The man who came up with the idea for Cinnamon Toast Crunch was my AP Human Geography teacher during my freshman year of high school. His name was Gary Kurlancheek, and he came up with the idea on a General Mills retreat. (And yes, he had a VERY nice car.) He was able to retire early after a very successful career, and became a teacher. Absolute legend. He didn’t just teach us about Human Geography, he told us so many stories from his life. Everything from first loves to his time at General Mills, his travels around the world… Truly the greatest teacher I’ve ever had. I feel so lucky to have known him. He passed away back in 2014. He was only 60, but he did so much in the time that he had… I only hope I can do half as much. Rest In Peace, Mr. Kurlancheek.
So uh, how come he has no wikipedia page, no mention of it and the actual inception of the cereal worked very differently, with the one sparking the idea receiving literally just a toy, not money of any kind? Hope he taught you actual facts, because man was lying to you about that little story.
@@dowfreak7looked into this, even the story told on the Wikipedia page has NO SOURCE. It could be just as made up or true as OP's story. If you dive into the story of the man the Wikipedia page lists, it just states he worked for General mills for 30 years and was successful. There are a lot of blogs parroting this story, but there doesn't seem to be a verified version of the story out there. Can't just trust Wikipedia my dude, gotta double check the sources too
Ironically, Honey Bunches of Oats has a version of it with almonds. Which is I believe the thing he said he wished they had in there to give it a higher score.
@Jakey726 All depends, as some people might have developed it, have a very mild allergy or can avoid some of their bias. (Face_exhaling emote) For example all those people that have lactose intolerance that might have developed it over time might still love ice cream and could still rank it because it used to not cause problems and now have to take meds for it. The "I like it but it doesn't like me" people.
@@mageius Lactose intolerance isn't an allergy. While allergies can have varying levels of impact on different people, intolerance to lactose is clearly not going to ever trigger the type of lethal anaphylaxis that was being alluded to previously.
@@rachelosafoh117 You have unleashed a million "sharks" once starved and migrated to other parts of TH-cam for nourishing content, back to their beloved feeding hole a crumb, a simple crumb of new content. I hope you enjoy that mental image because I can't believe I found a fellow abridge enjoyer.
As a UKer, I greatly enjoyed Andrew’s discovery of Weetbix. I liked them with sugar as a child. There is an even less enjoyable part of the experience, and that’s trying to wash the concrete remains of dried Weetabix off of a bowl that wasn’t immediately rinsed after use.
In the 90's, Honey Nut Cheerios had small bits of almonds. But when the price of nuts went up, they switched to almond flavoring to save costs. If you eat the new Cheerios Oat Crunch Almond cereal, that is what the older HNC used to taste like.
Trix were originally created in 1954 and were, in fact, originally balls. They were designed as a fruity and more sugary version of Kix (Kix, Trix. See the similar names?). They were only changed to fruit shapes in the early 90s (I remember when this happened), then they changed them back to balls in the mid 2000's as a way to play off the nostalgia of everyone who had grown up eating them as balls when they were kids. Then of course in the last few years, you had a bunch of 90's and early 2000's kids who were now adults, and they've been changed back to fruit shapes to play off their nostalgia. I imagine in 10-20 years, they'll be balls again.
@@d4ngerd4d I prefer the lore that they changed into balls in the mid 2000s because the kids grew up to became adults thus losing the ability to see the magic; because Trix are for kids.
Also it makes me laugh that they tried to make people think it was “healthy” by switching to all natural dyes, but then the result looked so gross that it destroyed their sales so they had to switch back to being artificial (I’m also very allergic to the “natural” dyes used so I felt very vindicated by the failed attempt)
Honey Bunches: “If it had almonds in it, it’d be a nine.” There’s a variety with almonds! Literally called Honey Bunches of Oats With Almonds! It’s the only one I eat - I don’t even like the toasted almond slices myself, but it just has a fuller, better-rounded flavor overall than the other varieties of HB.
When I was a kid, I used to pour a bowl of Raisin Bran, go get dressed, pack my book bag, and then come back and eat my cereal. It had soaked up all the milk and become a homogenous sludge with raisins in it. My mom couldn’t even be in the room when I ate it, and now I understand. That was an abomination.
I’m old. It is my 71st birthday today. Many of these cereals did not exist when I was a child. It’s worth noting that, however, that way back then, Honey Smacks were called Sugar Smacks, Golden Crisps were called Sugar Crisps, and Corn Pops were called Sugar Pops.
Missing for me was Quaker Oat squares and Cinnamon Life. It also would've been fun to see a showdown between Kellogg's Raisin Bran and Post Raisin Bran. This was still fun snd worth wasting my time on!
As someone who used betterhelp 4 years ago, it's not better, and from what I've heard recently it hasn't improved. They aren't actual therapists with real degrees. They put out personal opinions instead of getting to a base problem. In my experience I went through 3 people before I had one that was actually a well-spoken individual with actual problem solving skills. They literally have in their ToS that their therapists may not be certified and that they can't diagnose you legitimately. Just go to a real therapist. Your insurance most likely covers it and it isn't 59/mo.
By and large, don't trust anything a youtuber sponsors. The only things I've got that are decent are displates (not outstanding, but decent if you want a hard-to-hurt poster), and surfshark(just a standard vpn). Everything else I've seen, ever water bottle, every mobile game, every food prep service, every s*x toy company, literally everything else either does shady stuff or sell a bad overpriced product.
Saying “it isn’t $59 month” isn’t really a valid statement, because it depends on your insurance and how often you are going. I do weekly sessions and it actually comes out to about $60/month AFTER insurance. I understand your point overall but everyone’s situation is different.
Not to mention the improper confidential info releases and the fact some therapist licenses are STATE specific but they're allowing them to practice across state lines.
heard somewhere that they sell your information to facebook so it can give more personalized ads, even though they say your information will be kept private
As an Aussie who grew up on Weet Bix (aussie version of Weetabix) - we generally eat them with lots of sugar to make it palatable. They also turn into concrete in the bowl after they get mushy and then dry out.
I can’t believe how popular up and go are too. I like weetbix with fruit and sugar, but soggy weetbix in a box so you can drink it through a straw? I don’t get it.
Maybe that is the fault of my upbringing - Mum's health-minded attitude kept us from much sugar on cereal, thus Weet-Bix was awful. I preferred classic Granola, which really, was kinda like hardtack bits, in that it needed to be soaked in hot water to be edible. I remember at a church camp, the Youth meeting tent ran a breakfast, and served Granola with chopped dates in it. That was nice. It is a pity that Granola is gone and everything called "Granola" is just toasted museli clusters, which I do like, but it isn't the hardtack cereal.
I love that my childhood favorites were rated so low...cheerios, rice crispies, kix, life, and chex. Apparently I liked all the bland corn/rice variations 😂
My mom always said if sugar was the first or second thing on the ingredients list, that cereal was banned from the house. Except for the one time in the summer of 89 when she figured we were outside enough to run the extra calories off anyway, so we got one box of Nintendo Cereal System. It was terrible, but it was Nintendo, so I was all about it. Strong 6 out of 10 because the box had two bags in it; one for Mario and one for Zelda.
@@jamesmarshall6884 I haven't eaten them in probably over 15 years so it's very probable they might taste different now compared to when I was eating them.
@jamesmarshall6884 I didn't really like kix all that much, but this did unlock some kind of memory where my mom made bars with kix that had marshmallow and fruity pebbles. Don't remember the flavor, but I do remember the roof of my mouth being destroyed.
