TV star Pete Wicks hits the streets in a basic milk float to ship spicy cereal, celebrating Gen Z’s rising love for decent honey and chilli at breakfast.
Gen Z are cranking up the temperature at breakfast time by dousing their morning grub with sizzling honey, fiery sauce and even chilli flakes. Recent analysis involving 2,000 Brits has revealed that Gen Zers – these born after 1996 – are main the cost in the case of Britain’s love affair with spicy meals.
Extra Gen Z have adopted this spicy morning behavior (16%) up to now 12 months than another era, with 74% attributing it to the explosion of spicy meals on social media.
Fiery scrambled eggs, scorching breakfast wraps and red-hot hash browns are actually deemed prime morning gasoline choices. Scorching honey, burning sauce and chilli flakes are the go-to strategies for ramping up the warmth.
Over half (54%) of Gen Z devotees gobbling down spicy breakfasts reckon it beats espresso for getting their engines working within the morning, while 61% insist it leaves them feeling extra alert all through the day.
The research, backed by Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut, follows the launch of their new sweet-meets-spicy cereal; Scorching Honey Crunchies. To rejoice, the model teamed up with TV star Pete Wicks to make a particular supply.
The TV star appeared in a basic milk float delivering the brand new cereal together with recent milk from Bidlea Dairy Farm, which is of course wealthy in casein and brings a steadiness to the cereal’s warming warmth and honeyed sweetness.
Pete stated: “Who knew Brits had been this obsessive about spice? I find it irresistible. We have been enjoying it secure at breakfast for approach too lengthy, so somewhat candy warmth very first thing appears like precisely what the nation wants.
“Attending to rock up as a milkman and assist launch the cereal has been a proper chuckle – and if it offers folks the center to strive one thing a bit totally different within the morning, we have finished our job.”
Whereas there’s a rising urge for food for bolder flavours, breakfast stays predictable, with 54% admitting they eat the identical factor every single day. In the meantime, 44% will usually seize no matter is quickest.
A Crunchy Nut spokesperson added: “Our analysis reveals the nation is genuinely excited by the concept of spice at breakfast.
“With Pete serving to us launch, we’re giving folks the arrogance to strive one thing somewhat bolder to begin their days.”



