Crispy Hexagons

My mother babysits for a unique woman. I'll call her Jane, even though she doesn't go by that name. Jane is the mother of five and all of the children are under the age of . She normally has two or three nannies working for her at any one time. As you can imagine, if you have the ability to support five children and hire three nannies to help, you probably aren't poor. Jane was born into a fairly rich family and has what I would call "all kinds of sweet hook-ups."

Today my mom came home with a giant box. The family gathered around as she pulled out boxes of cereal, at least 6 of them. I don't know the conditions under which my mother received this bounty, but she said that Jane didn't want or need the cereal. My mom suggested that she bought these with the food stamps she recieves (even though she doesn't really need them) and essentially said that she uses them as props to downplay her good fortune. Her kitchen cabinet is filled with main-brand cereal.

But whatever, free cereal for us. They were all generic brands with generic names; my favorite one was named "Crispy Hexagons".



Oh yeah, that's some great marketing. The box had "Great Value" along the side, which basically screams "CHEAP, LOW QUALITY". I opened it and tried it out. The cereal was similar to Chex, except it was in a hexagon shape (which is a plus, two more sides), but wasn't as tasty. I couldn't tell what was missing, it just wasn't quite the same. In the end, we donated the rest to a church.