At summer camp one year, breakfast was served every Wednesday with Cinnamon Life in little plastic single serve containers. Our table **loved** Cinnamon Life and always ate all the packages on our table. One day, we noticed the other tables weren't eating their Cinnamon Life, and so we grabbed two milk crates, took all the leftovers, and stored them under our table so we could have them any day we wanted instead of only Wednesdays. Cinnamon Life holds a special place in my heart because of that.
I live in S. Korea. There's a snack food here made out of colored corn starch and formed into a ring or a ball with a very slight hint of sugar. They are not flavored. I call them "Crunchy Nothings". When you described KIX, it reminded me of those
Captain Crunch Berries. That one is an easy high tier. It takes the basic Captain crunch and adds the occasional fruity punch to it. Another heavy hitter modifier is Honey Bunches with Strawberries. Near perfect.
@anamedina5415 dont really know what else to call it besides "fruity", fruity itself kinda has a processed sound to it since most fruit are wildly different
Fun fact: Apple Jacks are actually Froot Loops that have cinnamon, apple juice I believe,and citric acid added. Apple Jacks are just Froot Loops that went through a different conveyor belt, just like how Frosted Flakes are corn flakes that went through a diff conveyor belt. The Food Theorists have an entire video about it
I liked it as a kid, but the retro version is disgusting. My older sister, who loves the cereal, hates it too. Since he bashed KIX, I am gonna buy some just because he hates it.
I grew up in Cedar Rapids, and every day smells horrible except for Crunch Berries day(thursdays) everyone around here has a love and a hate for the quaker plant
@@DavidPollak-m2e Kellogg's and Post are both originally from Battle Creek and Post still has a factory there, but yes it has moved it's headquarters to Minneapolis.
Considering that my three favorite cereals are Honey Bunches of Oats, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and Reese's Puffs, I feel so incredibly validated by this video.
I'm not from a weetabix eating culture, but I am from europe, and I think the strangest part of that product is the picture on the box. It's really more of an "instant porridge" than a breakfast cereal, and if it were marketed as such, people would not get so confused and disappointed.
people always eat it plain, like babish did- which is very annoying to see as a brit. as almost everyone here has it with some sort of topping, it’s a base
@@mildredwetbed9791Absolutely, it's a vehicle for toppings and, once you get to know them you can eat them at exactly the moment they reach the required consistency. Cleaning them off the cereal bowl once they've dried on though, that's a whole different thing.
The first crunchy bites you get in before it turns into porridge are great. And then it's just porridge. I really liked it when I went to Australia as a kid, but it's nothing like other cereals.
Can we please appreciate the mic drop quote that Andrew dropped perfectly explaining love??? 28:13 "If you love something, you have to be willing to see its flaws... it's part of what makes it who it is."
It reminds me of this quote from Welcome to Night Vale: "Everything about him, and us, and all of this, is…it’s imperfect! And those imperfections in our reality are the seams and the cracks into which our out-sized love can seep and pool. And sometimes we are annoyed, and disappointed, and that too is a part of how love works. It is not a perfect system, but… Oh, well."
9:29 I have said it before, the single best job on the planet is the guy who gets to design the backs of cereal boxes. It is just the wild west back there; anything goes!
My go-to cereal is cheerios multigrain: cheerios take a bit to sog, and even then retain shape and separation, and even some decent texture; ring cereals like the cheerios family don't have the sort of messy splashback as flakes when you pour milk on them; they aren't doused in high fructose corn syrup; and the variety of flavors from the multigrain cheerios makes it interesting to eat.
i used to eat them a lot as well and i agree with you but they have a weird like artificial sweetener flavor almost like splenda not bad but kinda just weird
27:55 Babish throwing down some TED talk level life lessons here, I’m literally in a better state of mind for my life right now because I’m holding this advice close to my heart, thanks Babish!
Kashi: “Clearly made for adults who’s dreams have long since died” I had to pause to laugh at that line. They should put that on the front of the box 😂
if you're wondering what the smell of Fruit Loops are, it's trying to be a Ramos Gin Fizz. So lemon, lime and orange blossom water. Which explains the insane smell of the yest of both + the orange blossom water upon opening the box.
The look on his face when he first opened the Weetabix tube... I about died laughing. Oh, and a couple years ago, they had a variant of Cinnamon Toast Crunch called Cinnamon Roll Crunch - pretty much the same, but it had a faint hint of cream cheese tang. It also was shaped like cinnamon rolls, and thus stayed crunchy longer in milk. It WAS the perfect cereal.
It truly is amazing that a 4 out of 10 cereal becomes a 10 out of 10 treat when you throw in some marshmallow and melted butter. Looking @ you Rice Krispies Treats...
@@JCH2768Not knocking Corn Flakes, but part of the reason it sells well is that it was, until recently when cereals had their prices jacked up across the board, cheaper than anything else you could eat that wasn't basically plain rice. Many a month as a university student were spent eating Corn Flakes because it was all the budget could afford.
Weetbix was a winter cereal for me, you warmed it in hot milk and sprinkled some brown sugar on it, it becomes more like an oatmeal kind of cereal then.
@@lets.get.intoit. I remember sleeping over with a friend when I was a kid and he made it the same way you do and I found it odd. Hopefully I'm not the weird one here lol
Nothing beats Frosted Flakes. Hands down. End of discussion. All others are wrong. Then Cocoa Pebbles, same assurances. Thennnn probably Crispix, maybe Rice Chex. Golden Grahams gets a strong nod for third too. Third has some contenders.
They taste great, but the greasy milk is a huge negative. Same with Fruity Pebbles. Generic versions of both are way better because they don't ruin the milk.
I must say that I really love that you don’t waist any food. I see so many channels doing these ”taste test” videos, serving themselves a huge portion and only taking a few bites. Really iks me out. Thanks for not waisting!
Raisin Bran Crunch was my go to cereal throughout all of high school. It solves the main problem of Raisin Bran by sugar coating the flakes to give them a much better flavor and durability in the milk, not to mention it also has crunchy granola clusters. It's the perfect balance of sweet but filling for those late night cravings. My nightly ritual was having a bowl while watching the Daily Show and Colbert Report before bed.
Let's not forget that Chex is Purina people chow. It's literally the human equivalent of dry dog/cat food. It also once came packed with a cd-rom containing a family friendly reskin of DOOM.
For those who are curious, that game was called Chex Quest and it had a couple of sequels - the first was an official sequel but the second wasn't actually authorized by General Mills. More recently, the original game has been updated (with GM's permission) and re-released on Steam and Switch; I believe it is free on both platforms.
@@victreebel170 Both originated with Ralston Purina and both are dried food intended to insure basic nutritional needs are met. The name and shape of Chex are a reference to Purina's checkerboard logo.
Thank you for validating my love of Honey Bunches of Oats. My wife's family tradition growing up (and remains to this day) is getting to choose a "birthday cereal" - a special cereal that you really really love but might not always just have lying around the house. I'm not a huge cereal eater, but man when my birthday rolls around, I'm asking for Honey Bunches of Oats!
Weetabix is a staple British breakfast - officially our best selling cereal. It's normal to add fruit, sugar, honey etc to enhance the flavour. And there's a lot of talk about 'soggy Weetabix'.
