Leave my damn Cocoa Pebbles alone!!

Why, oh why must they meddle with my most perfect of snacks, Cocoa Pebbles? (and yes, I often spell it Coco Pebbles, without the "a" at the end, but that's how it sounds!)

I like it the way it is. Or was. Now it has come sort of colored dots in it. They remind me of Nerds. Oh sure, they look colorful, but they don't dissolve and they ruin the choco-milk that I love to drink from the bowl when I am finished. I nearly gag as the pop-rocks scrape my throat going down.

Is cereal really that boring. Do kids need to be that entertained by the contents of the cereal bowl?

Not long ago, Apple Jacks had put some weird mini-cracker-things in their cereal mix (which has already been tainted by mutant GREEN Jacks), these things were totally inedible. Nasty chunks of funk. Even kids were picking them out of the bowl.

Just leave the cereal alone! I like the way I like it. I love dry cereal. It is my favorite snack. In fact, I bring some to work to munch on in the 3-4pm snack attack hour. Today, I have Super Sugar Crisp (ok, I know to be politically correct, they renamed it "Golden" crisp, but for me it will always be about the sugar).

You look next time you are on the cereal aisle. Notice how many cereals are featuring new things in them. Froot Loops now have who-knows-how-many new colors. And Trix? What is up with all those weird shapes in there? (Remember when we used to be able to vote on whether the Rabbit would get the box of cereal?).

And Lucky Charms? Used to be Hearts, Moons, Stars and Clovers. Now? There are about a dozen things in that box. (I personally truly dislike this cereal, but it proved a point).

My point? Why are they messing with what works?

They recently ruined my snack of snacks, Sugar Pops. OK, fine, those are now called Golden Pops or some such nonsense. They were great, I loved them. Then they go and add all this calcium to it. "Same great taste" they say. Bull$#!t I say! They taste totally different now. If kids need calcium, let the parents give them milk in their cereal. Heyyyy, wow, there's a concept. Or give them Flintstone's vitamins (how many of you thought those made for a great snack?).

Why they just can't leave things alone is beyond me. I guess the MTV generation of parents having pokemon generations kids, means the attention span of a child is nil. So they snazz up the cereal to sell more boxes.

How about this? Put a cool prize in there again! Man, I can't tell you how many boxes of Honeycombs I bought to get their way cool prizes. (Can you sing the Honeycomb cereal theme song?). Now they have to pay $1.99 for a CD of Country Music up and coming stars which any teen knows they can download off the net for free. There are no cool prizes in cereal any more. None. When I was a kid, the commercials for cereal were all about the prizes. That is what sold cereal, not some new shape.

Which brings me to my point. I like it the way it is, don't go and spice it up with flavor crystals, marshmallows hood ornaments, funky rainbow stripes or nappy vitamins and minerals.

Leave my damn Cocoa Pebbles alone!

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Posted by on January 28, 2002 @ January 28, 2002 10:46 AM    
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