Cap'n Crunch and Baby Boomers
HELLO GENTLE READERS:
The unthinkable! Cap'n Crunch is almost as old as I am. He, like me, has switched to whole grain. Come on now! Cap'n Crunch? Whole grain? That's kinda' like adding vitamins to Marlboros, isn't it? It's unholy.
In my youth, I fervently worshipped at the altar of high sugar, monosodium glutinate and yellow dye number 4. Cap'n Crunch isn't supposed to have any nutritional redeeming value. It's designed to be milk covered "candy-in-a-bowl". Whole grain, indeed! Are we not desecrating a sixties icon? Whole grain Pop Tarts and Corn Pops (used to be called "Sugar Pops"). What's next?
If this trend continues who will support Merk, Upjohn, Pfizer and the other drug companies. What's to become of the Cholesterol drugs? Are they to go the way of the Dodo?
As least they still have preservatives. Most of them have a shelf-life longer than Chernobyl's half-life.
Well, gotta' go. Time for my Lipitor.
Tom Vickers
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