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Frosted Flakes: A taste of childhood

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Which food, when you eat it, instantly transports you to childhood?

Childhood food items are not on grand on my list of childhood memories. But, what I remember is that I loved cereal. I even loved it in early adulthood. Cereal made for some great dinners after for my first real job. Mixing cereals was even more delicious and fun. It’s a shame, really, that millennials seem to have given up on cereal. Apparently, washing cereal bowls may be too cumbersome. I suppose there are also smoothies and other such replacements. But I digress.

Of my favorite cereals, nothing topped Frosted Flakes. They truly were great. I look back now in wonder at how I wasn’t a completely restless kid. I have not had said cereal for at least eight years. The last time I had it was at a professional work conference where they served cereals. I had it with a cup of coffee and a diet coke. I needed all the sugar ammunition for that meeting. Boy, it was nice to enjoy a taste of childhood.

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  1. Oh Dear Lord Dear Miriam So Addicted to Sugar
    Filled Soft Drinks and Chips As a Child They Surely

    Would Transport me Back to the Carbohydrate
    And ADHD Fueled Highs in Partaking Again

    Yet It took Long Enough

    To Kick That Habit

    Ain’t Going

    Back With SMiLes..:)

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  3. I used to work nights at the newspaper in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and sometimes, when I left at 2:00 a.m., Quakers Oats was making Cap’n Crunch and the whole downtown smelled like warm cookies. That was my favorite as a kid too.

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  4. At our favorite local Mexican restaurant they have an ice cream dessert called “Bandini After Dark” which is vanilla ice cream in a hard cinnamon-and-sugar pastry shell with Kahlua and whipped cream, and I’m pretty sure the crunchy bits they sprinkle all over it are Frosted Flakes, or some variation thereof …

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