Our wedding photographer is a friend of Allison's. He's from Toronto. He's not usually a wedding photographer but did ours as a friendly favor. He tends to do more music photography and his own creative art stuff.
Anyway: our wedding was across the street from a grocery store and, after all of the usual photos, he asked if we'd go with him to the store as he has this weird thing about grocery stores in the US, how big they are, how gleaming they are, and how they have SO Much of everything. He is particularly taken with cereal aisles, as they are apparently very different here than up there. That led to one of my favorite of our wedding photos: Allison and I each holding a box of cereal -- hers is gluten-free, naturally -- in the cereal aisle. It's here FWIW:
I actually love Grape Nuts, though I mostly stopped eating them a couple of years ago because the carb/protein ratio is terrible and once I hit my late 40s, my metabolism just really stared not doing high carbs well. The fiber part of it never really bothered me, actually. I have a pretty iron-clad constitution, thankfully.
I think I have the teeth of a lowland mountain gorilla. The front teeth are not super sharp, so sometimes I make a mess trying to bite off a piece of something, but I can grind just about anything into pulp if you give me long enough. Like, if society collapses and we all have to forage for nuts and rough foliage, I'll do just fine.
I'm sorry you have stomach issues, but it seems you cope well.
Growing up I was a huge Cap'n Crunch fan, but as an "adult" I can barely stomach any of those cereals. While I always like Tony the Tiger (he's GREAT - but I can understand your irritation with him), Frosted Flakes just never hit the spot. Truthfully, I can't tell you the last time I had any cereal for breakfast.
These days I tend to have a bagel with an egg and cheese (home-made, not Dunkin' Donuts) or a bagel with peanut butter slopped on it. Perhaps a couple hard-boiled eggs with hot sauce, something quick and that can be eaten on the go. Haven't had a cup of coffee since September (Labour Day Weekend), 2001. Sundays, its three eggs, bacon and hash browns with whole wheat toast, which is a holdover from my youth; grandpa always made a huge breakfast on Sundays.
Thanks for your "Musings", they give me a chance to relate and reminisce! If I see any of those magical boxes, I'll send them your way.
Our wedding photographer is a friend of Allison's. He's from Toronto. He's not usually a wedding photographer but did ours as a friendly favor. He tends to do more music photography and his own creative art stuff.
Anyway: our wedding was across the street from a grocery store and, after all of the usual photos, he asked if we'd go with him to the store as he has this weird thing about grocery stores in the US, how big they are, how gleaming they are, and how they have SO Much of everything. He is particularly taken with cereal aisles, as they are apparently very different here than up there. That led to one of my favorite of our wedding photos: Allison and I each holding a box of cereal -- hers is gluten-free, naturally -- in the cereal aisle. It's here FWIW:
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Omg that’s amazing! Also I hope you didn’t eat the Grape Nuts, those things are dangerous.
I actually love Grape Nuts, though I mostly stopped eating them a couple of years ago because the carb/protein ratio is terrible and once I hit my late 40s, my metabolism just really stared not doing high carbs well. The fiber part of it never really bothered me, actually. I have a pretty iron-clad constitution, thankfully.
For me it’s how hard they are. Like eating a bowl of corn nuts but with an ever more diamond-like consistency
I think I have the teeth of a lowland mountain gorilla. The front teeth are not super sharp, so sometimes I make a mess trying to bite off a piece of something, but I can grind just about anything into pulp if you give me long enough. Like, if society collapses and we all have to forage for nuts and rough foliage, I'll do just fine.
I think decades of vegetarianism has rendered me nearly helpless.
Thoroughly enjoyed this post, Ruth.
I'm sorry you have stomach issues, but it seems you cope well.
Growing up I was a huge Cap'n Crunch fan, but as an "adult" I can barely stomach any of those cereals. While I always like Tony the Tiger (he's GREAT - but I can understand your irritation with him), Frosted Flakes just never hit the spot. Truthfully, I can't tell you the last time I had any cereal for breakfast.
These days I tend to have a bagel with an egg and cheese (home-made, not Dunkin' Donuts) or a bagel with peanut butter slopped on it. Perhaps a couple hard-boiled eggs with hot sauce, something quick and that can be eaten on the go. Haven't had a cup of coffee since September (Labour Day Weekend), 2001. Sundays, its three eggs, bacon and hash browns with whole wheat toast, which is a holdover from my youth; grandpa always made a huge breakfast on Sundays.
Thanks for your "Musings", they give me a chance to relate and reminisce! If I see any of those magical boxes, I'll send them your way.
Thank you so much Mike, and that’s super thoughtful of you too. I’m sure any of the sugary cereal we liked as kids would be horribly sweet to us now.
Ruth lol
I love you so much, dude haha
I knew you’d appreciate it. Haha