016, so I don’t know if that’s from last year, too or what!

    • This is quite the mystery! I guess we’ll have to wait and see if any other U.S. spottings occur. For now, I’m just gonna wonder if the orange ones taste any different…

  2. That’s weird…the normal-sized chocolate frosted (brown) bars are at the Targets around here (Dallas, TX). Maybe they’ve only been released regionally (?)

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