![]() All we could taste and feel was the pain because there was no meta-goal to distract us from it. We could simply relax and shovel the crunchy, flesh tearing berries into our faces with reckless abandon because someone had done all the hard work for us! I’ll tell you what though…when we tried our first and only box, we no longer enjoyed the experience of the cereal anymore. ![]() No longer would we have to waste our time sifting and sorting. When we first saw a box of Cap’n Crunch’s Oops! All Berries we were over the moon. My sister and I both agree, that on that day, we experienced the best bowl of cereal that we ever had…and we earned it! ![]() The real concern was how we were going to get rid of the remaining leftover yellow pain biscuits when we were done. Getting caught would mean having to spend a half hour or so in the corner but it’d be a small price to pay for such a sweet prize. The goal? To create the holy grail of cereal experiences – an entire bowl of nothing but Crunch Berries! One of us would keep watch for our parents while the other dug through the box in a frenzied search. Christina and I knew it had to be a clandestine operation because what we were about to do would be looked at as “playing with our food” and that was a big no no at our house. My younger sister and I were sitting at the breakfast table with a freshly opened box of Cap’n Crunch cereal and a plan. Even though it was a satisfying experience, I longed for a way to make the separation process easier and faster. As I ate, I would work around the crunch berries so that by the end of the bowl, all I had left were…well, crunch berries. Experiencing that cereal always came with the price of tearing up the roof of my mouth but it was always worth it. Growing up, the best cereal in the world was Cap’n Crunch even though eating it felt like I was chewing on fiberglass. ![]()
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