The 10 Worst Cereal Failures

Thanks to the surprise guest for helping me talk about these failed breakfast cereals 🙂
Written by: Josh Strider
Video Edited by:
& Josh Strider
Produced & commissioned by Josh Strider (Phantom Strider)

[saiyanc]

The fact that Nickelodeon's ACTUAL slime has more nutritional value than most things sold to kids is something that will bug me for the rest of my life.

[jaycerrito]

I remember trying the 2020 SpongeBob cereal while babysitting during the late summer-early fall and I thought it was just Lucky Charms in SpongeBob form and I adored the original 2004 cereal. I guess SpongeBob cereals are just limited time and not terrible

[lincolnmiller]

Fun fact: one day when I was in the dentist's waiting room as a kid, I found a book that listed the Pac-Man cereal as one of the sugariest cereals of all time.

[pansexualdoofus]

Apparently my world history teacher was part of a control group as a young jersey kid, and they were making a kool-aid cereal. he said something along the line of "this is fucking gross". Needless to say he was never part of a control group again, but the cereal never got dropped, so thanks Mr. [redacted]. Truly the hero we didn't know we needed in this world

[pagananarchist]

I've tried the Dunkin Donuts cereal, and to be honest, it tasted alright. I kind of liked that the milk tasted like coffee afterwards since I usually add milk to my coffee in place of coffee creamer.

[Applepoisoneer]

A fun fact that I learned a few years back; apparently baby shampoo was added to the green slime recipe because people found it difficult to wash out of hair and clothes. It's still not toxic if ingested, but probably doesn't taste great.

[bullymaguire]

I love how he calls bananas sport snacks like he’s living in lazy town

[TheRupeeMine]

Honorable mention: Wendy's Frosty cereal. As someone who works at Wendy's, i was excited to try it. But it's literally just Coco Puffs with miniature marshmallows

[GlobalsoftPirka]

At first, I thought the Critic was superimposed into the video and not actually collaborating with you! Oh my gosh, when I realized I cracked up!

I love the video. There are so many crazy cereals, and lately they’ve been doing tons of limited edition flavours, but these ones feel like they were hoping they’d be mainstream…

[mk_wizard]

The thing that makes me laugh hard about the sugary cereals is that we tend to overeat the healthy ones too. The bowl we usually eat them out of is for soup not cereal. The real portion we're supposed to eat is a single ice cream scoop cup and have fruit on the side. I learned this from my doctor.

[filxie]

Ahh, I remember the cupcake pebbles. Never tried them because my parents said “why would anyone want to eat cupcakes for breakfast” yet they’d still buy me the regular ones which weren’t any better. Good times 💕

[erwingup]

Regarding some of the cereals that disappeared without a trace, I have actually found most of them in a discount bulk sale store called ollies. I remember seeing countless boxes of sour patch kids boxes sitting in a location in food where you could not miss them, no idea why they were there though

[JesusMartinez-rrry]

Moral of the story: Cereal shouldn't have to rely on brand recognition alone to be successful, let alone in the long term.
P.S. PhantomStrider, I enjoyed your collaboration with the Nostalgia Critic and hope I can see another collaboration with another person anytime soon.

[elrodrigo]

I really love it when you and the Nostalgia Critic team up. Such fun!

[Emily-cwtj]

The banana frostings saving 15¢ on the box certainly dates the box even further 😂

[freetz]

I'm really enjoying the food-related countdowns, Phantom :)

[miltoncobb]

Y’know, I actually did eat the sour patch cereal. And saying that the cereal taste like Bittersweet in the most literal of sense might be an understatement. Also, this is the fourth time That the nostalgic critic have ever appeared in your crossovers strider.

[ILTDGames]

Interesting to hear that the cereal industry is going downhill, here in Mexico the government banned any kind of characters in junk food packaging to tackle child obesity, so no more Tony the Tiger or cartoon branded cereals for us.

Also i tried the Sour Patch cereal and honestly i was expecting something waaaay worse, but yeah i didn't finish the box.

[SinWith_Me]

I had many boxes of the Dunkin’ cereal. And when he said it’s like coffee flavored Cocoa Puffs, that’s a dead-on explanation. It wasn’t as bad as I was expecting. It wasn’t overly sweet. If you like coffee & cereal separately, you’d probably like the Dunkin’ cereal.

[turquoisetint]

I remember buying and trying the Sour Patch Kids cereal when it came out. It tasted like Sour Patch Kids, but when you added milk they had this kind-of foul flavor to the milk, overall they tasted better by themselves. I can't remember if I finished the box or passed it off to one of my friends XD