‘Every now and again I lust after them’. A brief story of Chocolate Crackles

    20 July 2024

    July 2024

    We got lucky.

    Rice Bubbles were released by Kellog’s in 1928. Apparently only Australia and New Zealand calls them ‘Rice Bubbles’. To the rest of the world, they are called ‘Rice Krispies’ which I think is nowhere near as evocative nor descriptive as ‘Rice Bubbles’. But okay, it’s the crispness that gives rise to the snap, crackle and pop when they touch a liquid like milk.

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    Paul van Reyk
    My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.