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I want some!
There is a problem with that, a cereal that I consider iconic, is nowhere to be found where I live.
None of the grocery chains in Central Texas stock this brand.
It's difficult to find ANY non-sugared puffed cereal, but the Quaker brand has vanished.
Oddly, I can do a search and find a source to ship me six 5.3 oz. boxes for about $30.00....but that seems a little high.
Going to Quaker's website...they don't even mention Puffed Wheat.
I did order some Kellogg's Puffed Wheat through Amazon's grocery site...it doesn't tasted right.
So, do they sell this elusive item where you live?
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Re: Quaker Puffed Wheat
Really? I don't think it's any problem around here although I haven't looked lately. But then - it was invented here! I never knew the inventor (much too old) but have been in, and worked on, his estate, and I know some of his heirs fairly well. Went to school with one. One of the husbands of one of his daughters co-founded a company that made hazardous material handling devices. If you've seen the movie The Andromeda Strain, then you've seen an example of one of the devices.
So now you've compelled me to actually look for the stuff. I know I've seen umpteen of Quakers other products, I'm just not certain if Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice are among them. Have you tried the Malt-O-Meal brand? It's cheaper, not to mention that it's made in Northfield, MN (you know - the town where the Jesse James gang met its demise), about 35 miles from my hometown.
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Re: Quaker Puffed Wheat
I have seen generic products (store brand) of Quaker Puffed Wheat (and also the Rice one) over here, unsweetened and all. I used to take the Puffed Wheat and add a small bit of Maple Syrup, add some 2% milkfat milk and enjoy! Yummy!
Jay
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Re: Quaker Puffed Wheat
Found some in a Houston Kroger's today!
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Re: Quaker Puffed Wheat
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| Found some in a Houston Kroger's today! |
Is that store related to Freddy Kroger?
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Re: Quaker Puffed Wheat
That film came out in 1950.
Speaking of Freddy Kreuger, the actor Robert Englund auditioned for the part of Luke Skywalker. After failing to get the part, he suggested to a friend that he try out for the part. That friend was Mark Hamill.
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Re: Quaker Puffed Wheat
I remember that slogan from advertisements years ago. I wonder when they dropped it in their advertising.
Quote:
Even though [Alex Anderson] was a fine poet and memoirist, his greatest accomplishment was to invent a way to break down the starch in grains by subjecting them to intense heat and pressure, greatly enlarged the kernels in so doing. To do this he devised a large wooden gun. Albert Lasker, an early advertising genius hired by the Quaker company, explained the process. The lab must have been a hundred feet long. The so-called gun was actually a drum that was super-heated with the mouth covered. When it reached the correct temperature, workers removed the cover with a pulley. The grains exploded out and flew wildly around, expanding to eight times its original size in the process. Hedin puts it more colorfully. “It made the lab sound like a battlefield, smell like a bakery and look like a snowy winter morning.”
Pleased with his invention, Anderson decided to show it off. Puffed rice made its premier appearance at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. A minor hit as a novelty, it also caught the eye of an unnamed executive of the Quaker cereal company in the process. |
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Re: Quaker Puffed Wheat
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| Hedin puts it more colorfully |
Wouldn't happen to have a link to this quote? I knew the Hedin family, well, some of them anyway - was on the golf team and graduated with one, played a lot of gambling golf with a another.
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!
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