General Mills vs. Kellogg's Battle Royale

[MJ4H]

So pick your all-star teams. Let's say your starting line-up is 3 cereals for each team and then pick the overall winner.

Here's mine I think:


vs.




General Mills wins the battle after Cinnamon Toast Crunch turns in a dominant performance. Frosted Flakes turned in a great performance in a losing effort.


Player pools:

GENERAL MILLS
Breakfast cereals include Basic 4, Boo Berry, Buc Wheats, Bunuelitos, Cheerios and its variants, Chex, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Cocoa Puffs, Cookie Crisp, Count Chocula, Crazy Cow, Fiber One, Franken Berry, French Toast Crunch, General Mills Kaboom, Gold Flakes, Golden Grahams, chocolate golden grahams, Hidden Treasures, Honey Nut Clusters, Jurassic Park Crunch, Kix, Lucky Charms, Oatmeal Crisp, Raisin Nut Bran, Reese's Puffs, Total, Trix, and Wheaties^[10]


KELLOGG'S

A list of cereal products produced by Kelloggs, with available varieties.

• All-Bran: All-Bran Original, All-Bran Bran Buds, All-Bran Bran Flakes (UK), All-Bran Extra Fiber, All-Bran Guardian (Canada)
• Apple Jacks
• Bran Buds
• Bran Flakes
• Choco Krispis (Latin America)
• Chocos (India,Europe)
• Coco Pops (Europe, Australia)
• Coco Pops Coco Rocks
• Coco Pops Mega Munchers
• Coco Pops Moons and Stars
• Cocoa Krispies
• Corn Flakes
• Complete Wheat Bran Flakes/Bran Flakes
• Corn Pops
• Country Store
• Crunch: Caramel Nut Crunch, Cran-Vanilla Crunch, Toasted Honey Crunch
• Crunchy Nut Cornflakes
• Cruncheroos (current only available through food service sales and not retail)
• Disney cereals: Disney Hunny B's Honey-Graham, Disney Mickey's Magix, Disney Mud & Bugs, Pirates of the Caribbean, Disney Princess Cereal
• Eggo
• Froot Loops: Froot Loops, Froot Loops 1/3 Less Sugar, Marshmallow Froot Loops
• Frosted Flakes (Frosties outside of the US/Canada): Kellogg's Frosted Flakes, Kellogg's Frosted Flakes 1/3 Less Sugar, Tony's Cinnamon Krunchers
• Frosted Mini-Wheats (known in the UK as Toppas until the early 1990s, when the name was changed to Frosted Wheats. The name Toppas is still applied to this product in other parts of Europe, as in Germany and Austria)
• Fruit Harvest: Fruit Harvest Apple Cinnamon, Fruit Harvest Peach Strawberry, Fruit Harvest Strawberry Blueberry
• Fruit 'n Fibre (not available in US; not related to the Post cereal of the same name sold in the US)
• Genmai Flakes (Japan)
• Guardian (Australia/NZ), Canada
• Honey Loops
• Honey Smacks (US)/Smacks (other markets)
• Just Right: Just Right Original, Just Right Fruit & Nut, Just Right Just Grains, Just Right Tropical, Just Right Berry & Apple, Just Right Crunchy Blends – Cranberry, Almond & Sultana (Australia/NZ), Just Right Crunchy Blends – Apple, Date & Saltana (Australia/NZ)
• Krave (UK)
• Komplete (Australia)
• Low-Fat Granola: Low-Fat Granola, Low-Fat Granola with Raisins
• Mini Swirlz
• Mini-Wheats: Mini-Wheats Frosted Original, Mini-Wheats Frosted Bite Size, Mini-Wheats Frosted Maple & Brown Sugar, Mini-Wheats Raisin, Mini-Wheats Strawberry, Mini-Wheats Vanilla Creme, Mini-Wheats Strawberry Delight, Mini-Wheats Blackcurrent
• Mueslix: Mueslix with Raisins, Dates & Almonds
• Nutri-Grain
• Nut Feast
• Oat Bran: Cracklin' Oat Bran
• Optivita
• Product 19
• Raisin Bran/Sultana Bran: Raisin Bran, Raisin Bran Crunch, Sultana Bran (Australia/NZ), Sultana Bran Crunch (Australia/NZ)
• Raisin Wheats
• Rice Krispies/Rice Bubbles: Rice Krispies, Rice Krispies Treats, Frosted Rice Krispies, Cocoa Rice Krispies, Rice Bubbles, LCMs, Rice Crispies Multi-Grain Shapes
• Ricicles: Like Rice Krispies, but with the addition of a frosted sugar coating.
• Scooby-Doo cereal: Cinnamon Marshmallow Scooby-Doo! Cereal
• Smart Start: Smart Start, Smart Start Soy Protein Cereal
• Smorz
• Special K: Special K, Special K low carb lifestyle, Special K Red Berries, Special K Vanilla Almond, Special K Honey & Almond (Australia), Special K Forest Berries (Australia), Special K Light Muesli Mixed Berries & Apple (Australia/NZ), Special K Light Muesli Peach & Mango flavour (Australia/NZ), Special K Dark Chocolate (Belgium), Special K Milk Chocolate (Belgium), Special K Sustain (UK)
• Spider-Man cereal: Spider-Man Spidey-Berry
• SpongeBob SquarePants cereal
• Start UK
• Strawberry Pops (South Africa)
• Sustain: Sustain, Sustain Selection
• Variety
• Vector (Canada only)
• Yeast bites with honey
• ZimZ!, mini cinamon-flavoured spirals, sold only in Germany and Austria^[8][9]

