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PUMPKIN SPICE CHEERIOS

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Welcome to day 2 of Tag Sale Tastes’ Pumpkinpalooza 2020!

Today I bring you Pumpkin Spice Cheerios:

This is a limited edition of the popular cereal.  The fat little pumpkin and cinnamon sticks hint at what’s in store for you:

Don’t worry if you find cereal kinda boring — there’s a Tic-Tac-‘O’ game on the back to keep you entertained.  Get four pumpkins in a row and you win!   Win what, you ask? Why, nothing.

No pumpkin in the ingredient list, but the key spices — cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves — are there:

And here they are.  Notice the orange color of the cereal (from the annatto).  I need and appreciate the visual color cue — well played, Cheerios.

Look how cheery they are bobbing around in their milk bath:

These were surprisingly good.  Although I wouldn’t want to marry them, I would buy them again.  They had a noticeable and pleasant pumpkin spice flavor, a nice change of pace to herald the change of seasons.  Hi Ho Cheerio!

Rating:  5 pumpkins (out of 5)

TRADER JOE’S PUMPKIN O’S

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Welcome to day 24 of Tag Sale Tastes’ Pumpkinpalooza!

On the recommendation of a friend, who declared them “the bomb,” I grabbed a box of Trader Joe’s Pumpkin O’s.  I have to add that Trader Joe’s had an unbelievable amount of pumpkin and pumpkin spice flavored products, including pumpkin spice cookie butter (save me).

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As the ingredient list shows, these are pretty healthy, at least compared to oh, say, Pumpkin Spice Twinkies, and they contain pumpkin and cinnamon, and no artificial flavors.

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Pumpkin O’s are fat and airy o-shaped cereal.  Depending on the light, they have a slight orange or yellow cast.  You can’t see it in the photo, but they have a sort of sugary sparkle:

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Here they are bobbing around in milk like little life rafts:

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I wouldn’t go so far as to call them the bomb, but I agree with my friend that they were very good.  I liked their light texture.  They had a pleasant pumpkin-y spice taste, and stayed crunchy for quite a while in milk.  They weren’t too shabby out of hand either.  I bet these would make great cereal bars (a la Rice Krispie Treats) as a seasonal treat.

Rating:  4-1/2 pumpkins (out of 5)