Cocoa Puffs
If there is one thing that can complete my breakfast, it is Cocoa Puffs. Cocoa Puffs, a banana, and a glass of pineapple juice is the way to go. My friend, who is taking a course in nutrition, informed me recently that Cocoa Puffs are 33.3% sugar, which explains a great deal. Mostly, it explains why they are so delicious. I can ignore their sugar content more easily than Lucky Charms, which has hunks of hard sugar masquerading as marshmellows in it.
I was a jack-of-all-trades when I as a kid, bouncing from ballet to lacrosse to soccer to piano to baseball to tennis, and becoming truly a master of none of them. Nothing could hold my attention. I've always been a sampler, and this carried through into my choice of cereal. My parents resisted the introduction of junk food and soda into the house until I was in junior high, but there was a concession for cereal.
My father and I would go out on a massive grocery trip every other Saturday. He pick his healthy cereal with less than 33.3% dry weight in sugar and add it to the cart. If I was satisfied with my cereal choice for the previous two weeks, I would pick it up again, and if not, I would choose another by how compelling the box was. More colorful boxes usually won my favor, and generally the more colorful cereals. Although there was a brief period when I ate Kix, because a girl I idolized at the time ate them, it was a brief stint. I went through Trix, Fruit Loops, Lucky Charms, Frosted Flakes, and even Cheerios.
Throughout all that time, my father had resisted my purchasing a chocolately cereal, such as Cocoa Puffs or Cookie Crisp (which is a crime against flavor). At last, after years of wearing him down, I returned from the grocery store triumphant. When asked how they knew their spouse was the one, people have told me that they just knew he/she was the one. And when I took my first bite of Cocoa Puffs, I knew it was the one. It was the cereal I had been waiting for, the one that could finally squelch my sampler tendencies. We were meant to be together.
And Cocoa Puffs and I have been together ever since. I eat them almost every morning, basking in the glory of their sugary, blatantly nonchocolate taste, and marvelling at how they turn my milk into delicious, purple-brown chocolate milk.
I was a jack-of-all-trades when I as a kid, bouncing from ballet to lacrosse to soccer to piano to baseball to tennis, and becoming truly a master of none of them. Nothing could hold my attention. I've always been a sampler, and this carried through into my choice of cereal. My parents resisted the introduction of junk food and soda into the house until I was in junior high, but there was a concession for cereal.
My father and I would go out on a massive grocery trip every other Saturday. He pick his healthy cereal with less than 33.3% dry weight in sugar and add it to the cart. If I was satisfied with my cereal choice for the previous two weeks, I would pick it up again, and if not, I would choose another by how compelling the box was. More colorful boxes usually won my favor, and generally the more colorful cereals. Although there was a brief period when I ate Kix, because a girl I idolized at the time ate them, it was a brief stint. I went through Trix, Fruit Loops, Lucky Charms, Frosted Flakes, and even Cheerios.
Throughout all that time, my father had resisted my purchasing a chocolately cereal, such as Cocoa Puffs or Cookie Crisp (which is a crime against flavor). At last, after years of wearing him down, I returned from the grocery store triumphant. When asked how they knew their spouse was the one, people have told me that they just knew he/she was the one. And when I took my first bite of Cocoa Puffs, I knew it was the one. It was the cereal I had been waiting for, the one that could finally squelch my sampler tendencies. We were meant to be together.
And Cocoa Puffs and I have been together ever since. I eat them almost every morning, basking in the glory of their sugary, blatantly nonchocolate taste, and marvelling at how they turn my milk into delicious, purple-brown chocolate milk.
posted by Meredith at 6:44 AM
3 Comments:
I'm with you all the way. However, I've noticed that they changed the taste. Instead of being deliciously sweet, I felt more like I was eating paper. I've gotten consistent results across multiple boxes, too. I think they are trying to make them more healthy or something. Have you noticed this? You might not if the first time you had them was in junior high (right?).
I had noticed that the flavor changed, and that the milk turned a slightly different color. Initially, I was distraught. But, I feel that like any good relationship, Cocoa Puffs and I can grow and change together.
MD, let me tell you, Cocoa PEBBLES are like, a million-and-a-half times better. But I agree with your premise (the superiority of the chocolatey cereal).
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