The Ultimate Cereal Tier List | Ranked with Babish
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- Опубліковано 11 тра 2024
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I know people feel very strongly about their cereal. So what's YOUR favorite?
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Today's Menu:
00:00 Intro
01:20 Corn Flakes
02:08 Cheerios
02:48 Honey Smacks
03:19 Cocoa Puff’s
04:15 Rice Krispies
04:54 Kix
05:39 Frosted Flakes
06:11 Trix
07:14 Reese’s Puffs
07:47 Honey Nut Cheerios
08:30 Corn Chex
09:21 Golden Crisp
10:36 Crispix
11:10 HoneyComb
12:01 Weetabix
13:36 Corn Pops
14:29 Wheaties
14:58 Golden Grahams
15:53 Grape Nuts
16:38 Captain Crunch
17:16 Fruity Pebbles
18:25 Puffins
18:51 Fruit Loops
19:44 Kashi
20:26 Special K: Red Berries
20:47 Frosted Mini Wheats
21:34 Krave
22:29 Raisin Bran
23:07 Cocoa Pebbles
23:33 Cookie Crisp
24:00 Life
24:29 Frosted Cheerios
25:04 Lucky Charms
25:39 Honey Bunches of Oats
20:20 Apple Jacks
26:50 Cinnamon Toast Crunch
28:49 Conclusion
The man who came up with the idea for Cinnamon Toast Crunch was my AP Human Geography teacher during my freshman year of high school.
His name was Gary Kurlancheek, and he came up with the idea on a General Mills retreat. (And yes, he had a VERY nice car.) He was able to retire early after a very successful career, and became a teacher.
Absolute legend. He didn’t just teach us about Human Geography, he told us so many stories from his life. Everything from first loves to his time at General Mills, his travels around the world… Truly the greatest teacher I’ve ever had. I feel so lucky to have known him.
He passed away back in 2014. He was only 60, but he did so much in the time that he had… I only hope I can do half as much.
Rest In Peace, Mr. Kurlancheek.
Wow what a story!! So cool
So uh, how come he has no wikipedia page, no mention of it and the actual inception of the cereal worked very differently, with the one sparking the idea receiving literally just a toy, not money of any kind?
Hope he taught you actual facts, because man was lying to you about that little story.
@@dowfreak7 it was a group retreat thing, which is why he was never officially credited with it, and he was fine with that.
@@dowfreak7looked into this, even the story told on the Wikipedia page has NO SOURCE. It could be just as made up or true as OP's story. If you dive into the story of the man the Wikipedia page lists, it just states he worked for General mills for 30 years and was successful. There are a lot of blogs parroting this story, but there doesn't seem to be a verified version of the story out there. Can't just trust Wikipedia my dude, gotta double check the sources too
@@amorantoboy My guess would be that the person Wikipedia lists was also on that retreat and did indeed work with him at General Mills.
We're just gonna glance over the fact that Reese's Puffs apparently upgraded from having Reese's-themed rappers as their mascot to freaking Goku?
Goku can't rap as far as we know so he can't beat the iconic Reese's Puffs rap
@@dastardlywun You're right. I still wish they would've at least sent out a memo, or something. It took me by surprise lol.
the dragon ball reese’s is just a random collab. not the normal mascot.
@@dastardlywun idk man who knows what DBZ abridged might come up with 😂😂
@@rachelosafoh117 You have unleashed a million "sharks" once starved and migrated to other parts of UA-cam for nourishing content, back to their beloved feeding hole a crumb, a simple crumb of new content. I hope you enjoy that mental image because I can't believe I found a fellow abridge enjoyer.
"Cocoa Puffs, famously represented by a bird with pronounced mental illness" That cracked me up for some reason.
Had me floored
Not wrong tho
dad? lol
Jokes do that sometimes. Crazy
When I was a kid, I used to pour a bowl of Raisin Bran, go get dressed, pack my book bag, and then come back and eat my cereal. It had soaked up all the milk and become a homogenous sludge with raisins in it. My mom couldn’t even be in the room when I ate it, and now I understand. That was an abomination.
