![]() It’s a good thing, though, as the rich peanut butter flavor is both lightly oiled, salted, and buttery, while the subtler notes of smoked, slightly candied milky chocolate match the real, nut-heavy peanut-butter-to-chocolate ratio of a Reese’s Cup better than the 50:50 split of Reese’s Puffs. With toasted oats and roasted nut butter working in tandem, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios end up tasting way more PB-y than chocolatey. ![]() ![]() My mouth doesn’t mind, but my black jeans, who only recently recovered from the Great Powdered Doughnut Incident of 2016, are feeling preemptively traumatized. Sure, the intensely earthy flavor sometimes overpowers the sweeter tastes, but it also goes a long way to emphasizing the peanut butter’s roasted legume flavor.Īnd speaking of nuts, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios tragically aren’t glazed with flavor, like a certain nutty fan-favorite Cheerio, but is instead dusted with thick flavor powder, like Reese’s Puffs or a number of recent General Mills confections. Meanwhile, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios’ toasted oat base feels like a more apt analogue for the chocolate and peanut butter. Every bite of Reese’s Puffs is haunted by an out-of-place corniness, which really ruins the Reese’s candy immersion at times-though it reminds me of a certain childhood trick-or-treating disaster involving a king-sized Reese’s, a popcorn ball, and the congealing warmth of a car’s heated seat. Those Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios are holed-out Reese's Puffs, so the holes can be used for a Reese's Pieces Cereal.īut allow me to trade in my tinfoil hat for an equally shiny spoonand dig in-if I’m gonna be a nutcase, I’d rather be a peanutcase.įor those (myself included) who thought Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios would taste exactly like Reese’s Puffs in a torus shape, I’m pleasantly surprised to announce that these crunchy mahogany and clay-colored doughnuts have unique taste nuances all their own. Unless, of course, my deeper conspiracy is true, in which case the prophecy of threes has yet to be fulfilled: That’s because, as a key bastion of my Cerealluminati Pyramid, the mouth-watering power of chocolate and peanut butter together really is that persuasively strong. See, even though General Mills has a near-monopoly on chocolate peanut butter breakfast cereals with Reese’s Puffs, they still decided to release another cocoa-nutty product. New Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios are proof that my philosophy of breakfast geometry isn’t so obtuse after all-in fact, it’s pretty acute. Think about it, sheeple people: while those three flavors are near-universally delightful by themselves, by pairing them you can make a choco-pb cereal, a PB&J cereal, or a chocolate fondued strawberry cereal.Īnd if you happen to find some hipster niche of cereal lovers that isn’t pleased by any of those, you can just combine all three and tear a rift in space-time through sheer flavor alchemy. I’ve long had a theory that every cereal a person could ever need can be formed through a triangulation of three “primary flavors.” The three corners of this Cerealluminati Pyramid (working title) are formed by chocolate, peanut butter, and strawberry.
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