Strawberry Lucky Charms (Limited Edition, Super Mario Galaxy Movie)
- Jordan Naeem
- 5 MIN CRUNCH
The opening bite
The crunch lands right where you’d expect from Lucky Charms — light, airy, gone faster than you’d like. But the flavor payload on the first bite stops you mid-chew. This isn’t the strawberry-adjacent chemical suggestion you get from every other pink-coded cereal on the shelf. It tastes like a strawberry. An actual one. The coating hits clean and fast, and the marshmallows — top tier as always — are load-bearing in every bite. The ratio is dialed in. You’re getting one or two marshmallows per spoonful without having to go on a rescue mission at the end of the bowl.
The milk situation
The strawberry coating doesn’t negotiate with milk. Within about two minutes, it’s gone — washed clean off the pieces, leaving you with something closer to regular Lucky Charms with a memory of fruit. Bowl longevity sits at 6.0, and you’ll feel it. We started eating smaller bowls specifically to stay ahead of the soggy cutoff, which is both a strategy and a mild inconvenience. What’s left in the glass is the signature gray Lucky Charms milk with a faint pink tint — more cosmetic than flavorful. Given how aggressively the coating exits the cereal, you’d expect a strawberry milk moment. It doesn’t quite deliver on that promise. Light on the strawberry notes, but still a solid milk transformation — better than most, just not what the color suggests.
Where it loses points
The crunch window is small. Lucky Charms has always had a bowl longevity problem, and the strawberry variant is no exception. Two minutes in milk and the coating starts to go. Eat fast or eat smaller bowls — those are your options. The Galactic Marshmallows added for the Super Mario Galaxy collaboration are, without question, the least interesting marshmallows General Mills has ever put in a box. They look like someone ran out of ideas. The dry snackability score (5.5) tells the story — this cereal is designed for milk, and it doesn’t hold up as a standalone snack.
The Good
The Criminal
Milk Takes
The verdict
A 7.4 that punches above it on flavor alone. The bowl longevity will cost you, but the payoff in those first two minutes is worth it. BUY IT BEFORE MARIO LEAVES.
The verdict
slaps
Crunch level
6.5
Flavor payload
10.0
Milk transformation
7.0
Bowl longevity
6.0
Dust situation
9.5
Dry Snackability
5.5
Box art
8.5
Jordan Naeem
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