The N Cereal AA: It Begins
Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on June 23, 2009 – 12:35 AM18 Comments
Still some busywork to do here before I open the polls (read: “I picked a fight with the polling software and lost, big-time”), but the N Cereal AA is almost ready to launch. You can find the complete bracket by clicking this link. The write-ups for the Round of 64, Flight 1: The Classics will go up Tuesday, with polls to follow no later than Wednesday.
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I am way to excited about this! It’s 4:30 am and I almost did a happy dance!
I punched my husband so hard in the arm when I read Wing’s tweet yesterday, I think I left a bruise. (*WHAM* N-CEREAL-DOUBLE-A, HONEY!!!) Suffice to say I was a tad bit excited. Work is boring, and life on the Internet has been quiet…glad to have something to look forward to!
Clearly, the top left bracket will be the bloodiest. The also-rans in the lower left will benefit by such scheduling.
Heee. This is just too much fun.
Not to be picky but Captain Crunch = Cap’n Crunch. It’s a pet peeve of my hubbie’s…and now I guess mine too.
I’m already stressing about Cracklin’ Oat Bran versus Grape Nuts. Gah!
Get Urkelized with Urkel-O’s!
Yay! This is actually more exciting than the ice creams and I have several new flavors thanks to that one.
Oh I wish CW Post were still around. I loved that cereal so much…
I also am way too excited about this. I’m a bit curious whether the final two will be Cheerios vs Honey Nut Cheerios, the way it is in my pantry.
Wow, the Cracklin’ Oat Bran/Grape Nuts face-off is going to be a doozie for me. (And WOW did my parents raise me on some old-fart cereals.)
In the grocery business, the usual name for the category of super-healthy unsweetened cereal is “twigs & gravel.” When Peapod (online grocery) first went up, they actually used that name in their product hierarchy for a while before breaking it down into more marketable categories like “multigrain” and “organic and natural.”
@Avis – Oh, I loved CW Post too. My local chain (Kroger) has store-brand “100% Natural Oats” cereal that is really, really close to CW Post. Maybe your store does too? It’s just in the regular cereal aisle, not the organic / healthy section.
@LTG – Hilarious, because I always call those healthy-type cereals “crunchy rocks and twigs” cereal. Same thing with coarse-textured, whole grain breads. I always have to explain to people that I’m not *actually* eating bread or cereal comprised of rocks and twigs, but mean it figuratively. Now, I can explain that I am using a standard industry term. Validation!
NOTE: I built the brackets incorrectly vis-a-vis the rankings. Please stand by for a corrected version. This will not affect voting in this round.
@Sue – Thanks! I’ll have to try those! I’m not sure if we still have Kroger’s though so I’ll be looking around.
Cracklin’ Oat Bran all the way. That stuff is like crack – I can only buy it once in a blue moon for fear that I will eat the entire box in a day. Characterizing it as “twigs and gravel” is crazy talk = it has high fat and cinnamon goodness to die for and no way all that fat in one serving can be good for you. Grape Nuts must be defeated!
It may be better to wait until its up for voting, but I have to ask: does anybody else remember Cracklin’ Oat Bran being…different? Better? I know it’s kinda tasty now, but as kids my sister and I would DESTROY a box of that stuff in no time. And then they changed the recipe, I KNOW they did. We knew it the second we tried it. *sniff* and it’s never been the same…
Seriously, are we crazy? Well, okay, are we crazy about THIS?
I can’t help but wonder what the tournament would have been like had it been done in the days when Freakies were still around. BossMoss for the win!
This is brilliant, but can I just say how unhappy I am that Cheerios and Golden Grahams are facing off in the first round? That would pretty much be my championship match-up…
Not only do I remember Cracklin’ Oat Bran being different, I remember it used to have a different name: it seems to me that it was Cracklin’ Bran – no Oat. And the addition of Oat did not make it tastier. But I can’t find it (any version, oated or unoated) in my grocery store(s) any more, and it’s so long since I tasted either version, I’m no longer certain.
I do think we’ll be seeing a lot more a lot more nostalgia in the comments of the “Oh, why can’t I find Crack Berry Crunchies anymore? I LOVED those!” variety than we did for the ice cream brackets. Either the twigs and rocks/sugar-coated floor sweepings biz is subject to a lot more product obsolescence than the frozen butterfat biz or people just get really attached to the crap they scarfed down while watching Saturday morning cartoons. I can’t decide which.