Wired News has a hilarious analysis of limited-edition sugary cereals inspired by summer movies. All of us out here in the bloggosphere owe a debt of gratitude to Lore Sjöberg, who took one for the team by sampling these insulin-shock inducing breakfast cereals. He leads off with Kellogg's Pirates of the Caribbean, which he quickly dismisses as sort of a combination of Cocoa Puffs and Count Chocula, not that that's a bad thing. His description of the chocolate pearl-shaped cereal with pirate-shaped marshmallows had me busting a gut. He likens the marshmallows to bowler hats, extracted incisors and a silhouette of Bob Ross. Guess they couldn't figure out how to make it look like Johnny Depp.
Next up is Cars, a wheat-like cereal with, you guessed it car-shaped marshmallows. Sjöberg found the cereal boring and thought it strange that cartoon characters who don't eat cereal have been enlisted to sell it.
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, gets panned for tasting like what happens Karo syrup vomits. No kind words for the ice-cube shaped cereal with acorn-shaped marshmallows either. He says the "ice cubes" are shaped like throw pillows and a better name for it would have been Lying on the Couch 2: What's on TiVo?
His clear favorite is Superman Crunch, which he lauds for the team up of the man of steel with Cap'n crunch. It tastes like crunchberries. But the really cool thing about this cereal shot through with red Superman insignias is that it turns milk blue.
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