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I am a game addict. Within arms reach of me right now are Connect 4, Quarto and a chess board. Cranium is tucked lovingly under our entertainment center next to our original Nintendo Entertainment System, and you don't even want to know what would happen if I opened the cabinet doors above that. Game explosion!But my all-time favorite game is Scrabble. Anyone who's ever scratched the Scrabble surface -- either by playing competitively themselves or learning about the game through a book like Word Freak or movie like Word Wars -- knows that Scrabble players are an odd bunch who take their anagramming and Triple Word Scores dead seriously.
I am slightly less of a snack junkie, but when I do snack, I take it equally as seriously, and when it comes to snacking, nothing beats the Cheez-It. The crunchiness, the big cheese flavor, and if I happen to find a couple burnt ones in my box, I'm in snack food heaven.
So imagine my excitement when my mother called to tip me off to her discovery of Cheez-It Scrabble Junior crackers in a grocery store near Seattle. This product hasn't hit any shelves near me in Brooklyn yet; if it had, you can guarantee I'd already have a box. According to Kelloggs, the new snack crackers were introduced on January 1st, so hopefully it won't be long before I find them.
From what I can surmise, they're basically regular Cheez-Its with different letters stamped into them, kind of like a cracker version of Alpha-Bits (which alarmingly, I just discovered, appear to be R.I.P.). Since Scrabble is an adult game, I'm not sure what is so "Junior" about this particular product, except maybe the notion that adults grow out of eating cheesy snack crackers. Or the childish feeling I'm getting of looking forward to playing with my food.
Has anyone had these yet? Do I need to grow up?!
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2-23-2009 @8:04PM Kat said... There actually is a Scrabble Junior game. LIke Monopoly Junior, it is basically just brighter colors and its a little simpler: there isn't all the same scoring things and you don't really make points, at least we didn't when I used to play it. Why they called these Scrabble Junior crackers however, I have no idea.
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2-24-2009 @1:48AM Manmeet said... This is a very useful article and site about foods, i have bookmarked it, please keep posting.
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2-24-2009 @10:00AM Amybear said... There is a 100 calorie pack variety (Nabisco)that I buy all the time at my grocery store called Little Letters Mini Cookies that are great.
Those new cheez-it's look fun to play with. I do the same thing with the cookies mentioned above ;)
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2-24-2009 @10:00AM neaux said... Alpha-bits were actually relaunched last year and in fact My son and I have been eating them all week.
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2-24-2009 @10:02AM Amybear said... Oops sorry, they are called Alpha-Bits.
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2-24-2009 @2:08PM Stephan said... Do you need to grow up? Hell NO!!! What you do need to do, however, is print an update when you hear that they're going to start selling them in Atlanta!!!
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2-24-2009 @4:17PM Sara said... The BURNT ONES!!! Oh my gosh, yes!!!
Also I live in Seattle... so what store? Safeway?
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2-25-2009 @11:24AM Alex said... Argh! Which store near Seattle? Please, please ask your mom and let us know. I desperately want some, and their "locator" says there's none nearby.
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2-25-2009 @11:38AM Mike Pomranz said... Alright, so I called my mom. (She was very appreciative. You Slashfoodies are making me look like a good son!)
She saw these at the Albertsons at Canyon Park in Bothell, WA.
I'm going to contact Kellogg and try to dig up some more information about this product's availability.
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3-03-2009 @1:41PM kristin said... I run a scrabble club at my middle school and one of my students surprised me with this delightful snack the other day. We played a variation of scrabble called "take two," but here and there we would eat our worst letter and draw a new one. quite innovative and fun. I think it's junior because there are not Q's or X's.
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2-26-2009 @3:06PM Mike Pomranz said... Hey guys,
I just spoke with Kellogg, they said that Cheez-It Scrabble Junior crackers are getting a full nationwide roll-out, but with the product having just launched in January, it might take sometime to reach stores across the country.
So keep your eyes peeled!
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3-08-2009 @3:50PM sherl said... I just bought two boxes today, and will be bringing them with me for a weekend away. Awesome.
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4-01-2009 @9:13PM Deanna said... FYI, Scrabble Junior is its own game - it is for players who have only learned their letters but not full reading/spelling and up! My four and a half year old looooves it. The pieces are about the size of cheez-its and bright yellow! :)
Cheers - http://deannam.blogspot.com/
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4-03-2009 @10:48AM David said... This is great for "Take Two." And Kristin's suggestion to eat your worst letters may just make this the perfect game. At the conclusion of the round, everyone shares in eating the remaining letters, and we break out a new box for the next game!
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5-03-2009 @4:06PM CW said... Scrabble© Junior Cheez-Its just made their first appearance on our grocery shelf this week. To my wife's consternation, I had to pick up a box, if only for the collector in me; we have numerous versions of the game. As to why this is Scrabble JUNIOR, a look at the back of the box tells it all. Printed on the back is a 5x7 grid with several spaces already occupied by 'permanent' letters, as in
Scrabble Junior. The only remaining question I have is, do you really want to be snacking on gamepieces that may have been exchanged several times by little hands? If you must, a word of advice: stay away from the Qs, Js, Xs, or Zs.:)
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