In my American kitchen right now I’ve got no less than seven boxes of cereal sitting on top of the fridge. This happens every time I’m home: I can’t resist the urge to buy all the breakfast cereals that make me natsukashii (nostalgic) for when I was a kid, eating cereal and toast while watching Land of the Lost on Saturday mornings. The cereal I’ve got right now are Raisin Bran (I’ve always Kellogg’s was far superior to Post), Cinnamon Life (one of the best spin-off flavors of a cereal ever, in my opinion), both Cocoa Pebbles and Cocoa Puffs, Kix, which I’ve always had an odd attraction to, Golden Grahams, and the most excellent breakfast cereal known to man, Corn Pops, which they used to call Sugar Corn Pops back in the day. (I bought Pop Tarts too, but they’re packed now, ready to go back home.) No matter how long I live in Japan and consider it my home, there’s nothing like getting your hands on something familiar that brings back the warmth you knew from another time. Of course I can’t possibly eat all of this cereal in the next week, so I’ll be leaving most of it behind, but in the meantime I’m living the springtime of my youth with American breakfast cereal culture.
Do they still give free crap in cereal? I can’t see anything interesting on the boxes I bought.
