The Ultimate Cereal Tier List | Ranked with Babish

I know people feel very strongly about their cereal. So what's YOUR favorite?

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Today's Menu:
00:00 Intro
01:20 Corn Flakes
02:08 Cheerios
02:48 Honey Smacks
03:19 Cocoa Puff’s
04:15 Rice Krispies
04:54 Kix
05:39 Frosted Flakes
06:11 Trix
07:14 Reese’s Puffs
07:47 Honey Nut Cheerios
08:30 Corn Chex
09:21 Golden Crisp
10:36 Crispix
11:10 HoneyComb
12:01 Weetabix
13:36 Corn Pops
14:29 Wheaties
14:58 Golden Grahams
15:53 Grape Nuts
16:38 Captain Crunch
17:16 Fruity Pebbles
18:25 Puffins
18:51 Fruit Loops
19:44 Kashi
20:26 Special K: Red Berries
20:47 Frosted Mini Wheats
21:34 Krave
22:29 Raisin Bran
23:07 Cocoa Pebbles
23:33 Cookie Crisp
24:00 Life
24:29 Frosted Cheerios
25:04 Lucky Charms
25:39 Honey Bunches of Oats
20:20 Apple Jacks
26:50 Cinnamon Toast Crunch
28:49 Conclusion

[SunnylandProds]

The man who came up with the idea for Cinnamon Toast Crunch was my AP Human Geography teacher during my freshman year of high school.

His name was Gary Kurlancheek, and he came up with the idea on a General Mills retreat. (And yes, he had a VERY nice car.) He was able to retire early after a very successful career, and became a teacher.

Absolute legend. He didn’t just teach us about Human Geography, he told us so many stories from his life. Everything from first loves to his time at General Mills, his travels around the world… Truly the greatest teacher I’ve ever had. I feel so lucky to have known him.

He passed away back in 2014. He was only 60, but he did so much in the time that he had… I only hope I can do half as much.

Rest In Peace, Mr. Kurlancheek.

[mageius]

Ironically, Honey Bunches of Oats has a version of it with almonds. Which is I believe the thing he said he wished they had in there to give it a higher score.

[cabbagehead]

We're just gonna glance over the fact that Reese's Puffs apparently upgraded from having Reese's-themed rappers as their mascot to freaking Goku?

[Smeowglass]

In the 90's, Honey Nut Cheerios had small bits of almonds. But when the price of nuts went up, they switched to almond flavoring to save costs. If you eat the new Cheerios Oat Crunch Almond cereal, that is what the older HNC used to taste like.

[genomatic]

"Cocoa Puffs, famously represented by a bird with pronounced mental illness" That cracked me up for some reason.

[JDGamer]

The thing I like about Trix isn't the cereal, it's the lore behind them being changed from fruit shapes to balls and then back to fruit shapes.

[joemcken]

Honey Bunches: “If it had almonds in it, it’d be a nine.”

There’s a variety with almonds! Literally called Honey Bunches of Oats With Almonds! It’s the only one I eat – I don’t even like the toasted almond slices myself, but it just has a fuller, better-rounded flavor overall than the other varieties of HB.

[WesCollingsworth]

Cinnamon Life, Cracklin Oat Bran, and Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds needed to be on the list!

[emmjay]

When I was a kid, I used to pour a bowl of Raisin Bran, go get dressed, pack my book bag, and then come back and eat my cereal. It had soaked up all the milk and become a homogenous sludge with raisins in it. My mom couldn’t even be in the room when I ate it, and now I understand. That was an abomination.

[carololeary]

I’m old. It is my 71st birthday today. Many of these cereals did not exist when I was a child. It’s worth noting that, however, that way back then, Honey Smacks were called Sugar Smacks, Golden Crisps were called Sugar Crisps, and Corn Pops were called Sugar Pops.

[Justin-TPG]

As a UKer, I greatly enjoyed Andrew’s discovery of Weetbix. I liked them with sugar as a child. There is an even less enjoyable part of the experience, and that’s trying to wash the concrete remains of dried Weetabix off of a bowl that wasn’t immediately rinsed after use.

[avramherzog]

Missing for me was Quaker Oat squares and Cinnamon Life.
It also would've been fun to see a showdown between Kellogg's Raisin Bran and Post Raisin Bran.
This was still fun snd worth wasting my time on!

[Haffina]

As an Aussie who grew up on Weet Bix (aussie version of Weetabix) - we generally eat them with lots of sugar to make it palatable. They also turn into concrete in the bowl after they get mushy and then dry out.

[weggerstars]

Krave made its US debut in 2012, so unless you grew up in the 2010's you could not have "not been allowed to have this [Krave] cereal as a kid." 😂

[mattlaymon]

No crunch berries? Justice for the Cap’n!

[ChildofGod]

I love that my childhood favorites were rated so low...cheerios, rice crispies, kix, life, and chex. Apparently I liked all the bland corn/rice variations 😂

[sanyr]

My mom always said if sugar was the first or second thing on the ingredients list, that cereal was banned from the house. Except for the one time in the summer of 89 when she figured we were outside enough to run the extra calories off anyway, so we got one box of Nintendo Cereal System. It was terrible, but it was Nintendo, so I was all about it. Strong 6 out of 10 because the box had two bags in it; one for Mario and one for Zelda.

[Sledgeh]

"What have we learned today?"
Add a lot of sugar to a cereal, you'll automatically get 2 or 3 points higher.

[taken]

As someone who used betterhelp 4 years ago, it's not better, and from what I've heard recently it hasn't improved.

They aren't actual therapists with real degrees. They put out personal opinions instead of getting to a base problem. In my experience I went through 3 people before I had one that was actually a well-spoken individual with actual problem solving skills. They literally have in their ToS that their therapists may not be certified and that they can't diagnose you legitimately.

Just go to a real therapist. Your insurance most likely covers it and it isn't 59/mo.

[paddyodriscoll]

On Buffy, Spike used crumble up Weetabix into blood to make it a little crunchy.