Topic: Cereal Lovers Only

@Rambler lol it does too.

I entered the raffle on the back of the monster cereal boxes and received notification recently that I won a set of the monster figurines. They should start shipping next month. I’m irrationally giddy about this. If I was given a blank sheet of paper and told to come up with 10 things I NEED that don’t yet exist; a set of monster cereal figurines would definitely be on this list. I’ll Post a pic sometime. I’m not exactly sure where I’ll display them, it’ll depend on their level of gloriousness. I’m hoping they’re cool enough to go in the dining room hutch.

Since I was in California a short while ago, I finally got to try the oh so famous Halloween cereals.

The tried the ones with the ghost and the Frankenstein monster.

My verdict is that out of those two, the ghost was better.

@bimmy-lee Oh cool, do share pics of them when you get them!

@Eagly No it's a veggie

@bimmy-lee heck yeah dude! Whatta rush. Please do keep us posted with pictures.

@Rambler There are V tables

@Rambler Where you eat cereal

Forgot to mention earlier that a local brewery does a limited run of cereal flavored beers around Halloween every year. They’re on tap and carry out for one weekend. It’s a fun little event, we get the full variety carry out and then enjoy three or four a weekend until they’re gone. Some are a bit much, some are really good. They come in three styles:

Milkshake IPA - Cap’n Crunch, Fruity Pebbles, Apple Jacks and Trix

Pastry Sour - Boo Berry, Frankenberry, Fruit Brute and Lucky Charms

Pastry Stout - Count Chocula, Cocoa Puffs, CTC and Cookie Crisp

@Eel - I will, I guess the figure designs are re imagined a by an artist named KAWS. It might be the new designs on the box art this year. The monster designs are all different. Glad you could give them a try though. Boo Berry is my favorite. My fondness for them is definitely tinted by marketing nostalgia and cheap thrill.

@NintendoByNature - Oh, I will keep you posted when I have these figurines. Once I have them, I plan on writing my first will so I can set up chain of custody and experience peace of mind knowing they will be handed down for generations as family heirlooms.

I did see some Fruit Brute in the store recently and thought about grabbing a box, but they were family size boxes only. I'm not much of a cereal eater outside of oatmeal these days, so there wasn't any way I would've finished the box before it went stale. I need to find those individual serving boxes for cereal when I do get the rare hankering for it....

@bimmy-lee Congrats on the figurines! I didn't even think anyone ever won those promotions lol.

Since my last post I've finished up a box of Count Chocula & Oreo O's.

Count Chocula was pretty good, certainly made the milk chocolate. Oreo O's were amazing, like a bowl full of freshly milk dunked Oreos.

Now I'm back to a couple of classic fallbacks, as I'm working on a box of Froot Loops & have a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch waiting in the wings.

I really like cornflakes. I wonder what the socially acceptable number of cornflakes to eat is. Like, the upper limit. Whatever it is, I’m fairly sure I’ve exceeded it quite a few times.

@Tyranexx - Haha, yeah, I’ve suspected the same. I’ve never won anything like this, some might call it a major award, so only time will tell if the figures are real and arrive here safely. It’s kind of funny about the family size only situation with the monster cereals. It’s like they’re saying, “come on, you’ve waited all year, you know you want a family size box, you know you want to eat ALL this, just doooo it.” Hope you’re well and had fun at the haunted house this year. I tagged you in some thread a while back when I posted pics of my retro game room, but I added you as an edit; so that’s usually dicey as to whether you’ll be notified.

@Maxz - There’s no limit, none at all. My favorite way to eat cornflakes is when they’re baked on top of homemade mac and cheese. There’s a convenience store next to a site I’ve been working that sells “old fashioned cornflake chews” and they are delightful. It’s sort of the cornflake’s version of a Rice Krispie treat, but without marshmallow. It has more of a karo/caramel type binder, and it’s chewy yet crunchy. I’ve become slightly obsessed, I’ve had three of them in the last two weeks.

I haven't had cereal in about a year now, and I ate it almost religiously in my youth, but while I haven't tried Oreo O's, my baby brother brought some home and I thought it was such a stupid name for a cereal. It should have been OreO's, and I'll stubbornly die on that hill.

