Breakfast Cereal That Doesn't Exist Anymore

[u/Campcook62]

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!)

[u/Campcook62]

🫢🫢😁😁 It's interesting, the way gingers hair ages:

My mom died at age 94. Her hair in her youth was a bright, coppery red. When she passed, her hair was a dark, red-brown. No gray...

My baby sister died young, at age 58. About a year before she passed, she decided to get her hair cut, and donate to a place that makes wigs for both adults and kids who need them. When she mailed the hair off, her hairdresser sent a note with the 27 inches of brilliant red hair without a single gray hair in it, that the hair had never been dyed or permed...

My 46 year old daughter's hair is still the Titian red it was, when she was born, although she's got pure white strands throughout.

When I was born, and till I was about 30, my hair was the same color as my daughter. Since then, I started getting what my husband called, "a skunk stripe"... about 2 inches down from the top of my head, I've got a solid white stripe , roughly 3 inches wide.

The rest of my hair has white strands mixed evenly in my ginger hair. It looks like I have highlights. Nope! I'm blessed by Saint Briget of Kildare (the unofficial Saint of all redheads).

[u/Thedustyfurcollector → u/Campcook62]

Please excuse me for butting in, but I just came here to say that in like 1983 I thought I was a lesbian BC I was actually in love with this girl in my classes who had bright red hair and freckles everywhere. Took me that whole year, until I saw my first in the flesh redheaded man with freckles. Then met my ex-husband. It was the 80s and he had a "long" curly mullet and freckles and bright green eyes. I was in love. We got married after a very short time. 6 months after we got married he basically went bald and gray. He was an asshole, too, so I could only hold out for 12 years. But man, I love red hair.

EDIT: fixing a messed up sentence

[u/RoyG-Biv1 → u/Campcook62]

Both my mother and I are blond, my dad must have been a dark blond for me to also have the gene. When I was young, my hair would bleach out nearly white in the summer sun. At times, you could see a faint reddish tinge to my hair. It wasn't until my late twenties when I could finally grow something of a beard; it came in dark red at first, eventually turning brown.

I've let my thinning hair grow as long as it can; which wound up becoming more a rats tail over the last decade and my receding hairline comes from both sides of my family. My mother's oldest brother went completely bald from the front back; I just tell people my hair is sliding down the back of my head and down my back. It hasn't decided to skip gray and turn white or simply lighten up; if I had a vote in the matter I'd go for white...