Take me out to the ball game, keep me out of the crowds. Buy me some peanuts and Dippin’ Dots, I don’t care…if you want to watch the game, I’m gonna go eat my Dippin’ Dots in the car.
Yes, Dippin’ Dots’ futuristically chilled, innovatively tongue-tearing ice cream spheres were a nostalgia-bearing reprieve from boring childhood sporting events, and now General Mills is turning them into two cereals: Dippin’ Dots Cookies & Cream Cereal, and Dippin’ Dots Banana Split Cereal.
This is very clearly a retaliatory jab at all the great cereal Post (with its puppet company Malt-O-Meal) has been releasing, as this pair of ice creamy flavors isn’t just a clapback to M-O-M and Cold Stone Creamery’s cereals, but it’s a round of clapback applause to Oreo O’s and Nilla Wafer Banana Pudding Cereal, too.
We may be entering a new age of cereal war, folks, which of course only means good things for hungry cereal lovers who get to reap the deliciously creative collateral damage.
The most promising thing about these cereals? In both serials, the Clusters actually contain milk! This means they aren’t simply cheap artificially ice cream-flavored gimmicks, but they’re actually powered by lactose.
I expect many moos and ahhs to come.
Shout-out to Cereal Party for finding both cereals on Walmart’s website, assumedly debuting soon. I hope neither I nor the cereal melt in the summer heat before I can find it.
Now Dippin’ Dots needs to do their part and make General Mills cereal flavors.
Looking forward to trying more new cereals this summer. Both flavors sound good. Glad to see the cereal companies realize people want to try new cereals on the market.
My only gripe with the exclusives released at Walmart is that they only seem to carry Family Size boxes of the new releases. I’m not a fan of buying a huge box of a new cereal that I may not potentially like and then I’m stuck with a large bag of it. I’d rather try a normal size box of a new cereal. Same with new Oreo flavors. I wish they sold smaller individual packages of the new flavors rather than having to buy a whole bag of Oreos and then you’re stuck with them.
Strangely, my local Walmart still doesn’t have Nilla Wafer Banana Pudding cereal or PB-Cocoa Pebbles, but they did have Cookies ‘n Cream Dippin Dots cereal (no banana split yet). Will try them today.
hope they taste good
Shut up and take my money! This has been a great year for cereal lovers.