Vakkotaur

I've taken to eating a cup (not a bowl, just a cup) of cereal most mornings as a way to get the day started and get vitamin supplements. Since I'm the only one eating the cereal, I can buy whatever cereal I desire. Not long ago I figured I might as well try some of the things I generally did not get as a kid and see how they were. So, seeing it on sale, I bought one of the smaller boxes of Trix.

I know kiddie-targeted cereals are sweet and colorful, but this was jarring. I'd been used to things like Chex and Cheerios which aren't the most exciting of things, I admit. I'd tried Captain Crunch or something like it and there was a bit more coloring and non-cereal flavor. Then there's Trix. In glorious Technicolor, breathtaking CinemaScope, and Stereophonic Sound! Well, colorful anyway. Bright "is it safe to eat this, really?" colors. And sweet. It's not so much cereal as candy: Candy for breakfast. Of course kids like it, but they probably shouldn't have it. I doubt I should have it.

I finished that box this past weekend and won't be getting Trix again. I expect I might work my way through the cereal aisle, or parts of it depending on what's on sale. But for now I'm happy to be back to the simple plain Cheerios.