Lots of grapes have seeds. Hard little buggers. Is a pretty weird name, alright. Where I live one used to be able to get an ice cream flavor called “Brown Bread” that had Grape-Nuts in it. That was the brown bread.
This is the first time I’ve heard what grape nuts taste like. Seedless grapes weren’t a thing when I was little, so I’ve bitten into my share of grape seeds. They have a nutty crunch, but they taste horrendous! Sort-of like brussels sprouts but… it’s hard to realise the taste of brussels sprouts actually has some good in it until you compare them to grape seeds. After that, I cannot imagine why anyone would name a food “grape nuts”!
I can’t complain though. I’m British, I grew up with “toad” as an insult, toads in literature invariably described as ’orribly slimy, and then one day, I was introduced to a fine dish called “toad in the hole”! I chose something else from the cafeteria that day. ;)
Radish the wordsmith almost 8 years ago
Ennui among the grape-nuts. Did some fall on the floor?
bookworm0812 almost 8 years ago
Ick. Grape-Nuts. How in the world did that cereal ever get a name like that, anyway? With a name like that, I’d expect it to have raisins in it.
3pibgorn9 almost 8 years ago
Lots of grapes have seeds. Hard little buggers. Is a pretty weird name, alright. Where I live one used to be able to get an ice cream flavor called “Brown Bread” that had Grape-Nuts in it. That was the brown bread.
MHeath18 Premium Member almost 8 years ago
On the bright side, it had sugar. Unless your dad hates sugar.
JDSmith82 Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Those grape nuts are rough!
Radish the wordsmith almost 8 years ago
Perhaps they were eating flour dry.
Chris Sherlock almost 8 years ago
Euell Gibbons seemed to like them—or maybe he was acting.
BlueIris Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Perhaps I missed it in a previous strip, but — your dad calls you “Lucy”?
Bob Murphy Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Diets are almost here!!! Just few more days.
eekee57 3 months ago
This is the first time I’ve heard what grape nuts taste like. Seedless grapes weren’t a thing when I was little, so I’ve bitten into my share of grape seeds. They have a nutty crunch, but they taste horrendous! Sort-of like brussels sprouts but… it’s hard to realise the taste of brussels sprouts actually has some good in it until you compare them to grape seeds. After that, I cannot imagine why anyone would name a food “grape nuts”!
I can’t complain though. I’m British, I grew up with “toad” as an insult, toads in literature invariably described as ’orribly slimy, and then one day, I was introduced to a fine dish called “toad in the hole”! I chose something else from the cafeteria that day. ;)