{"id":23520,"date":"2017-07-12T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=23520"},"modified":"2023-08-28T16:04:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T02:04:07","slug":"review-post-honey-maid-smores-cereal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/12\/review-post-honey-maid-smores-cereal\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Post Honey Maid S’mores Cereal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Post<\/p>\n

I think everything is better with a brand name.<\/p>\n

An Oreo Blizzard beats a chocolate sandwich cookie Blizzard ten times out of ten; a Lucky Charms milkshake kicks the crap out of a marshmallow cereal milkshake; and an Arby\u2019s sandwich on a King\u2019s Hawaiian bun is far superior to a sandwich on a sweet enriched roll that may or may not have come from a rock in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t ask me about the logic behind this phenomenon. It might be proprietary recipe secrets. It might be social conditioning. It might just be that you\u2019d have to be an idiot to roll out something called a \u201cmarshmallow cereal milkshake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Honey Maid S\u2019more cereal follows much of the trend, which is surprising because it\u2019s made by Post, which previously bought Mom\u2019s Best, which owns Malt-O-Meal, which produces both a mediocre Cocoa Puffs imitator and a pathetic Golden Grahams doppelganger.<\/p>\n

Oh, and by the way, a s\u2019mores cereal.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never had the Malt-O-Meal cereal with the same name, but I have had many other Malt-O-Meal cereals and consider them hastily assembled Halloween costume versions of their General Mills, Kellogg\u2019s, and Quaker counterparts. Knowing this, I was not expecting much from this s\u2019mores cereal.<\/p>\n

\"Post<\/p>\n

Sampling the pieces individually didn\u2019t do much to change my outlook. The marshmallow pieces were okay but nothing special, like a 6-6 college football team that limps into a bowl game. Meanwhile, the chocolate cereal pieces (which look and taste like Malt-O-Meal’s Cocoa Puffs imitator Cocoa Roos<\/a>) are about as dreadful as a chocolate cereal can be, with virtually no cocoa flavor and too much sweetness.<\/p>\n

\"Post<\/p>\n

Eaten alone, the only redeeming element is the Honey Maid graham pieces, which have a deep graham flavor and light crunch that\u2019s distinct from the glazed molasses sweetness of Golden Grahams.<\/p>\n

But a funny thing happens when you shove a handful of the mix in your mouth. It starts to taste like s\u2019mores, and out of nowhere a light cocoa flavor emerges in the background.<\/p>\n

\"Post<\/p>\n

I attribute this 100 percent to a dusty coating that covers all the pieces. It\u2019s not unlike the peanut butter coating that covers Reese\u2019s Puffs, but instead of tasting like powdered chocolate peanut butter, it tastes like powdered S\u2019mores. The coating is especially tasty in milk, which seems to coax more cocoa flavor out of the chocolate cereal pieces, and gives the graham pieces a delectable, milk-infused sogginess.<\/p>\n

Even though the chocolate flavor is a letdown, Honey Maid S\u2019mores is a slightly better than Smorz (which I gave a 6) but not as good as Krave S\u2019mores (which I gave an 8<\/a>). Is it because of the Honey Maid Graham Cracker pieces?<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s not because of some generic graham cracker pieces.<\/p>\n

(Nutrition Facts – 3\/4 cup without milk \u2013 120 calories, 25 calories from fat, 2.5 grams of fat, 0.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 210 milligrams of sodium, 24 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of dietary fiber, 12 grams of sugar, and 1 grams of protein..)<\/small><\/p>\n

Purchased Price:<\/b> $3.98
\nSize:<\/b> 21 oz. box
\nPurchased at:<\/b> Walmart
\nRating:<\/b> 7 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> Authentic honey graham flavor. Campfire coating binds flavors together with a deep burnt sugar taste with hints of cocoa. Very good in milk. Correct spelling of S\u2019mores. Avoiding the tempting Hamilton Porter S\u2019mores reference from The Sandlot.<\/i>
\nCons:<\/b> Less cocoa flavor than a tootsie roll. Only adequate as a snacking cereal. The reasoning behind Cocoa Roos<\/i>. Brand name food collusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think everything is better with a brand name. An Oreo Blizzard beats a chocolate sandwich cookie Blizzard ten times out of ten; a Lucky Charms milkshake kicks the crap out of a marshmallow cereal milkshake; and an Arby\u2019s sandwich on a King\u2019s Hawaiian bun is far superior to a sandwich on a sweet enriched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1440],"tags":[1472,1775,1729],"class_list":["post-23520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-cereal","tag-honey-maid","tag-post-cereals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22772,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/31\/coming-soon-post-honey-maid-smores-cereal\/","url_meta":{"origin":23520,"position":0},"title":"COMING SOON: Post Honey Maid S’mores Cereal","author":"Marvo","date":"May 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Watch out Kellogg's Smorz Cereal! 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