Well, that’s one way to get me excited about a new cereal again.
Yes, as I sat cloistered in my insular cereal study — a Luddite protesting the breakfast aisle’s newfangled dud bites whilst clinging to his oldfangled Honey Nut Cheerios and Raisin Brans — I felt confident that my crunchy comfort zone would remain an unbustable breakfast bunker.
But then they came: tempting tendrils that smelled of cinnamon and oregano, worming their way through my defenses like thin-crust lockpicks until I couldn’t resist their nonsensical allure any longer. I swung the doors wide open and bellowed to the thrumming metropolis below:
“I simply MUST try Totino’s Pizza-Flavored Cinnamon Toast Crunch!”
It wasn’t easy to acquire, mind you. General Mills only gave away 1,000 of them in a recent sweepstakes, and I didn’t even win one. But thanks to long-time fans of the blog Case & Hannah, who were kind enough to share their spoils, I can give you a full deep-dish deep-dive answer to the question everyone and their Marge Simpson is asking: