Monday, March 24, 2008

All Bran Strawberry Medley - the Frankenberry for Grown-Ups?





Ok, tell me I am not the only person who has found a pleasantly eery similarity between these two marvelous products...


Frankenberry tastes fruitlicious (Ok, I haven't had this for maybe 20 years and don't even know if it is still available), but fruitilicious of the berry variety, not the Fruity Pebbles variety.


All Bran Strawberry Medley tastes fruitilicious of the berry variety and has cool pieces of dehydrated strawberries that are like sponges until rehydrated by milk - perhaps this camouflages the mildly cardboard-like flavour of high-fibre cereals.


Frankenberry turns cereal milk pink and makes it like strawberry milk.

All Bran Strawberry Medley turns cereal milk pink and makes it taste like strawberry milk.

Frankenberry is part of your complete breakfast (read: add juice, toast, an egg and an apple to round it out).


All Bran Strawberry Medley IS your complete breakfast (I mean really, it's serving size is a whopping 1.5 cups and has 10g of fibre...10 grams!!!!).


Frankenberry was marketed to children in the 70s and 80s.


All Bran Strawberry Medley is marketed to people who want to live to be older than 70 or 80.


Ok, that statement was just to be cute and flippant. What I was getting at is now that us children of the era of ultra-sugary cereals (some of which were only ever rare treats because some parents didn't let us have sugary cereals - maybe that's why I turned out the way I did, mom) are of the age to perhaps have children of our own who we'd like to see grow up, or else are at least realizing that we should maybe look after ourselves a little better, and yet we can't quite give up our sugary-cereal-craving inner child.


I realize that Frankenberry was made by General Mills, but Kellogg's has really picked up the ball and made a wicked transition cereal, both sweet-ish and milk flavouring, yet fiberiffic and not an acrid shade of pink.


Kudos to you All Bran Strawberry Medley - and I don't hand those out often!!



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