Trix Fireworks

 General Mills Trix Fireworks

Opening the box this smells great like trix, succinctly tastes like trix, and marshmellows are just a bonus if you're into it. Nothing special besides the colour. They couldn't even bother to make the cereal look like fireworks. Tastes fruity, with just excessive amounts of red #40. Milk tastes good; fruity, light reddish purple colour. Gotta give it to them for putting an activity on the back, rarely see that these days. I'm a sucker for fruity cereals to begin with and even with the lack of description in my review I still appreciate a good cereal.

Aroma 4/5
Colour 4/5
Packaging 3.5/5
Flavour 4/5
Lasting Crunch 4/5
Post Cereal Milk 4/5
Overall 3.92/5

FROOT LOOPS - Willy Wonka

 Kellogg's FROOT LOOPS - Willy Wonka Edition (Gene Wilder)

Now I'm normally already a big fan of Froot Loops in our home and native land, but I am aware that because of our food regulations we can't have artificial colours added and that can be one of many differences present in American vs Canadian Froot Loops (which I have yet to compare). However before I ever make that Head to Head review, I saw this during my trip as well and had to give it a shot. Cracking open the box the smells aren't that intense, but I am getting a hint of blue raspberry. Why exactly blue raspberry? Because the first thing that came to my mind were those blue raspberry gummies you'd buy at a Bulk Barn and this had me intrigued. This cereal is extremely colourful thanks to the American's more lax regulations on food additives and I've honestly been so used to ours on this side of the border it kind of hit me with some nostalgia from when I was growing up as a kid. The cereal itself tastes all the same because each piece is studded with what I'm assuming is a dissolvable blue raspberry/mixed berry concentrate that's intended to make your milk taste as such, but I will say that while chewing the flavours quickly diminish into a basic corn cereal flavour which was kind of disappointing. The milk itself takes on a fantastic pink hue and tastes amazing like advertised 'berry-licious'. The cereal doesn't hold up as well as the Honey Oh's I covered over a week ago, but with it coming from a different cereal manufacturer you can't expect the same. Overall, the milk is great, cereal isn't so much. Fun gimmick though.

Aroma 3/5
Colour 5/5
Packaging 3/5
Flavour 2.5/5
Lasting Crunch 3/5
Post Cereal Milk 5/5
Overall 3.58/5

Kit Kat Cereal

 General Mills Kit Kat Cereal

I saw this at Target when I was over the border a few weeks ago and I had to buy a box to try. Cracking the box open you're hit with predominately cocoa with undertones of wafer cookies. If that didn't foreshadow the taste of the cereal I don't know what else could. This cereal was fine, and thinking about its delivery, I don't know how else they could've designed it. It literally just tastes like chocolate wafer cookies, it starts to get a bit soggy midway through as it is a wheat/rice based cereal which tend to take in milk/liquids quicker than their corn counterparts. I do like that they had the cereal 'segmented' into 4 like the iconic Kit Kat bars, but the cereal left me wanting something else. It was something to buy once, but if you're having a chocolate cereal craving, just go for the Nesquik. And despite the cereal being covered in cocoa, the milk hardly takes on the flavour. I really wish there could be more to be said about this cereal, but a Kit Kat it is not. What separated Kit Kats from other wafer bars was the amount of chocolate found on them, and as I stated earlier quite a difficult task to replicate. Perhaps instead of replicating the look of the Kit Kat, they could have tried to fill the cereal with chocolate to replicate the taste, but in this superficial world what else can we expect than this superficial cereal.

Aroma 2/5
Colour 3/5
Packaging 4/5
Flavour 2/5
Lasting Crunch 3/5
Post Cereal Milk 2/5
Overall 2.67/5

Post Honey Oh's!

Post Honey Ohs!

Cracking open the box you get a mild honey scent emanating from what lies inside. These giant Oh's are about the same size as the Oreo O's which makes sense as they're both made by Post so using the same manufacturing process just different recipe would be the most economical decision for them. I would have to say texturally they are slightly different, but I don't have a side by side comparison to confirm this. By different, I mean that Honey Oh's bring some serious crunch. Throughout the experience, bite after bite this cereal delivers on the crunch. This cereal is airy, crunchy, crispy, and in the middle in terms of sweetness not crazy sweet like fruity pebbles, but not like some cereal devoid of all happiness like Trader Joe's Almond Butter Puffs cereal (I tried it recently and was so disappointed I didn't want to do a review as I didn't have a box or picture of the cereal, but I might consider it just as a public service to warn you all). The little bits of puffed rice and oats are a nice touch to add into the centre of the Oh's, but unlike the picture on the box not every Oh is filled with this mix. Nearing the end of the bowl, surprisingly the texture is still there and you're left with this cereal milk with a golden hue. Drinking it feels like dessert, to put simply it's honey flavoured milk. Not overly sweet either and a good way to finish off the bowl. Overall I'd say that this is a cereal I'm not crazy about, but it isn't a cereal that you'd be disappointed to have in your cupboards. If you're big on texture, and lasting texture then this might be something for you.

Aroma 3/5
Colour 4/5
Packaging 3/5
Flavour 3/5
Lasting Crunch 5/5
Post Cereal Milk 4/5
Overall 3.67/5