Thursday, April 12, 2007
Something wicked this way comes... sometimes in your cereal
In the last post, Robin commented that Grape Nuts Flakes was one of her favorite cereals. I used to like this cereal a lot, many many years ago before I moved out of my parents’ house. Used to? Let me tell you what happened…
I’m a devoted cereal eater. It’s quick, yummy, and if you choose the right ones, good for you too. One morning, as I was watching my Saturday morning cartoons, I got the bowl, cereal and milk ready for breakfast. Let’s just say my attention was more on the animated characters than on my food. I poured the cereal and ate the first bite. Mmm, Grape Nuts Flakes is good. Next bite, is there something weird with this cereal? Maybe it was just that one bite. Third bite… munch munch… okay something is definitely off.
I managed to tear my eyes away from the television long enough to look into my bowl. I saw an ant floating on the milk. Oh great, I ate an ant. I’m not that squeamish about ants, so I just shrugged, removed the ant, and continued eating. I figured it was just a couple. Why throw out a bowl of good cereal over two ants?
Fourth and final bite, things definitely have not improved. In fact, it’s really gross. It’s like a weird chemical-like aftertaste that permeated throughout my mouth and to my nose. I peered inside the box of cereal… oh… my… CRAWLING WITH ANTS! The whole box is infested with little black ants. Who knows how many I sent to my stomach. Gross! Yack! Ptooey!
Since then I’ve just never had the heart to eat Grape Nuts Flakes anymore. That taste of crushed ants is permanently etched into my memory. They say smell is a powerful invoker of memories. In this case, the memory invokes the smell. *shivers*
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