New Product Review:

Marshmallow Mania Pebbles

Reviewed by Mr Breakfast on 2/25/2005

It's a festive looking cereal. Green and red specks in the cereal pieces make it look like a limited-edition holiday cereal. I got a laugh from the marshmallows that are supposed to look like Fred Flinstone and Barney Rubble. My finger looks more like these characters than the marshmallows do. I was glad to see the Great Gazoo character on the box. For a Flinstones refresher, this was the prime-time cartoon's jump-the-shark character - a little green alien who would appear to Fred at inopportune times and fail to appear when our hero needed him most. His marshmallow looks like a candy Valentine heart that got wet.

I'm sad to report that this is a very unnecessary cereal. It tastes fine - a sweet marshmallow taste just as the box promises. The problem is that its flavor is a carbon copy of several cereals already on the market... most notably Luck Charms. Sure, I know - half the cereals on the market are rip-offs of other cereals... so the relatively high rating I'm giving here is what I'd give Lucky Charms minus one egg for lack of originality.

1 gram of saturated fat per serving. 0 trans fats. 110 calories. A serving size is only 3/4 of a cup so double those numbers if you eat realistically. But good news for the weight-conscience fat-watchers: zero times zero equals zero.

The price we paid: $3.99