@kruzen I love Golden Grahams porridge almost as much as the initial crunchy phase. The only phase I am weak on is the bit when they are crunchy on the inside and spongy on the outside.
@escapecar It’s especially humiliating because I was just eating some recently and had the realization that it’s called “Cap’n Crunch” (possibly) because they look like little epaulettes, the mark of naval rank
@candiedisilvio1 I bought a box last year at a Giant when I was visiting the Northeast. I noticed they took away the ray-gun the little alien used to carry on the front of the box.
You can buy Quisp online through Walmart for about $3.50 a box.
@WTFsunshine I remember when Honey Smacks cereal was known as Sugar Smacks. Not much of a fan. Quisp, Cap’n Crunch in all its variations, Rice Krispies, Cocoa Krispies, Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops, and the hard to eat Honeycombs all made the rotation in my house when I was a kid.
Dislikes Cheerios, Raisin Bran, and Wheaties because who in their right mind makes cereal without coating it in lovely, addictive sugar?
@LaVikinga When I was younger my sister always wanted Cap’n Cruch peanut butter so that’s what I got. The only non overly sweet cereal my family will eat* is* Honeycombs. I just shake my head. Since my teenager just got braces thankfully those won’t be around for a while!
@InfidelCastro This is exactly what I was coming to say. It’s like somebody realized peanut butter crunch tastes good, but the texture is akin to broken glass and sandpaper, so they decided to fix it. It is the best cereal. I ate it every day in college, and I still love it. It is perfection.
There is a cereal called Oh’s that is delicious and stays crunchy in milk far longer than most, and probably all, sweet cereals. It has become my go-to cereal.
wtf
Golden Crisp not only isn’t on the poll, but nobody else has noticed this yet? Definitely the best cold cereal.
And as a bonus, you get to smell the next time you pee afterward.
@moondrake Yum, that dehydrated froot (or fruit). I came to add Special K Red Berries to the list. I had it this morning, mixed with Honey Nut Chex. Usually I mix in an unsweetened cereal, but I’m out. Also,
My favorite was covered above, but shouts go out to another all star: Frosted Mini-Wheats. And their bigger frosted brothers are ok too but really not as convenient a form factor.
@serpent saying you hate cereal is like saying you hate pie: either you’re lying, or you’re a monster. No matter which, no one should listen to you, you horrible, horrible person.
@simplersimon I don’t really like pie that much either. Artificially sweet stuff is bad for you, man. Eat more meat and veggies. Also fruits and berries are cool.
@serpent I usually add fruit to my cereal, and unless I’m in a rush, I usually don’t eat cereal. I love cooking breakfast. The smells help me wake up better than coffee ever has.
@djslack more important: look at those prizes! You don’t get things like that now. I opened a cracker jack the other day, and the prize was a qr code to enter for a digital sticker in their app.
@mollama the prizes have been stickers and cheap paper toys for the last couple of decades, so they’ve been lame for a while. They just found a way to make it worse using technology.
Grape Nuts Flakes!! C’mon y’all. Am I really the only one that loves it to pieces? I could eat a flatbed truck’s worth of the stuff right now, especially with some 2% milk. Whole milk if I’m needin’ to lard up the ol’ bod.
It has been only Grape Nuts (and only once a week) for a number of years for me. Most mornings it’s Nancy’s Honey Yogurt with with either honey or raspberry granola.
@mehbee are we talking regular or peanut butter? I love peanut butter Crunch, though it has a short window of perfection as it soaks in the milk: too soon and you are carving up your mouth with tiny knives, too late and it is nearly gum.
@mollama Crunch Berries is my favorite but I won’t turn away any type of Cap’n Crunch. I’m with ya on the peanut butter but they all make my mouth hurt! Froot Loops does the same thing, probably because I hate soggy cereal and don’t let them soak a little.
@matthew They should have used his last name when naming the cereal. Who wouldn’t like Yzerman’s Yobbo (Yes, that’s a real word: Definition: a cruel and brutal fellow) now with extra puffy tooth shaped bits???
I miss eating cereal. I stopped eating it because it’s basically just sugar and I’d be hungry five minutes later.
Frosted flakes, Smacks, Lucky Charms, and Golden Grahams were the most common in my cabinet because my grocery store had them on sale often for buy one get one free.