Watching him eat it was like watching American's and other countries eat marmite, a real feel of "You're doing it wrong!" When other countries have it on toast they REALLY lather it on, when in reality you don't need that much, so they of course get the wrong impression of it. Same with Wheetabix, there is simply a correct way of eating them and a wrong way, which is why it's not popular in the US because you actually have to do more than pour in milk'n eat.
@@emerald7537 The same with something like Surströmming. Only a handful of people i know like it here (not me), but everytime i see a american try to eat it, they try to eat it by itself, which is not the way its supposed to be eaten.
You clearly just didn’t understand weetabix. The beauty of weetabix is that you can for a brief moment feel what it was like to be an old world peasant in the modern era by eating gruel whenever you want. It is beautiful and there is no substitute.
@@ashleypezzuto792 Of course noble lady, please do not mind the musings of but one serf. You are of course of a more refined palate and I am unworthy to share my meager opinion.
Agreed dude. Those hold a very special place in my heart along w/ Frosted Flakes. It's what my grandparents always had because it's all my mentally disabled Uncle liked. Shit...I just got a little emotional. Why did you do that to me Brad? I don't appreciate it.
One of the aspects of Cap'n Crunch that wasn't explored in this video was their resistance to sogginess. Each piece is coated in something like a sugar-based shellac. The 'Soggies' were even the cartoon antagonists in the commercials I watched growing up. (Sadly I was born too late to see the Jay Ward animated commercials.) One iconic experience missed with Cap'n Crunch is shoveling them into your mouth so fast and so much that you cut the roof of your mouth on them. Down to the last spoonful too, because unless you eat slow or had a giant bowl they were still almost as sharp and crunchy as if they hadn't touched milk. Now, as a diabetic with a restricted diet, I don't think I could ever eat cereal again. Which also means I don't tend to have milk around either for the occasional use in cooking. Oh well, I have all the salad I can eat, and that's not bad!
All I know is that General Mills spies used to follow me around in the grocery store and when I found a cereal I liked, they'd stop making it. I'll never buy any General Mills cereal again :-). Actually I don't eat cereal at all any longer, unless oatmeal counts as cereal adjacent.
By far the most accurate cereal ranking (according to my taste) I’ve seen on TH-cam. I’d say honey bunches of oats is also a 9 with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. One other factor to consider if you eat a whole bowl. Capt Crunch drops one or two spots because of the damage it does to the roof of your mouth. Other cereals do that too, but capt crunch is bad and with crunchberries is even more painful.
Seeing my second favorite cereal Reeses Puffs hold such a high number made the child in me very happy. Need a sequel episode with some of the alternate versions and the holiday cereals featuring my favorite Count Chocula.
Seeing Babish eat a dry Wheatbix sends shivers down my spine. In New Zealand it’s always made a challenge at every primary school to eat a whole wheatbix dry because it soaks up all the liquid in your stomach
Eating one dry, then choking and drinking water is probably top 10 worst experiences. Imagine having a near death experience AND THEN tasting watered down wheat cement on top of that.
I distinctly remember Kix and Grape nuts, since my mom never ever let super sugary stuff in the house (and I am grateful). I actually like how it is just a touch of sweetness, and how little cereal you need with the grape nuts :)
As a kid, we had sugary cereals, but I would 100% take Kix over Corn Pops (unless there was a Pete and Pete cassette involved, but that was a special circumstance). Grape Nuts was what my great grandpa ate, and with skim milk to boot ☹️
Of all the cereals you tested; Krave was the newest, it is a product that was introduced in the 2000s. Honey Bunches of Oats has had the fewest changes to their recipe in their history.
Grape Nuts have to be soaked in milk to actually be chewable. My dad used to do that and then be able to eat them, since it was really hard to chew right out of the box. And a lot of people don't really have the patience or time to soak their cereal anymore and monitor it enough to make sure it's not too soggy or crunchy.
Nah. There's a third. The madman. Wants to release an all-green version of fruity pebbles, and call it Baby Ghost Poops. The slimy sogginess is a feature, not a bug. Thats yummy ectoplasm. Convert some of the non-soggers through memery.
Cap'n Crunch has a 3rd state of texture that is somewhere in between but also some of both plus something all its own. The brown sugar, butter, vanilla, & carmel flavor tastes real too. Which all makes it 9-tier +. (Babish whole 7-tier is grossly artificial tasting)
They came out with a version of Cinnamon Toast Crunch but Churro version. The thicker tube like form of the churro prevents it from getting soggy as fast as the original, so I think that version is even better!
Hitting that golden point where the outside is soft but the inside still has crunch is kinda magical. Definitely a cereal for people who prefer their breakfasts without excess sugar though.
I remember having the same reaction to cookie crisp, my mom wouldn't buy it for the longest time, and when she did I was so excited, just for that excitement to instantly vanish within the first bite and it tasted like betrayal
Fruit Loops are one of my top cereals for me due to very specific nostalgia. Growing up my family would go on summer road trips down to florida, and every time we stopped at a hotel I would get fruit loops from the breakfast area. So now whenever I even smell that cereal I remember those vacations.
I've seen comments on other channels postulate that they may be contracted for a period of time so would be legally obligated to do sponsorships until the contract is over :/
@@Squabbit they didn't really do anything out of the ordinary. There was an accusation that they were selling market profiles based on privileged medical data, but they weren't. It was basic marketing demographics. There is this wrong perception by the general public that your raw personal information (name, addrsss, etc) is what is being sold - it is not. Your personal data is used to build a profile, your profile is one among many, and the ability to put ads in front of you and people that have similar flags on your profiles is what is being sold. Those ads come in the form of banner ads, popups, emails, etc.
Cinnagraham Toast Crunch (as the name implies, it's a Cinnamon Toast Crunch - Golden Grahams crossover) is really the best of both worlds. You get the crunch and sturdiness of the Graham base cereal, but with the cinnamon sugar of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. It could be a 10.
27:49 if you can find it they have a French toast crisp variant. To which I like it better then the standard cinnamon toast. It still has a little bít of cinnamon flavor but it has like an eggy toast piece to it that has a pleasing texture to it.
The man who came up with the idea for Cinnamon Toast Crunch was my AP Human Geography teacher during my freshman year of high school.
His name was Gary Kurlancheek, and he came up with the idea on a General Mills retreat. (And yes, he had a VERY nice car.) He was able to retire early after a very successful career, and became a teacher.
Absolute legend. He didn’t just teach us about Human Geography, he told us so many stories from his life. Everything from first loves to his time at General Mills, his travels around the world… Truly the greatest teacher I’ve ever had. I feel so lucky to have known him.
He passed away back in 2014. He was only 60, but he did so much in the time that he had… I only hope I can do half as much.
Rest In Peace, Mr. Kurlancheek.
Wow what a story!! So cool
So uh, how come he has no wikipedia page, no mention of it and the actual inception of the cereal worked very differently, with the one sparking the idea receiving literally just a toy, not money of any kind?
Hope he taught you actual facts, because man was lying to you about that little story.
@@dowfreak7 it was a group retreat thing, which is why he was never officially credited with it, and he was fine with that.
@@dowfreak7looked into this, even the story told on the Wikipedia page has NO SOURCE. It could be just as made up or true as OP's story. If you dive into the story of the man the Wikipedia page lists, it just states he worked for General mills for 30 years and was successful. There are a lot of blogs parroting this story, but there doesn't seem to be a verified version of the story out there. Can't just trust Wikipedia my dude, gotta double check the sources too
@@amorantoboy My guess would be that the person Wikipedia lists was also on that retreat and did indeed work with him at General Mills.
