Finally...The world of Breakfast cereal has been restored.

I have been meaning to write this blog for awhile now. And since Lisa is still out with the girls for mutual, I decided now would be a good time.

When I was a kid, we were only treated to sugared cereal every so often. I am fairly certain one of the reasons why is because as soon as we would see a box of the sugary goodness come out of the Waremart bag, we were instantly into it. A box of sugar cereal would not last more than 2 days in the Sorenson household. Actually, that is the only reason why. We would eat it so fast, that my mom would go back to buying Rice Chex instead.

One of my favorite sugar cereals was Alphabits. Sure there were other sugar cereals that had more sugar in them, but only Alphabits came in the shapes of different letters! I enjoyed Alphabits all growing up.



But then something happened. One day many years ago when I had to start buying my own cereal, I decided I was going to take myself back to the glory days of living in Parker Brothers Valley (Yes, my childhood neighborhood growing up was named after the game makers. We even had Monopoly Park across the street!) and buy all the boxes of cereal that I would crave, but only get every blue moon. In my cart I had some Cap'n Crunch, a box of Cookie Crisp, (A cereal that my Mom drew the line at. No nutritional value whatsoever in that stuff...it is what makes it taste sooo good!) some Trix, and some Golden Grahams. All I needed was a box of Alphabits to round it out. But they were nowhere to be found!!! I tried every grocery store in the Tri-City area but to no avail. It was then that I had to face the cold hard truth...Alphabits no longer existed in the cereal universe.

For several years after the Alphabits extinction (As it came to be known.) I would look up and down the cereal aisle in vain trying to find the blue box with the boy and girl happily sharing a bowl of Alphabits goodness on it. After finally coming to grips with Post Cereal ripping out my heart by way of discontinuing Alphabits, I could walk down the cereal isle and not feel betrayed by their heartless gesture.

And then it happened! Last year I was at Walmart with the girls buying groceries. We were heading down the cereal isle, and just when we were about through it something caught my eye. Could it really be??? YES!!!! YES IT WAS!!!! WOOOHOOO!!!! ALPHABITS WERE BACK!!!


I felt like Sir Mix-a-Lot when he found out buttermilk biscuits were free today. Like when Buster Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson. (Which I believe happened 19 years ago today.) After many years of want, I was finally able to have again.

I bought only one box that day, and I pretty much ate the whole box myself. Since that day I have bought a box every time we go back to grocery shop. My girls like it too. I just hope that unlike their old man, they don't have to have it taken away from them.

Yes, the world of breakfast cereal is back where it should be.


And in remembrance of Tyson getting knocked out for the first time in his career, here is a clip of the 10th round when he went down.



Oh yes, and I can't forget those Buttermilk Biscuits!