I do eat granola occasionally with yogurt. No where near as much enjoyment.
Ran across this site this morning. Kinda neat to see all the things I had forgotten about that made being a kid in front of a console TV on Saturday mornings so great: Tick Tock Toys http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/page4.html
I second (third? fourth? etc?) Cap’n Crunch, especially with crunchberries. Not the Oops-all-Crunchberries variety, however; you need your balance of standard Crunches.
Trivia fact that most people don’t know: Cap’n Crunch was promoted to Commodore shortly after his breakfast debut, but they demoted him back to Cap’n after he ran some ships aground in his strike force.
How can the question be answered properly when it is worded to assume that the question answerer actually likes cinnamon toast crunch? I don’t like ctc. I’m sure most adults don’t like ctc. ctc is the devil’s cerial. isis probably likes ctc. wait, I remember one adult that likes ctc. hitler. before you say ctc was not invented before hitler died, remember the movie “Look Who’s Back” showed how hitler came forward in time to present day.
Sadly my favorite is generic brand corn pops. Somehow the generics are tastier to me than name brand in this case.
Though Cinnamon Life and Capn Crunch are definitely honorable mentions.
My mom invented Cocoa Krispies.
Sort of, anyway. Before they were a real thing, she used to mix in Nestle Quik chocolate power into the milk in my standard Rice Krispies. I loved her for that.
In college it was the giant bag of Marshmallow Maties from Malt-o-Meal that sustained me. Now I have graduated to Frosted Mini-Wheats (usually Malt-o-Meal still). When I am being somewhat healthy sugar cereals are out and it’s a handful of granola in homemade yogurt…
Cocoa Pebbles!!
Honey Nut Chex.
Golden grahams have a weird scale in which they became better and better until they suddenly get too soggy and lose their flavor entirely.
@kruzen I love Golden Grahams porridge almost as much as the initial crunchy phase. The only phase I am weak on is the bit when they are crunchy on the inside and spongy on the outside.
Cap’n Crunch. Maybe you’ve heard of it?
@escapecar
/image captain crunch with chocolate milk
@2many2no What is that and where can I get one?!
@ruouttaurmind I don’t know.
It looks like “Cup O’Death”
@2many2no Aye! But what a way to go!
@escapecar Since I had no clue how nutrition-empty that stuff was, I ate it until the roof of my mouth was raw.
Major faux pas to leave out Cap’n Crunch!
@RedOak well it is true, eating Cap’n crunch is lile eating broken glass!
@escapecar It’s especially humiliating because I was just eating some recently and had the realization that it’s called “Cap’n Crunch” (possibly) because they look like little epaulettes, the mark of naval rank
:((((((
@skemmehs I always thought they looked like mini treasure chests.
@escapecar Also disappointed the Cap’n didn’t appear here. Maybe it’s all the negative cutting-the-roof-of-your-mouth stigma. Meh
No Cap’n Crunch? ¯(ಠ_ಠ)/¯
@freakaluscious OK yeah whoops that was a miss. I just ate some!
Frankenberry.
/image frankenberry
Quisp
@Jpuck71 Talk about a blast from the past! I didn’t know they still make those?
@Jpuck71 I was strongly in the Quisp camp of the Quisp vs Quake battle.
@candiedisilvio1 I bought a box last year at a Giant when I was visiting the Northeast. I noticed they took away the ray-gun the little alien used to carry on the front of the box.
You can buy Quisp online through Walmart for about $3.50 a box.
@LaVikinga Cap’n Crunch used to have a sword, too.
/image Cap’n Crunch Sword
@SSteve I guess they think we’ll put our eyes out with cartoon weapons.
@LaVikinga Looks like they also realized that "Vitamin powered sugary cereal was not quite a selling point these days.
@WTFsunshine I remember when Honey Smacks cereal was known as Sugar Smacks. Not much of a fan. Quisp, Cap’n Crunch in all its variations, Rice Krispies, Cocoa Krispies, Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops, and the hard to eat Honeycombs all made the rotation in my house when I was a kid.
Dislikes Cheerios, Raisin Bran, and Wheaties because who in their right mind makes cereal without coating it in lovely, addictive sugar?
