I bought the original Reebok Shaq Attaq shoes back in the 1990s, which are still somewhere in my parent’s house. I also have a life-sized Shaq cardboard cutout with him wearing Hammer pants, which is also somewhere in my childhood home. Yes, it’s a 7 foot 1 inch display, and I can’t find it.
And this Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes with Crispy Cinnamon Basketballs box with Shaq’s face on it would be a great addition to the collection. I look forward to losing it at my parent’s place when I go back.
So why does Shaq have his own cereal a decade after retiring from the NBA?
Reason one, he’s a part of Mission Tiger, which is helping to save school sports around the country. And, two, he’s mentioned Frosted Flakes as being his favorite cereal of all time for so many years that Kellogg’s probably owes him for all that free promotion.
Sure, the cereal brand could’ve just stuck his face on a box of regular Frosted Flakes, but it went the extra 7 feet 1 inch to give the NBA Hall of Famer his very own variety.
Crispy cinnamon basketballs sound cool, but they don’t bounce and don’t have much flavor. I gathered a spoonful of them, and while they’re crispy, they taste like Apple Jacks Super Lite with a hint of cardboard. But when mixed with the sugary flakes, whatever taste they have gets lost. If Kellogg’s made a cereal with only these cinnamon-flavored puff pieces and named it Cinn-asketballs, I would dislike it. But probably not more than you hate me for coming up with the name “Cinn-asketballs.”
Because the cinnamon is so light, Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes with Crispy Cinnamon Basketballs mostly tastes like I’m eating regular Frosted Flakes. That’s not a bad thing, but the cinnamon shouldn’t be difficult to find, like whatever Shaq memorabilia I have in my parent’s house.
DISCLOSURE: I received a free product sample. Doing so did not influence my review.
Purchased Price: FREE
Size: 10.2 oz box
Purchased at: Received from Kellogg’s
Rating: 5 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: (1 cup/38 g) 140 calories, 0 grams of fat, 0 grams of saturated fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 190 milligrams of sodium, 34 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 13 grams of sugar, 12 grams of added sugar, and 2 grams of protein.
If you’d like to learn more about Mission Tiger, click here.
There’s nothing that Shaq won’t put his image on or hawk on TV. Man, he rakes it in.
I rather buy the regular Kellogg’s frosted flakes cause this cinnamon basketball flakes have no taste like cinnamon I guess that is only business cause Shaq picture is on the box I been buy frosted flakes all my life I am 71 year old and I like them alot but this new product cinnamon no taste cinnamon I will not buy again
I really had high hopes for the cinnamon basketballs in this cereal. It was very underwhelming. Not bad, but just didn’t add much to the cereal. And I recently came to find that the new Ghostbusters Afterlife Cereal coming out soon is only mediocre as well. Kind of disappointing as these were the 2 new cereals I was looking forward to the most. I guess there’s still hope for the Caramel Corn Pops, which are supposedly coming out soon.
Wao, I really loved the cinnamon frosted flakes which I guess are no longer in production. So I bought the Shaq cinnamon frosted flakes and how disappointed I was. No cinnamon flavor what so ever, and the balls were not crunchy at all but staile. Not good!
Flavor was pretty good, but the consistency was disgusting. Like eating cheetos in my cereal. Yuck! I had a bowl last night and stomach is still a mess this afternoon.