Terrible Ideas I’ve Had: Sour Cream and Onion Cereal
There was a time in my life when I wanted all of my breakfasts to be tasty treats. I went through the Lucky Charms phase (on several different occasions, actually), the Frosted Mini Wheats phase (during which I once exploded in anger like a brat to my Mom because she'd accidentally bought Frosted Wheat, not Frosted Mini Wheats), the many different varieties of Cheerios phase (including regular Cheerios covered in sugar I'd add every morning), and more. I was never into the over-the-top, clearly-only-candy-in-disguise cereals (though Cookie Crisp often mesmorized me with that awesome dog in all of their commercials), but I wanted the sweetness.
This love of sweet breakfast foods was combined during early high school years with a desire to combine things I liked into things I thought I'd really like. That's when the madness was born. I wanted, once (just once, I swear) to figure out how to combine oat, potato, sour cream, and onion into a delicious cereal you could enjoy with milk.
Potato Chips? Good! Sour Cream and Onion Potato Chips? Even better! For breakfast!? Oh my god!
It was going to be like a Super Bowl party in your mouth every morning! Or at least that was what the commercials were going to say.
Truth be told, I never investigated the process or the combination of oats and flavorings, so there was never a prototype. Sometimes my mind wanders back to this potential invention and I want to try it... but then I think better of it.
But be warned if I ever ask you to try "this awesome new thing" for breakfast.
