# The Grape Nuts threrad **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 29, 2013, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610 "2013-05-29T06:23:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/21 "2013-05-29T14:04:27Z")
[The Master on Grape-Nuts](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/136/how-can-grape-nuts-cereal-contain-no-grapes-or-nuts) ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/22 "2013-05-29T14:07:35Z")
Eat them almost every day, vanilla yogurt and fresh fruit. Awesome **Capt** ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/23 "2013-05-29T14:10:05Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > Good camping food. > You cram a baggie-full of Grape Nuts down at the bottom of your packback, underneath 20 pounds of gear squashing it. Result: no crumbs! > Try doing that with regular corn flakes or whatever. > > Also, if you don’t eat it all during this summer’s vacation,—no problem!.. You can leave it in your backpack till your next hiking trip which may be ,say, in 3 years. > Or 30. > Or 300. They’re the RoundWorld equivalent of dwarf bread. Vile, vile stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/24 "2013-05-29T14:52:53Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Not bad on ice cream either as a nut substitute (I’m allergic). In Panama I’ve always found it weird that one of the favorite flavors of ice cream is Grape Nuts. (I think it’s vanilla with Grape Nuts in it.) You can get it in various supermarkets. I think it must have started out as a concoction manufactured in the old Canal Zone, and somehow became popular in Panama. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/25 "2013-05-29T15:41:18Z")
[Grape-Nuts is a spartan, near-masochistic cereal – and I love it.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=667349) ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/26 "2013-05-29T16:12:54Z")
> [@Inner Stickler](#): > > It’s delicious sprinkled on yogurt. Agreed - only I don’t just sprinkle it, I mix it in until it’s basically a crunchy-goopy blob that holds its shape remarkably well. You get the satisfying crunch of the Grapenuts plus the sweet creaminess of the yogurt. I suspect that if I were a pothead, I’d end up eating this for every meal. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/27 "2013-05-29T16:17:46Z")
I quite like it, usually hot (and therefore on the mushy side of things) with a drizzle of honey. The honey works really well with that neither grapey nor nutty flavor that Grape-Nuts has. Plus, it’s a good value: A box will last for months. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/28 "2013-05-29T16:49:15Z")
Grape Nuts, sugar, milk and a heapin’ helpin’ of raisins. Crunchy and cold. Sooooooo good! ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/29 "2013-05-29T17:31:45Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > In Panama I’ve always found it weird that one of the favorite flavors of ice cream is Grape Nuts. (I think it’s vanilla with Grape Nuts in it.) You can get it in various supermarkets. I think it must have started out as a concoction manufactured in the old Canal Zone, and somehow became popular in Panama. Yep, my wife, who’s a Panama native, has been eating Grape Nut ice cream since she was a child. You’re correct that it is vanilla with Grape Nuts mixed in. It comes that way. It’s a challenge to find it in the US, although Halo Pub, which is not too far from us, carries it. Perhaps Grape Nut ice cream got its start in the Canal Zone, I don’t know, but my wife’s family is from the mountains of Colon, and never went to the Canal zone, but she says she had it growing up in the '70s. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/30 "2013-05-29T17:36:26Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Grape Nuts, sugar, milk and a heapin’ helpin’ of raisins. Crunchy and cold. Sooooooo good! I’ve eaten it like this, although without the added sugar. The raisins give it just the right amount of sweetness IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/31 "2013-05-29T18:15:03Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > It’s a challenge to find it in the US, although Halo Pub, which is not too far from us, carries it. Checking[Wiki,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grape-Nuts)it suggesdts it was invented in Canada. > [@](#): > > Grape-Nut ice cream is a popular regional dish in the Canadian Maritimes, the Shenandoah Valley, and New England. One origin story is that it was created by chef Hannah Young at the The Palms restaurant in Wolfville, Nova Scotia in 1919. She created it when she had run out of fresh fruit to add into