@LaVikinga When I was younger my sister always wanted Cap’n Cruch peanut butter so that’s what I got. The only non overly sweet cereal my family will eat* is* Honeycombs. I just shake my head. Since my teenager just got braces thankfully those won’t be around for a while!
Reese’s Puffs all the way.
@InfidelCastro This is exactly what I was coming to say. It’s like somebody realized peanut butter crunch tastes good, but the texture is akin to broken glass and sandpaper, so they decided to fix it. It is the best cereal. I ate it every day in college, and I still love it. It is perfection.
Shredded wheat without the frosting.
Don’t like sweet cereals.
@f00l but the question asked about sweet cereals!
But seriously, do you add anything to the cereal? I always thought just a touch of brown sugar was nice with that
@f00l I’m with you - if I ever do eat cereal its Crispix. Spouse is in the Capt. Crunch camp.
@WTFsunshine Honestly, Crispix is the only mostly non-sweet cereal I can eat unsweetened and still have it taste delicious. Props for mentioning it!
@f00l - Agreed. I’ll eat sweet cereal occasionally as a treat, but prefer hot cereal for breakfast.
In fact, have you heard of soy sauce and scallions in oatmeal?
Check out these recipes:
http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/05/oatmeal-toppings-sweet-savory.html
I really liked Thai Oatmeal, have yet to try the one with bourbon and maple.
Oops, better link: http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/05/oatmeal-toppings-sweet-savory-slideshow.html#show-243440
How can you assholes leave out Cinnamon Life?
@TBoneZeOriginal This! LOVE CinLife!
@TBoneZeOriginal Right! I am pre-diabetic from Cinnamon Life. And I like it.
Puffins
@heartny you eat penguin-like birds for breakfast?
@mollama
Only when I’m not clubbing harp seals or killing polar bears with the greenhouse gas emissions from my petrol guzzling SUV.
@mollama
Uh… duh.
Damn. I surely wish that can of Spam didn’t photobomb this pic.
@ruouttaurmind
Or the Idahoan potatoes.
@DVDBZN Or the pickles.
@Kawa The pickles are actually jalapeños.
@DVDBZN No shame for the spuds. Peeling and boiling russets is entirely too much time and effort when cooking for one.
@ruouttaurmind Oops All Berries rules.
@ruouttaurmind What? I just thought you loved spam musubi, like any reasonable person.
@whogots Not a fan of the Spam. That’s on my roommate’s side of the cupboard.
@sykl0ps that stuff looks good! I don’t think I’ve ever seen it though
@sykl0ps is it just golden grahams, marshmallow bits and chocolate puffs?
@luvche21 Yes. And it is glorious.
It’s pretty amazing stuff, I like to just grab a handful of it as a little snack most of the time.
Cinnamon Chex. Gluten free. Vegan. Crunchy. Sweet. Cinnamony. Heaven in a box.
OMG! If you mix Cap’n Crunch Oops All berries with Fruit Loops…pure nirvana
@candiedisilvio1 I recently discovered Froot Loops with marshmallows…its sooo good but this sounds tasty also.
cocoa pebbles
Have never eaten, and will never eat, Cinnamon Toast Crunch. So there.
Oatmeal with cinnamon, pecans, and lots of maple syrup.
Gotta go with Apple Jack and Corn Pops. Corn Pops are so good that you don’t need to eat them with milk; they taste very good out of the box.
@JT954 That’s actually the only way I eat sweet cereal. It’s great travel food.
@JT954 Are you old enough to remember when they were called Sugar Pops? I am.
/image Sugar Pops
@SSteve Didn’t know this. And here I was wondering if “Corn Pops” would count as sweet.
Honey. Nut. Cheerios.
@rawhite37 Finally, someone has the right answer.
@rawhite37 @Kawa Yes! And I mix it half and half with regular cheerios.
Raisin Bran Crunch.
Where is the Cracklin’ Oat Bran???
@thismyusername Sounds healthyish or at least grown up, but is really a box of mini cookies you pour milk on. My favorite!
/image cracklin oat bran
@thismyusername I don’t think that counts as a sweet cereal, but it is awesome snack out of the box.
@katbyter i beg to differ. Sweet is the second word in the subtitle on the box.
@katbyter Oh it’s definitely a sweet cereal. Not Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs sweet, but it’s sweet.
