Wife bought them out of nostalgia. She likes the crunch. I checked the ingredients though, seems to basically just be flour, salt, yeast? So they’re a bit like breadcrumbs then? Rather than some sort of extract of an exotic nut.. as I had imagined..
by ciaodog
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Nobody knows, nobody will ever know, nobody should ever know. Some things are best left unturned.
I’ve never considered what they are! I’ve had a life long love of them though.
Never thought about it before:
‘Grape-Nuts contains neither grapes nor nuts but is made of wheat and barley. It was created in 1897 by Charles William “C.W.” Post, who used a coffee grinder to turn a flat sheet of the baked cereal into tiny kernels that resembled grape seeds (or nuts)’
Who cares? Soaked in milk overnight, they’re lovely.
Each one is a loaf of bread that’s been through a hydraulic press
It’s used as a base for meatloaf sometimes so I’d say this was accurate.