Cereal Festival & World’s Longest Breakfast Table

My wife is obsessed with cereal so we made the drive from Ann Arbor, hoping to try some new types of cereal, etc. Bad idea. There was free cereal to be had, but it was Kellogs stuff you would find in any grocery store, served in little styrofoam bowls with 2% milk. After eating a couple bowls there wasn’t much else to see or do in Battle Creek. A cereal festival has so much potential, but Battle Creek’s version was quite lame. As a disclaimer, I have to say that I didn’t run in the road race or see the longest breakfast table. I was there for the cereal, and was sorely disappointed.

Once a year, every year, the giant corporate cereal companies donate cereal & other breakfast paraphernalia to the good citizens of the Cereal City so that we may enjoy a free breakfast whilst strolling the empty storefronts in downtown Battle Creek. It’s usually held in the first or second Saturday in June which coincides with the first week of summer vacation and back in the day, we used to fire up the bong and head downtown to gorge on free sugary cereals early on a Saturday morning. You gotta start out Summer Vacation the right way.
The best thing about this event is that you get to eat as much cereal of most every kind of cereal you can imagine, and sometimes they have cereal that they are researching/​developing before it hits the market. I remember sampling Oreo Cookie cereal while floating in the clouds before it was even released to the public. Good times.
If you go, make sure to stick around to the end (around noon) when they start giving away excess milk, cereal, pop-​tarts, breakfast bars, and of course, TANG. Sometimes you gotta fight the welfare moms to get the good stuff, but in the end its free cereal, you know?
The only thing we have here in California is the annual garlic festival in Gilroy. Just not the same thing.