“So how was London?” Mr. Grimm asked me.

I blinked for a second as my neurons fired, trying to figure out how the man I had just met knew where I’d recently vacationed. I sat in front of his desk, staring at the computer screen he’d pulled up. Oh, right. It’s in my file. Mr. Grimm was not a purveyor of macabre fairy tales. He was my banker. I’d let them know I was leaving the country so they wouldn’t suspend my account for suspected fraud when I withdrew pounds from a London ATM.

“It was good,” I told him. I had come to the bank to close a savings account because every time I paid bills online the site defaulted to withdraw from my savings account instead of my checking account. A few times I’d forgotten to select the right account in the drop-down box and had even overdrafted once, though they waved the fees when I explained what happened. I have higher yield savings accounts at other banks, so I decided to close the account [...]

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Has anyone seen this cereal box?

When the friend I was visiting a few months ago said I could eat whatever I wanted in her kitchen, I took this to heart and ate half a box of her sister’s cereal. I tried the Shredded Wheat with Real Strawberries out of curiosity, and then found myself eating three bowls of it over the course of a day. I left about half a bowl’s worth of shredded wheat and freeze-dried strawberries in the box, just so I didn’t finish the whole thing off.

When I got back home, I put the cereal on my grocery list, but after searching Kroger and Marsh, I cannot find this cereal! I began to wonder if it existed at all, or if I had remembered the name wrong. But there is nutritional information for it at The Daily Plate and a review of the cereal here, so it appears it was real even if it is not listed on the official Shredded Wheat web site.

Does anyone know where I can find this cereal? [...]

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