Corn Pops

While vacationing in Mexico, a meal without an element of corn seems a travesty.

Fighting with the familiar, but different box of Kellogg’s Corn Pops with it’s tough inner foil packet brought back a recall of the 1960’s when boxes of Kellogg’s cereal were de rigeur.

Today’s flashback to Camp Che-Na-Wah was a 5″x3″ yellow and black box of puffed corn specks with a cloyingly sweet surface and little taste.

My recollection or misplaced expectation of a pop of corn was a nut-like bite with a hard outer surface that could break a tooth and wouldn’t vanish like so much air in a bowl of milk.

Instead, my handful of Corn Pops began to lose it’s structure when the humid seaside air met the surface.

What I was left with was a sticky palm and a vague, almost forced taste of corn, but what I saw was a group of 12 year olds at Bunk 12’s communal breakfast table.