Zoom

Do you remember Zoom?

As a kid I was a tough one to feed breakfast to.  I didn’t really like to eat breakfast because my stomach was never ready to accept food first thing in the morning.  I am still that way.  In fact, I usually take my breakfast to work with me and eat it around 10:00.

Getting me to eat hot cereal was next to impossible.  I also have texture issues and most hot cereals are grainy to me.  I will eat oatmeal, however and as a kid I would also eat Zoom which has the same type of texture and a pleasant nutty flavor.  In my opinion, most hot cereals have no flavor.

When we moved to Idaho in the seventies the stores did not stock Zoom so I was left with only one choice - oatmeal.  By this time my mother pretty much had given up on me and if she made cream of wheat I went hungry which was fine with me.

A couple weeks ago I found myself reminiscing about my second cereal choice.  Remembering the flavor and texture and trying to recall what it was called.  I was thinking about seeing if I could locate it online and ordering some.

The last time I was in the grocery store I had a "holy crap" moment when my daughter and I headed down the cereal aisle.  There it was!  I couldn't believe it.  How weird?!  I think my youngest thought Mommy had lost her marbles but I told her how I had loved that cereal as a kid and just recently had started thinking about it.  And now here is was!

I grabbed a box and we each enjoyed a bowl of it on Saturday morning.  We even commemorated the event with brown sugar and half & half.  It was exactly as I remembered.

Now after forty years I am back to having two hot cereal choices.  Oatmeal and now Zoom.  Life is good! 

And I'm a little silly. J