Get ready for something sweet—really, really sweet.
Michael Lastoria, CEO of the DC-based &pizza chain, and Milk Bar founder Christina Tosi have joined forces for a mashup that may just kill your molars: a cereal milk cream soda cookie, which you can chase with a cereal milk cream soda.
“It feels like something you know, but something that you can’t quite describe,” says Tosi, a Northern Virginia native.
The combo—available beginning April 18—will be offered at all &pizza locations. The vanilla cookie ($1.25) is baked with white-chocolate chips, milk, corn flakes, brown sugar, and a touch of salt. The cookie is also made with marshmallows, giving it a rice-krispy-treat-like flavor. It’s designed to taste like the milk at the bottom of your cereal bowl, but with an added “soda fizz.” (Because what eight-year-old hasn’t wished for cereal and soda?). Curbing the sugar rush is the fact that it’s only bite-sized.
As for the “cereal milk” soda ($2.75), there’s no actual milk (or dairy, or caffeine) in the drink, and it’s made with cane sugar. It tastes exactly how it’s supposed to: like a mix of the liquid that’s left over after you eat Frosted Flakes and a can of A&W. It’s not bad, per se, but we also can’t imagine functioning like rational humans after downing all 16 ounces.
Former editorial fellow Kayla Randall is City Lights editor at Washington City Paper.