Ironically, Honey Bunches of Oats has a version of it with almonds. Which is I believe the thing he said he wished they had in there to give it a higher score.
It is also the superior version of the product
@@Nick-dc6ix agree with you there. Well unless someone has a nut allergy, but that's beside the point.
if someone has an allergy they shouldnt be allowed to rank something, huge bias there for someone who will die if they actually try eating it@@mageius
@Jakey726 All depends, as some people might have developed it, have a very mild allergy or can avoid some of their bias. (Face_exhaling emote) For example all those people that have lactose intolerance that might have developed it over time might still love ice cream and could still rank it because it used to not cause problems and now have to take meds for it. The "I like it but it doesn't like me" people.
@@mageius Lactose intolerance isn't an allergy. While allergies can have varying levels of impact on different people, intolerance to lactose is clearly not going to ever trigger the type of lethal anaphylaxis that was being alluded to previously.
We're just gonna glance over the fact that Reese's Puffs apparently upgraded from having Reese's-themed rappers as their mascot to freaking Goku?
Goku can't rap as far as we know so he can't beat the iconic Reese's Puffs rap
@@dastardlywun You're right. I still wish they would've at least sent out a memo, or something. It took me by surprise lol.
the dragon ball reese’s is just a random collab. not the normal mascot.
@@dastardlywun idk man who knows what DBZ abridged might come up with 😂😂
@@rachelosafoh117 You have unleashed a million "sharks" once starved and migrated to other parts of TH-cam for nourishing content, back to their beloved feeding hole a crumb, a simple crumb of new content. I hope you enjoy that mental image because I can't believe I found a fellow abridge enjoyer.
As a UKer, I greatly enjoyed Andrew’s discovery of Weetbix. I liked them with sugar as a child. There is an even less enjoyable part of the experience, and that’s trying to wash the concrete remains of dried Weetabix off of a bowl that wasn’t immediately rinsed after use.
Another UKer here, and I absolutely DESPISED Weetabix. Give me Frosted Shredded Wheat any day, because those bricks violate every rule of cereals.
@@lilithsykes4661 I absolutely would not touch them now. The texture repulses me.
Honestly.i still love wheatabix, but I've always been on the hot milk team so mines more like porridge
Ah yes, the low-quality concrete of dried weetabix sludge, I had almost forgotten about that 😂
As an Aussie, I lovedddd Weetbix especially as kid. My grandma use to always buy a pack for my brother and I, every time we visited her.
In the 90's, Honey Nut Cheerios had small bits of almonds. But when the price of nuts went up, they switched to almond flavoring to save costs. If you eat the new Cheerios Oat Crunch Almond cereal, that is what the older HNC used to taste like.
The thing I like about Trix isn't the cereal, it's the lore behind them being changed from fruit shapes to balls and then back to fruit shapes.
Trix were originally created in 1954 and were, in fact, originally balls. They were designed as a fruity and more sugary version of Kix (Kix, Trix. See the similar names?). They were only changed to fruit shapes in the early 90s (I remember when this happened), then they changed them back to balls in the mid 2000's as a way to play off the nostalgia of everyone who had grown up eating them as balls when they were kids. Then of course in the last few years, you had a bunch of 90's and early 2000's kids who were now adults, and they've been changed back to fruit shapes to play off their nostalgia. I imagine in 10-20 years, they'll be balls again.
@@d4ngerd4d I prefer the lore that they changed into balls in the mid 2000s because the kids grew up to became adults thus losing the ability to see the magic; because Trix are for kids.
The balls were better, but it might have just been a formula change that coincided with the shape change.
Also it makes me laugh that they tried to make people think it was “healthy” by switching to all natural dyes, but then the result looked so gross that it destroyed their sales so they had to switch back to being artificial (I’m also very allergic to the “natural” dyes used so I felt very vindicated by the failed attempt)
The cereal with a redemption arc
"Cocoa Puffs, famously represented by a bird with pronounced mental illness" That cracked me up for some reason.
Had me floored
Not wrong tho
dad? lol
Jokes do that sometimes. Crazy
Sonny made "Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs" a household phrase.
Cinnamon Life, Cracklin Oat Bran, and Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds needed to be on the list!
Cracklin Oat Bran is truly underrated.
I love cracklin oak bran with a little honey
Off, I gained some weight back in the day with that cereal.
Honey Bunches: “If it had almonds in it, it’d be a nine.”
There’s a variety with almonds! Literally called Honey Bunches of Oats With Almonds! It’s the only one I eat - I don’t even like the toasted almond slices myself, but it just has a fuller, better-rounded flavor overall than the other varieties of HB.
I got up from my seat and literally started yelling this into the monitor when I heard him say that.
@@medagross999 Saaaaaaaaame
Our beloved HB, unfairly denied their rightful place at the very top of the scale 😔
LOL has babish never visited the cereal aisle? hahaha@@medagross999
Blue box HB the MF GOAT
I feel validated by your comment, thank you
When I was a kid, I used to pour a bowl of Raisin Bran, go get dressed, pack my book bag, and then come back and eat my cereal. It had soaked up all the milk and become a homogenous sludge with raisins in it. My mom couldn’t even be in the room when I ate it, and now I understand. That was an abomination.
Ive been there, and i feel you
I’d do that with my captain crunch because it was too crunchy and would cut my mouth
Its perfect what are you talking about
why did you wait so long 😭
@@ShOxCookingCaptain crunch would always cut the roof of your mouth, what an amazing cereal 😂
I’m old. It is my 71st birthday today. Many of these cereals did not exist when I was a child. It’s worth noting that, however, that way back then, Honey Smacks were called Sugar Smacks, Golden Crisps were called Sugar Crisps, and Corn Pops were called Sugar Pops.
And they’re all terrible lol!
I hope you had an amazing birthday! 🎉❤
I’m a decade younger than you but that’s what I recall too.
HBD
Ah... the era when sugar wasn't the killer that it is now!
happy birthday!!!!!! here in canada theyre still called sugar crisps, i love them
I feed old people
Missing for me was Quaker Oat squares and Cinnamon Life.
It also would've been fun to see a showdown between Kellogg's Raisin Bran and Post Raisin Bran.
This was still fun snd worth wasting my time on!
Krave made its US debut in 2012, so unless you grew up in the 2010's you could not have "not been allowed to have this [Krave] cereal as a kid." 😂
False memories
Hey, many 30 year olds still live with their parents because rent
I was gonna say, I don't remember that one being around when I was a kid, and I'm a couple years younger than Babish.
@@AllGreyEverything human brain moment
I did enjoy Krave. But it tears up the roof of your mouth if you don't wait like 2 minutes to start eating
As someone who used betterhelp 4 years ago, it's not better, and from what I've heard recently it hasn't improved.
They aren't actual therapists with real degrees. They put out personal opinions instead of getting to a base problem. In my experience I went through 3 people before I had one that was actually a well-spoken individual with actual problem solving skills. They literally have in their ToS that their therapists may not be certified and that they can't diagnose you legitimately.
Just go to a real therapist. Your insurance most likely covers it and it isn't 59/mo.
Thank you for speaking out about your experience. Genuinely appreciate it and I hope you are now getting the help you need
By and large, don't trust anything a youtuber sponsors. The only things I've got that are decent are displates (not outstanding, but decent if you want a hard-to-hurt poster), and surfshark(just a standard vpn). Everything else I've seen, ever water bottle, every mobile game, every food prep service, every s*x toy company, literally everything else either does shady stuff or sell a bad overpriced product.
