After eating them I go back to said Target and buy 3 more boxes only to find out they TASTE HORRIBLE!!! I called Post and they changed the recipe in August 2012. So I find them at Target and I'm THRILLED. I looked all over a few weeks ago for Alpha bits as my favorite store was bought out by a bigger store and they didn't carry them. My daughter asked what was wrong with the Alpha-Bits. They didn't taste good - kind of a strong, bitter flavor. I used to love to sit down and have lunch with Soupy. I bet Soupy Sales would be angry too - about the change in recipes. I grew up eating this cereal :) I miss it. I must have this cereal at least 4 times a week. If you want the old Alpha-Bits taste, don't go expecting what you're used to. This cereal used to be amazing, but they changed the recipe in August 2012 and it now tastes miserable. Thankfully, the recipe for eggs does not change. The remaining cereal was fed to the chickens. Recently had a craving for Alpha Bits, bought a box and yuck! They have a nasty rotten after taste. At least Coca Cola realized their error and returned Classic Coke after 'improving' their product. Instead, I'm throwing away two boxes! Awful! Yuk! They were horrible! Just discovered they have a new recipe. So I bought two boxes of them because they were always my favorite cereal, but I could no longer find them in stores. They must have changed the recipe, as they have a bitter aftertaste now. Sadly, I give Alpha-Bits of 2014 a total of 0 stars. I didn't even know that until the past decade. By the way, my dad also named the cereal 'Crispy Critters' and hence invented the now common slang term used by military, law enforcement and firefighters all over America. You're one of the few web sites to get anything factually right about my dad's involvement with naming Post cereals and Linus The Lionhearted characters. However, it still offers a good bit of nostalgia and I may pick up another box sometime, when I can get a bank loan. I've gone and grabbed a box now and then in the last couple decades and can't believe how sweet these things are, and as I assume they'd have had even more sugar back in the 60's, it boggles my mind why my mother would have bought this. This was 'THE' staple cereal at our house you could almost always find a box of this available. It is so nasty I will be tossing this box out right after my review!

I can't believe this cereal even exists anymore. Like many other Commenters, I finally found Post Alpha-Bits and couldn't wait to have them again. I wish cereal companies would stop messing with recipes that work! New Alpha Bits taste absolutely horrible! They're hardly like the classic and great cereal at all. I'll look for it, but if they changed it, I might not like it either. Well, the last place I saw it was Walmart. This is and always has been my favorite cereal. They need their cool prizes back and maybe more flavors. Maybe they will get their recipe back if we ask Post by calling or email them or post on Facebook. If you don't like it then put something in it to taste better like sugar or peanut butter. I will probably end up throwing them out. Will not buy again.īring back the Frosted Alph-Bits. The 'new and improved' Alpha-Bits cereal is awful. Coke is still Coke and Hershey Bars are still Hershey Bars. Smart company's don't change a good thing. This cereal disappeared for a few years and when it finally re-emerged they had changed the recipe so much that it was like eating cardboard. This rating is for the 'New and improved' Alpha Bits. In the meantime, Frosted Cheerios are a good substitute but, unfortunately, they can be hard to find. I do not like the 'new and improved' Alpha-Bits at all - not good. 'New and improved' Alpha-Bits are anything but. Big letters and different taste! Curse Post - bring back the old Alpha Bits and new flavors of Alpha Bits like the marshmallow ones! It's simple - Alpha Bits is Lucky Charms with no charms. Had McDonald's fries yesterday and they were inedible! It's like that with so many foods now. Sadly, the change to 'healthier' foods has sacrificed the original taste of these foods. Since they started making so many cereals 'healthier', most just don't do it for me anymore. In recent years it has reappeared, but is nothing like the original. taste like cardboard! Bring the old one back!Īlpha-Bits were in my top 5 cereals of all-time. This used to be my favorite, but the new version is awful! Tastes like they were soaked and dried, I agree.

I thought that it was a little bit boring.

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