Not to be confused with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. French Toast Crunch is a breakfast cereal launched in the mid-1990s, flavored to taste french toast French toast, by the General Mills company. In 2006, General Mills discontinued French Toast Crunch in the United States.
Popular demand led General Mills to reintroduce the product on December 5, 2014. During this time, French Toast Crunch was, and still is, produced and marketed in Canada as “French Toast Crunch” and “Croque pain doré. It is available at most big retail chains including Walmart, Kroger, Target, and Costco. The product was advertised for sale in the United States at least as early as December 1994, although media coverage suggests it was launched in mid-October or mid-November 1996. French Toast Crunch has been described as crispy, sweetened corn cereal.
The cereal pieces resembled tiny pieces of toast initially, and later became curved square pieces, like in its sister-cereal, Cinnamon Toast Crunch. On the back of the original French Toast Crunch cereal boxes, they discussed how the baking cartoon mascot, Wendell, created French Toast Crunch. New French Toast Crunch – for a taste that will have you flipping! Wendell has cooked up an awesome new cereal with all the stuff you love.
Delicious French toast cereal with syrup specially baked onto every crunchy piece. And each scrumptious piece looks and tastes like French toast! Grab your spoon, and discover this crunchy sensation – For a taste that will have you flipping. TV commercials would ask questions regarding “What makes French Toast Crunch? French Toast Crunch cereal with a new syrup taste.
Sweet syrup flavor over squares that crunch. An outrageous part of a good breakfast. French Toast Crunch the taste you can see! In 2006, French Toast Crunch was discontinued in the United States, but remained available in Canada and Australia. On December 5, 2014, General Mills announced that they would return French Toast Crunch to nationwide production in the United States starting at the end of January 2015, with the cereal being available at selected supermarkets and retailers at this point in time. The design of the cereal flakes was reverted to the original style of miniature pieces of toast rather than plain squares.
We have been overwhelmed by the consumer conversations, requests and passion for the cereal to come back. We value our fans and are so excited to be able to bring it back for them. French Toast Crunch cereal is back” By Gregory Wallace. French Toast Crunch at Canada Only”. Archived from the original on 2012-04-21.
This article is about the food. For other uses, see Egg bread. French toast is a dish made of sliced bread soaked in beaten eggs and typically milk, then pan fried. It may also be called pain doré, “golden bread”, in Canada. There are fifteenth-century English recipes for pain perdu. An Austrian and Bavarian term is pafese or pofese, from zuppa pavese, referring to Pavia, Italy.