So farewell then, Sir Richard, and thanks

I am going to let you in  on a little secret, er, you won't tell anyone, will you?  You see, one of my favourite snack meals, to be taken any time of the day or night so long as the 'Memsahib' is not in the kitchen, is a Weetabix, crumbled up by my fingers, with added grapes which, for reasons I have never quite understood, I always slice in half.  Sometimes I will throw in a few strawberries for added flavour.  Then I drown the lot in cold milk!  But, the last ingredient is the clincher - I smother the lot with dark brown Demerara sugar and I do mean 'smother'!  

Why, you may be asking yourselves, is he telling us this today - or any day come to that?!  Well, it's because I am sad to report that Sir Richard George, hitherto the boss of Weetabix, has died at the relatively young age of 71.  However, I am happy to report that he died a multi-millionaire even if some of those millions emanated from me!  Dammit, Sir, you produced a cracking good cereal and I thank you for it.

 

Comments

[Whitewall]

"with added grapes which, for reasons I have never quite understood, I always slice in half."

At least you don't peel them.

[Whyaxye]

Reading the Mail article, it says that Weetabix was invented in Australia. Who knew?

[Uncle Mort]

All I remember about Weetabix is that the remnants seem to set hard if you don't rinse the bowl out fairly quickly. Rather like Polyfilla.

[Edward Spalton]

I used to deal with Whitworths mills, also owned by the George family, and knew some of them through our trade association - always very decent people to do business with.

[AussieD]

Weetabix was invented in Australia. Who knew?

We do down here. No a in the local product. Just called weetbix.

As youngsters my generation was fed dry weetbix with Vegemite spread on it as a treat. Good stuff.