In this edition of, “As the Novelty Cereal Turns,” General Mills brings us it’s latest offering, Drumstick mint chocolate cereal. If you’re thinking, “wait, I thought General Mills already had an ‘ice cream’ cereal?” Well you, my friend are correct. They also make dippin dots cereal, which is similar to Drumsticks. Let’s dig into this review and I’ll tell you a little more.Aesthetics

Nothing really stands out, as far as looks go, with this cereal. If a box of this cereal was on a dating app, it’d be one of those where your friend takes your phone and swipes right, because it looks sweet, safe and nice. The box is pretty simple and reminiscent of the dippin dots cereal box design. The cereal pieces are advertised as cone cereal pieces, ice cream flavored scoops and cocoa nuggets. To me, that’s a fancy way of saying squares, green discs and chocolate balls. The green discs, or ice cream flavored scoops in this case, look like homemade mints done up for a wedding in 1989. Snackability

The short and sweet of it is that this cereal is pretty good when eaten without milk. The trio of cereal pieces provide nice texture diversity and are just sweet enough when you need a little pick me up. Structural Integrity

I had low expectations that this cereal would hold up well in milk. However, I was pleasantly surprised that by the time I finished my bowl, pieces still have some crunch and were not milklogged. (milklogged is a thing right?) I think the cereal pieces being relatively small and compact helped them retain their structural integrity better than most. I dare say, this cereal stayed better in milk than Grape-Nuts. (that could be my hot take of this review) I actually think the milk helps the cereal, but I’ll talk more about that in the flavor section of this review.

Cereal Concept

I’m ranking the concept of this cereal three spoons because it’s nothing really new. As I mentioned earlier, the same company produces dippin dots cereal, which is essentially marketed as ice cream cereal like this. You could give me “Juice Barrel Cereal” and I’d be more impressed with the concept. And I’d want that cereal to come in a six pack of those little juice barrels with each being a different flavor, except for grape. Artificial grape is the taste of bad decisions and codeine. But I digress. 

Flavor

The box promotes “the taste of the original sundae cone now in your cereal bowl.” I can honestly say, it certainly tastes nothing like that. When you open the bag, you’re hit in the face with a strong scent of nothing, except perhaps a faint smell of cocoa from the Cocoa Puffs, err, I mean “cocoa nuggets.” So, if you ever wondered what chocolate balls taste like, it’s Cocoa Puffs. The green cereal pieces have very little mint flavoring to them, which is disappointing, since I expected the cereal as a whole to somewhat taste like my favorite ice cream. Adding milk to the cereal helps, if only because it tells my mind that this is more like ice cream that way. 

Final Thoughts

Drumstick mint chocolate cereal tastes okay and just okay at that. I was overall underwhelmed by it, but maybe I was expecting too much. In essence, it’s almost having a bowl of Golden Grahams and Cocoa Puffs more than mint chocolate sundae. In my years of eating cereal, I’ve learned that cereals advertising as cookies and ice cream for breakfast usually fail to deliver and taste nothing like either.

if you want ice cream for breakfast, then skip this cereal and just have a bowl of ice cream for breakfast. If you’re an adult, you can eat whatever you want because YOU’RE AN ADULT.