March 20, 2010: Cookie Crisp
Every few years I select a box of Cookie Crisp from the grocery store, having dismissed my previous dissatisfactions with this cereal. If nothing else, I reason, I’ll be getting an entire box of snacking cookies. However, these irregular discs of dehydrated high-fructose corn syrup taste so abstract from the idea of a cookie that they make me miserable for the entire day. And by the way, General Mills should be relieved that their cereal tastes nothing like actual cookies, because the stupidest thing you could do to a real cookie is mash it up into a bowl and pour milk upon it. Why does everything need to be made out of cookies all of a sudden? Cookies are supposed to be a special treat.
It could be argued that many cereals snare you in with this sort of false association. Golden Grahams taste nothing like actual graham crackers; Cinnamon Toast Crunch nothing like actual toast; Cap’N Crunch nothing like actual Crunch berries. However Cookie Crisps are especially conniving because while they sort of resemble Famous Amos cookies, they have an unpleasant mealy taste and are abrasive to your palette. They should change the name to Dookie Crisp, because if you fed this cereal to the Cookie Monster he would literally get diarrhea.
Allison wrote:
Thanks for letting me know. Now I’ll never get them.
Posted on 20-Mar-10 at 4:20 pm | Permalink
stoney wrote:
Cookie Crisp is to cookies, as sex is to having your erection slammed in a car door.
Posted on 21-Mar-10 at 12:36 am | Permalink
Brade wrote:
The idea for “Dookie Crisp” is a revelation. Imagine the shapes and flavor combo possibilities…
Posted on 22-Mar-10 at 11:52 am | Permalink
theclam wrote:
i’ve always wanted to try cookie crisp, i though it would be delicious. thanks for ruining my dream
Posted on 23-Mar-10 at 11:30 am | Permalink
Shaura wrote:
He’s right. Cookie Crisp is truly an underwhelming food.
Posted on 25-Mar-10 at 10:31 am | Permalink
Thizzle wrote:
Thank you. Not once have I had a pleasing experience with that pathetic excuse for cereal, let alone cookies. Leaving alone it’s horrible taste, the consistency of them resembles plastic razorblades (Believe me they exist google said so). The only thing those jokes could pass for are frisbees for the keebler elves (elfs?), well on second thought even they probably scoff at the mention of cookie crisps. I call for a boycott until general mills understands the gravity of the cookie cereal situation. OH, and if you have on your dreams list “eat cookie crisps.” you have bigger problems than counseling can help you with.
Posted on 25-Mar-10 at 7:11 pm | Permalink
theclam wrote:
cookie counseling
Posted on 05-Apr-10 at 2:03 am | Permalink
blueskydeluxe wrote:
I bought Cookie Crisp last week for “Sugar Cereal Friday” at work. I figured it would be a pleasant throwback to our youth, along with others’ contributions of Fruity Pebbles, Golden Grahams, etc. Turns out my tastebuds have evolved since childhood, because I couldn’t agree more on Dookie Crisp. Can we just go all the way here and recommend it be called “Shit Crisp”? Oh yeah - and someone brought in Cinnabon cereal. Remember it? No? Maybe because if you’d grown up eating it you wouldnt have made it this far.
Posted on 19-Apr-10 at 3:31 pm | Permalink
CEO of General Mills wrote:
How bout we start a spoof cereal section with all our ideas and add:
Golden Shams
Cinnamon Hoax Crunch
and my favorite:
Crew’N Crunch (with added Vitamin C to prevent scurvy!)
Posted on 30-Apr-10 at 5:28 am | Permalink
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Posted on 18-May-10 at 12:20 am | Permalink
Reddit wrote:
“Every few years i post something here”
FTFY
Posted on 26-May-10 at 6:26 pm | Permalink
Erin wrote:
I wish I could upvote that last comment.
Posted on 28-May-10 at 12:55 am | Permalink
Esteban wrote:
Similar thoughts on Cookie Crisps here.
Posted on 29-May-10 at 12:20 am | Permalink
Loryn wrote:
My god, I missed you. I really, really did.
Posted on 30-May-10 at 11:42 pm | Permalink
paticus wrote:
I’m starting to think you don’t really mean any of this, and instead are just trying to make people laugh.
Posted on 29-Jun-10 at 11:03 pm | Permalink
Toucan Sam wrote:
My kids have begged for Cookie Crisps numerous times, and I have always denied them. Recently, I was in a doting mood, so I let them get some. After a very few “cookies”, both of them stopped eating. When I asked if I could throw the rest of the box away, they both readily agreed. They NEVER agree to let me throw ANYTHING away. That’s how nasty Dookie Crisp is. It’s a fraud!
Posted on 17-Jul-10 at 1:38 pm | Permalink