Sunday, May 16, 2010

Envirokidz Gorilla Munch

Cereal is so easy and fast to prepare, but the variety of cereals here in Japan is seriously lacking and the box always recommends pouring it on salad. 

The other problem with Japanese cereal is that it contains that enemy villain evil dude guy, barley.  Barley!  Barley is no!  No barley!  I've found a couple of edible cereals, but they're always so expensive and flavorless (and in tiny, tiny packages).  Apparently the only way to get an edible cereal is to get one with two ingredients.  Uhhh ... yum?

So I broke down and turned to the internet.  I picked up some brown rice cereal and this Envirokidz Gorilla Munch.  I don't really like sweet cereals, and this one looked kind of like Kix.  So I went for it. 

It is almost like Kix, if Kix was sweeter and crunchier.  Kix is corn, but it's fairly crispy and light in texture.  Gorilla Munch is heavy and has a texture like ... like ... well, I don't even know what it's like.  I have a feeling I've eaten something like this before and I can't remember what it is.  It's pretty good by itself, but very, very crunchy.

With milk, it did what I expected.  It gets a little bit slimy.  (I KNOW I have eaten a cereal like this before.)  But it still tastes good.  And gets a bit less crunchy.  Still a bit sweeter than I'd like, but if I want to eat something that isn't organic corn flakes, I might just have to put up with that.