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May 25 2005 -- Diet Cereal
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Hey kids! Are you ready for a fun breakfast cereal that takes away all the stuff you love and makes your parents happy you are not rotting your teeth as fast as the other kids? Who needs sugar in the morning? Not you, and that’s what Quaker is hoping.
1/3 less sugar Cap'N Crunch's Swirled Berries! Right there in big letters on the front of the box is the signal letters being sent out to shopping mothers everywhere. 1/3 less sugar! How exciting! Kids don't want a cereal that tastes good, they want a healthy bland breakfast to start their day. Long gone are the days of flavor and fun in the morning, we now live in an era of healthy food choices and exercise. At least it has an exciting box and pretty colors to hide in.
Diet foods seem to be all the rage now a days. Coke and Pepsi are now adding Splenda in their drinks to make them taste better. Fast food places are serving salads to make them selves seem more health conscious. The problem with diet foods is that they look mostly the same, smell mostly the same, promises you mostly the same flavor, but in the end they are a bland knock off of the original. But maybe we should go easy on the Cap'N. He's been around for a long long time and sugar at his age might not be the best thing in the world. With his buddy Tony the Tiger dying yesterday the Cap'N might be taking a look at his life and realizing that he needs to make a few changes if he wants to stay around for the next generation.
Looking at the box one would think that this stuff would be exciting and the lack of sugar would not be much of a problem. Even on the side of the box we see a happy child and a statement telling us that breakfast should be fun. I went into this cereal thinking positive. "Hey, who needs all that sugar anyway?" Maybe they managed to make it taste good and not be as bad for me. But who is buying Crunch Berries and thinking to themselves "Wow, this is one healthy breakfast!"? No one, and if they are then they need to think about their buying habits. Actually, I doubt this cereal is actually aimed at people in their mid 20s who are actually thinking about what they eat. I think (more like know) this is more for kids who just want something happy in their cereal bowl before they go off to school all day to be beaten up by other kids and come back home to an abusive drunk father. Yes, these cereals are meant to make kids excited to eat in the morning and keep them from throwing a tantrum when they don’t get what they want. So does this cereal deliver? Will it make the children temporarily forget about the bruises that cover their bodies? Lets find out.
It sure looks good. I wouldn’t think it is a low sugar cereal by just looking. But how does it taste? Meh. Just like I wrote above it's like a diet version of the original. You know what it is supposed to taste like, you know what it is trying to taste like, but it just doesn’t reach it. The lack of sugar really seems to kill it here. The hint of the original flavor is there but it just does not deliver.
That's what I thought on the first day anyway. By the end of the week and a bunch of bowls later I was actually starting to not mind it. Notice how I say not mind and not like. I think that’s generally the case with diet food. You never really like it but you don't mind it being less then the original, and that is where I stand now with this stuff. If I had to eat it instead of Crunch Berries I wouldn't really mind too much. I'd wish I had the real stuff but I would be happy I was eating this instead of something worse. Maybe if you start someone on this and never give them the pleasures of the good sugary stuff then they will never know the difference and eat it happily, guess you need to get them while they are young.
Rating? If I just ate one bowl it would have been 1 or 2 but since I spent a week with this stuff and learned to grow tolerant of it's ways I am going to give it 3. Not as bad for you and not really that bad, just different. Not quite good enough to make you forget about parental beatings, but good enough to get a little happiness out of.
Posted by LordJezo
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