Sugar High
I remember seeing commercials for these cereals when I was little. It was always such an interesting cereal, maybe because Mom never bought it for us.
Several years later I find myself in a grocery store at Halloween time looking for cereal to take to work. There is a sale on Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry. Being in Halloween mode, and recalling that I had always wanted to try these cereals but had never been given the opportunity, I was quickly sucked in and bought these two, impulsively (I never did think Boo Berry sounded that good).
I must admit they are not as good as they look ;) But they are definitely festive and fun to have. Actually, Franken Berry reminds me of a cereal I ate in Korea, Starberries I think they were called. Except Franken Berry has marshmallows-- which ups the sugar content significantly.
Anyways, the cool factor on these cereals was so high that I had to take a pic and post it. :p Time to eat some Franken Berry.
(By the way, I just noticed that Heeble updated his site after coming a week and a half shy of going two months without an update. Woo! He may take a while between posts sometimes but it's always worth it. Unlike my half-aced posts about food, haha. Check it out! )
oh man, i always loved boo berry the most. i guess i'm just a blueberry man. but i haven't seen any of them except count chocula in a store since i was a kid
Perhaps I should try it. I do think Count Chocula is superior to Franken Berry, having just eaten both of them this morning.
holy glory, cereals like such will turn you into a diabetic for sure.
Sloan I think that cereal in Korea is called Starberry... if it's like the pink and purple or blue depending on how long the box had sat in the kagae cereal. I lived on it in my greenie area... dry I might add because I still couldn't stomach korean milk :P
For one of my friends birthday I bought him a lot of sugar cereals that he hadn't eaten in years. I just remembered a conversation we had had years prior about how much he loved those cereals but hadn't eaten them since he was a child. I thought he might think I was dork and he might have but four boxes of cereal were gone within the week. Good stuff, even if I just stick to the Cranberry kind put out by Post (yum!)
The strange thing is that a cup of Raisin Bran has more calories than 1 cup of Count Chocula. :o Must be that a cup of it is lighter? Hehe...
Joel, Franken Berry reminds me very much of Starberry-- take out the marshmallows and you have about the same thing-- the cereal itself isnt terribly sweet. And you don't even have to drink that Korean milk (I thought it was strange at first but I loved how creamy it was, hehe.)
Mike, i don't know what you're smoking, but i swear mom has bought those cereals for us in the past!!! =)
She might have bought them for you... it's amazing the stuff my mom will buy for my little sister that she would never buy when I was that age... younger siblings owe us a great debt of gratitude for suffering through the "wear them down" phase of parental relations.
Well Kato-- yeah maybe in recent years when I've not been around, but not when I was little saw them on TV (weekday cartoons or saturday morning cartoons probably had a lot to do with that).
Joel has a point-- for the most part things only get better for the younger siblings than they were for their older siblings at the same age.
See, now I can't remember whether we actually had those cereals in our childhood, or if I just clearly remember them because I wanted to try them so badly. I mean, I remember eating Cookie Crisp and Lucky Charms - but actually, now that I ramble to myself, I think I bought Count Chocula last year, and it came with a free scary music cd.
But for cereals that cater to the sweet tooth, you can't beat French chocolate muesli. Oh...my...