If you wander in to a Dollar-type store, you usually will find all kinds of weird brands of breakfast cereals-made in S. America, Mexico, etc. They appear to be cheap copies of American brands. They are probably pretty bad-anyone ever try them?
Yeah…after all, everyone knows them furriners are an inferior race anyway. :rolleyes:
I absolutely love cereal , healthy cereal and sugary doesn’t matter. Cereal is my go to binge food. Co-Co crispies is the best when you put ice cold milk in the bowl sprinkle a little Co-CO crispies just so every bit is crunchy and repeat.
The worst cereal I ever ate didn’t even taste like it was edible
I was at my grandmothers and she had this cereal I never heard of called “Grapenuts” I’m thinking I like grapes I love nuts got a hand full of them and then the sadest face I ever made in my life. Those things don’t even taste like nasty cereal I thought she may have put the dirt and debrie from the vacuum cleaner in there.
Another cereal was I can’t remember the name but it consist of sticks , fiber sticks I think it taste like a huge bowl of dried hate.
First, scrapple isn’t a breakfast cereal so doesn’t belong in this thread. (If we are going to expand beyond cereal, I would add black pudding or half the items on the breakfast buffet in a Chinese hotel, particularly hotels that don’t cater to Westerners).
Second, scrapple is great, as long as it is sliced thin and fried crispy on the outside. But apparently you need to have grown up in the Philadelphia area to appreciate it, I’ve never met anyone from any other part of the country who would touch the stuff.
Cinnamon Toast Crunch. The name holds so much promise, and it does the opposite of delivering on it.
Grape Nuts isn’t bad tasting at all, aside from being Carborundum Nuggets.
It makes rather nice hot cooked cereal, though. Just mix with some milk and nuke for a while.
Optionally, add butter or honey or strawberries or whatever you like.
I like grapenuts, but steel cut oatmeal with all the add ins does it for me.
Kaboom! A long-discontinued cereal that tasted like an off-brand mashup of Froot Loops and Lucky Charms with a creepy clown mascot.
You say that like it’s a bad thing. The cereal pieces were shaped like evil clown faces, and came in colors some of which I’ve never seen in any other cereal before or since; and there were star-shaped marshmallow bits. It was like a circusy-themed version of the Monster Cereals back before they started making those out of plastic.
If they still made Kaboom! I would go out and buy some right now.
I’m guessing that people cook with it. I have seen bran muffin recipes with it as an ingredient.
When I was in preschool in the late 1960s, I made a Christmas ornament out of Froot Loops and heavy thread. It still exists. :eek: And we talk about Frankenfood nowadays?!?
I have always loved Spoon Size Shredded Wheat, because milk makes it into the texture I like, but am not so fond of the big biscuits, and I don’t care for Weetabix either.
Is it just a coincidence that Ka-Boom! toilet bowl cleaner has shown up in the past few years?
Not long after Kaboom appeared in the late 60s, *Esquire * noted in their Dubious Achievements article that Wheaties, long billed as the most nutritious cereal, came in 37th in some rating of cereals. No. 1? Kaboom!
In the meantime, I went to the grocery store, and while Kellogg’s Corn Pops may not be available in some areas, they are at that store. 
The one I loathed as a kid was King Vitamin. When it came out, I expected some kind of Cap’n Crunch (my fave) variant, but it was awful. Being so long ago, I can’t remember why, but I never had my mom get it ever again.
Nowadays, with geezerdom quickly approaching, I don’t have one I dislike because I only get the ones I LIKE. Well, VWife likes cream of wheat, and I won’t touch it, but I don’t buy it for me.
Kaboom, as I recall, had the marketing angle that it was heavily fortified with vitamins, and damned if the stuff didn’t have a distinct vitamin pill taste. Plus it was heavily saturated with food coloring, which leached out into the milk.
I don’t eat much cold cereal these days, but something possessed me to buy a box of Grape Nuts a few months back. Yuck! I thought I remembered it being pretty good tasting once you got past the gravelly texture, but it was awful. OTOH, I quite like All-Bran.
I wouldn’t eat some of those really crunchy cereals these days. I’ve lost too many teeth ( I’m 66).
I had always heard how good Cream of Wheat was, so I bought some. UGH!! :rolleyes: Not for me! Never acquired the taste for grits either, but then again, I’m a northerner.
While noodling around on the WWW a few weeks ago, I stumbled onto a blog by a family who (long story short) was living in a 3rd world country, and the blogger said that when he was a kid, his mother always made Maypo for breakfast, and then it was changed from whatever it was, to instant oatmeal, and he still ate it but it just wasn’t the same. He never could quite figure out what it was, until a charity made a shipment of food aid to their area; some people would sell their donations for any number of reasons, and his wife had purchased some at the local market and cooked it. She had purchased bulghur wheat, and when he tasted it, he knew immediately that this was what Maypo was made from at one time.
My own personal experience with bulghur wheat is that it has the taste and texture of sawdust, but like Grape Nuts and All-Bran it does make good muffins.
How much butter and white sugar did you add?
It’s been a long time; probably none. Is that why?
I know that’s how you eat grits.
I like Grape Nuts as a topping, I just don’t get how you eat it as a cereal.
Sugar Smacks was just a gooey mess, and I never liked it. Also, if I ever got a variety pack of cereal as a child, Apple Jacks was the last one I’d pick.
Cheerios is by far my favorite cereal now.