Well, I am not a grocer, but it seems to me that it is hard to move much of a product IF YOU DON’T EVER STOCK IT ON THE SHELVES!Īnyway, I am getting worried that even the 2 1/2 minute variety might disappear in a few years. The person I spoke with checked into it and told me that they stopped carrying it about a month before because the product was “not moving”. After I didn’t see it for a year, I called up the grocery store’s customer service to inquire. Invariably, if I bought some when I saw it, the next time I was at the store there would not be any. Even before that I remember that it would show up on the shelf infrequently, so I would buy a couple of boxes at a time. The 10 minute variety seems to have disappeared completely from store shelves in this part of the world about 2 years ago or so. No question, it is better than 2 1/2 minute (though I have had to make do with the latter over the past few years). Well, here I am in Texas, desperately trying to find 10 minute Cream of Wheat. I can’t quite get over the nostalgia for the name-brand, but the old-fashioned box with the paragraph about how nice and traditional it is to have a hot bowl of farina with family creates its own false nostalgia…in a few months, I won’t remember the difference. Unfortunately, the instructions got smudged a bit since my cart was wet, but this brand claims to cook in two minutes…not bad.
They also crammed twice as much into the box as the comparably sized Cream-of-Wheat, and wasn’t in single-serving packets like all the Cream-of’s were at my store (they also had more different flavors than times…for the record, this was a Stop and Shop in Connecticut). It has 50% of my daily iron needs instead of 40%, and the serving size measured a bit smaller. Recently I was looking for some Cream of Wheat to replace some iron in my diet, but after doing a variety of comparisons, I’ve settled upon a box that just says “Farina” with this creepy blue-eyed kid which clearly has been featuring on boxes for the past four decades, which claims to be made by a company called, appropriately, Farina Mills. since it was suposed to take 10, i supose it still has the ruffage, but it can be cooked in a shorter time period) that is rather yellow Grits are yellow, but i am now eating an unknown (in a jar without a lable, but it looked cream-of enough, and i had some directions off a rice’ n shine box, which is brown rice cerial, and i used them kinda turned the burner on high and it was yummy in about 2 munits. there is no substantial difference in them all, i think. While you are all talking about cream of’s, there is no talk of grits. man, they should get digestives over to the us. i also have a giant ribena, about a case of Yorkshire tea (but not yorkshire gold, the refinement they do to it ruins it and i love plain better.), and 10 rolls of digestives. right now i have a 48 pack of wheetabix in my pantry, because thats the biggest one i could get when i went over there this summer.
cream of’s are not available in the uk, but so many other things are. the closest think the us has to porridge is oatmeal, which is a rougher variety of the same basic thing (oat). Porridge is not the same as cream of wheat.
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