When did they start making cold cereal so sweet?
And I say this as a lover of sweets.
I stopped eating cold cereal a couple years ago trying to cut down on carbs. My husband loves cold cereal and eats it for breakfast 365 days a year. (He is a creature of habit when it comes to food). However, this morning he said he couldn’t stand this particular type of cereal because it was too sweet. He had me taste it and,whoa, it was like eating a cookie. It was Raisin Bran Crunch. I know some of the sweetness is from the raisins, but the flakes themselves tasted like eating dessert. I was surprised he bought it because he’s pretty health conscious. He often complains he can’t find granola in a box that isn’t loaded with sugar. I can’t imagine what cereal marketed for kids must taste like.
Guess it will be Grape Nuts and plain oatmeal from now on.
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... like he was witnessing one of the wonders of the world.
He seemed so distracted by the sight of it that my parents had to repeat what they said to him initially.
I later learned that he previously worked for the Peace Corps in poor countries, so he might've actually been a little disgusted by that bounty for all I know. Yet my household wasn't as wealthy as most of our neighbors, and my mother could've regaled him with many stories of her childhood hunger of he'd stuck around much longer. Plenty of food was pretty much my main privilege growing up, compared to the neighbor kids.
My maternal grandmother graduated from college long ago too! It was especially unusual back then. Then she felt compelled to get married to my grandfather who was 9 years younger than her. (So it was the opposite of your parents.) Her college education never resulted in employment opportunities, of course, and her family sometimes expressed disappointment that her husband kept struggling financially during their years of marriage on a small farm. He kept getting elected as Justice of the Peace there, when he really didn't even want to do it, but he was apparently trusted by the community even while very poor.
Edit: Here's a picture of my mother's childhood home, many years after it was sold. She said the house looked improved when that photograph was taken, but otherwise about the same.
My father's family lived on a huge farm of 3000 acres a few miles away. He drove me around it one time, again long after it was sold, and he kept saying "This is still it" when I'd ask if we'd driven past it yet.
My mother hated him and his family as a young girl because she saw him carrying groceries one day, with celery sticking out at the top. Her thoughts were, "They're so rich that they can even waste money on celery!"
Dad was an only-child and never wanted to manage such a large farm, especially dealing with hired help which would be necessary. I looked through old land records in that area, and it was his great-grandfather who didn't get married until he was 52 years old (to a 24-year old) who kept acquiring more and more land from neighbors until it reached that point. Then it was all sold off by his parents for pennies on the dollar according to my mother, after Dad moved away from there with my Mom.
realized that people were putting heaping teaspoons of sugar on the cereal to kill the bland taste... Then came the realization that they could hook people on the stuff with sugar/fat/and salt... Gets 'em every time.... Oh you want low fat? Ok pour on the salt and sugar... Low salt? pile on the fat and sugar.. It's an evil triangle of sorts...
ok rant mode off.... 
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and those are just the sugar-loaded cereals I can think of off the top of my head...All dating back to the 60s or earlier. 
