Every time Rachel Bilson opens up about her sex life, Bill Hader adds a new line item to his Raya profile.
The O.C. star’s been frank about her romantic relationships via her podcast Broad Ideas, sharing how she co-parents with her ex-fiance, Hayden Christensen, revisiting her teen soap fling with co-star Adam Brody, and, most recently, breaking down her one-year relationship with Hader. Bilson’s gone on the record to talk about her painful breakup from the SNL alumn and grieve the loss of his “big d*ck” after they split. Now, she’s offering up another candid confession about her bedroom activities, and fans are already suspecting it’s Hader’s umm … skills she’s referencing.
On Monday’s episode of her show, Bilson and stand-up comedian Whitney Cummings discussed all things orgasms — why women have them, why they don’t, and what a tilted uterus has to do with it. After Cummings confessed she first orgasmed from penetrative sex after getting off birth control, Bilson chimed in that she’d never experienced an orgasm from the old hetero way of shagging — the penis-in-vagina intercourse model (PIV) — until three years ago, at age 38.
“Isn’t that crazy,” Bilson asked Cummings, agreeing with her co-host that she could orgasm other ways but ” not from, like, d*ck inside.”
Naturally, fans sidestepped the importance of two women being honest about the ways women’s pleasure is different from men’s and instead began theorizing that Hader is the master lothario who introduced Bilson to her first Big O.
According to the Twitter-sourced timeline, Bilson and Hader began dating in 2019 when the actress was 38 years old. They ended their relationship in July of 2020 with Bilson saying it was the hardest thing she’d ever done, “harder than childbirth” even.
Our condolences to Christensen, Brody, and Pete Davidson, who’s never dated Bilson (that we know of) but is undoubtedly cowering in a corner somewhere just waiting for Hader to usurp his “funny guy with BDE” throne.
There are a lot of reasons to feel a twinge of nostalgia for the final days of the 20th century. Rampant inflation, a global pandemic and political unrest have created a sense of uneasiness about the future that has everyone feeling a bit down.
There’s also a feeling that the current state of pop culture is lacking as well. Nobody listens to new music anymore and unless you’re into superheroes, it seems like creativity is seriously missing from the silver screen.
But, you gotta admit, that TV is still pretty damn good.
A lot of folks feel Americans have become a lot harsher to one another due to political divides, which seem to be widening by the day due to the power of the internet and partisan media.
Given today’s feeling of malaise, there are a lot of people who miss the 1990s or, as some call it, “the best decade ever.” Why? The 1990s was economically prosperous, crime was on its way down after the violent ’70s and ’80s, and pop culture was soaring with indie films, grunge rock and hip-hop all in their golden eras.
The rest of the world was feeling hopeful as globalization brought prosperity and Communism fell in Europe and Asia.
The mood in America would swiftly change at the turn of the century when the dot-com bubble burst in 2000 and the 2001 9/11 attacks would lead to the never-ending “war on terror.”
A Reddit user by the name purplekat20 was clearly feeling some ’90s nostalgia on May 16 when they asked the online forum to share “What ’90s trend would you bring back?” A lot of people noted that it was a lot cheaper to get by in the ’90s, especially considering gas and rent prices. Others missed living in the real world instead of having one foot in reality and the other online.
Here are 17 things people would love to bring back from the 1990s.
1.
“Inflatable furniture and transparent electronics.” — Dabbles-In-Irony
2.
“Hope.” — DeadOnBalllsaccurate
To which HowardMoo responded: “I hate this despair thing that’s all the rage these days. I miss optimism.”
3.
“The ’90s web was the best web. People actually made their own home pages. Now it’s all social media.” — IBeTrippin
4.
“Affordable housing.” — Amiramaha
5.
“Ninety nine cent per gallon gas.” — Maxwyfe
6.
“The ‘mean people suck’ statement everywhere. People seemed generally a lot happier and kinder back then. It was a nice reminder to be kind.” — simplyintentional
7.
“Being detached. Not being attached to an electronic gadget every minute of every day.” — SuperArppis
8.
“Calling fake-ass people ‘poser.’ The state of social media and ‘reality’ tv demands that this word be taken out of retirement.” — rumpusbutnotwild
9.
“Grunge music.” — ofsquire
10.
“I want movies to be the same caliber as ’90s.” — waqasnaseem07
Cremmitquada nailed it on the head with their response, “Everything has been redone. It’s all recycled ideas now.”
11.
“Pants that didn’t have to be super-tight to be in style.” — chad-beer-316
12.
“People really expressing themselves. Very few people take any risks with style anymore, or they do something ‘different’ that’s just enough to still conform. In the ’80s and ’90s there were people doing crazy things with hair and piercing and just didn’t give a fuck. I don’t think I’ll ever see that come back.” — FewWill
13.