the ice cream, and instead decided to throw in some of the cereal. It proved popular at the restaurant and the Farmers Dairy company began mass producing the ice cream variety, and it spread across the region. > [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Perhaps Grape Nut ice cream got its start in the Canal Zone, I don’t know, but my wife’s family is from the mountains of Colon, and never went to the Canal zone, but she says she had it growing up in the '70s. I first encountered it when I lived in the Zone from 1977-79. It was carried by the CZ commissaries, but I don’t recall if it was made locally or imported. Now it’s made by a local company, and can be found in the supermarket near my house. Regardless of its origin, I think it must have been introduced to Panama via the Canal Zone. Local ice cream flavors run to guanabana and dulce de leche. ---
**Author:** ![brad\_d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@brad\_d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brad_d)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/32 "2013-05-29T18:41:07Z")
I usually dump a little bit into the bowl of whatever other cereal I’m eating for breakfast in the morning (along with some raisins). Actually we’re out of them at home right now so I’ve done without for the past few days. Occasionally I’ll just eat a bowl of Grape-Nuts, but far more often it’s an additive rather than the main ingredient. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/33 "2013-05-29T18:48:42Z")
Grape Nuts Pudding has been a local New England dessert for many moons. > **[Grape-Nut Pudding Recipe - Food.com](https://www.food.com/recipe/grape-nut-pudding-330173)** > > A New England favorite! Served in many restaurants from Maine to Massachusetts. Many of my friends here in Florida had never heard of grapenut puddin ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/34 "2013-05-29T19:40:49Z")
Waaay back in the day, when Euell was the pitchman, they were going to film a commercial on my dad’s sailboat, but the deal fell thru at the last minute. Don’t know why. ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/35 "2013-05-29T19:53:10Z")
I like them a great deal more dry than with milk. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/36 "2013-05-29T21:12:24Z")
Okay. Now I have to go buy some. Dang. I’m so suggestible. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/37 "2013-05-29T21:16:50Z")
> [@brad\_d](#): > > I usually dump a little bit into the bowl of whatever other cereal I’m eating for breakfast in the morning (along with some raisins). Actually we’re out of them at home right now so I’ve done without for the past few days. > > Occasionally I’ll just eat a bowl of Grape-Nuts, but far more often it’s an additive rather than the main ingredient. Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/38 "2013-05-30T01:22:30Z")
I like Grape Nuts. I used to _love_ them but about fifteen years ago their consistency changed from a kind of “sharp” feel to a more plastic-like bounce. Anybody else notice this or is it just me? Still good but not quite as much. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/39 "2013-05-30T01:36:38Z")
> [@KinkiNipponTourist](#): > > Yep, this right here. It does get a tiny bit mushy at the bottom of the bowl, but it’s an agreeable type of mushy. Come to think of it, the entire bowl is quite a lovely experience, starting with molar-cracking crunchiness at the start, and ending with goddoIhaveenoughmilktofinishthislastmouthfulYESIDO! slightly soft at the end. Yup. Yes! I refer to that bit at the bottom (where sugar also settles) as “Grape Nuts slurry.” Mmmmmm…slurry. ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610/40 "2013-05-30T02:14:51Z")
My dad was on the longest Grape Nuts kick for a while. But me? Nope, nope nope nope. I can be a bit of a health nut but there are a million other cereals I’d eat before resorting to grape nuts. Could never get over the fact that it reminded me of the [corn cob pellets](https://www.google.com/search?q=corn+cob+pellets&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=i7WmUeGbFLi64APRiID4BA&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1680&bih=946#facrc=_&imgrc=pBJzZzD_9eMTaM%3A%3BCgEVPpinng8YlM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.biomedicalresearchconsultants.com%252Fuser%252Fgimage%252Fcorn-cob-picture_bmp_862_628.png%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Frat-tails.webs.com%252Fguineapiginfo.htm%3B862%3B628) from the pet store we used in our hamster’s cage. Consistency was probably similar, I imagine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grape-nuts-threrad/659610.md?page=3)