Eat them almost every day, vanilla yogurt and fresh fruit. Awesome
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They’re the RoundWorld equivalent of dwarf bread.
Vile, vile stuff.
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.
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.
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.
Grape Nuts, sugar, milk and a heapin’ helpin’ of raisins. Crunchy and cold. Sooooooo good!
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.
I’ve eaten it like this, although without the added sugar. The raisins give it just the right amount of sweetness IMO.
CheckingWiki,it suggesdts it was invented in Canada.
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.
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.
Grape Nuts Pudding has been a local New England dessert for many moons.
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.
I like them a great deal more dry than with milk.
Okay. Now I have to go buy some. Dang. I’m so suggestible.
Ditto.
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.
Yes! I refer to that bit at the bottom (where sugar also settles) as “Grape Nuts slurry.” Mmmmmm…slurry.
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 from the pet store we used in our hamster’s cage. Consistency was probably similar, I imagine.
