The chocolate Life – got milk?
I found this Life Chocolate Oat Crunch cereal, by Quaker Oats, in one of my favorite stores....the 99 Cents Store! Okay, the lineup of boxes in the window looks 20 years old and yucky, but inside, their produce is acceptable, and I've gotten some interesting food there, so I took a chance the cereal would be good, too. I've never tried Life cereal before - looks too much like Shredded Wheat, which I don't like. But doesn't the chocolate font of Life look scrumptious?
The cereal was fresh. But the taste? Just, no thanks. The cereal part is OKAY, I guess, but who're we kidding; only the chocolate counts and it is the teeniest little morsels of chocolate that look like dirt - or something. Yet I still kept eating it til the end because the box is just so purty and chocolate-y... I'm a chocolate dork! And this just goes to show you, like my sign painter teacher at Art Center used to say: "Choose what to buy based on design." The box reeled me in.
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