I love cereal. When I was a kid I'd eat it for breakfast and have a bowl as soon as I got home from school. My grandmother used to take me to the grocery store and let me pick out whatever kind I wanted. I think she was trying to bribe me or something, because she'd never let me take home the box. I wanted to stay with her anyway.
So anyway that's how I became obsessed with cereal. Now I have a bowl of cereal every night before I go to bed. It might be a bad habit because of how late it is, but it's probably worse that I rotate between one of the 10 cereals listed. So I guess these are my top 10:
10. Frosted Flakes.
An old-school choice. but my mom used to eat these with a chopped up banana on them. It's good.
09. Cap 'n Crunch.
Now this one is way at the top of many people's lists. both the peanut butter kind and the crunchberries kind. but to me, one bowl was all i could stand. the jagged square shapes just tore at the roof of my mouth to fast. and it's whole aesthetic didn't jive with me. (yeah I said that. ponder that one.)
08. Apple-Jacks.
Ok lets get the old school stuff out of the way early. these have a very unique flavor and I dig the green box. i categorize these with fruitloops because of shape and texture. more than 2 bowls and you can cut the roof of your mouth.
07. Golden Crisp.
I love this cereal even though it's exactly the same as Sugar Smacks!. It has a sweet but mild flavor. It also has the strange side-effect of making my next mornings pee smell like coffee.
06. Lucky Charms
Now you may ask yourself how such an obvious favorite ranks so low down the list. well I hope the top picture was a reason why. but also because the cardboard flavored shapes always bummed me out when i would mistakenly leave them last instead of the marshmallows.
05. Count Chocula
The best choice of the three brothers : Franken-berry. Boo-bery. and the Count. It turns the milk to chocolate too.
04. Cinnamon marshmallow Scooby-doo
Say what? You've never heard of Cinnamon marshmallow Scooby-doo before? Well imagine cinnamon toast crunch mixed with lucky charms minus the cardboard shapes. when i lived in vegas it was the first cereal i would go to another grocery story to get because my regular place didn't carry it. yeah. it was wonderful.
03. (Tie) Fruity Pebbles, Coco Pebbles, & DinoPebbles.
Say what again! You know the first two, but Dino pebbles had vanilla flavored rice and yep, you guessed it, marshmallows baby. All three have been Number 1 on my list at some point. Fruity when I was a kid, Coco in college, and Dino when I discovered it, until it was discontinued. damn it was a really good cereal.
02. Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
It's pretty simple. If I had to pick only one cereal to eat for the rest of my life, it would probably be this one. It has a good texture that softens in milk. so multiple bowls aren't a problem. and it leaves a little bit of cinnamon sugar at the bottom of every bowl. a modern classic.
01. Chocolate Lucky Charms.
This is the current reigning champion. It's like a combination of Lucky Charms and Count Chocula. It turns the milk to chocolate, and there are tons of marshmallows. and no matter what you save for last, you are satisfied. my grocer currently doesn't carry them, so i drive to a different spot and purchase multiple boxes to save trips.
now let me hear which ones I left out.
