Bitsy Crisps New from Pepperidge Farm, makers of ... Here Mr. Tidbit was planning to quickly mention the several food products available from Pepperidge Farm. He had no idea!
He might have suspected, given the many kinds of cookies and Goldfish crackers of which he was aware, that there were lots more Pepperidge Farm products below his radar. He would have been correct. The Pepperidge Farm website lists: 54 cookies (including nine flavors of Milanos); 11 non-Goldfish crackers; 17 dessert and pastry items (including nine three-layer cakes); 14 kinds of croutons and stuffing, 80 breads, rolls, bagels and English muffins, and 19 kinds of Goldfish crackers. That's 193 products!
So you might forgive your supermarket if it isn't carrying all of them -- including the latest two: Baked Naturals Cheese Crisps tiny crisp crackers in two varieties (four cheese or four cheese Italian herb). The four cheeses are aged Cheddar, Parmesan, Romano and Asiago. As the label explains, "shredded cheese baked on." (After making so many products, Mr. Tidbit assumes, Maggie Rudkin just didn't have enough remaining strength to gasp out a verb.)
More kashis The folks at Kashi aren't exactly slouches, either. They make 28 cereals, 29 snack bars, 12 crackers, three pilafs, three cookies, and lots of frozen items -- 13 entrees, seven pizzas, three pocket bread sandwiches and four waffles -- all of which (even the cookies!) contain some version of the Kashi seven whole grains (whole or ground, and in varying proportions): oats, brown rice, rye, hard red winter wheat, triticale, buckwheat and barley.
That omnipresent grain mixture makes even the "normal"-sounding Kashi entrees (including pesto pasta primavera and sweet & sour chicken) a little unusual, but the entree list includes two new ones that push the envelope quite a bit further: Veggie Chana Masala and Mayan Harvest Bake. Besides the seven grains (and sesame), the latter includes plantains, black beans, sweet potato, kale and -- wait for it -- amaranth polenta.
AL SICHERMAN
