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Impossible to make at home

Posted by dbcurrie, March 5, 2009

So, in my quest for making everything from scratch at least once, I've sometimes gotten the comment, "I didn't know you could make those at home," and my husband's comment was that pretty much everything was made at home first, before food factories existed, so it's all theoretically possible.

But then I was standing in line at the grocery store and idly watching the person in front of me unload her cart when I realized that breakfast cereals were invented for factory manufacturing. I doubt I could make a Cheerio or a corn flake at home. I doubt that most cereals could be made at home.

Which got me thinking. What other products are probably not possible to make at home? Cheetos just came to mind.

What else?

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