Saying “it isn’t $59 month” isn’t really a valid statement, because it depends on your insurance and how often you are going. I do weekly sessions and it actually comes out to about $60/month AFTER insurance. I understand your point overall but everyone’s situation is different.
Not to mention the improper confidential info releases and the fact some therapist licenses are STATE specific but they're allowing them to practice across state lines.
heard somewhere that they sell your information to facebook so it can give more personalized ads, even though they say your information will be kept private
As an Aussie who grew up on Weet Bix (aussie version of Weetabix) - we generally eat them with lots of sugar to make it palatable. They also turn into concrete in the bowl after they get mushy and then dry out.
I can’t believe how popular up and go are too. I like weetbix with fruit and sugar, but soggy weetbix in a box so you can drink it through a straw? I don’t get it.
@@sum1rllyspecial I do like a chocolate Protein Up and Go in the morning.
And Weet Bix are infinitely superior to Weetabix.
Maybe that is the fault of my upbringing - Mum's health-minded attitude kept us from much sugar on cereal, thus Weet-Bix was awful. I preferred classic Granola, which really, was kinda like hardtack bits, in that it needed to be soaked in hot water to be edible. I remember at a church camp, the Youth meeting tent ran a breakfast, and served Granola with chopped dates in it. That was nice. It is a pity that Granola is gone and everything called "Granola" is just toasted museli clusters, which I do like, but it isn't the hardtack cereal.
I always melt mine down in warm milk and drown it in sugar. Really sets me up for the day.
I love that my childhood favorites were rated so low...cheerios, rice crispies, kix, life, and chex. Apparently I liked all the bland corn/rice variations 😂
Me too!
lol I was a poor kid so I lived off kids for a long while since that's what wic covered and none of the sweet cereals 🤣 i loveeee kix dry
My mom always said if sugar was the first or second thing on the ingredients list, that cereal was banned from the house. Except for the one time in the summer of 89 when she figured we were outside enough to run the extra calories off anyway, so we got one box of Nintendo Cereal System. It was terrible, but it was Nintendo, so I was all about it. Strong 6 out of 10 because the box had two bags in it; one for Mario and one for Zelda.
Nin-ten-do, two cereals in one! 🎶
I prefer sugar before mold, though 🤔
@DG-hw8it
What cereal has mold as an ingredient?
I remember having one of those around 89.
carbs are also just sugar. look at calorie per gram. it's all about the same
I liked Kix as a kid. I wasn't a fan of really sugary cereal and Kix was plain but with a touch of sweetness.
I agree !
However, If you have tried them lately, you would notice they must have changed the recipe. Tastes gross now in my opinion.
@@jamesmarshall6884 I haven't eaten them in probably over 15 years so it's very probable they might taste different now compared to when I was eating them.
@@jamesmarshall6884 Wait till he finds out about French Toast crunch...
@jamesmarshall6884 I didn't really like kix all that much, but this did unlock some kind of memory where my mom made bars with kix that had marshmallow and fruity pebbles. Don't remember the flavor, but I do remember the roof of my mouth being destroyed.
Same
If you’re gonna try Life, you can’t have the original flavor, you need to try Cinnamon Life
What will really bake your noodle is Maple & Brown Sugar Life. But it’s been discontinued. 👎🏻
At summer camp one year, breakfast was served every Wednesday with Cinnamon Life in little plastic single serve containers. Our table **loved** Cinnamon Life and always ate all the packages on our table. One day, we noticed the other tables weren't eating their Cinnamon Life, and so we grabbed two milk crates, took all the leftovers, and stored them under our table so we could have them any day we wanted instead of only Wednesdays. Cinnamon Life holds a special place in my heart because of that.
1000% accurate!!!
Honestly I didn't even know plain Life existed, I've only ever had the cinnamon
best cereal of all time imo
I live in S. Korea. There's a snack food here made out of colored corn starch and formed into a ring or a ball with a very slight hint of sugar. They are not flavored. I call them "Crunchy Nothings". When you described KIX, it reminded me of those
French Toast Crunch was incredible. I don't think it exists anymore, but it should.
Chocolate Toast Crunch was better
It's still around, but it has less of a syrup taste and more of a cinnamon taste
I think food lion (grocery store) has it from time to time
We have French Toast Crunch in most grocery stores in Canada
Canada still has it well at least Ontario
No crunch berries? Justice for the Cap’n!
ikr who in their right mind would eat capn crunch without crunch berries?
Yep crunch berries fa sho!
I agree about the justice part, but you have the wrong version....Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch is the GOAT. There is NO better cereal.
@@RayKinStL Top 3 for sure! The cheerios version is also delicious!
@@RayKinStLPeanut Butter RULES!
"What have we learned today?"
Add a lot of sugar to a cereal, you'll automatically get 2 or 3 points higher.
I know Raisin Brand isn't a popular cereal, but I've always loved them!
Raisin Bran is my favorite! I love it.
Raisin Bran is great. Especially when you get the extra raisin one.
Captain Crunch Berries. That one is an easy high tier. It takes the basic Captain crunch and adds the occasional fruity punch to it.
Another heavy hitter modifier is Honey Bunches with Strawberries. Near perfect.
Eww no, I wouldnt call those terrible berries "fruity"
@anamedina5415 dont really know what else to call it besides "fruity", fruity itself kinda has a processed sound to it since most fruit are wildly different
Captain Crunch & Apple Jacks are the GOAT cereals with milk
@@kben24Agreed this guy just sucks
My problem with Capt Crunch (especially with crunch berries) is it rips up your mouth, unless you let it sit and get soggy.
Fun fact: Apple Jacks are actually Froot Loops that have cinnamon, apple juice I believe,and citric acid added. Apple Jacks are just Froot Loops that went through a different conveyor belt, just like how Frosted Flakes are corn flakes that went through a diff conveyor belt. The Food Theorists have an entire video about it
When they came out they were Cheerios coated with cinnamon and tiny flecks of dehydrated apple.
@@solomonkane102that’s Apple Cinnamon Cheerios. Several years ago they removed the “apple” chunks.
I cannot tell you how happy I am to see Golden Grahams get the respect THEY DESERVE. Totally underrated cereal
I liked it as a kid, but the retro version is disgusting. My older sister, who loves the cereal, hates it too. Since he bashed KIX, I am gonna buy some just because he hates it.
Should have kept his 9 score
It's garbage, would have rated it a 3 myself.
they are extremely mid
CTC gets soggy?
Eat faster. The king of cereal is a 10.
Long live the king.
I had no idea that CTC could get soggy. In my experience it is impossible to NOT eat it at ludicrous speed.
I grew up in Battle Creek, and you could tell the days they made Fruity Pebbles at Post. They burned them rather frequently too.
I grew up in Cedar Rapids, and every day smells horrible except for Crunch Berries day(thursdays) everyone around here has a love and a hate for the quaker plant
Kellogg’s is in Battle Creek , Post is in Minneapolis
@@DavidPollak-m2e Kellogg's and Post are both originally from Battle Creek and Post still has a factory there, but yes it has moved it's headquarters to Minneapolis.
Considering that my three favorite cereals are Honey Bunches of Oats, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and Reese's Puffs, I feel so incredibly validated by this video.
