Cerealously’s European readers are probably familiar with Lion Cereal, but hungry Americans like me are roaring with jealousy, because an entire Atlantic Ocean separates us from chocolatey, caramel-y breakfast happiness.
Longtime Spooned & Spotter Marc P. sent in the above photo of a Lion Cereal box he procured on a trip to Copenhagen, and if I could reach through the Internet and snatch a spoonful of it from him, you better believe I’d be elbow deep in my monitor right now.
Lion Cereal has been a European favorite since the early 2000s, when Nestlé introduced it as a loose cereal version of their classic Lion Bar, a wafered chocolate bar stuffed with crisped cereal and caramel. Lion Cereal contains chocolate and caramel-flavored crisps, too, which is a truly unique flavor that’s unheard of in American cereal aisles. I mean sure, you could mix Superman Cereal with Batman Cereal, blend Cap’n Crunch’s Caramel Popcorn Crunch with Chocolatey Crunch, or just crumble Chocolatey Caramel Pop-Tarts into a bowl with milk, but none of those have a beastly lion mascot.
Just moody superheroes, an old ship captain with eyebrows on his hat, and a trip to the dentist.
Hopefully I can find an international grocer around me that has Lion Cereal imported. Otherwise, I might just splurge and scour eBay for a box. This might be dangerous, though: if Lion Cereal is Europe’s best exclusive cereal and Oreo O’s are the cereal pride of Asia, then bringing both into the same household with Waffle Crisp—America’s best exclusive cereal—could bring too much talismanic cereal energy together in one place.
I’m just trying to eat a balanced breakfast here, not tear a hole in the space-time continuum.
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I absolutely LOVE the Lion Peanut bars!!! I just came back from London last night actually and brought some back with me. I’d pay a pretty penny to get a box of that cereal!!
i would love to help out, but 16euro just for shipping isn’t reasonable for a box of cereal…
If there is a slight chance you get to the UK again: wait. They’re good but the bar is better! ^^
I will aim to do a write-up.
As a cliffhanger, it tastes very close to….
yeah Lion… not just as candy bar (btw do you have anything comparable to a lion bar in the us?) way too good and tempting, but as cereal too…
Definitely one of my favorite cereals as a kid. Eespecially beacause all the nestle cereals were more like a “treat” and we had them not that often ^^
So, i can understand your desire to get your hands on them. I would love to help out here, but i’m sure you get them way cheaper on amazon than send by me ^^
btw when it copmes to candy bar cereal i still need to figure out how to get Toffee Crisp or Nestle Crunch delivered to me xD
(Though i still hope for a ROLO Cereal sometimes… i mean there is a Reese’s Cereal… why not ROLO? ^^)
Nevertheless: I’m crossing my fingers you get Lion Cereals as fast as Superman can punch Batman’s Strawberry out of the unmiverse or you can crumble a Chocolatey Caramel Pop-Tart into your cereal bowl. ^^
stupid and random cereal information: Nestle also released a “heaklthier” lion granola this year: Lion Granola (Wasn’t able to try it since i’m not a big fan of this “let’s make everything “healthier” by putting some oats or chia in it… -.-)