Marshmellows? for Breakfast? 4.March.2005
This is something I have been wondering about for a while now. This great civilization of ours has been around for 6,000 years by the most conservative estimates. We have done lot through the years, a lot to be proud of, but I believe there is one bit of evolution we have over looked. One day, one mother asked one child want they wanted for breakfast, he said “marshmallows”, that boy got either slapped or his mouth washed out for suggesting such a ridiculous thing. He got a grapefruit that morning and that was pretty good. The next morning, a different kid, with a different mother, asked if she could have some “marshmallow maties” and a heaping pile of colored marshmallows were poured into a bowl and eaten not part of this complete breakfast. Somebody tell me what happened here.
This doesn’t mean I don’t have any Lucky Charms in my cupboard right now, and I’ll save all the marshmallows until the end, just so I can have a heaping spoonful of them at the end. But, how did anyone ever believe that marshmallows were suitable to be eaten as an entire meal. Does that make sense to you? It sure doesn’t to me. I guess that’s american marketing at its best. All this talk of eating is getting me hungry. It’s about time for dinner, where is my Snickers?
