I'm old enough to have stopped basing my choice of cereal on what prize is included in the box.
You have to send away for the good ones, anyway.
A dairy tragedy recently befell our household; we ran out of milk. So when I went to the store to get some more, I made my way to the dairy section by way of the cereal aisle. It really doesn't matter what I'm getting -- milk, bread, a Toyota -- I'll always try to hit the cereal aisle to see if there's anything new.
Much to my surprise, I saw Peanut Butter Cookie Crisp. Ignoring the almost $5 price (and no, I'm not going to complain about how cereal is so expensive it must contain some kind of rare earth element), I picked up a box to sample it.
It's my duty.
It's actually pretty good. It doesn't taste exactly like Cap'n Crunch's Peanut Butter Crunch. It's a little more like Reese's Puffs, but without the hint of chocolate. Perfect for snacking on while I'm at work, although you tend to accumulate peanut-buttery powder on your fingers after a dozen handfuls or so.
I like it better than regular Cookie Crisp. Unless I got a bad box or something, it tastes like they changed the flavor in it -- for the worse, alas.
But if you want to get right down to it, Cookie Crisp has been on a downward slide since they got rid of Cookie Jarvis. First they introduced the Cookie Crook, whose efforts were foiled by the cereal-shilling wizard. Then the wizard disappeared and Cookie Crook faced off against a Keystone Kops kind of police officer. A dog was added as a companion for Cookie Crook, and now, it seems, the dog is the main mascot now.
This strikes me a little funny, considering that Cookie Crisp used to be made by Ralston Purina, which was also responsible for Purina Dog Chow.
So feel free to chow down.
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