Cereal lessons

What I talk about when I talk about why Big Food uses marketing mascots, the concept of "Girl Dinner," and fancy jello shots.

The cookie jar of my childhood always seemed full of Keebler Elves cookies, but never so full that I didn’t need to be judicious over how much to take after school. This past Tuesday, I worked my weekly food pantry shift and there they were again. Proust has his madeleine. I have my Keebler Elves.

I read over the ingredients that day, something I’d never…