PSA: GrapeNuts "cereal" is godawful.

PingSpike

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Feb 25, 2004
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What the hell is this sh|t? Tree bark bits?

People said it was bad, but people say that about all cereals that aren't frosted and since I don't mind bland food I bought a box last week. I poured myself a hearty bowl with some milk and brought the spoon to my mouth, expecting a flavor perhaps only slightly worse than bran flakes or a grassy flavor like Khashi. What I got was a mushy mouthful of dirt milk. After about three spoonfulls I sliced up some fresh strawberries to try and dull the foul taste. No dice. The grapenuts flavor easily overpowered the strawberries pitiful attempts at flavor restoration. The delicious strawberries were assimilated into the ground rabbit turd collective. They resembled strawberries now only on a visual level.

I consumed the entire bowl since I hate throwing food away, but it was immensely difficult. And keep in mind I eat baked potatos plain.

It says on the box that a study shows that if you you eat grapenuts in place of two meals a day you'll lose weight. No sh|t. Probably because after three days of eating grape nuts for two meals a day you stopped eating those meals altogether and started eating dryer lint or something.

I dunno what I'm going to do with that box.
 

loup garou

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Feb 17, 2000
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Sorry, you're wrong. Grapenuts + honey or Grapenuts + banana or both is awesome.
Definitely my favorite cereal.
 

cKGunslinger

Lifer
Nov 29, 1999
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Agreed. I tried Grape-Nuts when I was a kid, as I was always fond of "plain" cereal like Corn Flakes, instead of the sugar-coated sugar most cereals were.

Barf-o-rama. It's like trying to eat a handful of garden mulch.
 

nakedfrog

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Apr 3, 2001
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I made the mistake of trying them once.
They taste about as good as they look.
And 8/10 for the post :thumbsup:
 

imported_Phil

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It says on the box that a study shows that if you you eat grapenuts in place of two meals a day you'll lose weight. No sh|t. Probably because after three days of eating grape nuts for two meals a day you stopped eating those meals altogether and started eating dryer lint or something.

:laugh::laugh::laugh:
 

So

Lifer
Jul 2, 2001
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You know pebbles cereal? Yeah, it was originally going to replace grapenuts and was going to be made of real gravel! Unfortunately, the test audience of grape nuts fans foud it 'too soft' so they retooled it for kids....
 

superjohnyo

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Every once in a while I will eat some grapenuts after putting milk, butter, and brown cinnamon in it and then warming it up in the microwave.