My cereal addiction is well known but I can not stand the vast majority of American breakfast cereals. Indeed after about two months there I was looking around for diet cereals just to avoid the sugar (most of the ones I found tasted like eating twigs). Should someone have been wandering around with a box of weetabix or malt wheats they would have probably been mugged for it.
I have seen this fruit/froot loops thing first hand though and having had the dubious pleasure of sampling such a thing I still have no idea why people go nuts for it. We have a decent import shop where I am at right now and even when the exchange rate was 2 to 1 (looking at around £10 for a smaller box) they were still selling or if someone is heading stateside that is one of the main requests for "anything you want me to pick up?". In some ways it is almost in booze cruise territory.
Mountain dew I can pass up quite happily but grape soda is another thing entirely.
I have seen this fruit/froot loops thing first hand though and having had the dubious pleasure of sampling such a thing I still have no idea why people go nuts for it. We have a decent import shop where I am at right now and even when the exchange rate was 2 to 1 (looking at around £10 for a smaller box) they were still selling or if someone is heading stateside that is one of the main requests for "anything you want me to pick up?". In some ways it is almost in booze cruise territory.
Mountain dew I can pass up quite happily but grape soda is another thing entirely.