“Great animated TV. Spongebob started in the 90s (99 but it counts), Hey Arnold, X-Men, Batman, Justice League, Dexter’s Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Boomerang cartoons… the list goes on.” — Phreedom Phighter
14.
“Fast food restaurant interiors.” — Glum-Leg-1886
Another fantastic photo of Taco Bell in the 1990s, before the disease of modernismpic.twitter.com/GIiAyNWxiu
“Hypercolor shirts and neon puff paint designs on t-shirts. But here in a few months, that’ll be changed to abortion and voting rights, probably.” — TheDoctorisen
16.
“News that was news instead of rage bait.” — nmj95123
17.
“We had a stable country with a vigorous economy. In fact, we drew a budget surplus some of those years.” — jeremyxt
The fallout from GloRilla’s fatal concert in Rochester, New York continues, as TMZ reports the rapper has been targeted by one of the victims’ families for a lawsuit. The family of 35-year-old Brandy Miller, one of the three people who died as the result of a crowd crush after the concert, plans to sue GloRilla and tourmate Finesse2tymes along with the venue, the Main Street Armory, and the event’s promoters.
Both rappers had reportedly already left the venue by the time the stampede took place, but that isn’t stopping the family from seeking out a high-profile attorney to argue they share some responsibility. According to Miller’s brother, who also attended the concert but had a different vantage point, the show was out of control from the start.
GloRilla and Finesse2tymes both addressed the tragedy when they found out about it, with Glo tweeting, “I am devastated & heartbroken over the tragic deaths that happened after Sunday’s show. My fans mean the world to me. Praying for their families & for a speedy recovery of everyone affected.” Unfortunately, two more people have died since then — the third, Aisha Stephens, died on March 8.
In addition to the potential lawsuit, the Armory also had its entertainment license revoked when its owner failed to appear for a meeting with the Rochester Police Department’s business licensing unit.
As Donald Trump continues his 2024 presidential campaign, which started barely two seconds after the 2022 midterm elections, the former president has released a dark video (literally and figuratively) letting everyone know that they’re going to be murdered into oblivion by World War III if he doesn’t defeat Joe Biden.
No exaggeration, that’s literally the gist of the entire message. Trump doesn’t talk about his policies or address pressing topics like the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, he just gets right to shouting about all-out war and the destruction of America. Also, for some reason, he appears to be sitting in the dark? It’s all very weird.
Here’s the text in case you don’t want to squint at an old man yelling with the lights off:
This time in the history of our country, WORLD WAR III IS LOOMING LIKE NEVER BEFORE in the very dark and murky background. Lack of leadership is solely responsible for this unprecedented danger to our beautiful USA and, likewise, to the world itself. HOPELESS JOE BIDEN IS LEADING US INTO OBLIVION. We cannot let it happen. We have to take back the White House or our country is doomed. Thank you very much.
Trump also took some shots are Ron Desantis.
While praising Charlie Crist, Trump says any success Florida is having has nothing to do with Desantis. pic.twitter.com/SfvCQGn7bn
As for why Trump is suddenly shouting more than usual about a war-torn apocalypse that only he can stop, well, the former president is likely facing an indictment this week for his alleged hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
If it seems a bit of stretch to suggest that Trump is claiming the world will blow up if he’s not allowed to walk free of all charges and become president again, have you met the guy? This is his whole deal. He lives for stuff like this.
Who is in it for the right reasons? Will someone’s head turn? Is Tom capable of answering any direct question with anything other than, “I don’t know?” Wait, what is this season’s euphemism for getting, um, handsy? These are all questions that arise when tuning into ‘Love Island UK‘ Season 9. Follow along here as Uproxx (hopefully) answers your questions about the 2023 winter season and decides which couples we think are strong enough to last to the finale.
It took 57 days, 35 couples, 9 bombshells, 7 recouplings, and three couples going official, but Love Island UK season nine has officially reached the finale. The remaining couples are: Kai & Sanam, Shaq & Tanya, Ron & Lana, and Tom & Samie. They all became finalists after a public vote decided that Will & Jessie would be the last couple dumped from the island. The finalists have each had high and low moments during the season, with Casa Amor being the cause of most, but through it all, the remaining couples were to stay afloat and make it to the end. Now, their destiny and chances at being crowned winner of Love Island UK season nine lay in the hands of the public.