I'm not from a weetabix eating culture, but I am from europe, and I think the strangest part of that product is the picture on the box. It's really more of an "instant porridge" than a breakfast cereal, and if it were marketed as such, people would not get so confused and disappointed.
people always eat it plain, like babish did- which is very annoying to see as a brit. as almost everyone here has it with some sort of topping, it’s a base
@@mildredwetbed9791Absolutely, it's a vehicle for toppings and, once you get to know them you can eat them at exactly the moment they reach the required consistency.
Cleaning them off the cereal bowl once they've dried on though, that's a whole different thing.
THIS!!! 😆
@@Harry_Mendingyou have to eat them while standing over the sink and wash the bowl as you are chewing the last spoonful
The first crunchy bites you get in before it turns into porridge are great. And then it's just porridge. I really liked it when I went to Australia as a kid, but it's nothing like other cereals.
On Buffy, Spike used crumble up Weetabix into blood to make it a little crunchy.
Can we please appreciate the mic drop quote that Andrew dropped perfectly explaining love???
28:13
"If you love something, you have to be willing to see its flaws... it's part of what makes it who it is."
It reminds me of this quote from Welcome to Night Vale: "Everything about him, and us, and all of this, is…it’s imperfect! And those imperfections in our reality are the seams and the cracks into which our out-sized love can seep and pool. And sometimes we are annoyed, and disappointed, and that too is a part of how love works. It is not a perfect system, but… Oh, well."
I actually really like Kix. It has that corn toastiness and also a slight sweetness. Don’t understand why some people hate it.
Do you also find Saltines to be an enjoyable snack 🤣
yes@@travistotle
Me too!😂
I think they are one of the ones that are better without milk
9:29 I have said it before, the single best job on the planet is the guy who gets to design the backs of cereal boxes. It is just the wild west back there; anything goes!
Can I also just say... as a resident of Michigan's Cereal City (battle creek), this was a very important ranking video.
Is there a cereal museum there
Grocery store cookies would be fun; chips ahoy, Oreos, Pepperidge farm, etc.
Milano! 😋
Grape Nuts: for when you just have to start your day with a heaping bowl of gravel.
🤣🤣🤣 TRUTH.
MONCH
Until it gets soggy. Then it gets worse.
We used to put some brown sugar and milk on them then put them in the MICROWAVE! It was like a weird oatmeal
Stirred into plain yogurt or vanilla ice cream, though ... 😋
Love Weetabix, but Andrew's face when he opened the packet was absolutely priceless
I had to rewatch that, because I had the EXACT reaction
It's too healthy for his American taste buds.
Guys cooked 100 nice meals from the UK on his channel by now but still had to make a 'Brits live in WW2 ration' joke, American humour is pathetic.
@@GiraffeFeaturesit’s actually embarrassing how affected you are by the joke lol
@@dariusjr98 it’s actually embarrassing that you still find a joke that’s been told a million times before funny. How simple are you?
Cinnamon Life cereal is infinitely better than regular Life cereal. Cinnamon sugar just makes everything better.
My go-to cereal is cheerios multigrain: cheerios take a bit to sog, and even then retain shape and separation, and even some decent texture; ring cereals like the cheerios family don't have the sort of messy splashback as flakes when you pour milk on them; they aren't doused in high fructose corn syrup; and the variety of flavors from the multigrain cheerios makes it interesting to eat.
i used to eat them a lot as well and i agree with you but they have a weird like artificial sweetener flavor almost like splenda not bad but kinda just weird
It’s honey nut all the way. They are bangin.
Multigrain is my favorite, too. I like them the best and I feel healthier eating them for dinner some nights
That hypothetical for Cookie Crisp was exactly what happened in my childhood - “Cookies for breakfast” only leads to disappointment
Yeah, in my case I'd just eat actual cookies for breakfast 😂
I felt the same way, the commercial said cookies. What was in the box were disgusting corn puffs with brown specks.
I upgraded to freshly baked chocolate chip cookies & milk for sale for breakfast in the high school cafeteria, paired with string cheese
As a British person seeing an American reaction to Wheetabix is always so satisfying
As a British person, seeing you spell Weetabix with an 'h' made me spill my tea.
Do you guys eat it with milk or no
I crush and snort it
As kiwi im a bit annoying, he added way too much milk for the little piece than blamed the wheatbix
Aussie kids are weetbix kids
27:55 Babish throwing down some TED talk level life lessons here, I’m literally in a better state of mind for my life right now because I’m holding this advice close to my heart, thanks Babish!
Kashi: “Clearly made for adults who’s dreams have long since died”
I had to pause to laugh at that line. They should put that on the front of the box 😂
if you're wondering what the smell of Fruit Loops are, it's trying to be a Ramos Gin Fizz. So lemon, lime and orange blossom water. Which explains the insane smell of the yest of both + the orange blossom water upon opening the box.
I think it's bergamot
I don’t know how I feel about this information but I do think you’re right upon pondering it.
This is great! I think going to apples in episode 2 was a bold move
I feel he must have been inspired by your pickle video. 🥒
Is breakfast cerial an absolute nightmare?
Hey Matt. Love your content bro
idk man he thinks apple jacks actually taste like apples I think something in that episode scrambled his taste buds. 🤣
Knew UpIsNotJump watched since the pickle video… but seeing a comment is nEwE
The look on his face when he first opened the Weetabix tube... I about died laughing. Oh, and a couple years ago, they had a variant of Cinnamon Toast Crunch called Cinnamon Roll Crunch - pretty much the same, but it had a faint hint of cream cheese tang. It also was shaped like cinnamon rolls, and thus stayed crunchy longer in milk. It WAS the perfect cereal.
I love these types of videos! I think it would be cool to see boxed mac and cheese tier list, or ranking different pasta shapes!
youre not gonna believe this
@@hhhhhhhng4380 hahahaaaaa yee
It truly is amazing that a 4 out of 10 cereal becomes a 10 out of 10 treat when you throw in some marshmallow and melted butter. Looking @ you Rice Krispies Treats...
Me, starting the video as someone who loves Corn Flakes: 🙂
Me, listening to Andrew mock Corn Flakes for the rest of the video: 🙃
Same I love them, we have it at home all the time. Slightly sweet and the texture is amazing
You mean the 130 year old cereal that still sells well today?
@@JCH2768Not knocking Corn Flakes, but part of the reason it sells well is that it was, until recently when cereals had their prices jacked up across the board, cheaper than anything else you could eat that wasn't basically plain rice.
Many a month as a university student were spent eating Corn Flakes because it was all the budget could afford.
Hey, he gave one of my favourite cereals a 4 so 🤷
Don't let any silly video on the internet stop you from liking what you like.
Same but I mix mine with frosted flakes, cinnamon toast or fruit loops at times with warm milk best thing ever
A man of exquisite taste.
My top 3:
1. Cinnamon Toast Crunch
2. Honey Bunches of Oats
3. Cocoa Pebbles
There is just something so comedic about babish getting angry about kendall thinking he didnt have tricks as a kid
I keep a box of grape nuts in my pantry to put on my yogurt. Grape nuts are yogurt croutons to me
Grape Nuts still need time to soak, unless you have teeth that can handle gravel!
Yogurt croutons. 😂
Weetbix was a winter cereal for me, you warmed it in hot milk and sprinkled some brown sugar on it, it becomes more like an oatmeal kind of cereal then.
Yeah I can't imagine it with cold milk!
