#cinnamonraisintoast

[garlicandzest]

Cinnamon Raisin Oatmeal Bread - https://www.garlicandzest.com/cinnamon-raisin-oatmeal-bread/

[simoneonhomes]

It was suggested that I stopped eating ONLY fruit for breakfast. Okay! #breakfastlover #breakfast #foodie #indulging #sunnysideup #grits #turkeybacon #cinnamonraisintoast #apples (at My Humble Abode ️)

[crazycoolgroove]

SALMON CROQUETTE BREAKFAST: 2 SALMON CROQUETTES, 2 EGGS, POTATOES, TOAST, with STRAWBERRY LEMONADE at DEBBIE' S DELIGHTS on EAST POINT STREET in Downtown EAST POINT, GA!!! #DebbiesDelights #BreakfastLunchDinner #EastPointStreet #EastPointGA #ILove2Eat #SalmonCroquettes #SALMON #SunnySideEggs #EGGS #SmotheredPotatoes #POTATOES #CinnamonRaisinToast #TOAST #StrawberryLemonade #LEMONADE #CrazyCoolGroovy #CCG #CCGalatoire #LaissezLesBonTempsRouler #foodstagram #feedablogger

[inthisdiary2187]

#dinnertime #dinnerisserved #bacon #scrambledeggs #cinnamonraisintoast #blueberrycompote #breakfastfordinner 🐽🍳🍞

[stephaniebattistacreative]

#breakfast #welcomeback #comics #cinnamonraisintoast #ezikielbread #banana #OJ #boom

[ohitssundrop]

I think this is becoming one of my most favorite breakfasts. #breakfast #cinnamonraisintoast #yummy (at McCoy College of Business Advising)

[teaphasesoracle]

🍎☕️ Good Morning! ☕️🍎 Happy Thursday and Casual Thursday/Friday, depending on where you work. Have a WONDERFUL Day!❤️💛💙 #thirtythursday #greentea #wonderwoman #tea #cinnamonraisintoast #apple #knowledge #goodmorning #teatimedesignz

[joeysworkbench]

...when ___________ used to be good.

Last week I wrote about getting older and how it's really not that big of a deal.  And I stick by that, all of seven days later.  Seriously, my conviction is legendary.  But there is one thing related to the passage of time that does suck and that is when something you love doesn't last. 

I first started thinking about this subject before I even wrote that growing old piece.  I went to the kitchen at work one day for a snack and someone was making cinnamon raisin toast.  I said to her, that smells like I'm home for the holidays and all of a sudden my mind was bombarded with all the "traditional" things that I never have anymore.  The first thing I thought about were those little colored mint candies that are kind of like nonpareils but not at all. 

                                            YEAH THOSE ONES!!!

I remember they used to always be in the drawer of the hutch come December but I had no idea where they came from.  They would show up around the same time as those disgusting chocolates that you have to have the map if you want to find the one good one.  Didn't they come from the same place that made the weird crusty cheeses?  Hickory Farms?,  I think. 

                                      Yep, those bastards right there

Of course my spider web mind went crazy from there, neuron's firing and un-archiving all the amazing treats, joints, shops and bakeries that my family obsessively returned to at the same times, with the same intentions every year.

After those Hickory Farms Mints I started thinking about the places that we used to go to only on vacation; like Jack's Bakery, the greatest house of Danish in all of the U.S. of A!  Every year we went to Long Beach Island, N.J. and rented a cottage for a couple weeks.  Those two Sunday mornings in late July my Dad would get up early and go to Jack's to get a dozen assorted pastries.  Whoever got up first got to go with him and pick the flavors.  It was incredible, I was never a heavy sleeper so I was usually lurking behind my bedroom door waiting for my Dad to get up and take the chance to get nothing but lemon danish. 

One summer though as we made the annual drive down the boulevard to our house at the end of the island, looking out for all of our favorite places, Jack's was no more.  Or more accurately it had become Fritz's Bakery "Home of the Famous German Sticky Bun".  Famous my ass the place isn't even a year old, where the hell is Jack's?!?  Fortunately it was mostly a change in name only, the danish were still there.  But after that name change the bakery only lasted a few more years and now if you go there you won't find a trace.

On the way to LBI (that's what the cool kids call it) my Dad would get a few sandwiches from a place in Saugus, MA called Alvinord's  (Alvin's if you're nasty).  These sandwiches were massive.  One sandwich came on a giant round loaf that was about 6, maybe 8, inches in diameter and the bread alone was probably three inches tall.  With all the meat and veggies stuffed in, the damn things were so big that one quarter of a sandwich was enough to fill your stomach.  It was like that Elf bread from Lord of the Rings only delicious. 

Yep you guessed it.  One summer, we went on vacation and those sandwiches were no more.  I had to eat a Subway sandwich at a rest area in the middle of nowhere, White Plains, NY.  A SUBWAY SANDWICH AND THEY TOOK ME TO WHITE PLAINS!!!  You'll forgive me if I'm still not over this. 

As an adult though, or well an almost adult, that is what I call my early post college years self, I discovered something that trumped all of those other eats.  Ray's Pizza, THE RAY'S PIZZA at 6th and 11th in New York City.  It was so delicious, I could just sit there and eat Garlic Knots all day while I repeatedly order pizza over and over and over and be totally satisfied with my life's choices.  I would go to NYC every long weekend, I told my friends it was for them but really it was for Ray's.  After moving to LA I came back the first New Years to THE City and it was gone.  Boarded up, taped over like some kind of filthy crime scene.  I was lost, I walked around the city all night, went to three of the other 57 Ray's Pizzas in NYC (seriously look it up, only Rays are allowed to make pizza there) but it wasn't the same.  Another one of my spots taken from me. 

I'll stop there and spare you from the endless list of food-torn emotional wounds I suffer from and leave it at these real big ones.  I guess what I'm trying to say here is that although growing old is no big deal as long as you keep doing the things you enjoy, you should make it a big deal to fervently support all the places you get joy from AND DON'T LET THEM TAKE YOUR FOOD!  Of course some things are so big they destroy themselves but all those little special places will stick around so long as they are getting your business.  Or so capitalism tells me. 

[sleepystarberry]

Evening snack of #tea and #cinnamonraisintoast 😋

[quisizking]

#Breakfast this morning at @amberroadcafe with @magicandstuff and @taylanee! If you missed out #shameonyou I was Tryna keep up with that fruit @akis_t posted yesterday lol. #LobsterOmlette #ImperialOmlette #AmberOmlette #Salmon #bacon #pancakes #waffles #conolies #strawberries #homefries #grapes #cinnamonRaisinToast #Organic #bomb #food #OhGod #yum #fatkids #QuisApproved #Clique

[queencase]

MmmMm good 😊 #breakfast #foodporn #eggs #cinnamonraisintoast

[epastorjames]

2-Yolks-in-1! #eggs #cinnamonraisintoast #cranberryenglishmuffins #blackberryjelly #cherryjelly #birthdaybreakfast

[somewhatstyled]

Best way to start a Sunday. #frenchpress #cinnamonraisintoast (at The Berkshires At Lenox Park)

[itsbethanne]

#breakfy #friedeggs #cinnamonraisintoast #yum #foodporn

[perfectlyimperfectdiva]

#picstitch #breakfast #oatmeal #cinnamonraisintoast #AppleJuice #Apples #yummy (at Uncle Vernon's House)