Ahead of the finale episode, your trustee Love Island critics have come together to share predictions for the finale. We have our picks for who should win season nine and who will win season nine as well as reasons for our picks. It all ends tonight, so until next time y’all (aka season 10). — Wongo Okon
Prediction #1
ITV
Who Will Win?: Kai & Sanam
Who Should Win?: Kai & Sanam
My two votes for this are the same, as Kai and Sanam have become far and away the standout couple from this season. Even the show’s producers seem to know it, as their final date was set in a candlelit room and had them dressed in extremely fancy outfits. They survived the drama of post-Casa Amor (and Hurricane Olivia…) and truly grew so much stronger on our compatibility rankings. Originally, I did have some doubt that the public might side with Lana and Ron, but Twitter polls don’t lie at 91 percent for Kai and Sanam to win it all. — Lexi Lane
Prediction #2
ITV
Who Will Win?: Tom & Samie
Who Should Win: Kai & Sanam
As the best parents, the most stylish couple, and the hottest couple, I think it’s pretty clear Tom and Samie are viewer favorites. Though the two have definitely had their ups-and-downs (see: Tom nearly going for another girl and earning the nickname Terrace Tom during Casa Amor), both islanders are compatible. It’s clear that Tom is head over heels for Samie (my new favorite British slang term is “worldie”) and she feels the same way about him. It’s hard for both of them to open up and show their vulnerable side, so admitting they’re falling in love with the each other meant a lot. Even Tom’s sister thinks they’re a perfect match; she told him she thinks Samie is “the one” during Parent’s Day. Thanks to the Casa Amor fallout, Tom and Samie have proved they can communicate well and work through their issues, which is especially important outside the villa. My prediction is that Tom and Samie will be crowned winners of Love Island UK Season Nine and split the $50,000 prize evenly.
Like my colleagues and fellow Love Island experts, I think Kai and Sanam should take home the trophy. I mean, come on, whose heart didn’t completely melt when Kai told Sanam, “You’re the kindest most sweet-hearted girl I’ve ever met.” But unfortunately, I think they have suffered from the reality TV curse of not enough air time. Kai and Sanam’s Beauty And The Beast-inspired last date gave us more background about the two than we learned in the season’s entire 57 episodes. Throughout the show, Kai continually referenced his and Sanam’s “similar backgrounds,” and we finally found out what he meant. Not only do they both work with children (Kai is a school teacher and Sanam is a children’s social worker), but they both were raised by a Caribbean and religious parent. We also found out from Parent’s Day that Sanam’s father recently passed, which definitely adds layers to the importance of Kai meeting her family.
On an unrelated side note, does anyone else find it hilarious that people in the UK consider living three hours away from each other “long distance?” Us Americans are crying in car culture over here. — Carolyn Droke
Prediction #3
ITV
Who Will Win?: Ron & Lana
Who Should Win?: Kai & Sanam
Ron and Lana had their fair share of hiccups to start the season, but with Shaq and Tayna’s post-Casa Amor mess leaving room for a new favorite, the duo used the opportunity to step into the lead position. Since then, they’ve more or less stayed in that lead position as this sort of unbreakable couple. They became the first to make it official as boyfriend and girlfriend this season, they’ve tried to stay out of the other couple’s business (emphasis on try… it sometimes didn’t work), and they’ve been looking forward to a life together on the outside. Though they’re not my couple to pick as winners, it may be enough to convince the public that they’re worthy of the Love Island UK season nine crown.
Now, if you gave me the sole power to select a Love Island UK season nine winner, the aforementioned crown would go to Kai and Sanam without a doubt. The two are an absolutely perfect match, and it couldn’t be clearer as they’ve spent their post-Casa Amor time avoiding problems, laughing and smiling at each other, and living their best and most romantic lives together. Kai’s newfound love for Sanam has also made him a much more enjoyable islander after Casa Amor than the same Kai that stuck behind that now-dumped Olivia prior to Casa Amor. Kai and Sanam are everything that Love Island is supposed to be, and our hope is that the public sees that to be true and votes them the winner of season nine. — Wongo Okon
‘Love Island UK’ season nine episodes can be viewed on the ITV app or the ITV website here.
Cinnamon cereal is the best of the best! Sure, you can make a case for nostalgic favorites like Lucky Charms or Crunch Berries or, if you’re a health nut, keep pretending that some muesli that tastes like hay is the best, but at the end of the day, no other cereal represents breakfast (which is designed to be indulgent) better than cinnamon cereal. It’s got enough sugar to satisfy a sweet tooth with a flavor profile that reminds the taste buds of classic morning indulgences like French toast.
Cinnamon and breakfast work! Why else would there be so many different variations of cinnamon cereal out there?
I’m not just talking about those budget bags that sell you cereal without the box, either. I’m talking about big names: Life, Chex, Magic Spoon, and Trader Joe’s — they all have a flavor that is designed to compete with the flavor’s most popular iteration, Kellogg’s Cinnamon Toast Crunch. So who makes the best? We found out by putting all the cinnamon cereals we could find to the blind taste test.
