A tell tale sign of the coming of Halloween is the return of General Mill’s Monster cereals. Though you may be able to find Count Chocula year round, both Franken Berry 
Now if you’ve read my FAQ, you may have gathered that I like cereal quite a bit. I often find myself browsing the cereal isle for embarrassingly long amounts of time, there are just so many options. Add in the fact that I generally make cereal concoctions, mixing and matching various flavors, the possibilities for a fine-ass breakfast are endless.
Boo-berry is a somewhat deceptive name. It sounds close enough to blueberry, and the box is blue, in years past it’s been touted a blueberry cereal. This year: not so much.
This year’s box says, “artificial berry flavor” and that’s just what you get. As soon as you open the box you get a generic berry smell. That smell carries over to the taste, just sugary generic berry. The texture isn’t terribly exciting, just standard corn meal type.
Before you start to say, “Hey Rodzilla, maybe your palate is just too refined for kiddy cereals.” Let me mention the one redeeming quality to Boo Berry. Obviously I’m going to say the cereal marshmallows. There isn’t anything special about these marshmallows, they are the same as any other, and they’re the only reason I’m keeping this box in my cabinet.
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From a nutritional standpoint, it’s a typical kiddy cereal.
Grade: D-
I’ll get my cereal marshmallows elsewhere.
be sure to check out foodette reviews look at boo berry fruit roll ups. Apparently those suck too.
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I agree with your grade. No wonder Boo Berry and Franken Berry are only available once a year.
haha D- minus hey?
o/t, but would you say cinnamon toast crunch is a+?
^for me it is. i have never had cereal better
(thanks greg)
This is just crazy talk…Boo Berry deserves a B at the very least for retro-awesomeness (though I much prefer the less spooky version of the Boo from years past).
Marvo – agreed, I'd be content with every other.
Fitto – cinnamon toast crunch is a classic, pretty much a perfect example of what kiddy cereal should be.
Mike – haha, the glazed eyes struck me as well. This year's Boo appears to be in the sort of state where one may ingest large quantities of boo-berry.
I concur. Last year, I ordered all the monster cereals and hosted a Staurday Morning Cartoon Party with viewings of illegally downloaded 80s cartoons. Needless to say the cartoons were the best part of the evening. Count Chocula got a little action but Boo and Franken were panned.
Darn, this used to be my favorite cereal and now I can no longer find it. Count Chocula will have to do I guess…
I distinctly remember hating Booberry and Frankenberry when I was a kid. It was pretty hard for a fat kid like myself to not like any brand of sugary cereal at the time, so that's really a testament to how crappy they were.
How about Fruity Yummy Mummy, the forgotten monster cereal?
Rodzilla, I was at a candy shop on Saturday and found a bag of Lucky Charms marshmallows. Nothing else with them…just a sack of stars, hearts, diamonds, etc. That's called cutting out the middle-man, and that's what I'm having for breakfast sometime this week: a bowl of marshmallows.
FJ – yeah..I hate to waste food, but…these are pretty terrible.
Dustin – not sure what's wrong with you
Eric – agreed
Mike – I actually had to google that cereal..I believe it would suck as well. I've seen cereal marshmallows offered online. I'll be looking for a report on your blog.
Foodjunk, can I be your friend?