Posted on 09/21/2017 2:55:51 PM PDT by SMGFan
Trix is back to its old tricks - and people who like their breakfast cereal green and blue can rejoice. The colorful cereal will once again be made with artificial dyes and flavors, nearly two years after they were banished from the cereal.
General Mills, which makes Trix, says customers asked for the old formula to come back.
The Minneapolis-based company had made the changes in 2016 to try and appeal to parents who were increasingly concerned about what ingredients were in their food. But when it switched to using turmeric, strawberries and other natural sources, the cereal lost its famous neon colors.
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Silly Rabbi, kicks are for Trids.
So beets, saffron, and pumpkin didn’t work out?
I had my first bowl of Fruity Pebbles in 25 years earlier this year. Post ruined the formula. The texture was completely different, completely unlike the fruity version of the previously discontinued Rice Krinkles they are supposed to be. Further the dominant flavor was the recently (to me) introduced “blue”. Basically the product tasted like Froot Loops.
Last summer I discovered that Special K was also ruined. The unique texture was completely gone. Do any of the knock-offs taste like REAL Special K?
I guess the organic Trix breakfast cereal market was overestimated, lol.
They all have good teeth and no weight problems.
“Silly Rabbi, kicks are for Trids.”
OMG! I KNOW that joke, LOL! I didn’t think anyone outside of my Dad and Grandpa knew that joke.
Eating Trix and most other boxed cereals aimed at kids, for breakfast, is just about the same as consuming a big bowl of refined sugar. About the same nutritional value, too.
“So beets, saffron, and pumpkin didn’t work out?”
I saw a DOG FOOD commercial the other day and the dog was voiced over, saying how much he LOVED the chicken in his kibble, but what REALLY sent him over the Moon were the blueberries and pumpkin and spinach bits!
I’ve NEVER seen my dogs go out to the garden and eat ANY of those fruits or veggies, and they ARE readily available to them.
They do, however, eat and/or roll in, any roadkill they find, LOL!
(P.S. This post does NOT advocate for CHILDREN to eat Roadkill. Unless they’ve grown up on it...like I did.)
Something else is happening too.
Snacking peanut companies are raising the salt levels in many of their mixes. Yay, I say! If I want to chew flavorless paper pebbles, then I will purchase flavorless paper pebbles.
I haven’t heard it, or told it, for years.
Junk Food Liberation Front rejoices
End the tyranny of the all natural organic no-GMO sugar free Oppressors
I’m so glad that I grew up in a time when we could eat all of the artificially preserved CRAP that we wanted, Trix Cereal, Space Sticks, Wonder Bread and Swanson TV Dinners, included!
And we could ride our bikes without being wrapped in Bubble Wrap.
And we could play outside, unsupervised, for 12 hours a day in the Summertime and after supper, until the street lights came on, when we had school.
And we could cross busy streets without a Crossing Guard or some electric SIGN that told us it was safe to cross.
And we could Trick-or-Treat AT NIGHT without fear of being killed by weirdos. Or Clowns!
And our Moms and Dads (WE HAD ONE OF EACH!) Grandmas and Grandpas (WE HAD TWO OF EACH!) or any other MOM in the ‘Hood, could beat us senseless and send us to bed without supper if we deserved it. ;)
You got it! My sister and I had ‘Stingray’ bikes with the high handle bars and, ‘banana’ seats.
They weren’t, ‘bikes.’ They. Were. Horses.
If I had video of the things we did on those bikes, heads would EXPLODE!
(Mostly our Mom, but what she doesn’t know at this point, won’t hurt her.)
Since then, I treat every General Mills product as if it tastes like dog crap.
People say they want healthy, but flavor is what sells. Pepsi keeps selling what was supposed to be a seasonal sugar based version, but Coke has to keep re-launching their diet versions. They just did a relaunch of sugar free Coke Zero. “Now available with No Sugar”. I guess their customers are stupid enough to fall for that one.
Hey, Coke - try putting sugar in Coke and see your products sell. Better yet, Sugar AND carbonation like it had in the 60s.
Things were different back then. Our parents could take us in for stitches when we needed them without getting multi-thousand dollar bills to pay.
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