@thismyusername @djslack Try it mixed with Cheerios!
@katbyter you should try it, it’s totally decepticon cereal.
Another vote for Honey Nut Cheerios
@chuckf1 For whatever reason I don’t consider this a “sweet” cereal, maybe because my parents let me eat it
There is a cereal called Oh’s that is delicious and stays crunchy in milk far longer than most, and probably all, sweet cereals. It has become my go-to cereal.
@Lister I love that stuff, it’s my second favorite cereal after Golden Crisp
wtf
Golden Crisp not only isn’t on the poll, but nobody else has noticed this yet? Definitely the best cold cereal.
And as a bonus, you get to smell the next time you pee afterward.
Raisin Bran; the soggier, the better!
/image Honey Nut Cheerios
/image Puffins peanut butter
/image Cap’n Crunch peanut butter
What the hell are Fruit Loops? Some knock-off variety of FROOT LOOPS?
@curtise Yeah! Froot Loops 4 Life!!
@curtise
I prefer plain cereal with a bit of dehydrated or fresh fruit.
@moondrake Yum, that dehydrated froot (or fruit). I came to add Special K Red Berries to the list. I had it this morning, mixed with Honey Nut Chex. Usually I mix in an unsweetened cereal, but I’m out. Also,
Another vote for Peanut Butter Crunch.
Cap’n Crunch … Crunch Berries!
My favorite was covered above, but shouts go out to another all star: Frosted Mini-Wheats. And their bigger frosted brothers are ok too but really not as convenient a form factor.
Come on people, cereal sucks. Disgusting and atrocious, not the least bit enjoyable. Eat muesli instead, if you have too.
@serpent
/image well, that’s just like your opinion, man
@djslack And it’s coincidentally the only correct one.
P.S. Well damn, I wrote “too” instead of “to” in my original post. Shame on me, it’s an almost unforgivable mistake.
@serpent saying you hate cereal is like saying you hate pie: either you’re lying, or you’re a monster. No matter which, no one should listen to you, you horrible, horrible person.
@simplersimon I don’t really like pie that much either. Artificially sweet stuff is bad for you, man. Eat more meat and veggies. Also fruits and berries are cool.
@serpent I usually add fruit to my cereal, and unless I’m in a rush, I usually don’t eat cereal. I love cooking breakfast. The smells help me wake up better than coffee ever has.
And from the days before sugar was a bad word:
@djslack Super High-Fructose Corn Syrup Crisp just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
@djslack more important: look at those prizes! You don’t get things like that now. I opened a cracker jack the other day, and the prize was a qr code to enter for a digital sticker in their app.
@simplersimon ya what? Eating Cracker Jacks was half for the prize. Don’t tell me they are lame now!
/image Sad Llama
@mollama the prizes have been stickers and cheap paper toys for the last couple of decades, so they’ve been lame for a while. They just found a way to make it worse using technology.
Lucky Charms would be amazing if they took out the cereal part.
@Mehow http://www.cerealmarshmallows.com
Chocolate Lucky Charms!
/image chocolate Lucky Charms
@jqubed It looks kinda like kibble with marshmallow bits.
@PocketBrain It’s one of the better chocolate flavors on its own, though, even without the marshmallows.
Grape Nuts Flakes!! C’mon y’all. Am I really the only one that loves it to pieces? I could eat a flatbed truck’s worth of the stuff right now, especially with some 2% milk. Whole milk if I’m needin’ to lard up the ol’ bod.
/image Grape Nuts Flakes
@UncleVinny I like Grape-Nuts, haven’t tried the flakes.
It has been only Grape Nuts (and only once a week) for a number of years for me. Most mornings it’s Nancy’s Honey Yogurt with with either honey or raspberry granola.
/image Nancy’s Honey Yogurt
I just have to say it again…you left out CAPTAIN CRUNCH!!! How is that even possible?
@mehbee I throw myself before your mercy
@mehbee are we talking regular or peanut butter? I love peanut butter Crunch, though it has a short window of perfection as it soaks in the milk: too soon and you are carving up your mouth with tiny knives, too late and it is nearly gum.
@mollama Crunch Berries is my favorite but I won’t turn away any type of Cap’n Crunch. I’m with ya on the peanut butter but they all make my mouth hurt! Froot Loops does the same thing, probably because I hate soggy cereal and don’t let them soak a little.