Ive been there, and i feel you
I’d do that with my captain crunch because it was too crunchy and would cut my mouth
Its perfect what are you talking about
why did you wait so long 😭
As a UKer, I greatly enjoyed Andrew’s discovery of Weetbix. I liked them with sugar as a child. There is an even less enjoyable part of the experience, and that’s trying to wash the concrete remains of dried Weetabix off of a bowl that wasn’t immediately rinsed after use.
Another UKer here, and I absolutely DESPISED Weetabix. Give me Frosted Shredded Wheat any day, because those bricks violate every rule of cereals.
@@lilithsykes4661 I absolutely would not touch them now. The texture repulses me.
Honestly.i still love wheatabix, but I've always been on the hot milk team so mines more like porridge
Ah yes, the low-quality concrete of dried weetabix sludge, I had almost forgotten about that 😂
Ironically, Honey Bunches of Oats has a version of it with almonds. Which is I believe the thing he said he wished they had in there to give it a higher score.
It is also the superior version of the product
@@Nick-dc6ix agree with you there. Well unless someone has a nut allergy, but that's beside the point.
if someone has an allergy they shouldnt be allowed to rank something, huge bias there for someone who will die if they actually try eating it@@mageius
@Jakey726 All depends, as some people might have developed it, have a very mild allergy or can avoid some of their bias. (Face_exhaling emote) For example all those people that have lactose intolerance that might have developed it over time might still love ice cream and could still rank it because it used to not cause problems and now have to take meds for it. The "I like it but it doesn't like me" people.
@@mageius Lactose intolerance isn't an allergy. While allergies can have varying levels of impact on different people, intolerance to lactose is clearly not going to ever trigger the type of lethal anaphylaxis that was being alluded to previously.
No crunch berries? Justice for the Cap’n!
ikr who in their right mind would eat capn crunch without crunch berries?
Yep crunch berries fa sho!
I agree about the justice part, but you have the wrong version....Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch is the GOAT. There is NO better cereal.
@@RayKinStL Top 3 for sure! The cheerios version is also delicious!
@@RayKinStLPeanut Butter RULES!
Weetbix was a winter cereal for me, you warmed it in hot milk and sprinkled some brown sugar on it, it becomes more like an oatmeal kind of cereal then.
Yeah I can't imagine it with cold milk!
I grew up in Battle Creek, and you could tell the days they made Fruity Pebbles at Post. They burned them rather frequently too.
I grew up in Cedar Rapids, and every day smells horrible except for Crunch Berries day(thursdays) everyone around here has a love and a hate for the quaker plant
If you’re gonna try Life, you can’t have the original flavor, you need to try Cinnamon Life
What will really bake your noodle is Maple & Brown Sugar Life. But it’s been discontinued. 👎🏻
At summer camp one year, breakfast was served every Wednesday with Cinnamon Life in little plastic single serve containers. Our table **loved** Cinnamon Life and always ate all the packages on our table. One day, we noticed the other tables weren't eating their Cinnamon Life, and so we grabbed two milk crates, took all the leftovers, and stored them under our table so we could have them any day we wanted instead of only Wednesdays. Cinnamon Life holds a special place in my heart because of that.
1000% accurate!!!
Honestly I didn't even know plain Life existed, I've only ever had the cinnamon
best cereal of all time imo
Captain Crunch Berries. That one is an easy high tier. It takes the basic Captain crunch and adds the occasional fruity punch to it.
Another heavy hitter modifier is Honey Bunches with Strawberries. Near perfect.
Raisin Bran Crunch was my go to cereal throughout all of high school. It solves the main problem of Raisin Bran by sugar coating the flakes to give them a much better flavor and durability in the milk, not to mention it also has crunchy granola clusters. It's the perfect balance of sweet but filling for those late night cravings. My nightly ritual was having a bowl while watching the Daily Show and Colbert Report before bed.
