Revisiting Childhood Ideas: Teddy Graham Cereal

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When I was a little kid, I had a lot of great ideas. I think everyone does. Sometimes we’d get to see these ideas come full circle, and learn a valuable lesson. Like why you don’t swing from chandeliers, or why you aren’t supposed to convert an old refrigerator into a ‘fort.’ Most of the time, however, these ideas had to stay in our heads, because our (evil) parents wouldn’t let us try them out.

But one of the good things about growing up is you get to try some of these crazy ideas out. Especially if you kept them all in a notebook, like me.

I was never allowed to eat sugary cereals as a kid. In retrospect I don’t really resent it because that’s probably why I don’t need medicine to focus, but at the time I thought it was total bullsh*t. Whenever I was at a friend’s I would sample all the different sugary cereals like I was some desperate 11 year old Shaker who didn’t understand electricity. One vivid memory is when I first got to try Cookie Crisp. It was disgusting. It tasted like Sand Dollar Crisp. I was so disappointed. The ad promised cookies for breakfast! That dog!

Speaking of cookies, one of my favorite types when I was little was Teddy Grahams. I loved these because you could eat handfuls of them and that felt great. Of course I’d never have access to the entire box, so I’d usually be eatin’ my grahams out of a plastic baggy at lunch time. Well, one such lunchtime I was thinking about my cereal experience while nibblin’ on some grahams and couldn’t figure out why a company didn’t make a cereal that did taste like cookies. It seemed so easy…just pour cookies into milk. Just then, it hit me. Teddy Graham Cereal. Booya.

I never got to try it, thanks to a combination of not being allowed in the pantry and a propensity to spill milk when I tried to pour it myself (never got over this one). That is, until now.

Step One : Get Milk

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Step Two : Get Teddy Grahams, whatever flavor you like.

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Step Three : Make Teddy Graham Cereal (take care not to spill milk).

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Conclusion? It was pretty cool. It tasted great for approx. 5 minutes. Unfortunately Teddy Grahams have a high rate of absorbency, and got soggy relatively fast, but that didn’t stop me from eating a second bowl.

Next week I may buy a box of T-Grahams and leave it open for a week, in an attempt to create a more resilient graham that stays crispy longer. I’ll keep you posted.

6 Comments on "Revisiting Childhood Ideas: Teddy Graham Cereal"

  1. GIVE ME A FAST SNACK says:
    Sun, 20th Jul 200812:49 pm 

    FOR I INTEND TO GO IN GRAHAM’S WAY.

  2. KB says:
    Sun, 20th Jul 20082:00 pm 

    This. Sounds. AMAZING.

  3. Koley says:
    Sun, 20th Jul 20082:19 pm 

    Amen… and I thought I was the only kid who wanted Teddy Graham cereal to exist.

  4. Kaley says:
    Sun, 20th Jul 20087:53 pm 

    This is soooo hilarious because I, too, desired a Teddy Graham’s cereal…or to design my own.

  5. Bri says:
    Fri, 25th Jul 20089:45 am 

    “I was never allowed to eat sugary cereals as a kid. In retrospect I don’t really resent it because that’s probably why I don’t need medicine to focus, but at the time I thought it was total bullsh*t. ”

    If you are making a reference to ADD/ADHD, you need to do some research. ADHD isnt caused by eating sugary cereal. It’s a neurological disorder that is hereditary.

  6. Constanza says:
    Mon, 11th Aug 20083:47 am 

    I did this with crushed up Oreo’s!

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