<p>Golden Grahams isn’t as bad as some. At least it doesn’t have artificial coloring.</p>
<p>Oh dear…I thought the Golden Grahams were an entertainment award. Never mind.</p>
<p>Thanks, deceptacon 
!</p>
<p>Golden Grahams are a part of the vast right wing, breakfast cereal conspiracy! Could also be left wing…</p>
<p>Let’s see if anyone remembers this:</p>
<p>"It’s people. <em>Golden Grahams</em> is made out of people. They’re making our food out of people. Next thing they’ll be breeding us like cattle for food. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them! "</p>
<p>Speaking of how did we survive our childhood… Not only did I grow up eating Cocoa Puffs, Cocoa Krispies and Fruit Loops, once when the PX was out of cereal we spent a couple of months eating vanilla wafers in a bowl with milk. I even ate all those sugary cereals with vanilla ice cream occasionally - though not for breakfast. Until I hit college I was really skinny too.</p>
<p>I shouldn’t have read this thread! Now the Golden Grahams jingle is running through my head…</p>
<p>My dad always eats cereal at night. DH thinks I’m nuts when I do on occasion…but I rationalize it as better than Heath Bar Crunch ice cream…</p>
<p>In my perfect cereal world, sugar would not matter one bit and I could eat Lucky Charms every day. They are magically delicious you know and who can resist the leprechaun?</p>
<p>Soylent Green is people.</p>
<p>Honey Bunches of Os is NOT dessert cereal - I won’t have it!! Do you know how many calories can be in granola?! Cap’n Crunch, Quisp, and Trix, that’s dessert cereal.</p>
<p>doubleplay
S attends U of South Carolina and is a native New Yorker. Besides the bacon,biscuits and grits habit, he’s a convert to “meat and threes” and BBQ at tailgates. He has yet to develop the sweet tea habit.
We came across boiled peanuts for the first time in Charleston where we vacationed after dropping him in Columbia. Personally I can’t understand why anyone would take a perfectly good dry peanut and make them goopy with salt water.But, that’s just personal I guess! Also I cant figure out mustard based (yellow!!) BBQ sauces.</p>
<p>as far as cereal is concerned,it makes a terrific evening meal when you just dont know what else to eat…like on those nights after you attend an afternoon wedding with a big sit down meal,and then it gets to be about 9-10:00 and you are hungry again…</p>
<p>“Speaking of how did we survive our childhood…”</p>
<p>Standard sandwiches at our house, when we were young included: thick awful Oscar Mayer bologna on Wonder Bread with mayonnaise, with margerine generously spread on the insides of both pieces of bread so the mayo wouldn’t soak through (my mother had a thing about soggy bread). Other sandwich specialties were cream cheese and jellly, and brown sugar and butter (margerine) – all on Wonder Bread, of course.</p>
<p>My father invariably spread butter – very thickly – on both sides of the white bread before making PB & J. It was fabulous…but OMG, the calories and arteries! He also never ate white rice without gobs of butter and sugar – something Mom would never let us try. He was a Missouri boy and I’ve always wondered if this was a Missouri kind of thing or just the only way <em>his</em> mother could get him to eat rice.</p>
<p>My Alabama-born mother used to serve us white rice with butter and sugar, too. It was heavenly, almost like dessert!</p>
<p>cathymee, I admit, just plain boiled peanuts (salted) are OK, but the cajun boiled peanuts are heaven- as long as boiled peanuts are HOT. If they’re not hot (temperature wise) all bets are off- blechhh.</p>
<p>Sandwiches on white bread- a staple at our southern house was mayo on one side, peanut butter on the other, and bananas sliced up in between. Ymmmm.</p>
<p>If you don’t have bread you can just slice the banana lengthwise and slather it with mayo and peanut butter-
it’s a “side salad”…</p>
<p>We always had biscuits for dessert- we’d stick our finger in in the side of the biscuit, hollow it out, and fill it with syrup.</p>
<p>I happen to love peanut butter banana sandwiches ( no mayo for me though).</p>
<p>We always had white bread too except ocasionally when my Momma was on a diet and she’d buy Roman Meal. We always called it diet bread!</p>
<p>No syrup in our biscuits, Doubleplay. Momma would “fry” cheddar cheese in a pan and then we punched holes in the ends of the biscuits and poured the cheese in…heaven. We did put syrup on hot fried corn bread though.</p>
<p>Ok, do any of ya’ll eat tomato sandwiches with mayo and salt and pepper? We lived on those as kids in the summer. Is it just a southern thing?
I am salivating watching my backyard tomatoes grow.</p>
<p>okay…best sandwich ever. one piece of wonderbread, spread with peanut butter, top with very large diameter slice of tomato and top with slice pre cooked bacon. Stick under broiler unti PB starts to bubble. You seriously have to try this.</p>
<p>tomato sandwich with mayo…summer delight:)</p>
<p>Well, in New Jersey, where tomatoes were invented, we always eat tomato sandwiches in the summer. My family used mayo. BLTs are the best. I will definitely try the Sax idea of substituting peanut butter for lettuce & broiling. My arteries are about 95% clogged anyway.</p>
<p>If you want a healthy tomato sandwich, mix the tomatoes in balsamic vinegar & season with some basil, salt, & pepper. Put the tomatoes on crusty bread & it’s delicious. Then have a bowl of Quisp for dessert.</p>
<p>oooh, SS, That sounds like a great tomato sandwich. Now if my little golf ball sized tomatoes would just grow…guess I can munch on some cinnamon toast crunch while waiting.</p>
<p>Hey Fruit Loops have good stuff in them too.</p>
<p>I’ve occassionally had tomato sandwiches as part of an assortment of tea sandwiches. Along with cucumber of course and cut into small triangles with no crusts. But I have to admit it sounds awfully good. I’ve got 11 heirloom tomato plants on my back patio, I can’t wait. Golf ball size? I think I still have marbles!</p>