NB: This page was added after we returned.

As we rapidly ran out of time in the USA, I realised I’d not taken any images of some of the more amusing items in Walmart, so at 4:30am in Fishkill, New York, I went for a wander through the Walmart Supercenter.
The items that amused me most were the range of cereals, (none of which appeared to be healthy), other foods of convenience, and of course, the guns and ammo section (see related articles).

If you take a look at the larger versions of all these cereals (in order to read the packets more clearly), you’ll note that they are all contain either chocolate flavouring, or extra cinnamon. Not what you’d consider to be a healthy option for children, and while there are a lot of cereals similar to these on Australian markets, the proportion of unhealthy / healthy was definitely unusual.

While Corn Flakes and Rice Bubbles (aka Rice Krispies) were represented in the aisle, for the most part, every cereal was designed to appeal to the sweet tooth.

The Cinnamon Toast Crunch was the worst cereal we tried in the US. Not long after we arrived, we decided to buy a small collection of cereals in multi-pack form. Typically used for people on the go or campers, they were a handy size to try before we decided which cereal we’d end up eating while travelling. The sugar and cinnamon in the Cinnamon Toast Crunch was actually so plentiful, it refused to dissolve, leaving crunchy granules of sugar all over my teeth and gums.

Cheerio’s were less sweet, but perhaps too bland for regular consumption, but there was no in-between range that we could find. In the end, of course, we began our day with two chocolate donuts every morning, so we are hardly excluding ourselves from the collection of sweet-tooths in the population…*wry grin*

Categories: Travel, Odyssey 2001