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To: MinuteGal

What’s Postum?


31 posted on 09/17/2014 4:45:37 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Postum was a beverage developed in the early 1900's by the Post Cereal Company as a hot before-bed caffeine-free beverage....a powder mixed with hot water,

Although remarkably developed and marketed before its time, the product became rather a joke-word because it became sometimes synonymous for a drink of prissies and old fuddy-duddys many of whom thought that drinking it before bedtime kept them "regular"

Pajama Boy would love it today because it was touted as being not only caffeine-free, but trans-fat free, fat-free and sodium-free...and very organic.

Basically it's composed of roasted wheat, bran and molassses. It's still available for sale on E-Bay and in Mormon and Latter Day Saints areas where many religionists eschew caffeine in their diets.

If someone is under a certain age, he or she has probably never heard of Postum. My mom bought some once, back in the day, and it's not that bad-tasting, although some find it bitter without the addition of milk and sugar.

Leni

32 posted on 09/17/2014 5:32:34 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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