GMMore 2189: Cereal Bar Taste Test

Welcome to Good Mythical More. Is there a cereal bar that in its convenience is just as good, if not better than the actual cereal that is un-barred. Well, we’ll find out, but first let’s tell a 10 word story. All right. Deer. And as the animal. Yeah, I got you. Fix. Trinkets. Because. Deer. Understand. Deep. Oceans. Of That’s it. Deer what? Deer fixed trinkets because deer understand deep oceans of. Jewelry. Jewelry. Right? All right come on in guys. Help us out. I mean, if we’ve ever needed tasting help, it is today y’all. Let’s see how they’re holding up. Gwynedd and Palumbo in the house. Hi. Bring it all the way up. All the way in? Move over. Give ’em a little room. It’s still crunchy. Move your thigh. Hi guys. We got some Cracklin’ Oat Bran that’s marinating. I see that. All right. Oh, here we go. Yay! I don’t look small this time. We’re now 22 minutes in. You can raise it up. 22 minutes in, I just tasted the Cracklin’ Oat Bran still crunchy. Oh yeah. It looks solid. Did that, did it raise up? No offense, stand up again. I think just a little bit, but. No offense. Yeah, that’s it. Okay. No, it’s good. Did y’all coordinate your, your, your patterns? Oh my God. No. I love that though. Look at y’all checking it up. I love it. Oh gosh. 22 minutes. 25 seconds. Still, still crunchy. You still cut it with a knife. It looks like. I haven’t had Cracklin’ Oat Bran in a really long time, but I remember actually liking it as a child- Me too. which probably made me like a weird kid. No, I loved it as a child. Yeah. It’s starting to feel like I’m eating dog food at this point. And you like that? Not at this point, but yeah, I’m known for it. Okay. We’ll come back to that in a second. I think it’s getting close though. So stay on call. Any of these cereals that you’re, that you’re a fan of and you know, okay. So you really like Froot Loops. I love them all. These are all pretty good cereals. They’re all good cereals. Yeah. These are all solid. Here is our, our runner up in the, in tactose and the lactose, right here. This seems like it would be pretty good. We’ve had the Cinnamon Toast Crunch. We’ve ranked that. What else? We have- We, we got Golden Grahams which you’ve been sleeping on. These are great cereal. And they have, they come with, these are Golden Grahams S’mores. Ooh. I know. I think it’s interesting that they have the dehydrated marshmallows in them because are dehydrated marshmallows good dry or are they good wet? Let’s start there. Open that up. Right? You gotta wet it with your mouth. So we have them in the Lucky Charms too. Still crunchy. Open it up. Let’s start here. Okay. Yeah, I can do this one. Are we doing two at a time here? Oh my gosh. Yeah, we might as well. Ooh they’re light. Light and airy I’m gonna, I, I think I’m gonna have to really lean on you guys for this. Are you sick of cereal? I never, you’ve ruined cereal for me. Oh no. I just don’t. I just don’t feel like. I still got some room. I’m so cerealed out. I’m not getting much S’mores outta that one. Oh my God. This is so good. It’s mostly marshmallow. I really think you should try it. That’s pretty dang good though. You think so? I don’t like marshmallows. I like Golden Grahams. Mm. Oh wow. That’s like a, it’s like a Rice Krispie treat. Yes. But you know what? Are they all like that? The aftertaste is not too great. No. The initial taste was pretty good. I feel like I need to wash it down with some cereal now. But the, the aftertaste, you want some 25 minute old- Milkman. I’m going to be so thirsty. No, that was a joke. I don’t want any cereal milk. I actually think I do want something beveragey. No, no. Does it beat? Can I drink from the jug? Sure. All right. Yes. Well Lucky Charms is nice. It’s good. It really works Is there a little bit? Yeah. It’s like a Rice Krispie treat, with Lucky Charms, which. That’s good. That’s what I’m wondering about, are these all like- [Stevie] Does it have the like fake milk component to it? Yes. On the bottom. On the bottom. Okay, talk about that. Cause I remember years ago when they first came out with like Fake milk. You know, the very first cereal bar, the, the fake milk part wasn’t great. Have they improved upon that? I think it’s just. I think it’s pretty good. It doesn’t taste like milk if that’s the question. Yeah. It’s really sweet. It kind of feels like white chocolate, in a way, which I, I enjoy. So I appreciate, I appreciate the ones that have like that sort of fake milk layer. Is that the only one that has it? And this whole, like, I think you guys were eating multiple at the same time, but I just couldn’t tell which ones you were eating, so. Oh. Let’s go with Froot Loops