Spoonful of Blog

Alright, if you know me then you know that I love breakfast foods.  One breakfast food that I could talk about for quite awhile is cereal.  Heck, I’ve had plenty of conversations just about cereal.  Now, I do plan to have several blogs based on just cereal so, since I plan on writing several blogs about cereal I will do my best to focus on just one type of cereal per blog.  That brings me to the very difficult decision of choosing which cereal will be first.  Actually, it isn’t that difficult now that I think of it.  The honor of being first should go to my favorite cereal.  The cereal with the taste you can see (I hope some of you have already guessed which cereal this is).  In fact, I crave those crazy squares (you should know by now).  Cinnamon Toast Crunch will have the honor of the first cereal blog written by me (guess it isn’t that big of an honor…now that I see it written out).

Those Crazy Squares

Cinnamon Toast Crunch is definitely my favorite cereal.  It has been for as long as I can remember.  Not only is Cinnamon Toast Crunch delicious with milk (I prefer the rich taste of whole milk with my cereal) but Cinnamon Toast Crunch is also absolutely fantastic dry.  In fact, I find it hard to keep Cinnamon Toast Crunch on hand.  It is so tasty I either eat bowl after bowl or if I don’t have any milk I will eat it handful after handful.  I would actually say that when I buy Cinnamon Toast Crunch and bring it home, I tend to eat at least one bowl right then and there before I even put it away in the cupboard.  In fact, just because I am typing this right now, 2 things are happening.  One, my mouth is beginning to water at the thought of those delicious cinnamon and sugar swirled squares.  Two, I am already planning to buy a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch today…maybe 2 boxes to be safe.

Obviously a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch

As I had previously stated, Cinnamon Toast Crunch has been my favorite cereal for as long as I can remember.  You may think it strange at first, but I have fond memories of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.  You see, the first person to introduce me to Cinnamon Toast Crunch was my Grandma.  In fact, she always seemed to have a box on hand for me.  It seems every time I went over there I would ask my Grandma for a bowl…and she never said no.  This actually led to an ongoing joke then with my Grandpa.  You see, I would always ask my Grandma for a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch but I would never ask Grandpa (I think I was worried he would say no).  So, every once in a while Grandpa would over hear me asking Grandma for a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch and he would say, “Hold up, come here and ask me.”  Well, I would shyly walk over and ask him and he would sit there silent for what seemed like an eternity (probably 30 seconds tops but I was a kid) before he would finally smirk and say yes.  I eventually did learn to alternate back and forth with who I asked.  A very fond…and tasty memory of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

I have once heard a comedian, Mike Birbiglia, describe Cinnamon Toast Crunch as crack.  He used this analogy because much like a crack addict, he didn’t buy Cinnamon Toast Crunch for a later time.  When Mike bought a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch he wanted it for now, not a later date.  I know…the way I described it made it seem very unfunny, so I found a very grainy video of it on youtube and I have attached the link.  The Cinnamon Toast Crunch bit is at the very end…but it is only 2:25 so it isn’t that much of a waste of time. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOJXwBAxZQI ) With that I will conclude this Cinnamon Toast Crunch blog…hopefully to soon be enjoying a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

For those of you counting, I typed Cinnamon Toast Crunch 21 times,

-LD