PART I — Methodology
For this blind taste test, I went to three different grocery stores in my area: Ralph’s, Trader Joe’s, and two different Targets and picked up every cinnamon cereal on the shelves. Here is today’s tasting class:
Cascadian Farm — Organic Cinnamon Crunch
General Mills — Chex Cinnamon
Kellogg’s — Cinnabon Cinnamon Roll
Kellogg’s — Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Magic Spoon — Cinnamon
Malt O Meal — Cinnamon Toasters
Market Pantry — Cinnamon Oat Bites
Trader Joe’s — Crunchy Cinnamon Squares
Quaker — Life Cinnamon
I had my girlfriend pour me a small bowl of each at random with whole milk, and wore a blindfold since we were dealing with various shapes. If you’re wondering if eating nine different textures of cereal absolutely tore up the roof of my mouth, the answer is “yes, it did.” But we do these things for science! Let’s dive in.
PART II — The Tasting
Taste 1:
Ashley Garcia
An initial great spicy cinnamon-forward flavor! It doesn’t taste like it’s too strongly cut with sugar, but… it has a very stale aftertaste. Overall the dusting of cinnamon is a bit too light here, it starts off tasty but quickly devolves into bland territory.
Taste 2:
Ashley Garcia
Very crispy texture with a strong dark cinnamon flavor. It’s earthy and a bit spicy, but something about the texture of this cereal ended up sticking to every crevice of my teeth. It got so bad that I had to give my mouth a thorough rinse. You shouldn’t need a toothpick to eat cereal.
The aftertaste is also pretty bad, very stale.
Taste 3:
Ashley Garcia
Very sugary with a dose of cinnamon spice that appears on the aftertaste. The mouthfeel is sharp and crispy, with a nice audible crunch. The cereal soaks up milk very well and comes across as very flavorful despite being submerged in milk.
Delicious. This must be the real Cinnamon Toast Crunch, right?
Taste 4:
Ashley Garcia
A great flavor with a perfect balance of sugar and cinnamon and a toasted rice aftertaste. It has a nice and snappy texture. The cinnamon sugar flavor here is a lot more subtle than Taste 3 — it tastes like a health-conscious alternative but doesn’t sacrifice flavor in the process.
Taste 5:
Ashley Garcia
A rich and dark cinnamon flavor. A great crispy texture that soaks up milk excellently. There is a weird sugary aftertaste that I don’t like here though. It’s almost as if it gets sweeter between bites. Good but not my favorite.
Taste 6:
Ashley Garcia
Great flavor, it’s spicy and sweet, leaning a bit harder on cinnamon than sugar, but the texture is horrible. It’s way too crunchy and it doesn’t really soak up milk at all. I dipped my spoon in this one a few times just to get it a bit more bathed but it still came across as too dry.
Taste 7:
Ashley Garcia
Almost totally flavorless. I’m really struggling to get anything out of this one, I’m getting the slightest hint of cinnamon. This is definitely some sort of healthy cereal. It’s all crunchy texture with not nearly enough flavor to justify its dryness.
Taste 8:
Ashley Garcia
Very similar to Taste 7 in texture but with a way better execution in terms of flavor. It’s dry and crunchy, but the cinnamon sugar is prominent without tasting like you’re eating cereal packed with sugar. Just enough flavor to satisfy. I’m also tasting a hint of oat in there, which is a nice surprise.
Taste 9:
Ashley Garcia
This one is obviously a wheat cereal, it has that dark and earthy naturally sweet flavor. This cinnamon is also very nice, it leans more toward the natural flavor of cinnamon with just a hint of sugar to keep it from being too dry. It’s natural tasting, but not at all off-putting. But the dominant flavor here is wheat, not cinnamon, so while I like this one, it’s not number one.
Market Pantry, Target’s brand that isn’t Good & Gather, makes some fine products… but this Cinnamon Oats cereal is not one of them. This is by far the blandest cereal I’ve ever had, and yes, I’ve had cornflakes. This is an oat-based cereal but unfortunately, you can’t even taste the oats.
The cereal sports 24g of whole grains per serving, which is great, but it’s an absolute chore to eat and for that, it gets the bottom spot.
The Bottom Line:
I’d call it the worst-tasting cinnamon-flavored cereal your money could buy if it tasted like anything at all.
Magic Spoon’s whole thing is that it’s a healthy grain-free cereal for adults with high protein content and no sugar. That’s a noble goal, but we’d be lying if we said this compares to the real thing. It doesn’t — the flavors taste suspiciously artificial and the texture is some of the worst I’ve ever encountered. Seriously, this stuff will stick to your teeth like you’re chewing wet styrofoam.
