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Buon Giorno
Wednesday, June 14, 2006

I want to go back to Italy. Of course, I love Italy, especially Florence, and wish I could live there permanently (preferebly on the same block as Vivoli) but what I really want right now are some Loacker "Buon Giorno" wafers. Loacker is a cookie and biscuit company in Italy. You can usually find Loacker wafers at Italian provision stores or in the gourmet cookie aisle at the supermarket. Unfortunately, they only sell plastic sacks of "Quadratini" wafers, which are very too sweet for my tastes. "Buon Giorno" are meant to be eaten for breakfast, so they are lighter, crisper and less sugary. They melt on your tongue, with out being overly sweet or full of that cloying sugar filling. They're just so damned good. The only souvenirs I brought home (aside from three sets of rosary beads for my grandma and aunts) were cookies, and among the fist to go were the "Buon Giorno". I could use some right now, to eat while I drink this cup of tea. I pledge allegiance any country that markets cookies as a breakfast food. Cookies for breakfast, and pasta for dinner. And don't even get me started on the gelato. That's my kind of country.

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These wafer cookies sound delicious and I will be drooling over the thought of them. I find various wafers to be tasty treats, however most people think I'm eating styrofoam.

-Oddy

By Oddy, at 6/15/2006 7:52 PM

I actually love the lemon quadratini. I do agree that they can get too sweet, but I just do what I do to Girl Scout Thin Mints - put them in the freezer, which makes them taste a little less sweet, and is SO good on a summer day.

By Kate G, at 6/15/2006 8:27 PM

http://theimaginaryworld.com/pre498.jpg

By Steve, at 6/19/2006 11:20 AM

Yes, but Cookie Crisp isn't real cookies. But I have a funny story about cookies for breakfast. When my husband was a kid, he and his sister wanted Cookie Crisp really bad, but their mom said no way. So they took real cookies and crushed them up in a bowl, poured milk over them and ate them like cereal. You can bet that went over well with mom!

By Angela, at 6/20/2006 10:48 PM

"Yes, but Cookie Crisp isn't real cookies."
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Yup, I was just being silly. See, I still get a lot of old, historically-insignificant commercial jingles from my youth in my head. And when you were talking about cookies being marketed for breakfast, I recalled this call-and-response jingle where the Cookie Crisp Wizard (one of the old mascots) sings, "No, you can't have cookies for breakfast," and the kids reply, "But you can have Cookie Crisp!"

I actually, in a weird coincidence, have a box of stale Cookie Crisp in my cabinet right now. See, I love cereal—and that includes all kinds: I love the healthy, grainy cereals and I also love the kiddie sugar cereals. Well, a few months back, there was a sale on Cookie Crisp for a few weeks straight, and we always choose the cereal from what's a good price, since they're so darn expensive. Well, my wife did the shopping and I ate several boxes of Cookie Crisp and the law of diminishing returns was in full factor, as each spoonful over the weeks got worse and worse. I can't handle it anymore and I haven't been able to finish the Cookie Crisp.

And I HAVE to mention more to this story since—honestly—this next part just happened this morning. During that asleep-but-just-barely state of mind while waking up this morning, I had a dream that I was about to eat some Cinnamon Toast Crunch—which I like, dispite the fact that I'm not particularly keen on Cinnimon and I don't even like real cinnamon toast. I had even poured the milk in my dream. And I was about to take a bite when I realized that in my haste I had not used a bowl, but, rather, poured the milk right in the box. So I was insane enough in my dream to do that, yet sane enough to reason that this was a bad idea because, even if it didn't leak, I would have to finish the whole box or else the cereal would get soggy and the milk would go sour. So I was delayed in having my "dream" breakfast because I was scurrying about to try to find a bowl to transfer the cereal into before the contents of the whole box got saturated (yeah, I know that would happed instantly, but there was some "dream logic" going on). Well, that delay cost me, because I was awoken right before I could get to the first bite. So I woke up with a real hankering for some good cereal...

So I went to the cupboard, but all that was there was some Kix, which I also like, but I'm also sick of, because the boy eats it as finger food so it's ALWAYS been around for the last couple of months. So I actually sliced in some fresh strawberries, which usually isn't my practice since I don't really like the mix of "crunch" with the wet and soft texture of fresh fruit. Then I said to my wife, tongue-in-cheek but also seriously, "Look what I have to do here...I'm actually putting strawberries in my cereal to liven things up because I can't handle eating these Kix puffs anymore. We need some new cereal around here."

She said, "Well, I haven't been buying much cereal; we have to finish what we already have." Now, that might make sense—like when Mom used to say that— if we had 4 or 5 boxes with just 1 inch left in them. But we don't. We only have one box that fits that description...

"What?" I said. "The Cookie Crisp? That's the only one."

"Well, yeah."

Damn.

By Steve, at 6/26/2006 12:13 PM

Now I'm hungry and longing to travel to Italy. I have a little money saved up, let's go!

By krystyn, at 8/04/2006 10:17 AM