[JAG]

What's the point when Post is far better than both?

[MJ4H]

Oh really? Let me see your Post starting lineup.

[sovereignstar]

Originally Posted by MJ4H

Oh really? Let me see your Post starting lineup.

Honey Bunches of Oats
Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds
Honey Bunches of Oats with Pecan Bunches

[Glengoyne]

Captain Crunch FTW

[Big Fo]

Originally Posted by JAG

What's the point when Post is far better than both?

Banana Nut Crunch Whole Grain Cereal FTW.

[terpkristin]

Oatmeal FTW?

/tk

[Bad-example]

I don't know about other places but around here Honeycomb's big.

[Suicane75]

Frosted Flakes can pin me to the mat anytime.

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by Glengoyne

Captain Crunch FTW

never heard of it

[Subby]

No way Lucky Charms ever loses. It is the Ditka of breakfast cereal.

[Shkspr]

Originally Posted by Subby

No way Lucky Charms ever loses. It is the Ditka of breakfast cereal.

Must be the Ditka of the Saints, then, because without your marshmallows, Lucky Charms is just sugar coated cat food. It's like Alpha Bits, only all you can spell is XQD.

And what's this? Now I can have my Apple Jacks, my Fruity Pebbles, my Cinnamon Toast Crunch AND my marshmallow goodness. It's the ultimate free agent. And only $399 for a 95 pound bag. Free shipping, too.

Cheerios is pretty well unstoppable here. It's got mom cred, it's got doc cred, it's got kid cred, it's even got toddler cred. Plus, endlessly variable. Going up against Apple Jacks? Apple Cinnamon flavor. Froot Loops? Fruity Cheerios. They've even got Chocolate Cheerios in as a rookie this year to handle that damn cuckoo bird. Frosted, banana nut, honey nut, yogurt...Cheerios gives you more looks than Jennifer Garner in Alias.

Aaaand it's a balanced part of a nutritious breakfast. Cheerios will build you a new heart from scratch if yours craps out. It's the Jordan of breakfast. Just don't drink orange juice with a bowl. That shit's nasty after three teaspoons of sugar in your bowl. ( I mean two teaspoons, Mom. )

[Schmidty]

I don't like cereal.It always leaves this nasty aftertaste and bad milky-cerealy bad breath. Add in the fact that it's usually eaten in the morning when your mouth stinks and is fuzzy, and you get a pretty gross product. I agree with Kristin - Oatmeal (and cream of wheat) is the cereal for me.

[Marc Vaughan]

Alpen - its all you need ...

(that being said I have acquired a taste for Cinnamon Toast Crunch since moving over here ...)

[tarcone]

Captain Crunchberries is the best cereal ever. period.

[Izulde]

Boo Berry and Franken Berry are the best. Unfortunately I can never find them anywhwhere, so usually default to Corn Pops or Honey Smacks.

[Glengoyne]

Originally Posted by tarcone

Captain Crunchberries is the best cereal ever. period.

Originally Posted by Izulde

Boo Berry and Franken Berry are the best. Unfortunately I can never find them anywhwhere, so usually default to Corn Pops or Honey Smacks.

The "Berry" family of cereals is heads and shoulders above the rest, even if Quik hasn't heard of them.


As for cereals I can't stand that other people love. I have Trix and Froot Loops. Both have this terrible cloying flavor that I just can't tolerate.

[Vince, Pt. II]

Pretty sure Quik was just poking fun at 'FTW'. People seem to fall into the sarchasm often around these parts.

[wade moore]

I'm actually pretty sure Quik's commentary was on the fact that there is no such cereal as "Captain" Crunch.