How do I know what wet styrofoam tastes like? Because I’ve had Magic Spoon.
The Bottom Line:
It’s cereal for adults if cereal tasted weird and got stuck in your teeth all the time. The only cereal you need to eat with a toothpick in tow.
Cascadian Farm is so close to being good! This organic cereal has a delicious cinnamon flavor at the forefront, but its stale and bland aftertaste hurts it, significantly. It’s just not a pleasure to eat.
It’s made with some great ingredients, including cane sugar, and whole-grain wheat, and sports three grams of fiber and 15 grams of whole grains, but that all takes a backseat to flavor, and considering this leaves you with a cardboard flavor in your mouth, we can’t cosign it.
The Bottom Line:
Starts off delicious, but ends up tasting too bland to really win us over.
Quaker’s cinnamon version of Life is fine, it’s healthy, made with whole grains, and without artificial flavors or preservatives, but it tastes like a healthy cereal. That’s fine if that’s what you’re into, but if we’re comparing it to sugar-packed competitors in search of what tastes better, I’m sorry but this just doesn’t cut it.
If you love the sugary-packed cereals that this is brand hopes to imitate but are trying to cut back on the massive amounts of sugar, you’re going to like this, But we can’t pretend it actually tastes better.
The Bottom Line:
A nice healthy option if you’re trying to cut back on sugar, but if you aren’t, there is better-tasting cereal out there.
This flavor attempts to capture the magic of Cinnabon in cereal form and… it doesn’t really do that. Don’t get me wrong, it tastes good, and I really like the crispy texture that soaks up milk very nicely, but this is a far cry from that magic that is Cinnabon. It seems like the public agrees too because Kellogg’s is always discontinuing and bringing back this cereal.
The Bottom Line:
It’s good but Kellogg’s can’t seem to decide if it wants to keep this cereal around. Unfortunately, if they discontinue it again, it’s not good enough to be mad about.
Malt-O-Meal is one of those budget brands that sell you the cereal in a bag, box free. Let me just say, I don’t have a problem with these brands. I think for the most part they are great alternatives to the big brands and considering cereal is already in a plastic bag inside the box, I don’t need the extra waste. That said, Malt-O-Meal is good but it’s not great.
The thing that holds this cereal back is the texture, it’s so hard and crispy that it totally blocks out the milk. You could use this stuff as a bulletproof shield if you wanted to.
The Bottom Line:
A great flavor, and if you like crunchy cereal this is a fine option. But it doesn’t soak up milk at all, so if you like your cereal a bit wet, this isn’t your brand.
I have to hand it to Trader Joe’s, they not only make a damn good cinnamon cereal, but they manage to give you that familiar flavor while still bringing something different to the table. This cereal is made with whole grain wheat, making it a healthier alternative to the competition, but it doesn’t sacrifice flavor in the process. In fact, the wheat flavor is pretty tasty itself!
That gives this cereal an interesting problem though, it doesn’t actually taste all that much like cinnamon. Cinnamon is there, but the dominant flavor is wheat, and that’s fine if that’s what you’re after, but that’s not what we’re after. So for that, it gets the third-place spot.
The Bottom Line:
A delicious wheat-flavored cereal with just a hint of cinnamon.
Cinnamon Chex is great! Well-balanced with just the right level of sugar and cinnamon, Cinnamon Chex uses 100% real cinnamon in its recipe and alternates between seasoned Chex and plain whole grain rice Chex. That keeps it from being too sweet, while still providing enough flavor to come across like you’re missing out on something.
Each serving is only 8 grams of sugar which is higher than the healthy brands, but lower than our number one choice.
The Bottom Line:
Healthier and less sweet than the competition without sacrificing flavor.
Cinnamon Toast Crunch is the quintessential cinnamon cereal, that is undeniable. I wanted desperately for another cereal to take the top spot, it’s the reason we put each to a blind taste test, to remove any and all biases, but this one still came out on top. It just offers the most delicious experience. Is it the 12 grams of sugar per serving? Yes, probably. Actually, most definitely. This is the sugariest cereal out of the whole lot.
In terms of flavor, nothing beats it, and considering every other cereal is trying desperately to be this one (you can tell by what they are named), it’s almost like other brand knows this is the best as well. The mouthfeel is perfect, it’s light, crispy, and crunchy, and soaks up milk well without ruining the structural integrity of the cereal. The flavor perfectly mixes sweet sugar with spicy earthy cinnamon that retains its flavor no matter how long it sits in the milk. It’s perfect.
The Bottom Line:
The quintessential cinnamon-flavored cereal. It has the most sugar, which makes it less healthy than some of the other brands, but in terms of flavor, nothing even comes close to the experience this one offers.