I'm not sure if plain Chex was available in Australia back in the day, but they launched Coco Pops Chex in the latter half of the 2000s (if I recall correctly), and I could never get enough of it. I also like Weet-Bix Bites with mixed berries, though I haven't had that for at least a couple of years now. I'm also peeved that Chex Quest isn't available in the Aussie eShop considering that we have at least one variety of Chex cereal available in the country (although other variations, if any, haven't been successful).

The last cereal I had bought was Nature's Path Golden Turmeric, as I wanted to avoid the likes of Kellogg's and go for something with organic ingredients, and it was basically cornflakes with honey and some mild spices (cinnamon, ginger, turmeric, vanilla, cardamom) and it was quite yummy. The box boasts that it turns milk yellow, but I usually only eat cereal in very small servings as I absolutely hate when it gets soggy, and I just repeatedly top up so that it maintains its crunch.

I am going to make a confession I like it when the cornflakes get soggy because I can wadge more of them in my mouth at a time and gulp them down more easily. By increasing my cornflake ingestion rate I can get a quicker hit of that sweet, sweet toasted sweetcorn (but not too sweet because I don’t like my cornflakes chocolatey or frosted). Just stuff my mouth with great big spoonfuls of delicious flaccid milky corn globlets. Yum.

@bimmy-lee I would also like to request pics of the figurines when (or if) they arrive! I wonder how detailed they are. 🤔 Part of me still regrets passing on the Fruit Brute, but there's no way I could eat that much lol.

I am well; I appreciate you asking! The haunted house was great this year barring the weekend I couldn't work (It seems I finally contracted Covid despite a recent booster shot; mild case thankfully). Our admissions were down a bit, but that was to be expected thanks to rising prices everywhere including our own. More stuff was going on in the community this year too. Unfortunately I missed the pics of the retro game room; notifications here indeed get weird, especially with edits. Thankfully, post history on user profiles is a thing, so I tracked them down! That looks like a nice, cozy space for you and any residents of House Bim to hop into a gaming time machine for a few hours. A lot of time, sweat, blood, and pixels clearly went into it! I especially like the paint job on the wall in the background.

I hope you, Mrs. Bim, Bimily, and Bim Jr. are all well!

Finished off a box of Boo Berry this morning, and thus, my yearly monster cereal binge comes to an end. It was a good season. I had Frute Brute for the first time, the Count and Boo Berry. While I do miss Frank, I don’t need to eat all of them every year. I’ll put Frute Brute fourth behind Boo, Frank and the Count in that order. Hopefully we’ll get a chance to try Yummy Mummy next year.

@Tyranexx - Glad you had a mild case, your recovery should power you through the holiday season. It does stink that it interfered with the spook house schedule though, since that’s a limited time event. We didn’t get a chance to go to one this year, but there’s a mild, funhouse style attraction we’ll try next year. The little Bimms are both in school, and I’ve re joined the outside working world. Good to be back. It’s a whole new field for me, but I’m enjoying the work and I get to make stuff, which is fulfilling.

@bimmy-lee Froot Brute was good I just miss the lime marshmallows but oh well. I am wondering if we will see a return of Yummy Mummy in the next few years.

My son showed me this video on the history of the monster cereals which I found interesting.

As for me, I am still rocking marshmallow Fruity Pebbles (well the generic version since it's cheaper).

I gotta admit, I was tempted by some Cinnamon Toast Crunch the other day. WHY they don't make smaller boxes more common where I am....

@bimmy-lee Definitely, since supposedly your immunity is sky high up to three months after getting Covid lol. I won't miss the spook house too much - the new owners are more keen to have some haunted events throughout the year. We're actually planning on doing a Christmas/Krampus themed haunt in a couple of weekends. I doubt too many of the sets will be retooled, but the costumes certainly will be. XD Sounds like all the residents of House Bimm are doing very well! If I might ask, what field is your work now in?

Picked up some holiday cereals on sale. Christmas crunch and Rudolph cereal that's basically count chocula. Merry Christmas ya filthy animals!

Recently finished up a stint of trying out a variety of Cheerios cereal (Chocolate & Peanut Butter, Apple Cinnamon, & of course Honey Nut). The flavors were a bit more understated compared to the boldness of the sweeter fair, but all & all I enjoyed them & could see myself going back.

Now I've picked up a couple boxes of limited time promotional fare. Pandora Flakes (an Avatar branded Frosted Flakes that includes blueberry flavored "blue moons") & Mickey Mouse Club confetti cereal (a 100 years of Disney tie in).