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Posted by: stak
Tags: cereal
Posted on: 2009-08-11 22:48:45
In round 1h, the contenders were Force Active and Special K.
CerealWars Round 1h
Really this should be called the battle of the funny-named cereals. What kind of a name is "Force Active"? It's the kind of name that doesn't require a French translation, that's what. Force Active is Force Active in both languages, and I'm sure that must have been the guiding factor in their selection of the name, because there's no other reason I can think of that they would choose it.
And on the other side we've got Special K. With red berries. I can only assume the K stands for Kellogg's. But what makes it so special? And what's with the "red berries"? What non-strawberry red berries does it contain? Answer: none.
Anyway, ordinarily in cases like this, where there's one cereal with fruit and the other without, it would be a slam dunk in favor of the fruited one. But I hesitate here because for the strawberries in the Special K cereal weren't all that good. I don't know what it was, maybe I just got a bad box or something, but the strawberries weren't exactly exploding with flavor. They tasted pretty bland, actually. The cereal itself was otherwise pretty standard corn flakes, hard to go wrong with that.
The Force Active cereal was pretty good. It had rice/wheat flakes with granola clusters, and just the right amount of granola I think. The combination was good, the consistency was good, and it didn't have a mountain of cereal dust at the bottom of the box like the Special K did. Still, on the whole, there wasn't anything remarkable about this cereal other than the name, and the taste of it is quickly fading from my memory.
It's a tough call, but I think in this case the winner is Special K, but only because their sorry excuse for fruit was still better than not having fruit at all. Take that away and Force Active would beat it senseless. With force. Actively.
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