Stuff I Ate: Honeycomb
So I bet you’re already thinking…”Ok, you ate some Post Honeycomb cereal, who the hell cares. Everyone has eaten Honeycomb”. Well, you’re right, except you’re not right. Here’s the thing…I was talking to Mrs. WTD on the way home from work the other day, and she started whining about the Honeycomb that she bought and how it’s different, not like the Honeycomb she likes. As is pretty much SOP in these case I thought to myself, “You’re crazy, shut the hell up about it, it’s just a kids breakfast cereal, and it’s the same damn stuff”. When I got home, however, she was able to get me to pour myself a small bowl, and that’s when I noticed something was amiss.
Mrs. WTD isn’t what you’d call a cereal connoisseur…at least not like me. She’ll eat Rice Krispies, Honeycomb, and well, that’s pretty much it. So if something changes with one of her favorites, you can bet she’s going to notice, and in this case, she called shenanigans on the Post company right quick.
As far as I’m concerned, those bastards at Post have been up to no good with Honeycomb for a while. Remember once upon a time the theme song went something like “Honeycomb’s big, yeah yeah yeah. It’s not small, no, no, no”. Well anyway, Honeycomb hasn’t been big in quite sometime. They’ve been gradually shrinking it, and people like you, and my wife, I guess are either not supposed to notice, or not supposed to care. Well Post, we’ve noticed, and we care (and by we, I mean Mrs. WTD).
Apart from being smaller (now about the size of a Nickel when I’m pretty sure it used to be closer to the size of a quarter), it’s now concave on one side (why? I have no idea). Additionally, the familiar wagon wheel shape has been augmented to include lots of smaller pores. I’m not sure how much detail you can see from the picture below, but I can assure you, this is not your father’s honeycomb.
“They fucked it all up” – Mrs. WTD
According to Mrs. WTD, the porousness of the new Honeycomb allows more milk to seep in and consequently it gets soggy way too fast. Additionally, the texture is clearly different (more grainy), and there is a definite change in taste, although I’m unable to pinpoint exactly what’s different – it’s just different, and in this case, different is not good! I think there is a sugary glaze that didn’t used to be there or something. Regardless, it’s not nearly the cereal it once was. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say that this is the single biggest cereal debacle since those morons in charge of making Trix moved away from the simple little fruit balls in favor of the fruit shaped pieces. I’m still bitter about that one.
So in conclusion: Honeycomb’s small yeah yeah. It’s not big no no no. Also, It must live in a pineapple under the sea, cuz absorbent and yellow and porous is she. Hey Post, if I wanted a soggy breakfast, I’d eat some friggin oatmeal.
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Tony works as a Systems Administrator for an Internet content provider. When he's not working at his "real job", he spends as much time as he possibly can playing and writing about golf. He also enjoys photography and spending time with his wife and 2 dogs.
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the new honeycomb sucks ass. I cannot believe they would ruin a great thing. I have loved it for 30 years or more. i am absolutely saddened by this – angry that a great cereal is gone – and militant that they are trying to pass this dogfood off as honeycomb.
They suck. I am 42 and can remember when they changed them years ago. I did not eat them for a long time then they brought the original recipe back. Now they screwed them up again, and even worse. Their idea people are the worst in the world. I wrote them and gave them a piece of my mind. Someone needs to start a website devoted to getting the original Honeycomb back. If they need to change something, they should just make the new recipe and market seperately as a new product. Brian Steyer
I was so glad I found your blog. It came up first under “why did Post honeycomb change taste” on google. The new recipe tastes like some generic brand wanna be honeycomb. It used to be my favorite cereal. Now I will never buy it again!
Well I am so glad I am not a complete nut case I knew they changed when I opened the box and then when I saw it again. Whats really sick is these bastards leave the original look of the cereal on the box and they put this crap in there. I can tell all of you right now that this is simply WAFFLECRISP with no syrup in it and thats the truth. Tastes like crap and I want to know why they changed it the cereal is so UGH this is the last time I buy it I’ll eat it…but I won’t like it. Not gonna waste money but damn….WHY….POST…..WHY?? Should be called the HONEY HOAX its a FARSE!!!!!
Just don’t buy it. Enjoy one of the other 436 cereal varieties in the aisle. America gets to complain about some really funny shit
I just bought a box last week for the first time in probably 20 years. What a freaking disappointment! I’ll never buy it again.
Well I recently purchased a box of Honeycomb cereal and discovered upon eating a bowl of it that the shape and taste of those little combs are way off from what I remember years ago. It’s not so bad though; not as sweet which is fine by me. Mind you though, I’ve been piling down mountains of oatmeal in the last couple of years so anything remotely sweet tastes like stuffing wads of cotton candy into my mouth.
Lucky Charms is still the same though.