@@lets.get.intoit. Here in south africa we soften the Weetbix with boiling water first and then add cold milk usually in the summer time.
@@jadonhartman1605 oh okay, interesting. I'm South African, only way I've ever had it is with piping hot milk. Never eaten it in summer!
@@lets.get.intoit. I remember sleeping over with a friend when I was a kid and he made it the same way you do and I found it odd. Hopefully I'm not the weird one here lol
@@jadonhartman1605 Hahaha! All my family eat it hot too, I genuinely thought it was an old timey winter porridge like oats
Nothing beats Frosted Flakes. Hands down. End of discussion. All others are wrong. Then Cocoa Pebbles, same assurances. Thennnn probably Crispix, maybe Rice Chex. Golden Grahams gets a strong nod for third too. Third has some contenders.
Cap'n Crunch absolutely eviscerated here. A 10/10 cereal for me growing up but I have to respect it.
How's the roof of your mouth doing?
They taste great, but the greasy milk is a huge negative. Same with Fruity Pebbles. Generic versions of both are way better because they don't ruin the milk.
I must say that I really love that you don’t waist any food. I see so many channels doing these ”taste test” videos, serving themselves a huge portion and only taking a few bites. Really iks me out. Thanks for not waisting!
Raisin Bran Crunch was my go to cereal throughout all of high school. It solves the main problem of Raisin Bran by sugar coating the flakes to give them a much better flavor and durability in the milk, not to mention it also has crunchy granola clusters. It's the perfect balance of sweet but filling for those late night cravings. My nightly ritual was having a bowl while watching the Daily Show and Colbert Report before bed.
I get teased often about my daily bowl of Raisin Bran crunch! It’s so nice to hear from someone who understands
I eat this about 3x a week. My favorite cereal.
Yup, RBC is a 10, perhaps the only 10 cereal.
raisin bran crunch is a glorious cereal.
He cheated, he would've given it at LEAST an 8! It's a 10 in my eyes.
Life is a 10, Cinnabon cereal is a 10, wafflecrisp is a 10.
Cinnamon life*
@@1990matt For sure. Original life is fine, but it’s not great. But Cinnamon life is perfect.
100% Life is a 10. I'd like cinnamon life too if I liked cinnamon, but there ya go.
Let's not forget that Chex is Purina people chow. It's literally the human equivalent of dry dog/cat food. It also once came packed with a cd-rom containing a family friendly reskin of DOOM.
No, it's Lucky Charms. Everything that isn't a freeze-dried marshmallow used to be made with the same mold shapes as their cheap cat food. Literally.
For those who are curious, that game was called Chex Quest and it had a couple of sequels - the first was an official sequel but the second wasn't actually authorized by General Mills. More recently, the original game has been updated (with GM's permission) and re-released on Steam and Switch; I believe it is free on both platforms.
People Chow! 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah that's not true at all, what do you mean "equivalent" of pet food? It's literally a corn or rice cereal like any other.
@@victreebel170 Both originated with Ralston Purina and both are dried food intended to insure basic nutritional needs are met. The name and shape of Chex are a reference to Purina's checkerboard logo.
could've ranked just the 20+ varieties of Cheerios alone themselves
Game Grumps did this on the 10 minute power hour last year, it's chaotic
The Apple cinnamon Cheerios are great!
What this video truly communicates is how powerful the corn lobby in the U.S. is. Wowzers.
What NGO are you working for? 😁
Corn was immense even before they started making auto fuel from it as well.
Thank you for validating my love of Honey Bunches of Oats. My wife's family tradition growing up (and remains to this day) is getting to choose a "birthday cereal" - a special cereal that you really really love but might not always just have lying around the house. I'm not a huge cereal eater, but man when my birthday rolls around, I'm asking for Honey Bunches of Oats!
Weetabix is a staple British breakfast - officially our best selling cereal. It's normal to add fruit, sugar, honey etc to enhance the flavour. And there's a lot of talk about 'soggy Weetabix'.
(I am not Not British) but yeah it’s so much better adding fruits and natural sugars to it, to be fair it’s basically instant porridge with texture
Watching him eat it was like watching American's and other countries eat marmite, a real feel of "You're doing it wrong!"
When other countries have it on toast they REALLY lather it on, when in reality you don't need that much, so they of course get the wrong impression of it.
Same with Wheetabix, there is simply a correct way of eating them and a wrong way, which is why it's not popular in the US because you actually have to do more than pour in milk'n eat.
@@emerald7537 The same with something like Surströmming. Only a handful of people i know like it here (not me), but everytime i see a american try to eat it, they try to eat it by itself, which is not the way its supposed to be eaten.
@@lavity7157Weetabix is absolutely a UK brand. What are you on about? 😂
why not sell it in a format where it can be eaten out of the box? the texture is horrific also
You clearly just didn’t understand weetabix. The beauty of weetabix is that you can for a brief moment feel what it was like to be an old world peasant in the modern era by eating gruel whenever you want. It is beautiful and there is no substitute.
Sounds trash, why would I willingly subject myself to that kind of experience?
@@ashleypezzuto792 Of course noble lady, please do not mind the musings of but one serf. You are of course of a more refined palate and I am unworthy to share my meager opinion.
This made me lol.
Hey, look! Quick! Off in the distance. You see that? Yeah. That was the point.
The outrage I’m containing over the lack of peanut butter captain crunch cannot be quantified. I’ll save you the trouble: 10/10
That's what I was thinking when he said he liked reese's puffs - just go for peanut butter capn crunch. It's way better
Agreed dude. Those hold a very special place in my heart along w/ Frosted Flakes. It's what my grandparents always had because it's all my mentally disabled Uncle liked. Shit...I just got a little emotional. Why did you do that to me Brad? I don't appreciate it.
I prefer Reese’s Puffs 🙊
Gotta take a point off for the cuts on the roof of your mouth
Crunch berries too
One of the aspects of Cap'n Crunch that wasn't explored in this video was their resistance to sogginess. Each piece is coated in something like a sugar-based shellac. The 'Soggies' were even the cartoon antagonists in the commercials I watched growing up. (Sadly I was born too late to see the Jay Ward animated commercials.)
One iconic experience missed with Cap'n Crunch is shoveling them into your mouth so fast and so much that you cut the roof of your mouth on them. Down to the last spoonful too, because unless you eat slow or had a giant bowl they were still almost as sharp and crunchy as if they hadn't touched milk.
Now, as a diabetic with a restricted diet, I don't think I could ever eat cereal again. Which also means I don't tend to have milk around either for the occasional use in cooking. Oh well, I have all the salad I can eat, and that's not bad!
All I know is that General Mills spies used to follow me around in the grocery store and when I found a cereal I liked, they'd stop making it. I'll never buy any General Mills cereal again :-). Actually I don't eat cereal at all any longer, unless oatmeal counts as cereal adjacent.
honey bunches of oats is amazing. perfect ratio of hard crunchy bits and thin crispy flakes
Cinnamon life is at least a 7. Also missed out on Quaker Oat Squares,which for me are an 8.
those are awesome
By far the most accurate cereal ranking (according to my taste) I’ve seen on TH-cam.
I’d say honey bunches of oats is also a 9 with Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
One other factor to consider if you eat a whole bowl. Capt Crunch drops one or two spots because of the damage it does to the roof of your mouth. Other cereals do that too, but capt crunch is bad and with crunchberries is even more painful.