I get teased often about my daily bowl of Raisin Bran crunch! It’s so nice to hear from someone who understands
I eat this about 3x a week. My favorite cereal.
Yup, RBC is a 10, perhaps the only 10 cereal.
Krave made its US debut in 2012, so unless you grew up in the 2010's you could not have "not been allowed to have this [Krave] cereal as a kid." 😂
False memories
Hey, many 30 year olds still live with their parents because rent
Grape Nuts: for when you just have to start your day with a heaping bowl of gravel.
🤣🤣🤣 TRUTH.
MONCH
Until it gets soggy. Then it gets worse.
We used to put some brown sugar and milk on them then put them in the MICROWAVE! It was like a weird oatmeal
Stirred into plain yogurt or vanilla ice cream, though ... 😋
When you were baffled by the Weetabix, I was reminded of Ted Lasso also being baffled by Weetabix
Kashi: “Clearly made for adults who’s dreams have long since died”
I had to pause to laugh at that line. They should put that on the front of the box 😂
The thing I like about Trix isn't the cereal, it's the lore behind them being changed from fruit shapes to balls and then back to fruit shapes.
Trix were originally created in 1954 and were, in fact, originally balls. They were designed as a fruity and more sugary version of Kix (Kix, Trix. See the similar names?). They were only changed to fruit shapes in the early 90s (I remember when this happened), then they changed them back to balls in the mid 2000's as a way to play off the nostalgia of everyone who had grown up eating them as balls when they were kids. Then of course in the last few years, you had a bunch of 90's and early 2000's kids who were now adults, and they've been changed back to fruit shapes to play off their nostalgia. I imagine in 10-20 years, they'll be balls again.
@@d4ngerd4d I prefer the lore that they changed into balls in the mid 2000s because the kids grew up to became adults thus losing the ability to see the magic; because Trix are for kids.
The balls were better, but it might have just been a formula change that coincided with the shape change.
Also it makes me laugh that they tried to make people think it was “healthy” by switching to all natural dyes, but then the result looked so gross that it destroyed their sales so they had to switch back to being artificial (I’m also very allergic to the “natural” dyes used so I felt very vindicated by the failed attempt)
The cereal with a redemption arc
Honey Bunches: “If it had almonds in it, it’d be a nine.”
There’s a variety with almonds! Literally called Honey Bunches of Oats With Almonds! It’s the only one I eat - I don’t even like the toasted almond slices myself, but it just has a fuller, better-rounded flavor overall than the other varieties of HB.
I got up from my seat and literally started yelling this into the monitor when I heard him say that.
@@medagross999 Saaaaaaaaame
Our beloved HB, unfairly denied their rightful place at the very top of the scale 😔
LOL has babish never visited the cereal aisle? hahaha@@medagross999
Blue box HB the MF GOAT
I feel validated by your comment, thank you
"these all just seem to be covered in sugar"
Gets to weetbix "ew get this away from me"
Probably bc as soon as he put milk in the bowl it became oatmeal instead of cereal💀
he literally said ew to all the non-sugar cereals
Seeing my second favorite cereal Reeses Puffs hold such a high number made the child in me very happy. Need a sequel episode with some of the alternate versions and the holiday cereals featuring my favorite Count Chocula.
I’m old. It is my 71st birthday today. Many of these cereals did not exist when I was a child. It’s worth noting that, however, that way back then, Honey Smacks were called Sugar Smacks, Golden Crisps were called Sugar Crisps, and Corn Pops were called Sugar Pops.
And they’re all terrible lol!
I hope you had an amazing birthday! 🎉❤
I’m a decade younger than you but that’s what I recall too.
HBD
Ah... the era when sugar wasn't the killer that it is now!
happy birthday!!!!!! here in canada theyre still called sugar crisps, i love them
I feed old people
I liked Kix as a kid. I wasn't a fan of really sugary cereal and Kix was plain but with a touch of sweetness.
I agree !
However, If you have tried them lately, you would notice they must have changed the recipe. Tastes gross now in my opinion.
