REESE'S PUFFS REESE'S PUFFS EAT EM UP EAT EM UP EAT EM UP REESE'S PUFFS REESE'S PUFFS Had fun in the Hazbin drawpile I hosted! I'm really happy with how this turned out.

Husband and I were reminded of Toriyama's passing and got sad in the cereal aisle tonight. :(

Kids! Come get your Piccolo Puffs!

It's my birthday today, and the local grocery store was thoughtful enough to stock the Dragon Ball Z Reese's Puffs, so I'm gonna try it out. Join me, won't you?

I still can't believe this is real. I mean, Reese's Puffa is kind of surreal enough as it is. It sounds like some satirical brand meant to poke fun at sugary kids' cereals. The box says "Made with REAL REESE'S Peanut Butter", the same way a fruit-flavored beverage will claim to contain genuine fruit.

The bowl on the box art is a Reese's cup, so it basically depicts candy being served in more candy. I'm old enough to remember when they would photograph cereal as "part of a complete breakfast", and there'd be grapefruits and toast and maybe a hard boiled egg. Basically they were admitting that the cereal was so unhealthy that you needed to eat three or four other breakfasts to make up for it. I just liked the photos because they were so picturesque. Ah, to have unlimited free time to prepare a leisurely 4-course breakfast while reading the paper. I just assumed everyone else was having toast with their cereal except my family, but yeah, it never really made any sense.

I haven't even gotten to Goku yet, but first I want to talk about his spoon. I don't think we see him holding a spoon very often. He's usually a chopsticks kind of guy, or he'll just use his bare hands or even dunk his head into the bowl. It kind of looks like a ladle when he holds it like that, which implies he cooked this bowl of candy soup all by himself, and he's showing it off like a proud chef. This spoon kicks ass, is what I'm trying to say.

But the real reason I bought this is because of that orange hillbilly who needs no introduction. I wasn't even looking for Reese's Puffs. It was the furthest thing from my mind. No, I was stocking up on the old-man cereal I require to survive, when I just saw him staring at me, with his friendly-yet-confident smile. Goku's not pressuring you to buy the cereal. He's sure you'll enjoy it, but it's okay if you want to take a pass. He'll just enjoy all this peanut butter chocolate goodness all by himself. Goku is truly the ideal spokesman. How can you say no to this lovable hunk?

I'm kind of out of touch when it comes to cereal marketing, but I'm pretty sure this sort of cross-promotion is a rarity. Like, they once put WWE wrestlers on Wheaties or something, but usually if the cereal companies want a cartoon on the box they'll just make their own character. Or if the cartoon people want to put their guy in the cereal aisle, they'll just commission a whole new cereal just for that brand. C-3PO had his own cereal for a while. It was pretty good!

What I'm saying is that it's kind of unusual to see a popular character like this on a cereal box. The only exception I can come up with is Fred Flintstone on Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles, but I always assumed that those were specifically "Flintstones Cereal".

Other than that, yeah, I can't think of any other examples of cartoon characters appearing on unaffiliated cereal boxes like this. Well, I drew my DBZ OC on a box of All-Bran today, but I don't think that counts.

"MY FIBER IS MAXIMUM, KAKAROT!"

I wondered what was up with the picture of Piccolo on the back of the box, and it turns out that he's one of seven different characters you can find on the back of the box. Collect them all! Aw man, that Cell one looks fucking sick! I don't know how they distributed these. Maybe they roll them out in waves and Piccolo's came first. Or maybe it's random and I might have found a Cell if I'd checked more boxes at the store. Well, Piccolo's pretty good. I guess.

All right, I just poured myself a bowl and Goku's cereal is gonna have to set course for Planet Oat. The dairy industry may not applaud my shopping choices, but I like oat milk because it doesn't spoil as quickly as cow milk, and it's got a nice oat-y flavor that compliments the cardboard taste of All-Bran.

I did not put Dawn liquid soap in my cereal. This time.

So what's the verdict here? Well, the first few bites were pretty tasty, and then I realized I was getting kind of sick of this as I made my way to the bottom of the bowl. The peanut butter flavor overwhelms everything. It has a very strong odor, so if you like Reese's peanut butter cups you can just sit this out in your room and savor the aroma. I barely registered any chocolate flavor at all. I mean, I believe they put it there, but the peanut butter is the whole story to this.

