What You Know About Cereal Straws?

Oh those wacky folks in the R&D (research & development) department at Kelloggs have finally reached a new low. Allow me to introduce you to the most gluttonous, cavity inducing product of the year...The Fruit Loop Cereal Straw.

Yup, you guessed it...these are literally straws lined with sugary fruit loops with a sugary powdered milk interior for kids to enjoy while drinking a tall glass of cow-juice.

Personally, the tag line on the box kinda frightens me: "Fruity, crunchy tubes for milk-sippin' fun!"

Come on....seriously!

COME ON!!!

You get it, right?

How 'bout now?

Here is a first-hand account of someone's experience with this brilliant new product launch:

"They are lined in the middle with that sickly sweet powdered milk that seems to be popping up in granola and cereal bars everywhere. Someone needs to tell these guys that it does NOT replace milk and that we can all tell it's just sweetened coffee creamer. Fortunately, the flavor of that is masked by the Froot Loop shell.
The straws themselves are rather sturdy and hold up well to milk. They last a long time without getting soggy and do actually work as straws. They basically taste like Froot Loops, which is all you could realistically hope for.

Once you take a single bite of the cereal straw, it becomes too short for drinking and the fun immediately dissipates. If you just sit there and drink the milk, you'll just be wasting the straw as it imparts no flavor and is generally useless. Once you get to the bottom, you realize you have a half-soggy cereal straw with no milk to wash it down with."