Seeing my second favorite cereal Reeses Puffs hold such a high number made the child in me very happy. Need a sequel episode with some of the alternate versions and the holiday cereals featuring my favorite Count Chocula.
I wish cereal were not absolute poison for us or id eat it!! its very addicting just like they designed it to be.
Seeing Babish eat a dry Wheatbix sends shivers down my spine. In New Zealand it’s always made a challenge at every primary school to eat a whole wheatbix dry because it soaks up all the liquid in your stomach
Eating one dry, then choking and drinking water is probably top 10 worst experiences. Imagine having a near death experience AND THEN tasting watered down wheat cement on top of that.
I distinctly remember Kix and Grape nuts, since my mom never ever let super sugary stuff in the house (and I am grateful). I actually like how it is just a touch of sweetness, and how little cereal you need with the grape nuts :)
As a kid, we had sugary cereals, but I would 100% take Kix over Corn Pops (unless there was a Pete and Pete cassette involved, but that was a special circumstance). Grape Nuts was what my great grandpa ate, and with skim milk to boot ☹️
I like putting grape nuts on top of yogurt
The smile in Andrews eyes when he takes that first but of Cinnamon Toast Crunch warmed my soul 🥹
When you were baffled by the Weetabix, I was reminded of Ted Lasso also being baffled by Weetabix
Of all the cereals you tested;
Krave was the newest, it is a product that was introduced in the 2000s.
Honey Bunches of Oats has had the fewest changes to their recipe in their history.
Yeah, also Krave was weirdly the one of the first products promoted by multiple og TH-camrs (danisnotonfire comes to mind)
understandable since honey bunches is a perfect cereal
Watching this descent into madness as you delve deeper into the cerealrealms is perfect midnight viewing. My congratulations.
Grape Nuts have to be soaked in milk to actually be chewable. My dad used to do that and then be able to eat them, since it was really hard to chew right out of the box. And a lot of people don't really have the patience or time to soak their cereal anymore and monitor it enough to make sure it's not too soggy or crunchy.
There's two kinds of people. Those who like soggy cereal and those who don't.
Nah. There's a third. The madman. Wants to release an all-green version of fruity pebbles, and call it Baby Ghost Poops.
The slimy sogginess is a feature, not a bug. Thats yummy ectoplasm.
Convert some of the non-soggers through memery.
My preference is eating cereal dry out of the box like some sort of hamster
I love rice krispies with warm milk.
true by definition
Cap'n Crunch has a 3rd state of texture that is somewhere in between but also some of both plus something all its own.
The brown sugar, butter, vanilla, & carmel flavor tastes real too. Which all makes it 9-tier +.
(Babish whole 7-tier is grossly artificial tasting)
Cinnamon Toast Crunch IS a nine. Cinnamon Toast Crunch from the 90's, however, is a TEN. And yes kids, it's different.
They came out with a version of Cinnamon Toast Crunch but Churro version. The thicker tube like form of the churro prevents it from getting soggy as fast as the original, so I think that version is even better!
The churro variety is the superior CTC for sure.
The CHOCOLATE churro flavor ... amazing!
The French Toast Crunch version is the absolute best one. Comes in a little bread shape. Hands down my favorite cereal!!
I love Weetabix, it had this crunchy texture that no other cereal even comes close to especially immediately after milk has been added
SAME!!!! I scarf it down so it doesn’t get soggy.
Hitting that golden point where the outside is soft but the inside still has crunch is kinda magical. Definitely a cereal for people who prefer their breakfasts without excess sugar though.
I remember having the same reaction to cookie crisp, my mom wouldn't buy it for the longest time, and when she did I was so excited, just for that excitement to instantly vanish within the first bite and it tasted like betrayal
Maybe I’m crazy, I’m 25 and I love cookie crisp
@@comeatmebro8120no his taste buds are out of wack so no you’re not crazy.
In all fairness the last serving of cookie crisp is far better than the rest, since all th chocolate bits stay all the way into the bottom of the box.
I hope cracklin oat bran gets the recognition it deserves one day
Ooh, I remember liking that as a kid! But then my mom decided it was too "fattening" and my parents stopped buying it. 🙄 Sad day.
the most underrated cereal ever
Essentially Grape Nuts v2.0, imo. Significantly better tasting (added some sugar), but still quite healthful. Babish *needs* to try them...
I'm a Cracklin' Oat Bran stan. Delicious, stands up to milk to deliver crunch for like 20 minutes, has a buttload of fiber. Great cereal.
One missed that I like: cracklin' oat bran. It looks like dog/cat food. It's one of my favorite cereals.
I was looking for that one, too! I loved it.
Nicely edited and great sound effects! Regards from Baltimore.
Golden grams is a top 5 cereal, and nothing will change my mind
Yo chill out
Yeah it’s my absolute favorite
They tasted weird in the new box I grabbed. Like they needed more sugar. Also tasted slightly burnt. Thought I was bonkers until I had others try it!
Get the off brand ones in the bag. Better than the name brand ones
"these all just seem to be covered in sugar"
Gets to weetbix "ew get this away from me"
Probably bc as soon as he put milk in the bowl it became oatmeal instead of cereal💀
he literally said ew to all the non-sugar cereals
@@keeferChiefer oatmeal is cereal
@@anotherfreakingaccounthe’s not rating oatmeal though is he
Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds - the blue box Andrew! The blue box!!
They are a 10. Truly perfection in cereal form.
My top 3
1. Fruity pebbles/oops all berries
2. Cinnamon toast crunch
3. Reeses puffs
Fruit Loops are one of my top cereals for me due to very specific nostalgia. Growing up my family would go on summer road trips down to florida, and every time we stopped at a hotel I would get fruit loops from the breakfast area. So now whenever I even smell that cereal I remember those vacations.
Kendall gasp over the verdict of the fruitloops was my same reaction
Bruh the reviews on better help are awful, how are you still accepting a sponsorship from them
Not just reviews.. Their ethics are none-existent.. Selling client personal data to Meta and others
I've seen comments on other channels postulate that they may be contracted for a period of time so would be legally obligated to do sponsorships until the contract is over :/
@@Squabbit they didn't really do anything out of the ordinary. There was an accusation that they were selling market profiles based on privileged medical data, but they weren't. It was basic marketing demographics.
There is this wrong perception by the general public that your raw personal information (name, addrsss, etc) is what is being sold - it is not.
Your personal data is used to build a profile, your profile is one among many, and the ability to put ads in front of you and people that have similar flags on your profiles is what is being sold. Those ads come in the form of banner ads, popups, emails, etc.
He most likely signed a contract which makes him legally bound to keep doing sponsorships with them until the contract is expired.
Pretty much every TH-cam sponsorship is unethical or just a scam. I don't know whose money they're using to pay creators but it ain't mine.
Cinnagraham Toast Crunch (as the name implies, it's a Cinnamon Toast Crunch - Golden Grahams crossover) is really the best of both worlds. You get the crunch and sturdiness of the Graham base cereal, but with the cinnamon sugar of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. It could be a 10.
There are snacking cereals and then there are breakfast cereals.
Golden Grahams are AMAZING and are always a 10 in my heart.
20:58 Something about him gulping that thing down like a snake swallowing it's prey just made me laugh so hard.
"what is this a world war two ration?" Like most british delicacies, yes.
27:49 if you can find it they have a French toast crisp variant. To which I like it better then the standard cinnamon toast. It still has a little bít of cinnamon flavor but it has like an eggy toast piece to it that has a pleasing texture to it.