Dipity
Launched in 1989, making it very young as top-selling cereals go. I love Honey Bunches (the original, not the almond-y or fake strawberry-y version), but it's better to eat two small bowls than to ...
Based on shaky data, I'll estimate the introduction of Honey Graham Oh's at 1987. Oh's are delicious, so why are they so hard to find? Quaker Oats, also the makers of Quisp, has a penchant for deve...
Perhaps my favorite cereal, but caution, use sparingly. It's best we don't speak of the French Toast Crunch experiment.
I've never had it, but the old box art sure was creepy.
This venerable brand has seen an untold number of bastardizations. It seems every time I go to D'Agostino I see that Kellogg's is spraying a new gross frosting on those poor innocent mini-wheats. ...
I don't consider Fruity Pebbles to be in the same category as Trix or Froot Loops, as Fruity Pebbles is fruity in name only. It has a great texture, though, and I love the way when you pick up a sp...
More than just Fruity Pebbles' oft-forgotten sibling, Cocoa Pebbles are the superior, more cocoa-riffic alternative to Cocoa Krispies. Krispies start losing their cocoa the moment the milk hits the...
They have changed the taste of this cereal a couple times in recent years. Sure, it wasn't a top-tier brand to begin with, but I will never understand why companies muck around with a formula that ...
As you can see on the timeline, 1963 was a boom year for sugar cereals, and Cap'n Crunch wasn't going to miss out on the party. It launched that year and became the only breakfast cereal that liter...
Froot Loops are fine, but to my palate they get old fast. You're either a Froot Loops person or a Trix person. I'm the latter, although I absolutely hated those Trix commercials where they deprived...
According to Wikipedia, Lucky Charms was created when someone at General Mills tried mixing Cheerios with bits of circus peanuts. That is one twisted mind. But hey, thank God for it. The longstandi...
My mom refused to buy us Life until late in childhood, for no apparent reason. Once I finally did taste it, I mourned the years we had lost. Its flat shape makes it denser than your average cereal,...
Cocoa Puffs have the most artificial-tasting chocolate in all of cerealdom, which is saying something. For cereal that turns milk a disquieting shade of brown, I go with Cocoa Pebbles. In 1962, wh...
This is the second-best selling cereal in the present-day United States. That surprises me. I always thought it tasted pretty good for a supposed weight-loss option, but still, #2. Wow.
Frosted Flakes are the only American cereal (often the only breakfast cereal, period) that you can reliably get in Japanese food markets, so they accounted for 90% of my breakfasts when I was livin...
Don't worry, the raisins in Kellogg's Raisin Bran are safely ensconced in a layer of tooth-rotting white sugar, so this cereal is safe to eat.
I knew that I was getting old when I started enjoying Cheerios without any sugar. When I was a kid, it took me half a bowl of sugar to make it through one bowl of Cheerios. I have no issue with pu...
The first breakfast cereal that tasted good, Kix later formed the foundation of Trix (Kix + fruit flavoring) and Cocoa Puffs (Kix + cocoa). I'm surprised that the 1992 spinoff Berry Berry Kix has ...
When the biggest thing your cereal has going for it is the funny noise it makes, you have a poor product. No surprise, then, that Rice Krispies suck. That snap-crackle-pop is the sound of your brea...
What does a cereal invented more than 100 years ago taste like? This.
I couldn't find the date when Grape-Nuts first went on sale, so the 1897 date is a best guess—that's supposedly when C. W. Post invented them. For obvious reasons, Grape-Nuts always remind me of 2...
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