Raisin Bran: Are you supposed to eat the raisins?

Like, seriously?  Alex bought me cereal yesterday, and it's Raisin Bran.  Are you supposed to eat the raisins or are they just in there to flavour the little flakes and are meant to be picked out?

Original Post by cellulitedelight:

Eat them? No way. I line them up on the dining room table and pretend they're little soldiers. I like to pummel them with my spit ball cannon and watch them all fly around. I used to use little green army men but I was trying to get some of them to talk, and my torture methods killed them.

Alex can still eat the marshmallows. Some are a little soggy from the spit bombs but they're still edible.

 LOL

Ive tasted the raisens in raisen bran and have determined those dark little rocks are decorative garnish.  Only the rare occasional moist raisen like in a carrot cake are actually digestable.

Alright - just joking but they dont taste like the should be eaten.  I always thought bran cereal deserved something more pleasant and raisens dont fit the bill.

I like the cereal without the raisins.  After I finish picking out all of these damned raisins (I swear, under every flake there's two more), I'll kill off this box and look for just plain ol' bran flakes.

He, he. This thread made me remember the time my sister (at 14 years old) ate every single raisin out of a Costco size box of raisin bran. For the first two days everyone just thought it was a fluke that the bowls we poured didn't have any raisins. We finally figured it out and had to explain to her that it's rude to eat all the raisins. She couldn't understand why it was a problem. We asked her why she didn't eat the raisins we have available in a huge bag, just for eating plain, and she told us that the Raisin Bran raisins taste better.

I prefer Total, personally. No raisins, just yummy bran flakes.  

Bran flakes aren't too bad on their own, though I did end up mixing it with another cereal.

I actually had Kellogg's Raisin Brain for breakfast today :P, it's a new box so I had to pull the bag out and shake it so the raisins get mixed in..oh and they do have some white sugar on the raisins.

btw did you have a bite of cereal with a raisin in it or just ate the raisin alone? Maybe you won't mind it with the bran flakes, they just add a bit more taste and sweetness to them.

@udokier, I used to eat the little boxes of raisins too, I remember we were able to make the empty boxes into whistles somehow.

I was scared to death to eat the raisin by itself.  I picked one out, I got it near my face, and I started crying.  I simply could not do it.  So I continued to pick the raisins out of my bowl and put them back in the box, but a few escaped and hid under bran flakes.  I wanted to spit it out, I chewed my way through it, I really gave it a good shot, and I even swallowed it.

Then I started crying again, fished out any other raisins that escaped and have been picking out raisins from the box ever since.

I eat raisins every day; in cereal, in salad, and by the handful.

Wow...raisins actually scared you and made you cry?  Really?  I'm not the biggest fan of raisins, but they're not that bad.

Pardon me for saying so, but it sounds like there's something else going on there besides an aversion to dried grapes.

=(

dried cranberries are good too...

Heh, I found this thread after just having finished a bowl of Raisin Bran.  I love them.  I also love prunes ... oh, excuse me, the new "PC" name is "dried plums."

Delicious!

Original Post by trhawley:

roflmao

Edit: pick the bran flakes out and eat the raisins, they are the good part.

 LOL! That's about how I feel about Raisin Bran... too many years of having it as our 'treat' cereal when we knew all along that it wasn't anything remotely like the sugary junkfood cereals the other kids were eating!

Pardon me for saying so, but it sounds like there's something else going on there besides an aversion to dried grapes.

Dried grapes?  Ive seen a dried grape, when one rolls to the far back of the fridge shelf and is only discovered when you finally clean out the fridge and there it is all shriveled with possibly something growing on it and it still probably would taste better then a raisen.

Theyre not dried grapes as much as grape jerky.  I think though the golden raisens are moist.

Now prunes which got a shout out definitely dont deserve to fit in the same classification.  Whether in a jar full of the syrupiest of syrups or moist in a tub, they are delish.  Probably would have to leave one in the sun for a year to have something as inedible as a raisen.  Please nobody tell the raisen council where I live - I dont want to be sued.

You can eat whatever you want. You're not [i]supposed[/i] to eat anything. You can eat whatever parts of the cereal want.

Original Post by sun123:

Theyre not dried grapes as much as grape jerky.  I think though the golden raisens are moist.

 

LOL - but I don't think raisins are made in a fridge, the grapes are just left on the vine to get over-ripened by the sun, or something like that.

However, if the only typical raisins you've had are the dried pellets in typical snack boxes or cereal, I would suggest baking raisins.  I found them in the baking aisle, and they're intended for baking so they won't be too dried out, but for snacking they're much better than the typical snack raisin.

*is laughing hysterically at this point*

I've never read such a colourful discription for raisins. I like the taste of raisins, but every so often I eat one that still have a bit of a stem left on it, and it turns me off em til I forget about it like a year later.

You might have something there with the baking raisens and yes, dried pellets in mini boxes is what Im thinking of.  I did once put raisens in a small saucer of water and the plumped up but the water did get a nasty look to it.  Made a difference though.

So, Alex took me to the store to show me various uses for raisins.  Raisin oatmeal cookies, raisin on breads or pies, raisins in trail mix...

Of course he did this after taking me to see Ratatouille so all I could think of was rat crap.  =(

Thank you sun123 for agreeing that raisins are yucky.  But you still suck for not liking Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.

LOL!!!!  This is one of the funniest posts that I have read.  Thank you guys and sorry you didn't like the raisins.  I only like them in something, not by themselves.

Original Post by cellulitedelight:

I like the cereal without the raisins. After I finish picking out all of these damned raisins (I swear, under every flake there's two more), I'll kill off this box and look for just plain ol' bran flakes.

Bran Flakes are all right, but if you have a chance, get some All-Bran as well.  Not everyone likes it, but if you do, it's great because it has 3 times as much fiber per serving as Raisin Bran.  I love All-Bran, but it's not for everyone.  I can't eat the Bran Flakes they sell in Japan because they are too heavily sugared (blech), but the All-Bran is just right.  I actually eat a mix of All-Bran and Raisin Bran, but I think I'm going to start just mixing in raisins with my All-Bran instead.  Raisin Bran is expensive and I have to special-order it.