Lucky Charms St. Paddy’s Day Edition (Cereal)

CEREAL1Holiday themed cereals are nothing new.  I think it all started with Cap’n Crunch’s Christmas Crunch.  I remember that as a kid.  It was just Crunch Berries with red and green pieces.  Later on, other cereals followed suit with Christmas and Halloween editions of cereals like Rice Krispies and, well, I know there are others, I just can’t think of them.  Well the next holiday has gotten the cereal treatment and it’s St. Patrick’s Day.  And naturally, the cereal that goes along with it is Lucky Charms!  So here’s a look at the Lucky Charms St. Paddy’s Day Edition box! (shouldn’t it be St. Patty’s Day?)

Anyway, according to the front of the box, it’s just Lucky Charms with most of the marshmallows taken out.  Now it’s just green clovers and pots of gold.  Although the pots of gold look more like rotting teeth, which is what you’ll get after eating this cereal.  I don’t know why they didn’t put the rainbow marshmallows in it, too, as they go along with pots of gold as well.  But hey, what do I know?  Anyway, here is a bigger shot of the front of the box.

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The back of the box has ideas of what kids can do on St. Patrick’s Day.  Most are pretty stupid.  My favorites include “Cut out Lucky from the front of the box and take a selfie with him,” “Make a marshmallow charm bracelet,” (gross) or “Add a drop of green food coloring to the milk in your cereal” (also gross).  I’m surprised they didn’t put food coloring in the oat bits to make your milk automatically turn green, as other cereals have done that in the past.  Here’s a shot of the back of the box:

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On the side of the box, not the nutrition facts (or lack thereof) side, they have some facts on four leaf clovers and gold.  And that’s all there is to this cereal.  Here’s the side of the box.  Half the fun of eating cereal is reading the box.

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So how does the cereal taste?  Well I wouldn’t know.  I don’t like Lucky Charms.  Or any cereal with marshmallows for that matter.  I gave the box of the cereal to a co-worker.  I’ve never liked marshmallows.  When I was a kid, they made a Pac-Man cereal and it killed me because it had marshmallows in it (Pac-Man and the four ghosts).  I wanted to eat it so bad because I like Pac-Man, but I knew I wouldn’t like the cereal because of the marshmallows.  When I was a kid, my mom would watch a lot of the neighborhood kids during the day while their parents worked (so even though I was an only child, it didn’t feel that way a lot of times).  Anyway, if she ever bought a marshmallow cereal for us to eat for breakfast, I’d just take out all the marshmallows from my bowl and put them in my friend’s bowl.  I’m sure my mom appreciated that.

A long time ago I took one of those internet quizzes that would tell you what your personality is by what kind of Lucky Charms marshmallow was your favorite.  I won’t tell you what KIND of personality test it was, since this is a family friendly site, but one of the choices was the oat bits so I picked that since I don’t like any of the marshmallows.  Well, the results said that I was the most boring type of person on the planet and that I would die alone as a stuffy librarian or something.  YEAH THANKS INTERNET.  Oh well, at least it was just a dumb quiz.  Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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