next. Okay. I’m I’m checking in on Oat Bran. You want some milk? Yes, please. First of all, let just say right now, none of them have fallen apart. It’s still all completely intact structurally. But I think they’re at a point. See this one’s got the milk bottom and it’s got the Froot Loop top. Yeah. Still crunchy. Do you guys, did you already talk about the fact that Clark Griswold, Clark Griswold created a non-nutritive cereal varnish in Christmas Vacation? And that’s what this reminds me of. A cereal varnish to keep- Yes. I don’t remember that scene. How do I- So it doesn’t get soggy? This is good. Froot Loops? That was my pick from just- I can’t answer that. Is there something else I could help with? Your phone’s talking to you. Apparently. I’m talking to it. I mean, these are smaller. I don’t know what you mean by, “okay, I’ll talk.” Actually, don’t talk. Okay. Search the web for, okay, I’ll talk. He’s got smaller Froot Loops, Which I like. and they’re tasty. I mean they’re, they’re, they’re absolutely just Froot Loops. I feel like this is true to the cereal. You know what I mean? Like the spirit of like Froot Loops more than the other two. It’s totally true to it. Right? More than the, more than the Lucky Charms, which is more Rice Krispie treat-ish. That is really good. It’s really, really sweet. Cause I mean, Froot Loops are like sweet on their own and then this is like sugar all around. But I think Froot Loops may have just moved into number one so far. Let’s try the Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Which I’ll give you a look at this. That’s the bottom of that, but if you look at the top of this, there’s, it’s, it’s ground up. It looks more like a granola bar. Yeah. It’s chewy like a granola bar. You can tell already. I think, I think you have to do the fake milk component, Stevie. Well, that’s the confusing part of cereal bars, right? Is, is the whole granola bar comparison. Cause like, if you think about a granola bar or even like a protein bar, you’re getting some kind of like nutritional value. This is just, this is just cereal. This is not doing it guys. Yeah this is like cereal with like- I like the texture. but sugar frosting. The thing is Cinnamon Toast Crunch is such a good cereal and I do not feel like they have captured it in this bar. This is, it’s, it’s demonstrably bad. Yeah. They ruined it. It’s like they swept up the crumbs on the factory floor. Yeah. It’s real bad. And there’s like a peanut or some sort of nut in it. And are these all General Mills or is there a different uh cereal? You know us, we only deal in General Mills. Except, we except Kellogg’s. Let’s go with Kellogg’s now. Frosted Flakes. I cannot, cannot- I guess I’m gonna be the guy that keeps tasting Cracklin’ Oat Brand. I can’t. Yeah, I can’t do it. I, I, I think it’s out. You wanted to be. Listen. I’m sorry. You want me to get in there? This is a scientific thing. How long has it been there? Okay. It looks like 28 minutes. All right. The milk’s warm now, right? It’s definitely room temp. That was the first time that there was just a little sliver of crunchiness that is remaining in the middle. Yeah. It is crunchy in the middle. I, but, But it’s getting gross. I think I’m ready to call it because this is the first time that I’ve tasted more sog than crunch in a bite. I think we passed the threshold. Let’s call it at 28 minutes and 50 seconds. I agree. Wow. Just get rid of it. Whatever it takes. Cracklin’ Oat Brand. Happy to be here for it. Best of the best. It gets the spoils. Cream of the crop. Time to take it out to pasture. Yeah. Now I’ll tell you, I mean it bested Reese’s Puffs which was at 11 minutes. What’d I say 28:50? Big discrepancy. I tried Frosted Flakes and I don’t like it. I don’t like it either. Because they’re ground up. It’s giving me the same vibes as the Cinnamon Toast Crunch too. A little too chewy, a little grainy or something. Frosted Flakes taste like corn. They’re corn flakes that are frosted. And this doesn’t taste like corn flakes to me. This feels like a really fun dessert someone made. Yeah. You know what I’m saying? It’s got like really, you know. I mean, is this a different, no see Kellogg’s made both of them. Yeah. But they failed on one. Let’s try Cheerios. Pass a couple those. Okay yeah. Now I’m hoping that this one is not, it doesn’t push too hard. Look at that. It has no more of the Cheerios. Like the way Froot Loops was whole Froot Loops. Yeah. You’re not getting that with Cheerios. Not at all But they could have. Well they’re in there, right? No, this was a conscious decision not to. There is some in there. There’s a little guy. There’s other stuff. It’s not just, I mean the Froot Loops is