Frosted Flakes are delicious. They’re delicately crunchy, have an excellent corn flavor, and are sweet enough to stand in for dessert if you want something to balance out a salty dinner. Also, Tony the Tiger is hot. Sue us.
Our favorite anthropomorphic, bandana-clad tiger boi recently unleashed two new flavors of Frosted Flakes on the cereal aisle: and . Are they worth a spot in your breakfast rotation or should you stick with the original?
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Strawberry Milkshake Frosted Flakes
Welp, I’m completely obsessed with this cereal. I brought it home and I eat a bowl almost every night. Sometimes I have two or three consecutive bowls. It’s sick, but I can’t help myself. Without milk, the strawberry flavor is a little too overpowering (hence the 9 Sporks), but these flakes are absolutely made to be eaten with milk. The box even promises that you’ll be left with a bowl of strawberry milk once you’ve consumed the flakes, and that claim holds up. If you like strawberry milk, strawberry ice cream, and strawberry milkshakes, you’re really going to love this.
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Rating:
9/10
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Cinnamon French Toast Frosted Flakes
This isn’t dramatically different than other cinnamon cereals, but it does manage to incorporate an almost bread-y flavor I promise I wasn’t imagining (I thought I maybe tasted egg too, but my colleague Jordan Myrick disabused me of that notion). “If you like French toast, I think you would love these,” said Jordan, a person who prefers both pancakes and waffles to French toast. Cinnamon French Toast Frosted Flakes didn’t quite make a French toast convert of them, but this cereal definitely has its virtues. Plus, cinnamon cereal is pretty common, so go with Strawberry Milkshake if you want something unique.
Howdy! I’m Gwynedd, Sporked’s managing editor. I live in Los Angeles and have access to the best tacos the U.S. has to offer—but I’m a sucker for a crunchy Old El Paso taco night every now and then. I’ve been at Sporked since 2022 and I’m still searching frozen mozzarella sticks that can hold a candle to restaurant sticks.
Why you should trust me: I’ve been a journalist for 20 years (yikes), a consumer of food for 40-plus years, and I’m truly hard pressed to think of foods I don’t like (or that I can’t tolerate at the very least). Oh and one time I cooked my way through Guy Fieri’s cookbook and wrote about the journey through Flavortown.
What I buy every week: Trader Joe’s Original Savory Thins. Fat free plain yogurt (usually Fage or Nancy’s). Honeycrisp apples. Sweet cream coffee creamer for my at-home Americanos. A frozen cauliflower crust pizza and some jarred mushrooms to top it with. Old El Paso Stand ‘N Stuff taco shells and Gardein Ground Be’f, even though I think “be’f” is a nightmarish contraction.
Favorite ranking: Stouffer’s frozen dinners. I don’t own a microwave (I get my cancers the old fashioned way!), so I love taste testing things that I don’t really buy to eat at home.
Least favorite ranking: Soy sauce. Don’t get me wrong, I love soy sauce—but consuming that much sodium in one sitting is probably illegal in some countries. Our frozen enchilada taste test was a close second; the smell of microwaved corn tortillas still haunts me.
Thoughts? Questions? Complete disagreement? Leave a comment!
I thought i had hit the gold mine of gold mines when I found each of these cereals earlier this year. I found the Cinnamon one first and I was okay with it the first bowel. A few days later the second bowel didn’t taste as good and I marked it up as “Maybe the mil has started to spoil.” With a new half gallon of milk in hand that weekend, I tried my third bowel and realised it wasn’t the milk. I just didn’t care for the over sweet taste and smell of fake pancake syrup coming from the bowel. This was the end for the Cinnamon Frosted Flakes and they were crushed and fed to the local pigeon population. On to the Strawberry Frosted Flakes. I was a little more excited for these and immediately shut my hopes and ambitions down after opening the bag. The small was so fake and sickening. Do not get me wrong, i am a product of the era when Strawberry Shortcake and her friends were first released. Back when Saturday mornings where about sugar loaded cereals, cartoons and commercials based right off the toys they were pumping on the shelves. The smell was very reminiscent to the smell of a newly opened Strawberry Shortcake doll, if you plugged your nose with her hair that is. I tried one bowel and that bag now sits in the back seat of my car, waiting for me to feed it to the same pigeons, if I can bring myself out of the idea that it might be animal cruelty.
Complete disagree. My son LOVES anything strawberry. I will buy him any new product. He bought these for himself. HATED Frosted Flakes Strawberry. Ended up giving them to my nephew who also did not like them.
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I thought i had hit the gold mine of gold mines when I found each of these cereals earlier this year. I found the Cinnamon one first and I was okay with it the first bowel. A few days later the second bowel didn’t taste as good and I marked it up as “Maybe the mil has started to spoil.” With a new half gallon of milk in hand that weekend, I tried my third bowel and realised it wasn’t the milk. I just didn’t care for the over sweet taste and smell of fake pancake syrup coming from the bowel. This was the end for the Cinnamon Frosted Flakes and they were crushed and fed to the local pigeon population. On to the Strawberry Frosted Flakes. I was a little more excited for these and immediately shut my hopes and ambitions down after opening the bag. The small was so fake and sickening. Do not get me wrong, i am a product of the era when Strawberry Shortcake and her friends were first released. Back when Saturday mornings where about sugar loaded cereals, cartoons and commercials based right off the toys they were pumping on the shelves. The smell was very reminiscent to the smell of a newly opened Strawberry Shortcake doll, if you plugged your nose with her hair that is. I tried one bowel and that bag now sits in the back seat of my car, waiting for me to feed it to the same pigeons, if I can bring myself out of the idea that it might be animal cruelty.
Jordan is right, it’s French Toast cereal, and it’s incredible. Best with oat milk, where it absolutely sings.
Complete disagree. My son LOVES anything strawberry. I will buy him any new product. He bought these for himself. HATED Frosted Flakes Strawberry. Ended up giving them to my nephew who also did not like them.