Cereal

It was customary for us kids to have a bowl of cereal w/ milk before bed. Not sure how that habit came about, for it was the standard breakfast fare as well. Cereals such as Super Sugar Crisp, Honeycomb, Trix, Kix, Cocoa Puffs, Lucky Charms, Quisp, Quake, Captain Crunch, Wheaties, Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat (which we referred to as Puffa-Puffa Rice and Puffa-Puffa Wheat), and a host of others I would only recall if I Googled "breakfast cereals of the mid 1960s". Most of the same cereals are in stores today and, undoubtedly, have the same amount of sugar in them, though back then they didn't hide it behind marketing words and slogans. We ate Grape Nuts occasionally, not so much for the flavor but for the loud noise when you chewed it. Someone recently referred to it as "Box-O-Gravel". Sometimes I would have my bedtime bowl of cereal with John next door, sometimes he with us at my house. The Wilsons also ate both dinner and supper, the former in late afternoon and the latter later. We thought that was weird - we had one evening meal and called it both dinner and supper. I guess there's a difference between dining and supping, after all.