Rant about Cookie Crisp

Okay, we all remember Cookie Crisp from our childhood, and how cool it was to eat cookies for breakfast. Well, I have a tip for all of you: do not try to relive those days. You will be disappointed.

My mom bought me a box of Cookie Crisp because I had been talking about it, and it was on sale. Well, I thought it would be the coolest experience ever. I couldn't wait to open it and eat cookies for breakfast. I remembered eating it with my dad when I was young. Well, my memories would have been better than learning that my entire childhood was a lie.

Upon opening the box, I expected to find cookies a little smaller than the mini Chips Ahoy, basically mini cookie size. These "cookies" were instead the size of nickels, tiny little things. They also were not of proper cookie shape. They were rounded on both sides, and everyone knows that cookies have one flat side: the bottom. Lastly, the "chocolate chips" were tiny little brown dots that looked like tiny circles glued onto the cereal.

Okay, so I was disappointed about the way they looked, but they must have tasted better, right? Well, they didn't taste bad, but they weren't what I expected. I ate one dry to find that the texture was all wrong, and then decided to take the final step: eat them with milk. Well, they tasted alright, but they tasted like... cereal. I wanted cookies. I never remembered them being such a disappointment as a kid, but I was being tricked. I was never eating cookies, it was always just cereal made to look like cookies. Go figure.

I guess I probably should have seen it coming all along, but really, I was surprised. I think I might have been better off not trying to relive my childhood days, because then I would have always remembered it as eating cookies for breakfast.