Ok, here's the deal. I like cereal. A LOT! I like all sorts of
cereal. In fact, I've never met a cereal that I didn't like... or
at least that I couldn't stand to eat. I don't exactly have a
favorite, but I DO have favorites in the different categories of
cereal. But I'll get into that later. For now let's just stick to
the generalities of my cereal obsession.
I'm not certain
where my cereal fetish arose from. I don't remember if I was a
particularly big cereal eater as a kid. I don't remember ever
begging mom or dad for a particular cereal, but I do remember my
first favorite...
Boo Berry.
Boo Berry cereal is the third and
lesser known member of the Holy Trinity of Kids cereals which
consists of
Count
Chocola ( chocolate flavored corn
balls with marshmallow bats),
Frankenberry ( straberry flavored monster heads
with marshmallows ), and of course, Boo Berry ( blueberry flavored
monster heads with marshmallows ). Boo Berry was, and is, my
mother's favorite cereal... which may well be where I get my
pension for this particular puffed corn treat. I take after my
mother to a large degree, so I would certainly attribute this
certain liking to heredity. Boo Berry, unfortunately, has become
quite scarce as of late. It is almost a rarity to find it on the
shelves anywhere nowadays. Of course, this is not exactly a
gourmet cereal by any stretch of the imagination. Boo Berry is a
simple and sweet cereal that also magically turns the milk into a
beautiful pastel blue color.
Unlike most kids I
knew, I didn't eat cereal for the prizes, though I was known to do
a little premature digging in order to come up with the better
prizes before my brother could get ahold of them. I had ALL of the
California Raisins toys from their cereal, but I don't have a clue
what happened to them. I DO remember that my favorite toy I'd
gotten from cereal was the Fruit Loops decoder rings, man those
where HOT Stuff back in the day.
Other child hood
favorites that are hard to find, IF they are even on the market at
all are:
As a child I was
always particularly attracted to the sweet candy-like cereals that
all youngsters seem to crave. Cereals like Lucky Charms (
magically Delicious! ), Captain Crunch ( With ONLY red and blue
berries ), and the always popular Frosted Flakes. But, as with all
foods, my taste for cereal began to mature with age. By high
school I found myself wolfing down multiple bowls of "adult"
cereals like Shredded Mini Wheat and Raisin Bran ( both of which
give me massive amounts of gas! ). Besides just tasting great they
also are FULL of fiber and niacin, which is probably where that
awful gas comes from.
Today I jump at the
chance to try new cereals, to measure them up to the almost
forgotten cereals of my childhood. At the moment my favorite
"Adult" cereal is
Honey
Bunches Of Oats with Peaches. Oh dang it they
are so good... especially with a little honey lightly poured on
top. Man, oh man, that's good eatin'!
The only problem
with cereal is that it is not very travel friendly... well, that's
not entirely true. The MILK is not travel friendly. Since milk
must stay refrigerated it is not such a good idea to take cereal
on, say, a camping trip or something outdoors. That is, unless you
buy the "Irradiated Milk" which is milk that has been bombarded
with radiation such that it no longer has to be refrigerated... but
who wants to take the risk of getting cereal cancer? Not to
mention that irradiated milk is room temperature, and the coldness
of the milk is a very important factor to the satisfying effect of
cereal. But, in a pinch, I suppose that "Nuculer Milk" would do
fine.
What is YOUR favorite cereal growing
up? OR do you have a favorite cereal now? Click
here to let me know and I may even
post up a list of your favorites!
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