Wrong Side of the Box

I was seduced. The box was enticing enough, while not as happy as the Fruity Cheerios box, it was still quite upbeat and glorious. Of course, I shouldn’t judge a cereal on appearances, only on tried and true trials and tribulations…and tests. Which brings me to the first test: the dry test. Everyone knows that if it passes the dry test the rest is a piece of cake. Unfortunately, Life Vanilla Yogurt Crunch didn’t pass, and I wished I hadn’t been fooled in the grocery store.

This is not my Life

I would like to warn you that just because you like Life doesn’t mean you will like the kind of Life I’m eating. Not even I like it. Eaten dry, the clusters (the vanilla yogurt crunch pieces) are inconsistent chalky nuggets of sweetness. They made my teeth hurt and my heart speed up. When I added milk these same clusters reminded me of a pot of less-than-stirred Ramen soup, with the spices all clotted together in the little blobs that horrify me to this day. These blobs however, don’t taste like Chicken or Oriental. Rather, they are super dense and taste like concentrated vanilla yogurt powder or Frosted Mini-Wheats frosting…just the frosting.

Forcing it Down…

I always have to finish what I pour myself, and it was painful. My mom came in the room and apparently she had eaten some too: “They smell like sweet milky corn and…they are just really gross.” You heard right! Anyway, on completion of the bowl I realized I had a headache. Sorry Mikey, I definitely won’t be purchasing these again. The only thing going for this cereal is that they haven’t changed the formula of the original Life pieces, but that’s just not gonna cut it.

CerealBlogger RoundTable

Dan: “Life is like a box of horrible, horrible candy”

Pat: “Stop bothering me, I’m on the phone.”

Russ: “They should make Life with Go-gurt instead.”

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