You know how it is to eat Grape-Nuts for breakfast. The first few bites are like eating rocks, then the cereal softens up a little bit in milk, and by the time you get the bottom of the bowl, it's just mush. But when you eat Grape-Nuts cereal mixed into ice cream, it stays at the medium-chewy consistency. Yes, Grape-Nuts ice cream used to be a thing, and the recipe goes almost as far back as the development of Grape-Nuts itself in 1897. You might think it was a scheme to add some fiber to a decadent dessert, but it was actually a substitute for more expensive cookie crumbs in an ice cream flavor called bisque. We would call that cookies-and-cream flavor today.
But you won't find Grape-Nuts ice cream at your local grocery store anymore, at least not in the US. However, it is really common in Jamaica, where they consider Grape-Nuts to be an ice cream ingredient instead of a breakfast cereal. Read the odd history of Grape-Nuts ice cream at Atlas Obscura. There's a recipe, too.
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