{"id":37,"date":"2004-09-15T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2023-08-14T17:41:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T03:41:19","slug":"corn-flakes-with-real-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/15\/corn-flakes-with-real-bananas\/","title":{"rendered":"Corn Flakes With Real Bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Corn<\/p>\n

Growing up, I only knew of two types of cereal: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Icky\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yummy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Icky\u00e2\u20ac\u009d cereal consisted of Wheaties, Shredded Wheat, Corn Flakes, Total, Bran Flakes, Raisin Bran, and any other healthy cereal that had a doo-doo brown color.<\/p>\n

The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yummy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d cereal was anything that had ANY the following: Rainbow colors, marshmallows, chocolate flavor, fun shapes, free toys, puzzles on the back of the box, and enough sugar to keep me hyperactive until lunch.<\/p>\n

I avoided \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Icky\u00e2\u20ac\u009d cereals, but my parents felt like I needed a change in my diet due to the fact I suddenly needed to wear \u00e2\u20ac\u0153husky\u00e2\u20ac\u009d clothing in the third grade. How did they try to change my diet? They used the age-old, time-tested parenting technique called, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153deception.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

They once bought Corn Flakes and tried to pass it off to me as Frosted Flakes. Despite my early-morning-low-blood sugar mind, I realized that it really wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Frosted Flakes. So while they got ready for work, I dumped a few tablespoons of sugar over the Corn Flakes.<\/p>\n

Eventually, my parents caught on and started buying me \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yummy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d cereal again.<\/p>\n

As my age and my fear of diabetes increased, I began to eat less of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yummy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and more of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Icky.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

I slowly began to find out that some of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Icky\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was actually kind of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yummy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Recently, cereal companies have been trying to make the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Icky\u00e2\u20ac\u009d cereal less \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Icky\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by adding real fruits.<\/p>\n

These cereals include Berry Burst Cheerios with Strawberries and today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s review subject, Corn Flakes With Real Bananas<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The bananas they put in with the Corn Flakes are real bananas in the form of banana chips. You know, the same kind of banana chips you get from hippy health food stores and the same type you make with the Ronco Food Dehydrator<\/a>. You know, the Ronco Food Dehydrator, makes banana chips in days, makes beef jerky in days, makes really impatient people want to grab an aluminum bat and give the Ronco Food Dehydrator a beat down.<\/p>\n

At first I was skeptical that adding banana chips would make the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Icky\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Corn Flakes taste better, but I was pleasantly surprised with how good it was. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how many banana chips they put in each box, but I could taste the banana goodness with almost every spoonful.<\/p>\n

The only problem I had was the corn flakes getting really soggy after a few minutes in the milk, although the banana chips did stay crunchy. After the first bowl, I helped myself to another, thinking the first bowl was a fluke and the cereal couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be this good, but it really was good.<\/p>\n

Why didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the cereal companies think of this sooner?<\/p>\n

Now I know what you all are thinking, since they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re putting bananas in Corn Flakes and strawberries in Cheerios, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it about time they put grapes in Grape Nuts? <\/p>\n

Because Grape Nuts are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Icky.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\n

Item:<\/b> Corn Flakes With Real Bananas
\nPurchase Price:<\/b> $3.00 (on sale)
\nRating:<\/b> 4 out of 5
\nPros:<\/b> Surprisingly good. Banana chips stay crunchy. Lots of banana chips.
\nCons:<\/b> Corn flakes don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stay crunchy for long. Would suck without the banana chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Growing up, I only knew of two types of cereal: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Icky\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yummy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Icky\u00e2\u20ac\u009d cereal consisted of Wheaties, Shredded Wheat, Corn Flakes, Total, Bran Flakes, Raisin Bran, and any other healthy cereal that had a doo-doo brown color. The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yummy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d cereal was anything that had ANY the following: Rainbow colors, marshmallows, chocolate flavor, fun shapes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1440],"tags":[1472,2257,1473],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-cereal","tag-corn-flakes","tag-kelloggs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43991,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/20\/coming-soon-kelloggs-mashups-cereal-with-kelloggs-frosted-flakes-froot-loops\/","url_meta":{"origin":37,"position":0},"title":"COMING SOON: Kellogg’s Mashups Cereal with Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes + Froot Loops","author":"Marvo","date":"May 20, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Update: We tried it! 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