THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, April 6, 1995 TAG: 9504050062
SECTION: FLAVOR PAGE: F8 EDITION: FINAL
COLUMN: Morsels
SOURCE: Ruth Fantasia
LENGTH: Medium: 53 lines
SOMETIMES, IT'S amazing how quickly food manufacturers can respond.
Remember that Congressional outcry last month about the high cost of breakfast cereals? Well, Quaker Oats Co. is introducing a ``low-priced'' cereal.
The new line includes six flavors packed in plastic bags instead of boxes. They are Cocoa Blasts, a frosted corn cereal made with cocoa; Frosted Flakes; Sweet Crunch, a sweetened corn cereal; Fruity OH!s, fruit-flavored corn and oat cereal; Marshmallow Safari, oat cereal with marshmallow shapes; and Sweet Puffs, a sweetened wheat cereal.
We tried the Marshmallow Safari and found it comparable in taste, if not appearance, to Lucky Charms.
At $1.99 for a 13- to 18-ounce bag or $3.99 for a 35-ounce bag, Quaker says the cereals are priced from 40 percent to 50 percent less than leading brands. But that claim may not last long enough for the product to hit the shelves. I noticed a box of Froot Loops in the store last week for $1.59.
Quaker's new cereals are avialable at selected area Farm Fresh stores. A cry for onions
Mark your calendar: The Patrol Unit Ladies Oriental Shrine of North America will sell Vidalia onions again this year.
A 10-pound bag of onions costs $9 and can be picked up April 14 through 22 at the East Little Creek Shopping Plaza, Little Creek Road and Shore Drive in Norfolk, or the Cypress Point Exxon Station, Diamond Springs Road and Wesleyan Drive in Virginia Beach.
If you want to order your onions in advance, call Betty Payne at 721-3131.
The sale benefits the Khedive Temple Shriners Transportation Fund, which provides crippled and injured children transportation to the hospital. Ask Julia
If you could ask Julia Child one question, what would it be?
Early next month, we'll be interviewing Child. And when I say we, I mean we. You write the questions, I'll ask them. Then, we'll publish her answers in an upcoming column.
Send your questions to: Morsels, The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, 150 W. Brambleton Ave., Norfolk, Va. 23510. ILLUSTRATION: The bags of cereal cost less than boxed, but some boxed prices
are falling, too.
by CNB