Top 25 Cereals

I am taking the easy way out today and I am just going to copy an old blog I wrote up when Myspace was the cool thing to do. Its a list of my Top 25 Cereals(with help from others). I reviewed it and deemed no other cereals that have come out recently are worthy to crack the list. Opinions welcome.

THE TOP 25 CEREALS
I like to consider myself a cereal expert. There is not a day where I do not have cereal, whether it be for breakfast, a quick snack, a pregame ritual before taking the field, I need cereal. This past week at work I decided to compile a list of my Top 25 Cereals. I know cereal can be a hot button topic for most people, so I figured I would lay it on the table and let arguements begin.
After hours of research and forming my own personal point scale, I came up with the following list of cereals. The point system was based upon the following criteria
-overall taste
-number of marshmallows per serving
-number servings one can consume in one sitting without feeling guilty
-Milk Conversion:does the milk become something else after eating the cereal. Is it drinkable?
-toys and back cover games available
-Cereal box character. Does it make sense? Is the character needed to sell?
DISCLAIMER:This is my opinion and by no shape or form was my opinion swayed by outside influences, I came up with this list while at work which involves me in an office by myself for 10 hours...........I had the time.

25. Corn Pops: simple, yet affective. the difficulty of opening the box in a neat fashion really makes it difficult to put it any higher.

24. Cinnamon Mini Buns: it is like eating at Cinnabon each morning and they always had a fun maze on the back of the cereal box

23. Kaboom: always find that one gem in Gram's closet every Sunday morning, this was it. Clown theme. fruity edible smiley faces. instant happiness.

22. WaffleCrisp: no one is going to ask you to leggo their eggo when you are eating this cereal. however the milk did become a little too sweet towards the end.

21. Dino Pebbles: A classic cereal for a very underrated cartoon character.Good to see Dino get some justice in the cereal world.Vanilla flavored cereal with quite possibly the most marshmallows per serving in any cereal.

20. Rice Krispies w/bananas: here me out on this. you cant beat Snap Crackle Pop first of all, second of all, you could eat about 8 servings without getting full. And is there anything more fun than realizing you still got a chunk of banana in the bottom of the bowl on the last spoonful. small slice of heaven.

19. Smor'z: ahhh, graham crackers with a chocolate swirled marshallow...slight erection.

18. Frosted Flakes: some may think this is a little too low for Tony, but if you were not paying attention as you chewed, you could wind up with a cut or two on the roof of your mouth. Plus they failed miserably with the chocolate version of Frosted Flakes. What saves them are the baseball cards they would put inside. THEEYRRRRRRRRRRRR GREAT!

17. Honey Nut Cheerios: I believe my record for a sitting is 9 bowls, enough said.

16. Honey Comb: really have nothing to say about Honeycomb, its just fucking good okay.

15. Froot Loops: never understood the reason for Toucan Sam, probably cause of his colorful beak, but I can appreciate what he was trying to accomplish with his cereal. not a fan of the blue loop though, what the fuck fruit is that??

14. Cap N Crunch: I know another classic not to crack the Top 10, but have you ever tried to drink the milk after eating this, just not very good and I also noticed it is just a shitty cereal when sogginess starts to set in. You are a fuckin Captain, cant have your cereal going soft on you.

13. Peanut Butter Cap N Crunch: The Captain clearly took 90210's David Cereal advice to heart when he said 'Switch it Up'. well done. good change of pace.

12. Cocoa Puffs: I never went 'CUCKOO' for Cocoa Puffs, but i did enjoy its ability to give me chocolate milk at the end. what keeps it out of the Top 10 is that some boxes just didnt taste very good, did you ever notice some puffs were sweeter than others?? maybe it was me.

11. Fruity Pebbles: sogginess keeps it out of the Top 10, but no one can deny how great each spoonful tasted. but like Froot Loops, it went to a blue pebble, why Fred, why?

10. Cocoa Pebbles: i know what you are thinking, why is this ahead of Fruity Pebbles, its just chocolate. Well first of all, do you see a blue pebble in the box, ummm no. and second of all the milk was great to drink after. And I must say, I could eat at least 5 bowls of it without thinking twice, in my household, it would be the first box opened and it was a race to the kitchen in the morning to make sure you got the last bowl.

9. Honey Smacks: I dig'em. but it presented the same difficulty as Corn Pops when opening a fresh box/back. Maybe I am just retared, but that silver bag has been a thorn in my side for years, but like the Chewy Chips Ahoy plastic tray is when you need to slide it back in the bag after getting to a row. I have woken up my neighbors at 3am I think while wrestling with the tray...its so fuckin loud.

8. Oreo O's: speaking of cookies, the only cookie possible that could easily be converted into a cereal. Simply ingenious to put the creamy center in forms of sprinkles on top of the O shaped cereal. unreal.

7. Apple Jacks/Cookie Crisp: Fuckin' good. enough said/Cookie Crisp a great cereal, sogginess places a slight factor in its ranking along with the size of the box, always thought they could expand the size of it.

6. Cinnamon Toast Crunch: Just an phenomenal cereal, but the sogginess factor comes into play. Love the cinnamon swirl, hate it when it goes soggy on ya. plus you need more milk than usual to get the exact cereal to milk ratio so that you arent eating dry cereal. not a cereal i would suggest to eat if you are at the bottom of the milk.

5. Cocoa Krispies: Its chocolate, it still snaps, it still crackles, it still pops and you get a great bowl of chocolate milk after. and that monkey on the box, love that fuckin guy.

4. Lucky Charms: Probably the greatest marshmallow taste teamed with oat cereal taste. they hit a homerun with this. Great character on the box, you cant hate Lucky. fantastic snacking cereal as well. I am almost speechless when it comes to this cereal. I love it, i love it, i love it.

3. Trix: The rabbit wasnt silly when he was trying to track down this delicious treat. My only knock with this cereal is the decision to go from the fruity balls to the fruity shapes. no need for it, we knew lemon was yellow, green was lime and so forth.

2. Reese Peanut Butter Puffs: The best candy to cereal in the history of cereals. So good, so rich, so tastey. so fuckin awesome.....i need to change my pants thinking about it.

1. Count Chocula: From the Count to the marshmallows to the little ghost shaped cereal. This cereal takes the cake in my cupboard. I was never a fan of his two friends, BooBerry and whatever the other fucking thing was. It was chocolately goodness with an incredible amount of marshmallows. The only cereal where I would purposely put the marshmallows aside til the end and still be happy while eating the ghosts. So fuckin good. They did it right. And I am a better person because of the amount of Count Chocula I have eaten over the years.

others receiving votes:Golden Grahams, Alpha Bits, Raisin Bran, Ice Cream Cone cereal, Mr T's. Teddy Grahams.
opinions are welcomed and encouraged.