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Cereal Club snaps, crackles and pops its way back to campus

The Cereal Club was refounded this year after ending in 2018 from a lack of members. Photo via Anna Brandon.

Cereal can be more than just a breakfast meal. It can be for lunch, dinner or even a snack. It can also be used as a way to bring students together — just ask Benjamin Herring, refounder of Bradley’s Cereal Club.

In 2018, the Cereal Club ended because of a lack of students. However, Herring refounded the club this year to finish his last year on a good note. He learned about the club as a freshman, and took interest.

“When I came here, all the seniors [in the Cereal Club] graduated, so I was left as the only guy left,” Herring, senior biomedical science major, said. “As a freshman, I didn’t know enough people to start a club and have confidence running it. Now it’s my senior year, and I talked to the admissions office about the glory days with the Cereal Club. So I just decided, ‘Why not? It’s my senior year; go out with a bang.’”

Meetings for the Cereal Club revolve around exactly what you might expect: taste testing cereals. However, Herring said they have had only two meetings so far, one being an introduction to the club with some taste testing of cereals. The club’s second meeting saw them engage in a Halloween edition of cereal tasting.

“We had all different types of custom cereals that people brought,” Herring said. “For example, someone brought Cap’n Crunch that turned the milk green, although it was orange cereal, which is pretty cool.”

Each member would typically bring a type of cereal to enjoy with everyone else. Herring states that they get their supplies from the Student Center, which include dairy milk alongside almond milk for those who are dairy-sensitive.

Other than trying different cereal flavors, the group also ranks the cereals they attempted during the meetings. Jovon Matthews, an event coordinator, pointed out the ranking of which cereal flavors they liked and disliked. Herring then showed a binder of previous cereals to sort through and rank the flavors on a spreadsheet.

“It’s a nice way to introduce the other members to the thought that you don’t necessarily have to have [cereal] for breakfast,” Matthews, senior public health major, said. “That’s what I like to say; you can obviously have it throughout the day.”

In the club, one can try different cereals such as Reese’s Bats (the Halloween edition of Reese’s Puffs), Cinnamon Toast Crunch Churro and unpopular flavors such as Mini-Wheats and a mash-up of Frosted Flakes and Fruit Loops.

If interested in the adventures of taste testing different cereals, learn more about the Cereal Club on Presence or Facebook.

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