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News: Two New Kellogg’s Cereals, Two New Kellogg’s Cereal Bars

New Cinnamon Roll Frosted Mini-Wheats and Blueberry Special K Cereals

While General Mills dropped their entire Early 2021 cereal lineup in one concentrated dump of rendered cardboard, Kellogg’s is sharing their New Year’s offerings in drips & drabs. with each of the products pictured here hitting headlines across the past week or so.

First we have two cereals on opposing ends of the sugary–healthy cereal spectrum. Cinnamon Roll Frosted Mini-Wheats clearly has no reservations about frosting full-gloss, twinkling and gooey cinna-bun flavor atop its thatched squares. Granted, Frosted Mini-Wheats variants often aren’t flavored that potently, regardless of how rich their dessert inspirations may be. In fact, while I’m sure Cinnamon Roll Frosted Mini-Wheats will taste just fine, this isn’t entirely new territory for the brand. Cinnamon Roll Frosted Mini-Wheats Little Bites were around in 2012, and I’m a firm believer in the superior flavor of Mini-Mini-Wheats—simply because they have a higher frosting-to-wheat ratio.

Likewise, Special K with REAL WHOLE BLUEBERRIES seems kind of like a downgrade from Blueberry and Lemon Clusters Special K, which may not have had whole blueberries, but it had freakin’ yogurt clusters. That’s way more deserving of an obnoxiously all-caps box banner. But hey, it’ll probably also taste alright, if not good! Continue reading

Review: Froot Loops Candy Canes

New Froot Loops Candy Canes Review

Does anyone actually love candy canes? I mean, don’t get me wrong, they’re irreplaceable symbols of the season, and they’re often tasty—especially the fruity ones. But is the humble candy cane anyone’s honest-to-goodness’-sake favorite wintertide treat? Growing up, I never sought candy canes out and really just got them from parades or school events. As a rough and tumble lad in East Michigan farm country, I was far too clumsy to keep said candy canes in my pocket without somehow shattering the brittle shepherd’s crooks into a million pieces. At that point, I’d rather have Pop Rocks.

Like I said, I prefer fruity to mint, so new Froot Loops Candy Canes start off on a more sympathetic foot compared to the cereal aisle’s first proper peppermint cereal. Both these candy canes and that new Elf on the Shelf cereal are hitting stores now. While I’ve yet to track down that wily sprite, I’m more than ready to see whether Toucan Sam’s sugared canes suck in the good or bad sense of the word. Continue reading

Quick Review: Tropical Froot Loops (2020)

2020 Tropical Froot Loops Box Cereal Review

There are many harsh truths in this world: nothing is fair, some people genetically can’t enjoy cilantro, and they’re just going to keep putting tags on shirts even though a flappy piece of rough fabric slapping your tender neck seems like an antithetical idea when considering the purpose of clothing.

Oh, and one more: there can only be one Froot Loops. The rest must be considered “Worse Loops.”

I’ve reviewed Tropical Froot Loops once already, so I will keep this quick. As my Empty Bowl cohost Justin accurately states, these deserve the title of “Froot Loops,” while the O.G. stuff can crawl back under whatever lab-synthesized schnozzberry bush they came from. But did the full cornucopia of goodness found in the once Mexico-exclusive Tropical Froot Loops survive their flight north for the summer?

Well seem to think so. Justin disagreed in our latest episode, but if my discerning taste buds weren’t able to detect a difference in Kellogg’s localized Loops, I doubt most people will have a problem. Mostly because, if you never tried (i.e. spent $20–$30 to import) Mexican Tropical Froot Loops when they came out, you’ll be too enchanted by this island time experience to get granularly critical. Continue reading

Spooned & Spotted: Froot Loops Ice Pops

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Forget that meme about everything being cake—real experts of goofy geology know that using a hot spork to go one layer deeper reveals that everything, from your memoirs to your boudoir, is really made of Froot Loop. 

Your doughnuts? Froot Loops.
Your ice cream? That’s Froot Loops.
Those heirloom Peeps Pops you hold so dear? Live, laugh, Loop.

As Kellogg’s has apparently perfected the alchemy required to infuse Froot Loopian essence into any state of matter, the unexpected debut of Froot Loops Ice Pops felt less like a surprise and more like an, “I guess.”  Instagram food-finder i_need_a_snack_ spotted these technicolored treats at Dollar General, and in true Froot Loops form, the Pops come in a whole rainbow of identical flavors. A little disappointing, especially now that we know what a leveled-up Froot Loops can do when it expands its fruitful loom, but maybe we can hope for a Froot Loops Ice Pop DLC update in the near future.

But hey, I guess if these don’t work out in popsicle’d form, I could always let them melt into a HydroFlask.

News: Tropical Froot Loops Hit America + Cookies & Creme Krispies Aren’t Far Behind

Someone ask Gordon Ramsay for his best Caribbean fusion recipes, because in his words: “finally, some good f***ing food.”

The American debut of Tropical Froot Loops is incredible for two reasons: first, this originally Mexico-exclusive menagerie of looped Pineapples, Bananas, Oranges & Mangoes is so good that it seemed destined to be just the latest in a long line of creative breakfast explorations that never hit the U.S. Second, Froot Loops has been consistently missing the mark with its recent releases, so the introduction of what we can assume is the same winning formula (containing all kinds of rarely-seen-in-cereal fruit flavors) from south of the border is cause for celebration.