Cinnamon cereal is the best of the best! Sure, you can make a case for nostalgic favorites like Lucky Charms or Crunch Berries or, if you’re a health nut, keep pretending that some muesli that tastes like hay is the best, but at the end of the day, no other cereal represents breakfast (which is designed to be indulgent) better than cinnamon cereal. It’s got enough sugar to satisfy a sweet tooth with a flavor profile that reminds the taste buds of classic morning indulgences like French toast.
Cinnamon and breakfast work! Why else would there be so many different variations of cinnamon cereal out there?
I’m not just talking about those budget bags that sell you cereal without the box, either. I’m talking about big names: Life, Chex, Magic Spoon, and Trader Joe’s — they all have a flavor that is designed to compete with the flavor’s most popular iteration, Kellogg’s Cinnamon Toast Crunch. So who makes the best? We found out by putting all the cinnamon cereals we could find to the blind taste test.
PART I — Methodology
For this blind taste test, I went to three different grocery stores in my area: Ralph’s, Trader Joe’s, and two different Targets and picked up every cinnamon cereal on the shelves. Here is today’s tasting class:
Cascadian Farm — Organic Cinnamon Crunch
General Mills — Chex Cinnamon
Kellogg’s — Cinnabon Cinnamon Roll
Kellogg’s — Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Magic Spoon — Cinnamon
Malt O Meal — Cinnamon Toasters
Market Pantry — Cinnamon Oat Bites
Trader Joe’s — Crunchy Cinnamon Squares
Quaker — Life Cinnamon
I had my girlfriend pour me a small bowl of each at random with whole milk, and wore a blindfold since we were dealing with various shapes. If you’re wondering if eating nine different textures of cereal absolutely tore up the roof of my mouth, the answer is “yes, it did.” But we do these things for science! Let’s dive in.
PART II — The Tasting
Taste 1:
Ashley Garcia
An initial great spicy cinnamon-forward flavor! It doesn’t taste like it’s too strongly cut with sugar, but… it has a very stale aftertaste. Overall the dusting of cinnamon is a bit too light here, it starts off tasty but quickly devolves into bland territory.
Taste 2:
Ashley Garcia
Very crispy texture with a strong dark cinnamon flavor. It’s earthy and a bit spicy, but something about the texture of this cereal ended up sticking to every crevice of my teeth. It got so bad that I had to give my mouth a thorough rinse. You shouldn’t need a toothpick to eat cereal.
The aftertaste is also pretty bad, very stale.
Taste 3:
Ashley Garcia
Very sugary with a dose of cinnamon spice that appears on the aftertaste. The mouthfeel is sharp and crispy, with a nice audible crunch. The cereal soaks up milk very well and comes across as very flavorful despite being submerged in milk.
Delicious. This must be the real Cinnamon Toast Crunch, right?
Taste 4:
Ashley Garcia
A great flavor with a perfect balance of sugar and cinnamon and a toasted rice aftertaste. It has a nice and snappy texture. The cinnamon sugar flavor here is a lot more subtle than Taste 3 — it tastes like a health-conscious alternative but doesn’t sacrifice flavor in the process.
Taste 5:
Ashley Garcia
A rich and dark cinnamon flavor. A great crispy texture that soaks up milk excellently. There is a weird sugary aftertaste that I don’t like here though. It’s almost as if it gets sweeter between bites. Good but not my favorite.
Taste 6:
Ashley Garcia
Great flavor, it’s spicy and sweet, leaning a bit harder on cinnamon than sugar, but the texture is horrible. It’s way too crunchy and it doesn’t really soak up milk at all. I dipped my spoon in this one a few times just to get it a bit more bathed but it still came across as too dry.
Taste 7:
Ashley Garcia
Almost totally flavorless. I’m really struggling to get anything out of this one, I’m getting the slightest hint of cinnamon. This is definitely some sort of healthy cereal. It’s all crunchy texture with not nearly enough flavor to justify its dryness.
Taste 8:
Ashley Garcia
Very similar to Taste 7 in texture but with a way better execution in terms of flavor. It’s dry and crunchy, but the cinnamon sugar is prominent without tasting like you’re eating cereal packed with sugar. Just enough flavor to satisfy. I’m also tasting a hint of oat in there, which is a nice surprise.
Taste 9:
Ashley Garcia
This one is obviously a wheat cereal, it has that dark and earthy naturally sweet flavor. This cinnamon is also very nice, it leans more toward the natural flavor of cinnamon with just a hint of sugar to keep it from being too dry. It’s natural tasting, but not at all off-putting. But the dominant flavor here is wheat, not cinnamon, so while I like this one, it’s not number one.
