Where Do Granola Bars Come From?
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Well, I’ve lost all faith in Americans.
So the other day, my friends and I were riding the elevator to the parking garage. A man got in on the fifth floor and eavesdropped on our conversation. The whole thing went like this:
“I made an amazing granola bar the other day,” my friend said when I mentioned breakfast.
“You made them yourself?” a random man in the elevator asked. He was staring straight at my friend, a rusty orange chair in one hand.
“Yup,” she said with a shrug.
“Like at home?” He asked. Confusion played across his face. “You can do that?”
In other news, cookies don’t grow on Keebler trees.
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LOL. I weep at the ignorance of our fellow human beings.
Wei-Wei
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Hahaha! That’s so true! I wonder sometimes if some people live under a rock
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If this is your attempt to tell me to go organic, it worked, lol. You know I’m still looking for that dayum Keebler tree. And the Pop Tart hut is somewhere in the states, I know it.
I wish I had the patience to grow my own granola.
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Tracey Reply:
August 10th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
A Pop Tart hut? Like, an abode made from strawberry pastries and a roof of chocolate Pop Tart shingles. Hm, doesn’t sound like a bad place to love. Does Kool Aid come out of the faucet?
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Can I insert a snarky remark about this is why we have issues with obesity and overall health in America? Clearly someone doesn’t grasp the concept of making food at home… like ever.
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I had a friend over for lunch and made chicken pockets. She looked at them and said, “Homemade Lean Pocket?” It was so funny! I knew a teenage boy one time who didn’t know baby carrots didn’t grow that way.
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Tracey Reply:
August 10th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Go figure! You can make dough and stuff it at home! You get all sorts of crazy in the kitchen. He he.
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Isn’t that true though?! It’s amazing the stuff I hear…same with sandwiches…you can make your own subs at home too y’know!…although Subway has good bread
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Tracey Reply:
August 10th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
They do have good bread, I’ll give them that. Even if they’re incredibly stingy when it comes to putting a decent amount of pickles on their veggie sandwiches!
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bwuaahahaha…
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I had a similar conversation with a co-worker once. She was convinced bread didn’t exist until commercial bakeries were built. I pretty much made her brain explode with not only baking my own bread, but putting up jam and relishes too.
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Tracey Reply:
August 10th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Ha ha ha. I wonder where that first factory got the idea of the first-ever bread from? Was it just mastermind’s genius revelation?
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UrbanSolstice Reply:
August 10th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Perhaps he/she plotted some devious campaign to take over the world with bread?
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This is hilarious and yet so sad at the same time!
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Hahah, neither do potato chips or french fries or loaves of bread. People are funny.
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Lmho! That convo reminds me of when I made granola bars and told my boyfriend about that. He asked “you can make granola bars?” At first I thought he was questioning my baking abilities..but turns out he honestly didn’t think it was possible. Of course it is!! and yours look great
Exactly like the Nature Valley ones!
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hmm…then what have I been eating of my cookie tree in my backyard
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Oh my goodness! It’s amazing the things people don’t get. And Keebler cookies don’t grow on trees? I need to re-evaluate my whole existence now?!! LOL
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so scary sad for sure….i am sure he drinks pints of pepsi all day long too-ugh!
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Oh gosh, this is when “ignorance is bliss” does NOT make sense!
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haha…this does not surprise me. truth be told, i’ve also been guilty of not understanding whole, making-thing-from-scratch thing. back when i lived in Canada, everything was pre-made (of course) but when i moved to Australia, yes we have pre-made stuff, but not not NEARLY as much as back home. i could not believe the grocery store did not have greek salad dressing, or sun-dried tomato and oregano!! when i complained to some Aussies, they were like “uh…why don’t you make it yourself??” and i was like “what does that mean???” haha…you don’t know what you have till it’s gone
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