I swear, if Kellogg’s finds a way to bungle the best bits of Tropical Froot Loops during the cereal localization process, I’ll be giving my box a viking funeral. Continue reading

Review: Kellogg’s Mashups (Frosted Flakes + Froot Loops)

New Kellogg's Mashups Cereal Review Frosted Flakes + Froot Loops Review Box

Oh ho ho, how whimsical: it seems there was a simple misunderstanding here. Quite humorous, Kellogg’s, all things considered. For years we cereal diehards have been asking for “two-in-one cereals” to return, given the iron and Nintendium-clad nostalgic reputations of Nerds Cereal and the Nintendo Cereal System. There’s just something so symbolically powerful about two individually sealed bags of different flavored cereal bits snuggling up in the same box like snakes in a peanut brittle can.

But the funny folks at Kellogg’s must have misinterpreted that as a request for two cereals in the same bag. An understandable semantic switcheroo, true, but the separate bags thing is kind of a dealbreaker. Well, that and the part about wanting new cereal flavors.

I’m sure there’s someone out there whose whole body is positively quivering with excitement about a convenient cereal Mashup of Frosted Flakes and Froot Loops specifically, but that person isn’t me—and I’m someone that loves mixing different cereals on my own accord. For reasons that will soon be made even clearer, this isn’t exactly cereal mixology’s power couple. They may be Kellogg’s two most iconic breakfast flagships, but Frosted Flakes and Froot Loops are famous because their familiar and universally lovable flavorings stand alone and taste consistent, in contrast to some of Kellogg’s more divisive, but in-bowl experiment-friendly brands like Krave or Raisin Bran (yes, I said it: GORP is practically the patron saint of intersecting snacks).

Because even if we put aside the obvious question—why wouldn’t I just buy one box of each Frosted Flakes and Froot Loops so I can mix them at my own personal ideal ratio?—there’s plenty of taste bud trouble here in Tony and Sam’s paradise.

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News (Canada): Tim Hortons Froot Loops Dream Donut

New Tim Hortons Froot Loops Dream Donut

Oh, I once had a dream about a donut, alright. It was the size of two Gateway Arches and had the auto-cannibalistic serpent’s head of a dough-roboros. The thing started spinning toward me like Sonic the Hedgehog, launching sprinkled shrapnel all across the Windows XP wallpaper I’d been having lunch on, and I only managed to flee by rolling down a rollicking green hill. The dream donut launched off the hill and into the sun, exploding into a yeasty meteor shower.

So yeah, Tim Hortons: any chance you could make that one?

For those who have been sleeping under a rock-hard stale cruller all year, Tim Hortons has been testing a number of experimental donut flavors in their Innovation Café and across Canada. And while the likes of Chocolate Truffle and Dulce de Leche have had some pretty crumby reviews, the latest flavor debuting in both whole-nut and Timbit form is sure to pique any cereal blog reader’s interest.

Tim Hortons Froot Loops Dream Donuts pair a pink-glazed and white-iced donut with a whole handful’s worth of Froot Loops pieces themselves—pieces that can be pummeled to smithereens and stuck to a Timbit, too. Unfortunately, if the comparatively natural colors of these foreign Froot Loops are any indication, FL Dream Donuts are likely to be Canada-exclusive for the foreseeable future. This means it’s also very unlikely that I’ll be able to do a full review of these baked treats, but other reviewers have already done the sticky work for us, if you want to know how the taste stacks up:

Personally, I’m hesitant about any cereal dessert that includes full-sized pieces, as they often end up tasting extremely stale. But if you live near a participating Canadian Tim Hortons, let me know whether these Froot Loops Donuts made your dreams come true—or if they chased you nightmarishly into the Hudson Bay.

News: Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes + Froot Loops Mashups Cereal

Kellogg's Frosted Flakes & Froot Loops Mashups Cereal

Hey there kids, Kellogg’s here: we heard you like cereal! We even heard you like multiple cereals! Well sure, you could buy more than one cereal, but what if you bought one cereal that was two cereals? What’s that? You want an exciting two-in-one cereal that represents an iconic flavor combo like PB&J or Banana Split? Oh ho ho, well you’re in luck: we’ve got a family-sized box of every kid’s favorite dessert: corny fruit!

Look, I’m trying to be optimistic here, but Kellogg’s newest release is making that difficult. In what’s being billed as a “first of its kind cereal mashup”—very debatable when you look at Lucky Charms Frosted Flakes or even Kellogg’s own All Together Cereal—Kellogg’s Mashups is putting Frosted Flakes and Froot Loops in the same box.

Lately I’ve been critical of Kellogg’s for making so many bland sugar ring cereals disguised as ‘vanilla‘ or ‘birthday cake,’ and this inaugural Mashup isn’t really a good sign of waxing creativity. While I can see future imaginative potential for Mashups like Apple Jacks + Krave or Eggo Cereal + Honey Smacks, simply compounding the sweetness of Froot Loops while diluting the actual Frootiness of it has my stomach grumbling more so than rumbling. I would’ve much preferred to see Chocolate Frosted Flakes brought into play, or even Corn Pops feel like more exciting Froot Loop complements. Instead, we’ve got a box that looks more like a clumsy call for political unity than a mouthwatering breakfast concept.

But who knows: maybe some sort of magical chemistry will happen when Loops and Flakes are steeped in each other’s vacuum-sealed company for a while. If only there was a way to test this cereal combo for ourselves before these Mashups hit stores next months. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see, right?