Market Pantry, Target’s brand that isn’t Good & Gather, makes some fine products… but this Cinnamon Oats cereal is not one of them. This is by far the blandest cereal I’ve ever had, and yes, I’ve had cornflakes. This is an oat-based cereal but unfortunately, you can’t even taste the oats.
The cereal sports 24g of whole grains per serving, which is great, but it’s an absolute chore to eat and for that, it gets the bottom spot.
The Bottom Line:
I’d call it the worst-tasting cinnamon-flavored cereal your money could buy if it tasted like anything at all.
Magic Spoon’s whole thing is that it’s a healthy grain-free cereal for adults with high protein content and no sugar. That’s a noble goal, but we’d be lying if we said this compares to the real thing. It doesn’t — the flavors taste suspiciously artificial and the texture is some of the worst I’ve ever encountered. Seriously, this stuff will stick to your teeth like you’re chewing wet styrofoam.
How do I know what wet styrofoam tastes like? Because I’ve had Magic Spoon.
The Bottom Line:
It’s cereal for adults if cereal tasted weird and got stuck in your teeth all the time. The only cereal you need to eat with a toothpick in tow.
Cascadian Farm is so close to being good! This organic cereal has a delicious cinnamon flavor at the forefront, but its stale and bland aftertaste hurts it, significantly. It’s just not a pleasure to eat.
It’s made with some great ingredients, including cane sugar, and whole-grain wheat, and sports three grams of fiber and 15 grams of whole grains, but that all takes a backseat to flavor, and considering this leaves you with a cardboard flavor in your mouth, we can’t cosign it.
The Bottom Line:
Starts off delicious, but ends up tasting too bland to really win us over.
Quaker’s cinnamon version of Life is fine, it’s healthy, made with whole grains, and without artificial flavors or preservatives, but it tastes like a healthy cereal. That’s fine if that’s what you’re into, but if we’re comparing it to sugar-packed competitors in search of what tastes better, I’m sorry but this just doesn’t cut it.
If you love the sugary-packed cereals that this is brand hopes to imitate but are trying to cut back on the massive amounts of sugar, you’re going to like this, But we can’t pretend it actually tastes better.
The Bottom Line:
A nice healthy option if you’re trying to cut back on sugar, but if you aren’t, there is better-tasting cereal out there.
This flavor attempts to capture the magic of Cinnabon in cereal form and… it doesn’t really do that. Don’t get me wrong, it tastes good, and I really like the crispy texture that soaks up milk very nicely, but this is a far cry from that magic that is Cinnabon. It seems like the public agrees too because Kellogg’s is always discontinuing and bringing back this cereal.
The Bottom Line:
It’s good but Kellogg’s can’t seem to decide if it wants to keep this cereal around. Unfortunately, if they discontinue it again, it’s not good enough to be mad about.
Malt-O-Meal is one of those budget brands that sell you the cereal in a bag, box free. Let me just say, I don’t have a problem with these brands. I think for the most part they are great alternatives to the big brands and considering cereal is already in a plastic bag inside the box, I don’t need the extra waste. That said, Malt-O-Meal is good but it’s not great.
The thing that holds this cereal back is the texture, it’s so hard and crispy that it totally blocks out the milk. You could use this stuff as a bulletproof shield if you wanted to.
The Bottom Line:
A great flavor, and if you like crunchy cereal this is a fine option. But it doesn’t soak up milk at all, so if you like your cereal a bit wet, this isn’t your brand.
I have to hand it to Trader Joe’s, they not only make a damn good cinnamon cereal, but they manage to give you that familiar flavor while still bringing something different to the table. This cereal is made with whole grain wheat, making it a healthier alternative to the competition, but it doesn’t sacrifice flavor in the process. In fact, the wheat flavor is pretty tasty itself!
That gives this cereal an interesting problem though, it doesn’t actually taste all that much like cinnamon. Cinnamon is there, but the dominant flavor is wheat, and that’s fine if that’s what you’re after, but that’s not what we’re after. So for that, it gets the third-place spot.
The Bottom Line:
A delicious wheat-flavored cereal with just a hint of cinnamon.
Cinnamon Chex is great! Well-balanced with just the right level of sugar and cinnamon, Cinnamon Chex uses 100% real cinnamon in its recipe and alternates between seasoned Chex and plain whole grain rice Chex. That keeps it from being too sweet, while still providing enough flavor to come across like you’re missing out on something.
Each serving is only 8 grams of sugar which is higher than the healthy brands, but lower than our number one choice.
The Bottom Line:
Healthier and less sweet than the competition without sacrificing flavor.
