The greatness of Apple Jacks

When I was a kid, my mother would take that ceremonious trip down the cereal isle in the grocery store so that I could pick what cereal I wanted. Oh what a glorious time this was. For a few minutes, I had complete control of my own breakfast eating destiny. All those choices, staring me in the face. Should I get Cap'n Crunch, or perhaps Fruity Pebbles? I certainly ignored all of those bran cereals with boring cereal box graphics....Yuck! The big honkin bag cereal - well that was just inferior cereal that the manufacturer messed up on and tried to sell in bulk for a cheaper price. They couldn't fool me, by golly, I knew the difference. Fruit Loops had Toucan Sam on the box and a prize inside! You know...when it came down to it the prize was the seller of the cereal. Sure, Honey Combs was good but not as good as Apple Jacks, it just usually had really good prizes inside. Sometimes you would actually get a prize that you could play with. Many times you couldn't but who cared, it was a prize and that's all that mattered! Now, I mention Apple Jacks, that's because it's by far is the greatest cereal of all time. A nutritious part of this complete breakfast, touts Kellogg's and I couldn't agree more. Ahhh...the perfect little green rings with red things on them that are so full of some sort of flavor. Not apple flavor, mind you, no the flavor is unique to Apple Jacks. Apple Jacks do not taste like apples nor jacks for that matter. Who Cares! In fact, they taste so good, if I was stranded on a deserted island with only one food to eat, it, would probably be Apple Jacks. You can eat it without milk and it's still great. I bet Tom Hanks would have loved it too in the movie Cast Away. He would have called the ball Jack instead of Wilson.

Ok, so you're wondering why I would give up blogging space this morning to talk about cereal? That's because my kids got up early this morning and woke me up so that I would help them get some cereal, Of course, when I asked them what kind they wanted they asked for the greatest cereal of all time...Apple Jacks. I knew from my childhood the craving you have for this cereal, even the slight addiction you develop for it and I knew that I just had to get up and get it for them. Both ate it like it was their last meal and they even got that little joyful smile as the sugar rushed to their little heads. It was a beautiful thing!

Do you know what else was great? I got a Shrek Knight Light toy inside my specially marked box of Kellogg's Apple Jacks! My kids are still digging around for it. Ha ha ha..they will never find my prize! Ha ha ha ha ha!

I love my cereal and my kids and my new Shrek Knight Light!

Brian