Ahh the Holidays...first rant of many to come...

[aladare]

The smell of autumn in the air and soon the holidays are among us. Halloween is in a little over a week..and this day is just fun. No real extended family obligations..just dress up, get crazy, get candy and get drunk! I never have a bad thing to say about Halloween...until now. There is a great travesty hitting us. I'm talking about the 3 Halloween cereals- Frankenberry, Count Chocula and Boo Berry. When i was a kid, you could get these cereals year round..with their yummy crisp, frosted cereal mixed with marshmellowy goodness. The last 15 years or so, you can only get these ONCE a year..in October. This has been a tradition my daughter & I have had the last 15 years. BOO BERRY.

So approximately a month ago I go to the store and buy five boxes of Boo Berry. Enter: my grievance

First, the 'powers that be' in General Mills decided to change the front of the box to some dorky, zoomed in cartoon of Boo Berry’s face..well more cartoony than before...i suspect the same plastic surgeon that does Joan Rivers. I can't believe the resemblance, well both look like ghosts. Count Chocula and Frankenberry were not spared this facelift either. See new but not improved Boo Berry below:



Second, I finally get to eat my special Halloween treat and this cereal cuts the f-ing hell outta the roof of my mouth (y'all know, like Captain Crunch). At first I’m not so aware it's the cereal doing it. This goes on for over a week. Then my daughter says the roof of her mouth is all cut up. WTF..did they add sawdust or recycled plastic? Very painful! Enter stupidity- as we did not stop eating the Boo Berry cereal..and yet I proudly claim to be the 'adult'! We've waited all year for this. The five boxes of treasured blue boo goodness have been consumed..and the roof of my mouth is still cut up after 5 days of no more Boohoo Berry. Wtf? I find that I cannot just roll over and not express my disappointing experience. I must alert OOT. I also have an obligation to tell other parents b/c your kids maybe eating these cereals and their little mouths are getting all cut up! Why do ‘some people’ insist on messing with a good thing?

/boo berry tradition

[xxThe_Lebowskixx]

i haven't read any of your other posts but this was an A++

[otnemem]

I heard they have a section for blogs on MySpace.

[sethypooh21]

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ban, imo

[aladare]

My original idea was not to just post about cereal..but odd holiday things- good and bad. I shouldn't have said 'rant' in my title. That happened b/c i was upset about Boo Berry.

I assume many are buying flights and making plans for Thanksgiving and Christmas. How is everyone doing with their family's plans for you? I just got my daughter & my plane tix for christmas. Thanksgiving tix were bought in aug. Both are to go to KC, Missouri and visit my parents. So the planning on how to see family that lives all over Missouri- mainly St. Louis and Indiana (for t-giving). T-giving we are meeting in Effingham, IL (name so appropriate effing-ham). We are spending t-giving in the Holiday Inn. super. i hope there is a bar.

What i hate is we fly 1500 miles to get to KC and then we have to travel in the car all over to see everyone- why can't they come to KC?? But i'm grateful to see all the family. So i'm effing tired, and sore from being in the car my whole vacation back there..so when i see family and in all the holiday photos i look like i'm half dead. I'm not part of the family get together planning...i'm told what we are going to do. I'm curious as to what plans are being made for you?

[fluffpop62]

I opened this thread because I was excited to hear about Christmas. I am sorely disappointed about the lack of Christmas paraphernalia but I still liked your post.

Cap'n Crunch is one of my favorite cereals and I am glad that it got a shout out

[scpi10]

agreed new box sucks
nh

[4_2_it]

Frankenberry FTW

[RoundGuy]

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Quisp FTW

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[ElliotR]

The best thing about your post is that this is only the "first rant of many to come". Finally, something in OOT to look forward to.