Talk:Grape-Nuts

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This line is confusing: "It is possible that the cereal and its name refer to the eastern European traditional breakfast of kasha with milk and honey." How would "Grape-Nuts" refer to that?

Grape ingredients or not?

"Neither grapes nor nuts have ever been ingredients in the cereal."

"The original formula for Grape-Nuts called for grape sugar"

Does grape sugar come from grapes? If so, which part of this article is wrong? Did grape nuts have grape sugar as an ingredient, or not? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.7.147.153 (talk) 22:09, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

you should check wikipedia ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grape_sugar Soylent.Hero (talk) 07:26, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Glucose was originally synthesized from grapes, and is still called "grape sugar" (Traubenzucker) in Germany. Maikel (talk) 18:16, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

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Use in WWII

The following sentence used in the article does not make sense:

Just before World War II, Grapenuts were included as a component of the lightweight Jungle ration used by some U.S. and Allied forces in wartime operations before 1944.[1]

Can someone with a knowledge of this subject please edit it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.230.110.26 (talk) 06:10, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Jerry On The Job

In the Marketing section it discusses an ad campaign involving the cartoon strip "Jerry on the Job". If you follow the link, you will see that the strip refers to Grape Nuts Flakes, not Grape Nuts. I was fixing some refs to use Cite Web when I noticed this. There are some photos here of Grape Nuts ads, bit it will take some work to come up with a proper description. Donpayette (talk) 12:57, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Glycemic Index

The Glycemic Index reference and text has got to be incorrect. There is no way that Grape-Nuts has a glycemic index higher than pure sugar. I would like to delete the last half of the paragraph that discusses this. SariboUT (talk) 02:00, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

How is it made?

At least a rough description would be great. Thanks. Maikel (talk) 17:42, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Original Research?

This article states: "At one time, Grape-Nuts was the seventh-most popular cold breakfast cereal, but sales declined as Post was sold from one company to another. Around 2005, it held less than 1% of the market." When it first came out and presumably for quite a while thereafter, it was probably one of the few ready-to-eat cereals on the market. Today the marketplace is filled with many, many brands of such products. It isn't surprising that its market share is, as a consequence smaller - especially as it isn't sugar coated or aimed at kids. Makes about as much sense as this statement, e.g., have all Post products faced similar decline in sales over the same period because the company changed hands, which doesn't seem to have any citations to back it up in any case. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.171.131.186 (talk) 01:58, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Dale

Quote: This ad campaign produced one television commercial, which aired on television in 1968, that featured a catchphrase that became a target for numerous sketches and satires in media. Spanning the ensuing two decades and beyond, "Oh no, Mrs. Burke! I thought you were Dale!" was parodied on television variety show sketches, in the film The Kentucky Fried Movie and in many Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes, fans continue to discuss the origin of this "riff" and have even developed products that feature the text, "I thought you were Dale."

So, one Grape-Nuts commercial was later parodied in Kentucky Fried Movie (which largely consisted of spoofs of commercials). Why not boil it down to that. Maikel (talk) 18:03, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Ha, I've found it! In KFM at 9:50, during the segment spoofing a movie called "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble", a couple are having carnal knowledge of each other, then the man evokes: "I thought you were Dale!". Maikel (talk) 21:24, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

To add to article

To add to this article: an image of Grape-Nuts cereal and an image of Grape-Nuts cereal packaging. Not to have either of these would be unencyclopedic and embarrassing. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 14:04, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Also to add to article

Also to add to this article: the basic information of where the name comes from: why is it called "Grape-Nuts" if there are no grapes in the ingredients? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 14:08, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Unknown outside USA

Are there any other countries where these are "a thing"/ known?

It should be mentioned, in either case,

and generally considered in writing that not every reader is US-American and Wikipedia is international... 2A02:3031:16:268E:1:2:538D:B17A (talk) 16:10, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

The article already mentions Canada. Kdammers (talk) 16:13, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

"A former patient"

The leading paragraph: "...C. W. Post, a former patient and later competitor of the 19th-century breakfast food innovator Dr. John Harvey Kellogg..."

In this context, what is the meaning of the word "patient"? None of the Merriam-Webster definitions seem fitting... Pickles8 (talk) 01:22, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

References

Reformulated?

I seem to recall that GN was softened in the late sixties or in the seventies. If this is so, and a ref can be found, this should be added. Kdammers (talk) 16:15, 19 December 2023 (UTC)