@skemmehs Mercy granted always!
The local generic, bagged cereal maker makes a S’mores cereal which consists of Golden Grahams, Cocoa Puffs and marshmallows. It’s fantastic.
@matthew I almost SMSed this to you, thinking you would like it
@matthew They should have used his last name when naming the cereal. Who wouldn’t like Yzerman’s Yobbo (Yes, that’s a real word: Definition: a cruel and brutal fellow) now with extra puffy tooth shaped bits???
/image voodoo doughnut cereal
But not really. The cereals are gross to begin with and stale on the doughnuts… The best doughnut at voodoo is the Butterfingering.
Oh, and the best cereal is Raisin Bran.
I miss eating cereal. I stopped eating it because it’s basically just sugar and I’d be hungry five minutes later.
Frosted flakes, Smacks, Lucky Charms, and Golden Grahams were the most common in my cabinet because my grocery store had them on sale often for buy one get one free.
I do eat granola occasionally with yogurt. No where near as much enjoyment.
Ran across this site this morning. Kinda neat to see all the things I had forgotten about that made being a kid in front of a console TV on Saturday mornings so great: Tick Tock Toys http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/page4.html
I second (third? fourth? etc?) Cap’n Crunch, especially with crunchberries. Not the Oops-all-Crunchberries variety, however; you need your balance of standard Crunches.
Trivia fact that most people don’t know: Cap’n Crunch was promoted to Commodore shortly after his breakfast debut, but they demoted him back to Cap’n after he ran some ships aground in his strike force.
Peanut butter Cap’n Crunch or Reeses with very fresh, very cold, whole milk for dessert!
Crunch Berries. The Cap’n will not be pleased it was left off the list.
Was this sweet? (@mfladd @jbartus)
CHEERIOS damn it
How can the question be answered properly when it is worded to assume that the question answerer actually likes cinnamon toast crunch? I don’t like ctc. I’m sure most adults don’t like ctc. ctc is the devil’s cerial. isis probably likes ctc. wait, I remember one adult that likes ctc. hitler. before you say ctc was not invented before hitler died, remember the movie “Look Who’s Back” showed how hitler came forward in time to present day.
@miko1
Waffle Crisp, which later became Waffle Crunch. It is still available as Good Morenings Waffle Crunch at Walmart, about $3 for a yuuuuuge box.
I can still remember the smell. RIP
@boinks Like every artificial fruit flavor ever created.
/image rice crispy treats cereal
Sugar Smacks !
@patrick22152 Those always taste burnt to me.
/image Kellogg’s Frosted Mini Wheats Touch of Fruit
Sadly my favorite is generic brand corn pops. Somehow the generics are tastier to me than name brand in this case.
Though Cinnamon Life and Capn Crunch are definitely honorable mentions.
My mom invented Cocoa Krispies.
Sort of, anyway. Before they were a real thing, she used to mix in Nestle Quik chocolate power into the milk in my standard Rice Krispies. I loved her for that.
@ACraigL That is awesome. Moms rock!
@ACraigL I used to eat cocoa krispies with chocolate milk! Double da choco!
Cinnamon Toast Crunch sucks.
Gosh I haven’t eaten that stuff since like 8th grade many many many many many moons ago.
close 2nd to rice crispy treats cereal is
/image french toast crunch
Captain Crunch n’ Berries
One of the few bagged cereals that isn’t (as far as I know) a copy of somebody else’s.
I’ve been on a diet for the last few weeks and haven’t had any breakfast cereal. My mouth is watering reading these today.
In college it was the giant bag of Marshmallow Maties from Malt-o-Meal that sustained me. Now I have graduated to Frosted Mini-Wheats (usually Malt-o-Meal still). When I am being somewhat healthy sugar cereals are out and it’s a handful of granola in homemade yogurt…
Life is about the sweetest cereal I can handle.
@brhfl
/giphy he likes it
@medz
/giphy mikey likes it
/image Oh’s Cereal
This. Like Cap’n Crunch with Crunch Berries WITH marshmallows!
I think this also belongs here. Meh, when are you gonna sell these… https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00WXZJTS4/ref=mp_s_a_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1494391582&sr=8-1&keywords=cereal+marshmallows