75% less sugar

Posted by kevin Fri, 05 Aug 2005 16:41:54 GMT

I’ll admit it: I’m one of those crazy semi-health conscious americans. I compulsively check the labels on anything I eat to make sure it’s not more than 1/3 fat, but I’ll each chocolate bars all day long without thinking twice.

Anyways, when the Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal came out with a new 75% less sugar version, I was curious enough to try it.

<h1>What Were They Thinking?</h1>

It’s terrible – tastes like sawdust. It’s not like they replaced regular sugar with fake sugar or splenda, like I’d expected, but it’s just not sweet. Worse yet – it’s nearly the same number of calories as regular Cinnamon Toast Crunch. So they’ve traded yummy sugar for sawdust. Bleh.

I really don’t understand how some companies can make such big mistakes, or how they can even make enough money to pay all their $100,000/yr executives in the first place. I should go take an economics class, but I rather enjoy my confused perspective of the economy.

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  1. Jenn (aka candy177 on AP) said 5 days later:

    I haven’t tried it myself so I can’t comment on that. However, in the first paragraph I noticed that you would “each” candy bars every day….I presume you meant “eat”. :)

  2. Mike said 24 days later:

    All I eat is cheap grocery brand cereal so I can save enough money to get through college.

  3. Jason said 58 days later:

    I used to love this cereal, and one night a few weeks ago I noticed a new box in the shelf. Yay! Anyway I fixed myself a bowl and settled down to watch TV Land and at the first taste I knew that something was horribly wrong. That’s when I went to check the box and saw the big 75% less sugar banner. I had to add some sugar to the milk before I could even finish it, and even then it was terrible.

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