@@jamesmarshall6884 I haven't eaten them in probably over 15 years so it's very probable they might taste different now compared to when I was eating them.
@@jamesmarshall6884 Wait till he finds out about French Toast crunch...
@jamesmarshall6884 I didn't really like kix all that much, but this did unlock some kind of memory where my mom made bars with kix that had marshmallow and fruity pebbles. Don't remember the flavor, but I do remember the roof of my mouth being destroyed.
Same
I remember having the same reaction to cookie crisp, my mom wouldn't buy it for the longest time, and when she did I was so excited, just for that excitement to instantly vanish within the first bite and it tasted like betrayal
9:29 I have said it before, the single best job on the planet is the guy who gets to design the backs of cereal boxes. It is just the wild west back there; anything goes!
"What have we learned today?"
Add a lot of sugar to a cereal, you'll automatically get 2 or 3 points higher.
This is great! I think going to apples in episode 2 was a bold move
I feel he must have been inspired by your pickle video. 🥒
Is breakfast cerial an absolute nightmare?
Hey Matt. Love your content bro
idk man he thinks apple jacks actually taste like apples I think something in that episode scrambled his taste buds. 🤣
Knew UpIsNotJump watched since the pickle video… but seeing a comment is nEwE
Crispix is the best cereal. These lists all prioritize heavy sugar content over texture, which is more important to me because I am not a child. Crispix is the perfect form factor/texture in milk and has a great corn/rice flavor.
It's crispy times two. IYKYK
My go-to cereal is cheerios multigrain: cheerios take a bit to sog, and even then retain shape and separation, and even some decent texture; ring cereals like the cheerios family don't have the sort of messy splashback as flakes when you pour milk on them; they aren't doused in high fructose corn syrup; and the variety of flavors from the multigrain cheerios makes it interesting to eat.
As an Aussie who grew up on Weet Bix (aussie version of Weetabix) - we generally eat them with lots of sugar to make it palatable. They also turn into concrete in the bowl after they get mushy and then dry out.
I can’t believe how popular up and go are too. I like weetbix with fruit and sugar, but soggy weetbix in a box so you can drink it through a straw? I don’t get it.
@@sum1rllyspecial I do like a chocolate Protein Up and Go in the morning.
And Weet Bix are infinitely superior to Weetabix.
Maybe that is the fault of my upbringing - Mum's health-minded attitude kept us from much sugar on cereal, thus Weet-Bix was awful. I preferred classic Granola, which really, was kinda like hardtack bits, in that it needed to be soaked in hot water to be edible. I remember at a church camp, the Youth meeting tent ran a breakfast, and served Granola with chopped dates in it. That was nice. It is a pity that Granola is gone and everything called "Granola" is just toasted museli clusters, which I do like, but it isn't the hardtack cereal.
I always melt mine down in warm milk and drown it in sugar. Really sets me up for the day.
That hypothetical for Cookie Crisp was exactly what happened in my childhood - “Cookies for breakfast” only leads to disappointment
Yeah, in my case I'd just eat actual cookies for breakfast 😂
I felt the same way, the commercial said cookies. What was in the box were disgusting corn puffs with brown specks.
I upgraded to freshly baked chocolate chip cookies & milk for sale for breakfast in the high school cafeteria, paired with string cheese
Watching this descent into madness as you delve deeper into the cerealrealms is perfect midnight viewing. My congratulations.
Welp, time to watch and wait with eager anticipation to see where my specific favorites happen to land like usual.
French Toast Crunch was incredible. I don't think it exists anymore, but it should.
Chocolate Toast Crunch was better
It's still around, but it has less of a syrup taste and more of a cinnamon taste
I think food lion (grocery store) has it from time to time
We have French Toast Crunch in most grocery stores in Canada
Canada still has it well at least Ontario
Considering that my three favorite cereals are Honey Bunches of Oats, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and Reese's Puffs, I feel so incredibly validated by this video.
