Kamara's King Crunch Cereal, Reviewed

What's in a name?

By
Jamelle Bouie
Jamelle Bouie is a contributing writer at Serious Eats.
Jamelle Bouie is a New York Times Opinion columnist. He writes cereal reviews for Serious Eats and is based in Charlottesville, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
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Published May 02, 2022

I have no idea who Kamara is. I can hazard a few guesses from the details on the box, but I’m not interested enough to look him up. And I don’t feel any need to either; I’m not here to talk about celebrities, I’m here to talk about cereal. And this cereal is good, if unremarkable.

Box of Kamara's King Crunch cereal on a counter with a bowl filled with the cereal in front of it

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I say unremarkable because it's little more than a generic-version of Post’s Honey Bunches of Oats, a classic cereal that should land on any list of best supermarket cereals. It's a little less sweet than its brand-name equivalent, and the oat clusters are a little crunchier, but it's essentially the same product. Which is to say, it offers a perfectly pleasant dining experience: tasty, substantive, and satisfying.

As for the box, it's supposedly a “collector’s edition,” although I’m not sure why anyone would collect a cereal box. In any case, the cereal itself is worth eating, and if you can’t find Kamara Crunch, you can always get Honey Bunches of Oats.

Verdict: 3.5 out of 5 spoons.

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