It's basically Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs from Calvin and Hobbes, only this is a special Peanut Butter variant they made. I never really appreciated the jokes about sugary cereals before. I grew up on Frosted Flakes and the like, but there were a certain class of cereals that my mom would just refuse to buy. My grandparents would have them, but I never really understood the difference between Frosted Flakes and Honey Smacks. As I got older, I ate less cereal in general, but that was mostly because I fell out of the habit of eating breakfast altogether.

But now I'm 47, and the only cereal I eat these days is bran topped with diced peaches and a couple of packets of artificial sweetener, so Reese's Puffs is way, way too sugary for my palate. It's not bad, but a little goes a long way for me.

When I was a kid, old people were always griping about all the stuff they couldn't eat anymore. I remember Isaac Asimov writing mournfully about how he couldn't have an Oreo cookie, which bummed me out because that was my favorite cookie back then, and it seemed that the fate of all humanity was to be denied the simple pleasure of enjoying them.

Now, I realize that a lot of the stuff that you liked as a kid just doesn't age up with you. Your tastes change, and you gain appreciations for new things that you wouldn't have appreciated before. That's not a bad thing. It's life. Things change, and you change along with them.

Well, you and I do, anyway. Not Goku, whose Saiyan biology keeps him looking exactly the same for sixty years so he can eat all the sweetened corn puffs he wants. But I don't envy him, is what I'm trying to say. I'm watching a wrestling show on PPV tonight, my mom took me to Cracker Barrel for lunch today, and I drew on a cereal box. I can't complain.

REESE’S PUFFS REESE’S PUFFS EAT’EM UP EAT’EM UP EAT’EM UP EAT’EM UP Featuring myself as Palamedes, @partychickencosplay as Harrow, and @valentinecos as Gideon!

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Reese's Puffs, Reese's Puffs!

Eat 'em up, eat 'em up

Eat 'em up, eat 'em up

Reese's Puffs, Reese's Puffs!

...Why.

Why is Goku in the cereal aisle? I can't even see any promotional reason, Goku is just chillin' on this box of Reese's Puffs. 👀

Why is Goku on the Reese's Puffs box?

Thing Ford Missed #59: Reese's Puffs

Today's cereal is Reese's Puffs Minis!

Initial impressions: These 'Minis' are a part of a new General Mills rework of their existing cereal franchises into tiny corn balls that bring to mind Dippin' Dots. So far they have miniaturized Trix, Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Lucky Charms as well as these Puffs. The reasoning for this 'honey I shrunk the kids'-ing of their most popular products escapes me somewhat, as the transition to corn balls alter some of these cereals for the worst. Lucky Charms especially rely heavily on their oat base as the backbone of their appeal as a cereal, what is their Minis remake bringing to the table? Needless to say, I go into this bowl as a Minis septic.

Post bowl thoughts: My first thought with this cereal is that they absolutely need to be eaten with a spoon. The tiny size means reaching into the bag with your bare hand and grabbing a fistful to munch on isn't a practical method of snacking. This isn't necessarily a bad thing though, as they really shine in milk. Despite looking like some sort of pet food pellet, the texture they bring is surprisingly pleasant. This might be one of the best ways to ingest a cereal that is just a corn ball, the off-putting aspects of that texture are too minute to be noticed here and instead what you get is a tiny ball that dissolves into nothing as you chew on it, but in a good way. The size does mean they are susceptible to getting soggy very quickly, but the weird juxtaposition between the proportions of my spoon and the cereal pieces meant that I seemed to eat the bowl extremely quickly. As with normal Reece's Puffs their overall taste is very peanut forward, however I think the Minis increased surface area means they have a more pungent taste? I'd love to hear what others think of this, as I'll admit it's been a long time since I've had a standard sized Puff. Despite my skepticism coming in, I actually really enjoyed these Minis. They are kind of pointless, but it could be argued that description is applicable to cereal as a whole. I'm glad these frivolous Minis get to exist.

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