Special K with dehydrated strawberries. Cheerios. Great Grains with dates & nuts. Shredded Wheat with sugar or Mini Wheats.
Great Grains!! i can't believe they left that one out
its weird, but one cereal i loved as a kid, they dont make it anymore, is/was kellogs raisin squairs, its shredded wheat squairs with a raisins inside, it was like a froasted mini wheat, but with a pop of sweetness in the middle with the raisin
My mom always said if sugar was the first or second thing on the ingredients list, that cereal was banned from the house. Except for the one time in the summer of 89 when she figured we were outside enough to run the extra calories off anyway, so we got one box of Nintendo Cereal System. It was terrible, but it was Nintendo, so I was all about it. Strong 6 out of 10 because the box had two bags in it; one for Mario and one for Zelda.
"Nintendo, it's for breakfast now! Nintendo, it's a cereal, wow!"
That's been intermittently stuck in my head for the last 35 years.
Nin-ten-do, two cereals in one! 🎶
I prefer sugar before mold, though 🤔
@DG-hw8it
What cereal has mold as an ingredient?
I remember having one of those around 89.
Love Weetabix, but Andrew's face when he opened the packet was absolutely priceless
I had to rewatch that, because I had the EXACT reaction
It's too healthy for his American taste buds.
Guys cooked 100 nice meals from the UK on his channel by now but still had to make a 'Brits live in WW2 ration' joke, American humour is pathetic.
@@GiraffeFeaturesit’s actually embarrassing how affected you are by the joke lol
@@dariusjr98 it’s actually embarrassing that you still find a joke that’s been told a million times before funny. How simple are you?
Fruit Loops are one of my top cereals for me due to very specific nostalgia. Growing up my family would go on summer road trips down to florida, and every time we stopped at a hotel I would get fruit loops from the breakfast area. So now whenever I even smell that cereal I remember those vacations.
That speech about cinnamon toast crunch got very real. Also, that needs to be Cinnamon Toast Crunch's new slogan "My heart is broken and this is the glue holding it together." Describes adulthood better than anything I've yet heard.
Me, starting the video as someone who loves Corn Flakes: 🙂
Me, listening to Andrew mock Corn Flakes for the rest of the video: 🙃
Same I love them, we have it at home all the time. Slightly sweet and the texture is amazing
You mean the 130 year old cereal that still sells well today?
Can we please appreciate the mic drop quote that Andrew dropped perfectly explaining love???
28:13
"If you love something, you have to be willing to see its flaws... it's part of what makes it who it is."
It reminds me of this quote from Welcome to Night Vale: "Everything about him, and us, and all of this, is…it’s imperfect! And those imperfections in our reality are the seams and the cracks into which our out-sized love can seep and pool. And sometimes we are annoyed, and disappointed, and that too is a part of how love works. It is not a perfect system, but… Oh, well."
Weetbix with Vegimite is the classic Aussie school lunch. Usually the first sign the parents have given up on life
😂
getting a tiny/smaller honeycomb was always my favorite bc they're more crunchy 😊
I'm not from a weetabix eating culture, but I am from europe, and I think the strangest part of that product is the picture on the box. It's really more of an "instant porridge" than a breakfast cereal, and if it were marketed as such, people would not get so confused and disappointed.
people always eat it plain, like babish did- which is very annoying to see as a brit. as almost everyone here has it with some sort of topping, it’s a base
@@mildredwetbed9791Absolutely, it's a vehicle for toppings and, once you get to know them you can eat them at exactly the moment they reach the required consistency.
Cleaning them off the cereal bowl once they've dried on though, that's a whole different thing.
THIS!!! 😆
@@user-cl9uo1eq6qyou have to eat them while standing over the sink and wash the bowl as you are chewing the last spoonful
The first crunchy bites you get in before it turns into porridge are great. And then it's just porridge. I really liked it when I went to Australia as a kid, but it's nothing like other cereals.
As a British person seeing an American reaction to Wheetabix is always so satisfying
As a British person, seeing you spell Weetabix with an 'h' made me spill my tea.