[Greyroofoo]

Originally Posted by wade moore

I'm actually pretty sure Quik's commentary was on the fact that there is no such cereal as "Captain" Crunch.

Of course there's no Captain Crunch

[Jughead Spock]

Originally Posted by Bad-example

I don't know about other places but around here Honeycomb's big.

There's obviously no room for humor in this thread at all, because everyone missed this.

[Jughead Spock]

dola

Originally Posted by Shkspr

Must be the Ditka of the Saints, then, because without your marshmallows, Lucky Charms is just sugar coated cat food. It's like Alpha Bits, only all you can spell is XQD.

You take the sugar away from any of these and you realize you're eating cardboard. Subby Johnson is RIGHT.

[Glengoyne]

Originally Posted by wade moore

I'm actually pretty sure Quik's commentary was on the fact that there is no such cereal as "Captain" Crunch.

I actually got the Cap'n bit. I just ignored his witty critique.

[Mustang]

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[samifan24]

Just to clarify, you guys that are talking about Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Lucky Charms and Boo Berries don't eat them now, do you? You're talking about when you ate them as kids, right?

[wade moore]

Originally Posted by samifan24

Just to clarify, you guys that are talking about Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Lucky Charms and Boo Berries don't eat them now, do you? You're talking about when you ate them as kids, right?

You don't?

Seriously - I generally have at least one sugary cereal and one healthy cereal around. It depends on my mood what I eat. In all honesty, if you look at say Special K and Lucky Charms - there's not much of a difference in nutrition. Only if you get up to say Kashi and things like that do you notice much of a difference.

[samifan24]

Originally Posted by wade moore

You don't?

Seriously - I generally have at least one sugary cereal and one healthy cereal around. It depends on my mood what I eat. In all honesty, if you look at say Special K and Lucky Charms - there's not much of a difference in nutrition. Only if you get up to say Kashi and things like that do you notice much of a difference.

Not really. I guess I'm in the minority but I always thought of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Lucky Charms and even Frosted Flakes, which I eat occasionally, as "kids cereals." I've got no problem with adults buying them, I just thought most adults bought them for their kids.

[Mustang]

Originally Posted by samifan24

I just thought most adults bought them for their kids.

I eat frosted mini wheats for the adult and kid in you.

[MJ4H]

Sweet cereals are just as good for you as the "healthy" ones basically. And they taste way better.

I eat them almost daily.

[wade moore]

Yeah, like I said, I'm pretty much with MJ4H here. I eat Lucky Charms (#1), fruit loops, frosted mini wheats, frosted flakes, sugar smacks, etc on a regular basis.

In fact, I had Cocoa Crispies just this morning.

[Subby]

I like when Schmidty critiques different types of food. It almost makes me forget that he like to feed things to his dog from his own mouth.

Almost.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by Subby

I like when Schmidty critiques different types of food. It almost makes me forget that he like to feed things to his dog from his own mouth.

Almost.

I feed my dogs Greenies, and brush their teeth, so it's actually very pleasant smelling. It's a form of bonding. I am not ashamed, damn it,

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Grape Nuts could eat all these cereals for breakfast and shit Chuck Norris before lunch.

[Shkspr]

Anyone who'd eat Grape-Nuts for breakfast probably is shitting a lot before lunch.

[Passacaglia]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

I feed my dogs Greenies, and brush their teeth, so it's actually very pleasant smelling. It's a form of bonding. I am not ashamed, damn it,

Actually, reading Subby's post, I think he's saying the dog should be ashamed.

[stevew]

I've always hated cereal. I don't think I've eaten more than 3-4 bowls in the last 25 years. Something about milk softening the food up. I also hate the sound of a spoon scratching the side of a glass bowl.

[terpkristin]

Originally Posted by M GO BLUE!!!

Grape Nuts could eat all these cereals for breakfast and shit Chuck Norris before lunch.

I like making Grape Nuts "energy bars" with honey and peanut butter. I used to make huge batches and keep them around in the freezer for when searches happened or for when I was doing long runs while marathon training. Haven't made them in ages...hmm..

/tk

[Glengoyne]

Originally Posted by terpkristin

I like making Grape Nuts "energy bars" with honey and peanut butter. I used to make huge batches and keep them around in the freezer for when searches happened or for when I was doing long runs while marathon training. Haven't made them in ages...hmm..

/tk

Aren't those hard on the teeth? I like Grape Nuts, but they've gotta soak a little. Oh or be done warm.

[Ksyrup]

I haven't eaten sugary cereal since I was about 12. Oatmeal, cream of wheat, Life, honey bunches of oats, banana nut crunch, etc., are the only ones I'll eat. My wife buys shit like Sugar Smacks and Honeycomb for herself.