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Editor’s Notes
Evan Carden SA Editor Ever wonder what happened to cinnamon rolls with raisins? I have. I remember when I was young, one of my favorite treats were the fresh cinnamon rolls packed with raisins which my mother bought at the grocery store, at least every other week. Besides the icing–because every kid loves icing–the raisins were my favorite part of eating these man-made delights. Now, all of a sudden, cinnamon rolls with raisins are a rarity, unless you take on the task of making them yourself. Even in the canned variety, you would be hard pressed to find any with raisins in them. I wonder who suddenly decided that the majority of people didn’t want raisins in their cinnamon rolls anymore. I rarely heard anyone complain about them being there, except for my younger brother; but he’s a little strange anyway. Besides, you always had a choice of buying the variety without raisins as well. I’ve conducted my own little poll among friends and family members from one end of the state to the other–some in other states as well–and no one seems to be able to figure out exactly when or why the raisins disappeared. Although this study of mine was not very scientific, nor did I keep actual written records of the results, there is still a cloud of a conspiracy floating about concerning this matter. What do the companies who make cinnamon rolls have against the juicy little raisin? I remember as a child my mom, aunts and grandma all buying packs of those small miniature boxes of them for us to eat as snacks instead of loading us up on sugary sweets. Although I loved the sugar, I wasn’t opposed to the little hard dried grapes either. To me they tasted pretty darn good. Of course back then I had no idea they were dried grapes, but it didn’t change my opinion about them once I discovered this deep, dark secret that had been hidden from me. Speaking of deep dark secrets, now back to the subject at hand–the lack of these sweet little morsels in today’s cinnamon rolls. I have become convinced that some bigwigs in upper management at all of the companies who sell cinnamon rolls got together and decided that it was too darn expensive to put raisins in them any longer. After all, making more money while reducing production costs is the bottom line now days. Who cares if the consumers liked them, they’ll still buy the cinnamon rolls because the icing is so good. My wonderful wife has discovered a way to stop me from complaining about this. She purchases the cinnamon rolls in the can and adds raisins to them when she makes them. According to her, it takes just a little extra effort and keeps me from fussing about it, or so she thinks. She’ll probably laugh when she reads this column and tell me to keep my whining about these insignificant little things that aggravate me to myself from now on. I guess the mystery of the raisinless cinnamon rolls may never be solved, but at least I’ve cleared the air about this issue. If anyone else out there also misses the raisins, please feel free to contact me via e-mail or by regular letter. I’ll be glad to read your thoughts on the subject.
If there’s anything else from the past you miss that’s difficult to find these days, let me know about that too. Meanwhile, I’ll keep you informed on any new information I receive about the vanishing raisins.
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