Do you guys eat it with milk or no
I crush and snort it
As kiwi im a bit annoying, he added way too much milk for the little piece than blamed the wheatbix
Aussie kids are weetbix kids
These cereals look like a gateway to get you used to corn and processed mouthfeel, so you can keep buying their products for life.
I’ve had most of the cereals you tried, and am in solid agreement with just about everything. I’m pleased to see that my memory of certain cereals getting soggy within seconds still holds true.
Grocery store cookies would be fun; chips ahoy, Oreos, Pepperidge farm, etc.
Milano! 😋
I actually really like Kix. It has that corn toastiness and also a slight sweetness. Don’t understand why some people hate it.
Do you also find Saltines to be an enjoyable snack 🤣
yes@@travistotle
Me too!😂
I think they are one of the ones that are better without milk
Corn Flakes are my favorite. They are so underrated and way better than Frosted Flakes.
I grew up on Weetabix, a cheap UK working class staple (before today's prices...). We didn't eat it like a cereal, we put butter on it and ate it like a biscuit. Experience is 10x better, it just gets moisture instead of going soggy
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Just go to a real therapist. Your insurance most likely covers it and it isn't 59/mo.
Thank you for speaking out about your experience. Genuinely appreciate it and I hope you are now getting the help you need
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Saying “it isn’t $59 month” isn’t really a valid statement, because it depends on your insurance and how often you are going. I do weekly sessions and it actually comes out to about $60/month AFTER insurance. I understand your point overall but everyone’s situation is different.
Not to mention the improper confidential info releases and the fact some therapist licenses are STATE specific but they're allowing them to practice across state lines.
heard somewhere that they sell your information to facebook so it can give more personalized ads, even though they say your information will be kept private
I cannot tell you how happy I am to see Golden Grahams get the respect THEY DESERVE. Totally underrated cereal
I liked it as a kid, but the retro version is disgusting. My older sister, who loves the cereal, hates it too. Since he bashed KIX, I am gonna buy some just because he hates it.
Should have kept his 9 score
It's garbage, would have rated it a 3 myself.
“Is anything a 10” gives me PTSD flashbacks to customer service surveys
"All cereal is just wheat or corn, maybe with sugar"
Cereal: cultivated grain
Raisin bran is best if you double the raisins. It still only takes it to a 6 though
There is just something so comedic about babish getting angry about kendall thinking he didnt have tricks as a kid
could've ranked just the 20+ varieties of Cheerios alone themselves
Game Grumps did this on the 10 minute power hour last year, it's chaotic
The Apple cinnamon Cheerios are great!
“I really like the fresh fruit in there”. *eats a freeze dried strawberry.
I love that your top 3 for cereals is also mine. I will cherish this forever
I keep a box of grape nuts in my pantry to put on my yogurt. Grape nuts are yogurt croutons to me
Grape Nuts still need time to soak, unless you have teeth that can handle gravel!
Yogurt croutons. 😂
Cap'n Crunch absolutely eviscerated here. A 10/10 cereal for me growing up but I have to respect it.
How's the roof of your mouth doing?
They taste great, but the greasy milk is a huge negative. Same with Fruity Pebbles. Generic versions of both are way better because they don't ruin the milk.
The cookie crisp slander is gonna keep me up at night
Cookie and waffle crisp both fire
@@lagginswag Waffle is even better!!
You got one correct. Lucky Charms are deelishous!
You clearly just didn’t understand weetabix. The beauty of weetabix is that you can for a brief moment feel what it was like to be an old world peasant in the modern era by eating gruel whenever you want. It is beautiful and there is no substitute.
I hope cracklin oat bran gets the recognition it deserves one day
Ooh, I remember liking that as a kid! But then my mom decided it was too "fattening" and my parents stopped buying it. 🙄 Sad day.
the most underrated cereal ever
Essentially Grape Nuts v2.0, imo. Significantly better tasting (added some sugar), but still quite healthful. Babish *needs* to try them...
