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rvcontre78
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My friend and I are developing a new kind of cereal. It'll be taco-flavored and we've got most of the details down already (lettuce would be marshmallows, tomatoes would be rice crisps, etc.) but the problem is in the packaging. We want the cereal box to come with ground beef. Are there boxed dinners out there that have pre-packaged ground beef? Could you just do a air-sealed package or maybe you would have to freeze dry it? Any ideas?
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Relevant.
Anyway, if this is a serious venture, you should probably patent the idea beforehand, to prevent anyone from taking your idea. Although, I don't see that happening. Ugh.
Wouldn't the pieces of meat in ramen and cup-of-noodles be what you are looking for?
Yeah, we actually looked at that but those pieces don't mix well with milk is the issue. We're also tinkering with including an insert-package that can flavor your milk with chipotle which actually isn't as bad as it sounds but it doesn't mix to well with the marshmallows.
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Well it's kind of like breakfast burritos.
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Now that I've said that, let's all continue to think really hard about how weird taco cereal sounds.
Edit: I lol'd.
Buy yourself a taco.
Get a glass of milk.
Stick the taco into the milk, and with a spoon, mash it all up.
Is this what you want to sell to people?
Hahaha oh wow.
This has to be a joke.
Well obviously that would be a pretty horrible way to market that sort of idea. Our hope is that within the "cereal isle" it would stand out as a novel product. Could it be marketed as a breakfast cereal? Certainly. Our preliminary work shows that Americans are moving away from a traditional breakfast. Also, as a snack food there some interest in a snack that can be spooned out of a box but something that is savory.
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Kibble, perhaps?
Now see if you wanted something novel, why don't you just go for a taco breakfast bar? People have less and less time these days, so something they could just pick up, open and take with them while eating would be a far better idea than something like your idea. And it takes away the gag factor of mixing ground meat, salsa and other ingredients that should not be mixed with marshmallows and milk.
Honestly I think you'd be better off making some sort of taco toaster pocket, instead of jam or whatever, you have meat and cheese. Like pop tarts. Tac-Tarts? Tarto's? Milk+beef+Mexican seasoning just doesn't go. Ever. Nobody drinks milk at a Mexican restaurant.
Actually most people are pleasantly surprised at the mixing of ground beef and milk. The only issues initially were any residue oil and milk being sort of strange looking but with added gelatin into the ground beef mix they make a nicer suspension that is more appealing.
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Hot Taco. Taco Pocket.
Define "most".
Horchata. But that's digressing.
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Well because that is already a well-traveled path. There are Hot Pocket varieties with taco flavorings and even Pizza Rolls. Besides in traditional Mexican cuisine there is a liberal use of cream in beef dishes. Taco Bell may not use cream but we're going for a more traditionally flavored Mexican cereal.
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That's without being placed in front of the product though. Sure, I think that the idea initially may be a little raw at this point but if you think about some common foods now they didn't start with pleasant origins. Mayonnaise, Jell-O, Blue Cheese, etc.
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Yes, there are. The beef 'n such comes in a can.
I don't believe it - I'm on my THIRD PS3, and my FIRST XBOX360. What the heck?
But who knows, maybe you're a visionary ahead of your time. Though I don't think meaty milk will ever take off.
The canned idea was certainly tossed around. The only problem is the packaging with the can wouldn't fit a normal cereal-like box which we definitely want to keep the idea of Taco-in-a-cereal-box idea. We'd thought about the smaller cans or even a different manufactured container but strangely enough both are extremely expensive than the industry standard sizes.
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Well the vegetable components would mainly be corn-crisps. Besides, we're not trying to make Taco in a box as much as a Taco-Cereal.
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Then I would cut the meat right out. A taco flavoured cereal sounds far less gag-inducing than a bunch of meat floating around in milk. It actually might not be a terrible idea.
I can see fatties getting excited about the prospect of taco cereal.
Actually, meat in milk is surprising. Especially with the chipotle flavoring. It's kind of like a savory milkshake.
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:edit: "Savory milkshake" gets about the same response out of me as "colonoscopy".
:second edit: It would be like drinking taco gravy. Your prime (probably only) consumers would all be too fat to get to the store to buy it.
I guess your demographic probably isn't the health concsious or anything. Maybe a meat milkshake appeals to the McDonalds crowd who will eat anything.
Yes... I would be far more likely to try a taco flavored cereal than I would a "cereal" with meat bits in it directly. Though honestly I'd probably never consider buying it anyway. There are far more effective ways than cereal of getting a taco fix if I need it.
Yeah, we certainly aren't producing a health-conscious item here.
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Our ultimate goal would be to develop a cereal, that with milk, would combine the flavors of a zesty taco and a kids cereal. The texture we have so far is a little undesirable. Too much fresh ground beef at the moment. It's not exactly like dunking a taco in milk for several minutes but again it's because we're using fresh ground beef. We've even tinkered with not selling the ground beef in the box and just adding it immediately after browning like several boxed dinners (Hamburger Helper (which again has a good quantity of milk))
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I may not have expressed this here but we do intend for the cereal to warm with an almost oatmeal like consistency without the homogeneity. We're not using any strong flavors like lime, cilantro, that would cause curdling of the milk.
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Apparently... but they also want it to have some cereal taste...
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