So today, Chad “Amazing” Concelmo was debating out loud: which was his favorite cereal of all time, Fruity Pebbles or Cookie Crisp? This, like most things, sparked a 60-email thread about cereal.
Topher and Samit , on one hand, prefer Cookie Crisp because of how it keeps in milk. They hated how quickly the “Pebbles” line of cereals would get soggy when sitting in a bowl.
“Once the milk hits the cereal, you’ve got a window of optimum milk soakage in which to enjoy your cereal. Cap’n Crunch stays within those parameters for a good 15 minutes or so,” said Topher, bringing the good Cap’n into the discussion, “while Fruity Pebbles is ruined by the time you can go sit down to eat it.”
Then there’s the other guys who don’t like sweet cereals, and prefer the more adult brans and such. Yes, they’re all receiving written warnings.
So what does this have to do with videogames? The Nintendo Cereal System — a breakfast cereal distributed by Ralston in the late ’90s — was crap, through and through. One side of the box was Mario-themed cereal — the other, Zelda — and both were awful. Like Wii Play with the Wii Remote, the cereal came with Nintendo stickers and trading cards, so we bought it anyway. Nintendo’s always been sneaky.
Hit the jump for another gut-wrenching videogame cereal commercial, along with various Destructoid writers’ cereal-related comments. Because you care.
“It was a summer day like any other. I rode there on the children’s bus, soaked in leavings of playground sweat, while the only ventilation streamed through the child-safe windows. As I turned to wipe my face I noticed that this fat bitch Barbara was sitting next to me was eating Corn Pops like it was the last food on earth. Her sweaty fingers dug furiously into the single serving box and quickly returned to her face with the vigor of a sledgehammer, smashing them into her pig-like face. In fact she was so hypnotized by the autonamy of her feeding fist that she could not have noticed that a Corn Pop was stuck to the side of her sweaty cheek like a suckling maggot. Sweat. Barbara. Corn pops. Maggots. I could not look at Corn Pops the same way again and switched to Rice Crispies shortly after.” –Niero
“I once ate an entire box of Fruity Pebbles in one sitting. The sugar rush was so extreme, that the rate my body was shaking allowed me to see into the future. I wouldn’t recommend it.” –Dyson
(Pictured: Conrad Zimmerman, Count Chocula)
“Fruity Pebbles are the reason why I eat everything quickly now.” –Ashley Davis
“My name is Chad Concelmo and I’m here to say
Also, Crunch Berries. SHIT! Now I have to choose between three.” -Chad Concelmo
Published: Jan 6, 2009 08:00 pm