Feeling like frosted flakes and froot loops got hard done by. Glad you appreciated the charms of the pebbles while also noting that they are totally inadequate dollar store tissue paper when faced with milk.
I love it when my cereal is slightly soggy
if you're wondering what the smell of Fruit Loops are, it's trying to be a Ramos Gin Fizz. So lemon, lime and orange blossom water. Which explains the insane smell of the yest of both + the orange blossom water upon opening the box.
I think it's bergamot
I don’t know how I feel about this information but I do think you’re right upon pondering it.
It truly is amazing that a 4 out of 10 cereal becomes a 10 out of 10 treat when you throw in some marshmallow and melted butter. Looking @ you Rice Krispies Treats...
As an Englishman it truly hurt watching babish with the weetabix, warm it up in the microwave and put a bit of sugar on it or honey its more like a porridge then a traditional cereal
Fun fact: Apple Jacks are actually Froot Loops that have cinnamon, apple juice I believe,and citric acid added. Apple Jacks are just Froot Loops that went through a different conveyor belt, just like how Frosted Flakes are corn flakes that went through a diff conveyor belt. The Food Theorists have an entire video about it
Cinnamon life is at least a 7. Also missed out on Quaker Oat Squares,which for me are an 8.
those are awesome
Cinnamon Toast Crunch IS a nine. Cinnamon Toast Crunch from the 90's, however, is a TEN. And yes kids, it's different.
Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Honey Bunches Of Oats With Almonds truly are the two greatest cereals ever made.
Utterly glorious.
I’d have to agree, I absolutely love Honey Bunches of Oats. The texture is everything.
The outrage I’m containing over the lack of peanut butter captain crunch cannot be quantified. I’ll save you the trouble: 10/10
That's what I was thinking when he said he liked reese's puffs - just go for peanut butter capn crunch. It's way better
Agreed dude. Those hold a very special place in my heart along w/ Frosted Flakes. It's what my grandparents always had because it's all my mentally disabled Uncle liked. Shit...I just got a little emotional. Why did you do that to me Brad? I don't appreciate it.
I prefer Reese’s Puffs 🙊
Gotta take a point off for the cuts on the roof of your mouth
Crunch berries too
What this video truly communicates is how powerful the corn lobby in the U.S. is. Wowzers.
One political commentator (I forget exactly where) wrote something to the effect of "if you looked closely at US farm subsidy policy, you might come away thinking the Soviet Union won the Cold War."
What NGO are you working for? 😁
Corn was immense even before they started making auto fuel from it as well.
@3:56: Me: "YOU HAVE TO EAT COCOA PUFFS WITH MILK!" Babish: *pours milk, taste tests it again, notes that the milk turns to chocolate milk* Me: "There ya go!"
My top 3
1. Fruity pebbles/oops all berries
2. Cinnamon toast crunch
3. Reeses puffs
Let's not forget that Chex is Purina people chow. It's literally the human equivalent of dry dog/cat food. It also once came packed with a cd-rom containing a family friendly reskin of DOOM.
No, it's Lucky Charms. Everything that isn't a freeze-dried marshmallow used to be made with the same mold shapes as their cheap cat food. Literally.
For those who are curious, that game was called Chex Quest and it had a couple of sequels - the first was an official sequel but the second wasn't actually authorized by General Mills. More recently, the original game has been updated (with GM's permission) and re-released on Steam and Switch; I believe it is free on both platforms.
People Chow! 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah that's not true at all, what do you mean "equivalent" of pet food? It's literally a corn or rice cereal like any other.
@@victreebel170 Both originated with Ralston Purina and both are dried food intended to insure basic nutritional needs are met. The name and shape of Chex are a reference to Purina's checkerboard logo.
Kendall gasp over the verdict of the fruitloops was my same reaction
I can *smell* these cereals through the screen… the nostalgia is hittin
Count Chocula should definitely be up there!