Cinnamon Toast Crunch is the quintessential cinnamon cereal, that is undeniable. I wanted desperately for another cereal to take the top spot, it’s the reason we put each to a blind taste test, to remove any and all biases, but this one still came out on top. It just offers the most delicious experience. Is it the 12 grams of sugar per serving? Yes, probably. Actually, most definitely. This is the sugariest cereal out of the whole lot.
In terms of flavor, nothing beats it, and considering every other cereal is trying desperately to be this one (you can tell by what they are named), it’s almost like other brand knows this is the best as well. The mouthfeel is perfect, it’s light, crispy, and crunchy, and soaks up milk well without ruining the structural integrity of the cereal. The flavor perfectly mixes sweet sugar with spicy earthy cinnamon that retains its flavor no matter how long it sits in the milk. It’s perfect.
The Bottom Line:
The quintessential cinnamon-flavored cereal. It has the most sugar, which makes it less healthy than some of the other brands, but in terms of flavor, nothing even comes close to the experience this one offers.
Megan Thee Stallion has been laying low for a while but she hasn’t been idle. The Houston rapper made a rare public appearance at the Vanity Fair Oscars party over the weekend, where Entertainment Tonight reporters asked her if was working on new music. Her affirmative response came in the usual Megan Thee Stallion way: “Oh, I am! New album. F*ck y’all hoes, bye!” before she scampered off to join the party.
That’s certainly good news — no pun intended — for all the fans who have been waiting for a follow-up to her most recent release, Traumazine. And with Tory Lanez’s shooting trial in her rearview mirror after he was convicted of assault with a semiautomatic handgun, perhaps her next album will mark a return to the carefree Meg that her fans first fell in love with on the Tina Snow EP.
And if not, at least it’s nice to know she’s ready to start getting back out there and doing what she loves. At the end of this month, she’ll perform in her hometown for the first time since 2019 at the AT&T Block Party. With her lawsuit against 1501 Certified Entertainment cleared to proceed to trial, she might be free of her old label obligations, too, so fans certainly have plenty of reasons to look forward to Meg’s new tunes.
Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Megan Thee Stallion has been laying low for a while but she hasn’t been idle. The Houston rapper made a rare public appearance at the Vanity Fair Oscars party over the weekend, where Entertainment Tonight reporters asked her if was working on new music. Her affirmative response came in the usual Megan Thee Stallion way: “Oh, I am! New album. F*ck y’all hoes, bye!” before she scampered off to join the party.
That’s certainly good news — no pun intended — for all the fans who have been waiting for a follow-up to her most recent release, Traumazine. And with Tory Lanez’s shooting trial in her rearview mirror after he was convicted of assault with a semiautomatic handgun, perhaps her next album will mark a return to the carefree Meg that her fans first fell in love with on the Tina Snow EP.
And if not, at least it’s nice to know she’s ready to start getting back out there and doing what she loves. At the end of this month, she’ll perform in her hometown for the first time since 2019 at the AT&T Block Party. With her lawsuit against 1501 Certified Entertainment cleared to proceed to trial, she might be free of her old label obligations, too, so fans certainly have plenty of reasons to look forward to Meg’s new tunes.
Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Spoilers for The Last Of Us season finale are ahead.
While not every mystery of The Last Of Us has been solved, the season finale of the series has given us some answers, while also leaving us with even more questions. But fans finally learned the reason why Ellie is immune to the virus that has been destroying the Last of Us universe, thanks to her harrowing birth.
In the finale, there is a flashback that showed Ellie’s mom Anna, played by Ellie’s video game voice actress Ashley Johnson, giving birth to her all those years ago. The grueling scene shows that Anna was able to have her daughter just moments before an Infected lunges at them both. Anna becomes infected while the infant is still attached to her via umbilical chord, though she lies and insists to Fireflies leader Marlene that she must be protected. Marlene is then forced to kill the newly-infected Anna, leaving Ellie an orphan.
Flashforward to our favorite duo in the season finale, who have finally reached the Fireflies and are able to piece together just how Ellie managed to be immune to that disastrous fungi.
As Marlene explains to Joel (as pointed out by Mashable, “Our doctor, he thinks that the cordyceps in Ellie has grown with her since birth. It produces a kind of chemical messenger. It makes normal cordyceps think that she’s cordyceps; it’s why she’s immune. He’s going to remove it from her, multiply the cells in a lab, produce those chemical messengers…and then we can give it to everyone. He thinks it could be a cure, Joel.” Basically, it’s as if Ellie got a vaccine as a baby to help her fend off the disease, and now they are looking to her to make the cure.
Of course, after the events of the finale, things are still a little complicated in that department, as that cure would require a piece of her brain, which would kill her. Also, the guy who would take a piece of her brain is dead, so that’s a dead end (sorry). It’s a pretty devastating conundrum that we will all have to see play out in season two of the drama…whenever that may hit our scenes.
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