Follow your nose to 90s nostalgia at Hardee's!
The fast-food chain has teamed up with Kellogg's to make your childhood dreams a reality with their latest creation: Froot Loops mini doughnuts. This sweet treat is available for a limited time at Hardee's and Carl's Jr. locations nationwide beginning Wednesday, August 29.
Based on several reviews online, these mini doughnuts taste EXACTLY like the fruity cereal they're inspired by, and they come in five bright colors right out of the box.
"They smell and taste EXACTLY like real Froot Loops. It's kind of insane,” said Madison Flager, who wrote about them for food site Delish.com.
Crystal Ro, an editor at BuzzFeed, said once she smelled them, she was transported back to her childhood. "They smell and taste exactly like the real thing — in, like, baked good form — and my elementary-school self would’ve gobbled all of these down in like two seconds," she said in a BuzzFeed taste test. "But, as an adult who is constantly having teeth problems (don’t @ me, it’s genetic), I had to stop myself after one."
Each box will have five doughnuts, one red, blue, green, purple and yellow loop each for just $1.99. They'll be limited for a limited time only (No word yet on the cut-off date from the chains' parent company CKE Restaurants).
This new breakfast incarnation is just the latest food mash-up in an escalating fast food competition to attract those with the munchies.
Dunkin' Donuts new $2 Dunkin' Run menu, announced about a month ago, includes Donut Fries, five slices of slightly, crispy donut dough, served warm sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, and Waffle Breaded Chicken Tenders, two chicken pieces coated with sweet waffle batter.
Cinnabon, meanwhile, has created an ice cream sandwich with Carvel ice cream in between two swirled churro swirls (available at select Cinnabon bakeries featuring Carvel).
Breakfast cereals have served as the jumping off point for many concoctions, too. Burger King has served shakes made with Froot Loops and Lucky Charms cereals in the past. And Ben & Jerry's has previously offered ice creams that taste like the milk leftover in cereals including Froot Loops.
Steak 'n Shake currently has a Froot Loops specialty milkshake and 7-Eleven has a Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries Slurpee for a limited time.
Want to try the Froot Loops Mini Donuts? To find a location near you, visit hardees.com.
USA TODAY contributed to this report
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