Frosted Flakes Gold
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davidnIf in the unlikely event that through reading this journal you've begun to care about me or my life, you may know that one of the things that I struggle with in America is the lack of Crunchy Nut, the breakfast cereal of choice that is totally unavailable without having to actually arrange imports of it from my parents' house ourselves. Every attempt to find something similar when I started living here failed. However, a couple of weeks ago Kelloggs brought out Frosted Flakes Gold, which sounded tantalizingly close - after a trip to the supermarket I've just come into possession of a packet and will try it out, in as live an experience as Livejournal allows.
As you'd expect, the box is coloured shiny gold, and it's also one of the toughest cereal boxes I have ever encountered. It's marketed as a healthier alternative to the original Frosted Flakes, and I'm sure I've worked off at least a few calories trying to prize it open.
Initial impressions are... surprising, to be honest - as soon as I opened it a strong sweet smell hit me, like the smell of Scotch tablet when it's in the molten proto-tablet stage. The look of it is also quite odd - the flakes are pale and much greyer than normal, looking perhaps like Special K. On putting one in your mouth you're hit by a sort of honey explosion that gradually subsides, but they remain stuck to your teeth like all decent breakfast cereals should. Time to dive in and actually pour in milk to taste them properly.
I've got to admit that these are almost entirely unlike Crunchy Nut. The honey is much more obvious and gives them an honestly rather medicinal taste. However, it's important that - almost uniquely among whole-grain corn cereals - they're not utterly revolting, and probably something I would choose to have for breakfast.
So I'm still going to have to put another phone order in with my parents, but they're not going to be relegated to the back of the cupboard until they turn to dust either. Probably the most successful in the search so far even though they're nothing like what I expected them to be.
As you'd expect, the box is coloured shiny gold, and it's also one of the toughest cereal boxes I have ever encountered. It's marketed as a healthier alternative to the original Frosted Flakes, and I'm sure I've worked off at least a few calories trying to prize it open.
Initial impressions are... surprising, to be honest - as soon as I opened it a strong sweet smell hit me, like the smell of Scotch tablet when it's in the molten proto-tablet stage. The look of it is also quite odd - the flakes are pale and much greyer than normal, looking perhaps like Special K. On putting one in your mouth you're hit by a sort of honey explosion that gradually subsides, but they remain stuck to your teeth like all decent breakfast cereals should. Time to dive in and actually pour in milk to taste them properly.
I've got to admit that these are almost entirely unlike Crunchy Nut. The honey is much more obvious and gives them an honestly rather medicinal taste. However, it's important that - almost uniquely among whole-grain corn cereals - they're not utterly revolting, and probably something I would choose to have for breakfast.
So I'm still going to have to put another phone order in with my parents, but they're not going to be relegated to the back of the cupboard until they turn to dust either. Probably the most successful in the search so far even though they're nothing like what I expected them to be.
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Date: 2008-02-18 05:17 pm (UTC)