Freeze-dried bananas in Corn Flakes: a symbol of America gone astray!

[Bertha Venation]

"Freeze-dried fruit in breakfast cereal is here, like it or not.

"Is that a good thing? The answer is no. Freeze-dried fruit in breakfast cereal is a very bad thing. It's a symbol of America gone astray. When did we get so grossly lazy that we can't chop our own bananas? When did we loose respect for nature - the life force that's provided us with fresh fruit since Adam and Eve.

"Among that many wonderful things that breakfast can be, it is the first chance of the day for families to be families - sitting together - being together. Here are two pictures: A mother slicing a fresh banana over her child's bowl of Corn Flakes while father reads his morning paper. The smell of rich coffee permeates the air. Here's the other picture: a freeze-dried banana.

"My heart cries at the thought of a woman rushing through her morning to make meetings and schedules. Hurriedly, she plops bowls of cereal with freeze-dried fruit in front of her loved ones. Pouring the milk is the last bastion of preparation and care in the family breakfast. One day, she'll be able to just pull a prefabricated bowl of cereal from the cupboard and shake it strongly so the gasses and elements intertwine to hydrate the freeze-dried milk. Then, finally, comes a Jetson's style robot negating the need for mothers to do anything for their children - making human mothers into a gross distortion of what nature meant them to be… nurturers and providers. This goes double for single parent families and singles."

Fundy nutcase site? No, it's Mr. Breakfast!

[rainy]

1. I agree with your thoughts on the American diet and have

read some books on rawfoodism. Rawfoodism is remarkable in its simple truths and insightfullness. Eating raw supplies the body with enzymes crutial to good heatlh that are killed when food is cooked. My favorite book on this topic is: Nature's First Law. It is a great read and very humorous. I am about 85% raw at this moment and plan to go 100% soon.

[Bertha Venation]

2. Okay.

These aren't my thoughts, though. After all, I do know the difference between "loose" and "lose."

Rawfoodism? Never heard of it. Hope that means you're vegan. :hi:

[TreasonousBastard]

3. How about instant milk powder, too...

and a little pouch of spring water in the single serving box.

Anything to save 30 seconds of time and "add value."

[Throckmorton]

4. Eat it, Eat it Raw,

Thats the spirits we have here, Rah, Rah, Rah.

[fortyfeetunder]

5. This is a repeat from about 30 or so years ago

Kellogg's did this crap when I was a kid, the freeze dried bananas. Flopped like a rock. I am surprised they'd bring it back. Maybe it's probably more of a convenience now for kids...but I want my kid to know about fresh fruit/....

[LoZoccolo]

6. Pronto the Banana

That was actually their name for the mascot for Kellogg's Corn Flakes with Bananas. I used to have a picture of it on my web site back in like 1996.

[Union Thug]

7. Is it laziness? I don't think so...

Growing up as a young child in the sixties, my life was much like the the 'ideal breakfast' mentioned in your post. My father was a union printer. My mother was a stay at home mom. We live in a small house in west Seattle near a semi-wooded park that lay within walking distance of us. We weren't 'well to do' but we never went hungry and we always had what we needed as well a few extras.

Every year, my dad had two weeks (sometimes more) off for vacation. He would normally take some of it with his pals where they would roll off towards Packwood on their yearly hunting trip. As a family, we would take a week (or more) to go to a cabin on Alder lake.

I was the oldest of the kids and I truly enjoyed the best years of our family. By the time my youngest sister had turned 4 years old, Ronald Reagan had begun his war on the working class. Soon, my father's union was weakened, they lost a couple of important strikes and suddenly my mother had to find a job, the vacations stopped and the government cheese became a part of our daily lives.

Freeze dried bananas have nothing to do with laziness. They have everything to do with our having been beaten economically by the business class. The greatest period in American history was during those years when I was young, where unions were strong and new deal policies haven't been dismantled by the conservative corporate whores that rule today's economy.

If anyone wants to return to our best years, we need to start by winning a war on big business and running the conservatives out of town.

[Deja Q]

8. I wonder how nutritionally useful the freeze-dried bits are...

I suspect not very useful at all.

"Still, whatever makes a buck, what the fuck..." - America's new slogan.

[Bertha Venation]

9. Such serious replies.

See the quote marks? I didn't write this, folks. I quoted it. I think the guy's a loon -- look at the site.

:shrug:

[Union Thug]

11. serious because...

some of us have fond memories of better days for families in this country, regardless of the 'loon' who wrote the piece that started the thread! =)

[psychopomp]

12. The writer's ideas on gender-roles

are dated but I can see the writer's point regarding, in general, the sacrifice of substance for time. I liked the image of the kitchen of some long-lost day gone by, with the smell of coffee and bananas drifting together over the family's kitchen table while Mom/Dad gets it all together (doesn't matter who is doing the nurturing).

[pbg]

10. Cold pizza for breakfast--

--quite possibly, nature's perfect food.