nothing but loops. This your hard pressed to find a Cheerio loop. It also looks like it has some kind of like peanut or something in there, right? Yeah. It’s not that it’s not tasty. It’s just that it’s not Cheerios. I love Cheerios too. You know? It’s just Froot Loops, they just nailed the flavor profile. If this was something else entirely, I think it would be really good. But since it says it’s Honey Nut Cheerios, it’s like- They set some expectations for us. Yeah. Yeah. That’s not. That’s. No, a little underwhelming, okay. And does that leave us with Reese’s Puffs? Did we hit the graham cracker, Golden Grahams already? I don’t. I didn’t try Golden Graham. Oh, you didn’t try that one? We did I’ll go back in there though. You guys were going, it was pure chaos at the start. We didn’t have a plan. We had some conclusions about that one. Oh crap. Did you guys say that the bottom was chocolate? The bottom of this was, yeah cause it’s s’mores. That’s great. Uh well taste it and see what you think because- Are these supposed to be breakfast though? They’re aggressive breakfast. You can make breakfast outta anything. Yeah. Does it say s’more on it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Golden Graham’s s’mores treats. A little treat. That tastes good. I really like the taste. See, I think there’s a difference between a, a treat and a cereal bar. Mm. Mhm. See, this is a treat and a cereal bar, but it’s actually cereal. Everyone liked this I know. I actually really like the taste of the s’moreified Golden Graham. I don’t like the aftertaste of it. I don’t either. That’s what I was just think, I was like, ooh. It’s like bitter. It started good. It started good. Well, then we’re down to Reese’s Puffs, trying to dethrone Froot Loops bar. Before we get there- I have high hopes for this one. I kinda wanna remind you guys that we have a Mythical grooming bag and you can put all the Mythical grooming products in it. We’re super proud of the, um the pomades we developed. The um, the peanut butter peppermint lip balm and the candy milk lip balm. The beard balm. I really like our, our hand lotion. You know, it’s not, I don’t like selling stuff, but I like the stuff that we’re selling. And so then I just feel like I gotta sell it. So bear with us. 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I, I, I like it. This is fantastic. I do have a proclivity towards peanut butter. So, you know. I think we’re all peanut butter people, right? That’s that’s ranking two for me. Yeah. I mean- Are the puffs intact? Yeah, oh okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The bottom is peanut butter and then the puffs are in there. Yeah. More so than some of these crumbs. See if you look at the sides, you can tell that the puffs are kinda- There’s puffs in there. I, I don’t know what what’s cereal about it, but I don’t much care. It tastes great. It has a great like chewy texture. It’s got chocolate, it’s got peanut butter. I like this one a lot. It’s a crowd pleaser, but if you wanna really wow your guests at your fancy party, bring out some of these. Froot Loops cereal bars. And they’ll be like, “oh really? That’s the thing. Wow, those are so good. Look, it’s just like the cereal’s right there in a bar.” That’s the kind of stuff that they’ll be saying. Bold Froot Loops flavor. I would like to do a cereal bar survey of, of the customers of cereal bars to know the use case of cereal bars and also the age demo. of cereal bars. I think we’re talking six, six to twelve, is the age demo. Yeah. And that would be, you know, there’s people who have got whole like influencer careers just talking to children. They can have that. I’ve got kids at my house. I, I don’t like other people’s kids. What? We’ve taken a turn. I was just wondering when people eat these things, not if you don’t like your children. Children, I’m saying children are the ones. And you said you wanted to do a survey. I’m saying I don’t wanna talk to kids. Yeah. Oh, oh, oh. In your mind, the survey was you physically like a, a physical, like knock at the door survey situation. Yeah. It’s going up to people’s house and saying, “do you have any children here? Can I talk to them?” Got it. You thought you’d go out with the clipboard on that one. Yeah. And I’m not You, you can. Okay. No, no, I’m good. I’m good. Wait. And it’s just to find out if they have cereal bars in the house. Yeah and which ones they like. Okay. I mean, I know Stevie’s the one writing the survey. Guys, you can use satellites to do that. Okay. Unleash your legendary style with our line of Mythical grooming and personal care products available at mythical.com.

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