{"id":17869,"date":"2014-12-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=17869"},"modified":"2021-12-09T20:27:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T06:27:08","slug":"review-french-toast-crunch-cereal-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/16\/review-french-toast-crunch-cereal-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: French Toast Crunch Cereal (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"French<\/a><\/p>\n

Let me take you back to 1999 for a few precious moments.<\/p>\n

My mother\u2019s silver Ford Windstar was bumping Smashmouth\u2019s \u201cAll Star\u201d as she dropped me off at elementary school, where for the next seven hours I\u2019d gloss over lessons in long division and conjunctions in order to run an illicit Pok\u00e9mon \u201cdistribution\u201d center based out of my Star Wars Episode 1 pencil box. Afternoons were spent in the basement with my Sega Genesis (I always was a few years late with the systems) seemingly set in perpetual pause mode as I tried to pass the eighth level of Sonic the Hedgehog 2.<\/p>\n

In the evening, I\u2019d cover my ears when the news came on and Tom Brokaw would tell my parents how the world would end with Y2K approaching. But I still managed to get a very solid nine hours of sleep each night with nothing but sweet, sweet dreams.<\/p>\n

Why, you ask? Could it have been the innocence of youth? Or the absence of a soul-sucking job for which I\u2019d have to wake up at 4 a.m. each morning?<\/p>\n

Well, yes. But more importantly, it was because of French Toast Crunch.<\/p>\n

Sweet, maple syrupy, and crunchy, it was for millions of us the gold standard in breakfast cereals. It might have been the single most dominant reason for relative world peace during the 1990s, and its delicious power to render slurp worthy end-milk allowed countless young Americans to partake in the bone-strengthening but otherwise insipid taste of skim milk.<\/p>\n

\"French<\/a><\/p>\n

But sometime between our blissful ignorance of munching on a bowl box during marathons of ABC\u2019s \u201cOne Saturday Morning\u201d, a funny thing happened. The French Toast Crunch we all knew and loved changed. It wasn\u2019t French<\/i> Toast Crunch anymore. Instead it was a variation of Cinnamon<\/i> Toast Crunch. As the box artwork and shape of the cereal pieces changed<\/a>, so did the flavor, and before we knew it, the cereal faded into obscurity.<\/p>\n

Until now.<\/p>\n

Spurred on by a passionate social media campaign years in the making, General Mills has brought back French Toast Crunch in its original form from the 1990s, returning it to American store shelves after a lengthy exile in Canada.<\/p>\n

As some of you may know, I\u2019ve been fortunate enough to have, uh, procured Canadian French Toast Crunch<\/a> in the not so distant past. I\u2019m indebted to those Canadians who have offered to indulge my inner ten-year-old every now and again, although I\u2019m obligated to point out it\u2019s only fair considering we gave them the greatest cereal of all time and they gave us Nickelback. In any event, the Canadian version of French Toast Crunch is beyond delicious. The question, then, was whether or not the resurrected American version would be equally enjoyable.<\/p>\n

Well, I have good news and bad news after tasting the returned version of French Toast Crunch. The bad news is I still don\u2019t think we can turn back time and return Nickelback to Canada and get \u201cOne Saturday Morning\u201d back on ABC. The good news? French Toast Crunch is even better than I remember it as a kid with all the crunchy glazed maple syrup goodness you or I could ask for.<\/p>\n

\"French<\/a><\/p>\n

On the off chance you\u2019re either A) An old fart who wouldn\u2019t understand B) Too young to have eaten the original or C) Just have something wrong with you and have never tasted French Toast Crunch, here\u2019s what you\u2019re in for. Little squares of glazed \u201ctoast\u201d with an authentic but not overpowering maple flavor, graced with a crunchy corn base with a wonderfully smooth glaze which gives each piece a lickable quality in milk.<\/p>\n

\"French<\/a><\/p>\n

There are undertones of Cap\u2019n Crunch and Quisp in the brown sugar and corn notes, while a Waffle Crisp flavor and crunch persists right down to the finish. Equally enjoyable when eaten as a snack or in a bowl of milk, it is, in two words, quite ideal. Beyond that, I\u2019d likely exhaust the vocabulary of overused descriptive food terms<\/a> before capturing the quintessence of why this cereal tastes so great.<\/p>\n

French Toast Crunch is back, and it\u2019s just as good as it\u2019s ever been. It might not be able to take you physically back to 1999 (only a Flux Capacitor can do that) but set against the backdrop of a YouTube video of your favorite childhood cartoon and a lazy Saturday morning, it\u2019s the next best thing.<\/p>\n

(Nutrition Facts – 3\/4 cup or 28 grams \u2013110 calories, 10 calories from fat, 1 gram of fat, 0 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 150 milligrams of sodium, 24 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 9 grams of sugar, and 1 grams of protein.).)<\/small><\/p>\n

Item:<\/b> French Toast Crunch Cereal (2014)
\nPurchased Price:<\/b> $2.99
\nSize:<\/b> 11.6 oz. box
\nPurchased at:<\/b> Safeway
\nRating:<\/b> 10 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> Even better than I remember it. All the authentic maple qualities of Waffle Crisp with a smooth, glazed surface on each piece which is without equal in cerealdom. Wonderful Quisp-like crispness and slight corn aftertaste. Leaves delicious end-milk even in skim milk. Instantly my new favorite cereal\u2026again.
\nCons:<\/b> Anxiety over sales performance in an already oversatured market. Sleepless night left wondering if this means Oreo O\u2019s will come back too? Not being able to export Nickelback back to Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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