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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsPortland's Grape-Nuts shortage nightmare is over
The year 2020 took so much from us -- birthday parties, our faith in humanity and, apparently, Grape-Nuts.
Thats right, according to many things including an all-caps post on Portlands Reddit page back in December, the cereal that you either love or hate, was nowhere to be found. The culprit? Supply chain issues and high demand.
Portlanders were probably especially hard hit by the loss of the not-grape and not-nuts breakfast food. An Oregonian article from 1989 notes that at the time Portland ranked number one among all U.S. cities for Grape-Nut consumption.
The source for this information? Harpers Magazines monthly numbers.
And while the author of that article couldnt verify Harpers numbers, they were able to get Frank J. Smith, director of SAMI corporate development services, to say that Portland was number one in purchasing dry cat food and last in spray deodorants.
Sure this was 32 years ago, but it still feels relevant.
https://www.oregonlive.com/food/2021/03/portlands-grape-nuts-shortage-nightmare-is-over.html
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Portland's Grape-Nuts shortage nightmare is over (Original Post)
Mme. Defarge
Mar 2021
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CentralMass
(15,265 posts)1. Thank you. I will have to look for a box.
Harker
(14,007 posts)2. Yeah. Thanks for Post-ing. n/t
MOMFUDSKI
(5,474 posts)3. Thanks for posting
My husband and I both love Grape-Nuts Flakes (loved the original but every tooth in our heads would crack at our age) and DID have a real hard time finding them in the last year. Then hubby got really lucky and found a BOGO so went crazy and then to a second store and now we are up to our hips in Grape-Nuts but it is all good.