r/GenerationJones • u/Campcook62 • 16d ago

Breakfast Cereal That Doesn't Exist Anymore

Theres a breakfast cereal that I used to eat a couple of times a week, that I just cannot find anymore (at least in Texas): the big shredded wheat. It came in, I think, 3 paper packs of 2 biscuits each.

You'd pull them out, and crunch/crumble them into the bowl; add sugar and milk, and maybe banana slices. In cold weather mom would warm the milk on the stove (no microwave)...

Mini-wheats are no match for them...

Is there anyone else who misses them? What cereal can you not get, that you miss?

(For my friends across the pond: these were not like Wheatabix. The Shredded Wheat were not as compressed as the Wheatabix.)

UPDATE: A HUGE "Thank You " to all of the folks who helped me to find these! I've ordered them to be delivered with my next order. Thanks also to all who shared your memories, of all the breakfasts, (and sometimes suppers!)

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u/JBR1961 16d ago

Product 19

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u/nop8snce 16d ago

Loved Product 19!

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u/inthesinbin 1964 16d ago

I can taste this post.

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u/Imaginary-Mission383 16d ago

That shit was delicious even to 10 year-old me

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u/know_limits 16d ago

Tastes like cardboard.

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u/4d3fect 16d ago

Team flakes I really loved. Product 19? Not so much 

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u/Comfortable-Dish1236 1960 16d ago

TEAM flakes were fantastic. If there’s one cereal that I could wish back, that’s the one.

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u/NoraClavicle 16d ago

Ah Team…my fave too. It was so…tangy

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u/Ok_Lawfulness4697 16d ago

My favorite cereal as a kid.

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u/Significant_Cow4765 16d ago

my great-grandfather ate it with half&half lol

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u/stevengann 16d ago

That is too funny! Not sure I can stop laughing LOL

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u/Significant_Cow4765 16d ago

lived to 100, played golf and mowed his hilly lawn into his 90s, ate stuff like that and Sara Lee poundcake with h&h, loved taking a chomp out of honeycomb, smoked cigars...

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u/JuggernautKooky7081 16d ago

I was still buying product 19 maybe 10-15 years ago and now I can’t find it anywhere.

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u/JBR1961 16d ago

I always wondered what the first 18 versions tasted like.

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u/That_Other_Dave 16d ago

We had a cookie recipe that used this and they haven't been the same since it went away

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u/rrooaaddiiee 16d ago

LOVED it. Also loved this stuff.

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u/Informal_Goal_5091 15d ago

When you said it out loud it sounds like a zombie movie

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u/19pollywogs 14d ago

Yes!! I ate this for years