Posted on 01/28/2021 5:59:15 PM PST by mylife
New York (CNN Business)If you're having a hard time finding Grape-Nuts at your local supermarket, you are not alone.
The pandemic has come for Grape-Nuts. Supply chain constraints and higher demand for cereal have led to shortages of the product, Kristin DeRock, Grape-Nuts Brand Manager, said in an emailed statement. Grape-Nuts should be "fully back" on shelves in the spring, she said.
From 2015 to 2019, the US ready-to-eat cereal market dipped between one and two percent each year, according to data from Euromonitor International. From 2019 to 2020, the market grew by nearly 20% to about $10.6 billion. The Grape-Nuts shortage comes as demand for consumer goods has put a strain on supply chains, leading to shortages.
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Hey, if we got taters, velveeta, rotels and chorizo we are golden
Thems facts...
Sometimes it is difficult to find jars of Pace Red Label Pecante sauce.
you little rodent bastard!
Pace? dude LOL Herdez
Sometimes you’re stuck with salsa that’s made in New York City!
I always thought that they looked like a big bowl of kidney stones.
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At one time, Grape-Nuts was the seventh-most popular cold breakfast cereal, but sales declined as Post was sold from one company to another. Around 2005, it held less than 1% of the market. In 2004, the formula was changed. Prior to that change, the mills spat out the husks for cattle feed. After 2004, the husks were put into the "nuts" so Grape Nuts could be sold as "whole grain." This roughened the cereal's texture and detracted significantly from mouthfeel.I remember when they made that change to the formula. That was the year I stopped eating Grape-Nuts. Prior to that, it had been a favorite of mine. Kind of like the horrible changes they made to Hydrox cookies when they started using lard in the frosting which changed the texture and mouthfeel. Two wonderful childhood favorites gone just like that.In 2009, Jennifer Marchant, marketing chief, said "Men aspire to it. It's strong and stern, the father figure of cereals. It tends to break your teeth sometimes."
Not all Grape Nuts loyalists welcome the focus on maleness in 2009. Sylvie Dale, 38, an editor in New Jersey, and a woman, said: "The rhythmic crunching that reverberates around your skull could be ambient sound meditation. To have the patience to get through a bowl, you have to practice mindfulness. I have a special place in my heart for this cereal."
With all the wokeness these days, I wonder if they can still pitch it as a "male" cereal. Maybe now it's branded as a CIS-Gender heterosupremacist/racist patriarchal cereal. Or something like that.
There’s been a run on vanilla yogurt
Milk prices are high
“Did you ever lick a river?”
How are grape nuts identical to all the Covid 19 vaccines?
They are all worthless to me, since I’ll consume none of them.
Is this connected to a toilet paper shortage this year?
Teeth fillings and Caps rejoice!
Some of the strangest things have become hard-to-find during the pandemic year.
Things I eat a lot of and haven’t been able to get for months:
Kroger White Cheddar Rice Cakes, Turkey Spam, Blue Diamond Cashew Milk, Millville Steel Cut Oats. (Aldi)
when I eat Grape-Nuts, I pour on the milk, not too much mind you, and then microwave it, just enough to heat it a bit to slightly soften the nuts. It’s a balancing act between still slightly crunchy and soggy.
Bidet has a couple.
Yeah, I only ever tried to eat grape nuts once, when I was about seven or eight. Poured them into a bowl, and found myself wondering if the bugs were supposed to be there—if they were “extra protein”. X.x
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