Saturday, August 9, 2008

Quaker Oatmeal Squares



I don't like leaving the house, so often when I'm out looking for cereals I tend to go just two blocks over to Joe's Market on 19th. Although this eatery/grocery store/laundromat has many things to recommend it, including a deli that serves better burghl than the Lebanese deli in Northeast, a lost and found clothing box that often has good clothes to steal from it, and complimentary hours; a wide array of cereals is not one of the peacock feathers in its green-and-white checked cap.

But I was pleased to find that they started stocking Oatmeal Squares, which at like 7 dollars a box or something is pretty outrageous but better than eating whichever other cereal I usually buy from there, I forget. Cinnamon Toast Crunch maybe. A lot of days getting out of bed is really determined by whether I have any breakfast to eat. If there's breakfast in the kitchen, I'll be out of bed faster than you can say are there any clean spoons Sam? Why aren't there any goddamn clean spoons? Where did all the spoons go?

Anyway, Oatmeal Squares have a good crunch to them but they are way too filling. I like to eat two bowls of cereal at a time. If I eat even one bowl of Oatmeal Squares I'm dyin from being too full. You might say pour yourself a smaller bowl of cereal. I say different strokes for different folks. I think that if Oatmeal Squares were to have a number of red berries added it might make them tastier. I like a bowl of Cpt. Asshole's Sugar Cubes as much as the next guy, but when you're going sometimes you just need a real deep cereal. This one is too deep, but tasty.


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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Special K red berries



A lot of time when I go cereal shopping I get what might be known as "cereal anxiety" where I've got all those cereals lined up in a huge aisle and you just don't know what to get. I have a lot of favorite cereals but I'm often just looking for that cereal that I can spend the most special moments of my day with. Some cereals are better to eat when you're hungover or sometimes you might want a dessert cereal, like the cereal whose exact name escapes me but the the tagline is Reese's ... for Breakfast?!?!? But when I'm looking to jump-start my day with a thoughtful combination of crunch and sweetness Special K red berries is a go-to cereal. Even though the packaging is an abortion, assuring that it will never be the prettiest girl at the heady prom of the cereal aisle, Special K red berries is the kind of cereal that you can grow old with, spending each morning at the breakfast nook with just her and the Brainerd Daily Dispatch.

The classic Special K is the province of housemoms on weird diets and people who have sex without getting undressed with the lights off.



It's so bad they named a drug after it. But what exactly is it about those red berries? Why don't they just say "Special K with strawberries"? By themselves freeze-dried strawberries are not good at all. I have to congratulate the scientists at General Mills for taking two inedible products and making them into one eminently edible product.


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