All I know is that General Mills spies used to follow me around in the grocery store and when I found a cereal I liked, they'd stop making it. I'll never buy any General Mills cereal again :-). Actually I don't eat cereal at all any longer, unless oatmeal counts as cereal adjacent.
I love these types of videos! I think it would be cool to see boxed mac and cheese tier list, or ranking different pasta shapes!
youre not gonna believe this
@@hhhhhhhng4380 hahahaaaaa yee
Fun fact, there's actually two different types of cocoa pebbles you could end up buying the US. The first, is matt, dull , and dark cocoa color with am intense cocoa taste. The second, is a shiny, glossy, lighter brown that significantly lacks cocoa flavor. With cocoa pebbles, you are eating one the most delicious cocoa cereals, or you're eating crispy garbage.
Weetabix is a staple British breakfast - officially our best selling cereal. It's normal to add fruit, sugar, honey etc to enhance the flavour. And there's a lot of talk about 'soggy Weetabix'.
(I am not Not British) but yeah it’s so much better adding fruits and natural sugars to it, to be fair it’s basically instant porridge with texture
Watching him eat it was like watching American's and other countries eat marmite, a real feel of "You're doing it wrong!"
When other countries have it on toast they REALLY lather it on, when in reality you don't need that much, so they of course get the wrong impression of it.
Same with Wheetabix, there is simply a correct way of eating them and a wrong way, which is why it's not popular in the US because you actually have to do more than pour in milk'n eat.
@@emerald7537 The same with something like Surströmming. Only a handful of people i know like it here (not me), but everytime i see a american try to eat it, they try to eat it by itself, which is not the way its supposed to be eaten.
@@lavity7157Weetabix is absolutely a UK brand. What are you on about? 😂
why not sell it in a format where it can be eaten out of the box? the texture is horrific also
Seeing Babish eat a dry Wheatbix sends shivers down my spine. In New Zealand it’s always made a challenge at every primary school to eat a whole wheatbix dry because it soaks up all the liquid in your stomach
Eating one dry, then choking and drinking water is probably top 10 worst experiences. Imagine having a near death experience AND THEN tasting watered down wheat cement on top of that.
I don't know if they still make it, but I loved French Toast Crunch. Resse's Puffs were next on my list of favorites.
Golden Grahams at 7 is criminal, worthy of at least a 9
I distinctly remember Kix and Grape nuts, since my mom never ever let super sugary stuff in the house (and I am grateful). I actually like how it is just a touch of sweetness, and how little cereal you need with the grape nuts :)
As a kid, we had sugary cereals, but I would 100% take Kix over Corn Pops (unless there was a Pete and Pete cassette involved, but that was a special circumstance). Grape Nuts was what my great grandpa ate, and with skim milk to boot ☹️
I like putting grape nuts on top of yogurt
honey bunches of oats is amazing. perfect ratio of hard crunchy bits and thin crispy flakes
I love that my childhood favorites were rated so low...cheerios, rice crispies, kix, life, and chex. Apparently I liked all the bland corn/rice variations 😂
As soon as he said "I remember distinctly when this cereal came out" I knew it was gonna be Reese Puffs. Haha, we're old Babish.
Of all the cereals you tested;
Krave was the newest, it is a product that was introduced in the 2000s.
Honey Bunches of Oats has had the fewest changes to their recipe in their history.
Yeah, also Krave was weirdly the one of the first products promoted by multiple og UA-camrs (danisnotonfire comes to mind)
understandable since honey bunches is a perfect cereal
WHY IS GOKU ON THE COVER OF THE RESSE'S PUFFS 😂
There's two kinds of people. Those who like soggy cereal and those who don't.
Smart Start was my favorite cereal growing up, sweet and crunchy. I also really loved Frosted Cheerios.
the main criteria is how the milk tastes afterwards tho
Golden grams is a top 5 cereal, and nothing will change my mind
Yo chill out
Yeah it’s my absolute favorite
They tasted weird in the new box I grabbed. Like they needed more sugar. Also tasted slightly burnt. Thought I was bonkers until I had others try it!