Fruity Pebbles Crisps or painted rice cakes
Fruity Pebbles Crisps! Who wouldn’t want a deliciously sweet cereal turned into a giant crisp? Well, maybe a lot of people if that crisp is actually just a rice cake.
“No milk needed!” 👏 “Portable Fruity Pebbles!” 👏 “Gluten free!” 🤨 “Crispy rice snacks!” 🤔 I was with the makers of Fruity Pebbles Crisps at the start, but pretty skeptical by the end. Why would you take a perfectly loved cereal that could easily be made into a snack as-is, and instead turn it into a rice crisp? Who wants a rice crisp? I remember when rice cakes were all the dieting rage in the 90s. I thought that passed though.
Well, turns out Fruity Pebbles are already a “sweetened rice cereal” and gluten free. I didn’t realize that! So maybe these are not supposed to be far from the original.
How Does It Taste?
It tastes like a rice cake with a Fruity Pebbles flavor brushed on to it. I’m envisioning someone with a brush, dipping it into a cup, and painting each rice cake with a thin layer of Fruity Pebbles-flavored liquid. A work of art (!!) that tastes extremely disappointing. The Fruity Pebbles flavor is definitely there, but it only lasts for about two seconds, leaving you with bland rice cake and essence of Fruity Pebbles lingering in your mouth.
Appearance and Expectations
It says right on the bag, “Actual Size!” but each shot is of the top of the crisp. I was envisioning a flat rice cake with some thickness to it. When I actually opened the bag I found them to be way thinner than I was expecting, and shaped like a tiny dish. I used to have a dish like this in my bedroom to store jewelry when I was in the shower. I never envisioned eating that dish. Ignoring the shape, they look like 50 Fruity Pebbles melted down and squashed together into one bigger edible bite. Have you ever seen Perler Beads, where you take these plastic cylinders and melt them down into fun shapes? That is what this looks like.
Overall Opinion
The original cereal is already marketed as “rice,” which was new to me. So what went wrong here? Fruity Pebbles on their own are pretty delicious. Do enlarged Fruity Pebbles just reveal their inherit weaknesses? Or did Post play with the idea too much and thought a rice cake painted with Fruity Pebble flavoring would be good enough? Either way, it’s a failure. I do not enjoy these and haven’t touched the bag since opening them up a week ago.
Rating
1/5 Adam Heart Eyes. Are these just enlarged Fruity Pebbles, or a separate rice cake painted with flavoring? Either way, it’s not good.