IHOP Mini Pancake Cereal - Blueberries & Syrup

 IHOP Mini Pancake Cereal - Blueberries & Syrup

This one I was pretty excited for, but to give you a TLDR before the review even begins I would recommend you try it once however this one isn't one you'll want to keep restocking your cupboards with. Opening the box you get some intense syrupy aromas coming through with a touch blueberry. The cereal itself looks like they took something similar to corn pops and just squished them down; similar texture and crunch, just flatter. Adding milk just intensifies the syrup flavours and the blueberries take a backseat. Note: these are table syrup/pancake syrup flavour not maple syrup. After a few minutes of eating the milk takes on a nice blue colour, but it doesn't help the blueberry flavours come through. It begins to get soggy a little sooner because of the larger surface area, but never did they go to mush like something like a mini wheat or the like. If you like syrup then you'll like this cereal. I feel like I've repeated myself a bunch of times now, but the blueberry flavour is faint, but present and another thing to point out is that the poptart style blueberry flecks of sprinkles on the pancake cereal don't really dissolve that well and it's a bit of a tough time scooping them out of the milk by the end of it. Post cereal milk kind of tastes like an overly sweet blueberry ice cream which was the best part of the experience, but not something to look forward to every time you pour a bowl. To give credit where it's due, they did a good job making it look like mini blueberry pancakes doused with syrup and thinking about it now this is very much just a cookie crisp base cereal with different finishes considering they're both made by the same company.

Aroma 2.5/5
Colour 4/5
Packaging 4/5
Flavour 2/5
Lasting Crunch 2.5/5
Post Cereal Milk 3/5
Overall 3/5

Kellogg's ICEE Cereal - Cherry + Blue Raspberry

 Kellogg's ICEE Cereal - Cherry + Blue Raspberry

Very special thanks to my friend Matt for gifting me this cereal after I was cooking all weekend for his bachelor party weekend which I insisted on doing before anyone even asked. It was a great weekend and we had a good time with the lads. That being said, lets get to what we're all here for, the cereal.

First off, cracking open the box and opening the bag you're hit with a big blast of fruitiness, slightly sour, but mostly of cherry with it resembling very closely to cherry licorice nibs. Eating it dry the flavours are muted which are to be expected however something unusual occurs after you finish eating it. A cooling sensation wraps around your mouth and gradually gets stronger, but never to the point where you're wondering if you've just brushed your teeth. Adding milk to the cereal the colours really brighten up and the flavours come through much better or at least the cherry flavour is the more predominate flavour forward and blue raspberry can be detected in the background. The cooling sensation is still present and texturally they're very similar to corn pops or any other corn based puff/pop cereal. Cereal stayed crispy until the last bite with some evidence of sogginess beginning to develop near the end, but it wasn't at any sort of accelerated rate. Milk kept more of the cherry flavours over the blue raspberry and cooling feeling was still sticking around. Overall I really liked the cereal, but I kind of wished the 2 bags had separated flavours of ICEE's so that we could choose how to mix it ourselves like we could at the local convenience store or just have straight up 1 flavour. No puzzles for the kids on the box either.

Aroma 5/5
Colour 4.5/5
Packaging 4/5
Flavour 4/5
Lasting Crunch 4/5
Post Cereal Milk 4/5
Overall 4.25/5