Breakfast cereal: a memoir

As awful for health as they are, having played such a huge role in childhood breakfasts, thoughts of breakfast cereals still conjure up a host of memories. Deep within the haze of my childhood memories, buried beneath recollections of nerdy high school days, a marriage gone sour, and a brother-in-law midlife crisis involving duct tape, three members of the local PTA, and a VW bus, are images of the mornings I sat with my two sisters at our kitchen table in suburban New Jersey, each of us slurping a bowl of Trix, Lucky Charms, or Fruit Loops cereal, still recovering from a late night of Bewitched and Mission Impossible. We were virtual connoisseurs of breakfast cereals, having tried them all, even mixing different brands to come up with unique combinations. Digging into bowls of crunchy sweetness, the first few scoops were undeniably the best before the loops, puffs, or stars got soggy, leaving you with a few floating stragglers. Tipping the milk into your mouth at the end was worth the wait, sweet and colored the same as the cereal, brown for Cocoa Puffs, pinkish-purple for Fruity Pebbles. Along with pretending to brush our teeth and comb our hair, breakfast cereal was part of the morning routine before school for us and millions of other American kids, an experience complete with “Free toy inside!” Kelloggs, General Mills, and Post could do incredible things with just wheat flour, cornstarch, sugar, and a little food coloring. Add some clever packaging, a loony cartoon c...
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