"Canadian" Kellogg's Frosted Flakes

[pyro]

The Canadian product is maltier-tasting, the flavor is smother and more intense. The flakes are usually thinner and more jagged-shaped too, with less of the tiny air pockets in the flakes. The frosting usually is glossy-looking. Hard to eat just one bowl.

The Battle Creek product is bland. Tastes like corn and sugar (mostly IS anyway), but more of a gritty, boring plain-jane flavor. The flakes are more rounded, usually thicker with more air bubbles in the flakes, and a satin-texture frosting. Not nearly as addictive as the Canuck flakes.

Of the two Canuck lines, (00735 and 04132), the 00735 has a better "smell inside the bag" aroma, the 04132 flakes have more of the "old socks" aroma, but they both taste the same.

Additionally, there are other inconsistencies in the product. Thickness or hardness of the flakes, amount of frosting, etc. Quality control isn't very strict. I still love my Frosted Flakes though, as long as I can still find the Canadian ones.

In the photo, they almost look the same, other than the slight color and shape difference.
Battle Creek 00734 product on the left, . . . . . . . . . . . . . Canada 04132 product on the right.

By hydro_pyro at 2007-08-14