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granola Chiefly N. Amer.|græˈnəʊlə|
[Cancelled trade-mark: see grain n.1, granular a., and -ola; the earlier Granũla (registered 1876 as ‘cooked granulated wheat’ by Austin Jackson & Co., Dansville, N.Y.), is a different product.]
†a. With capital initial. Formerly, a proprietary name for a breakfast cereal devised by W. K. Kellogg, consisting of wheat, oats, and cornmeal baked and ground into granules. Obs.
1886Trade Marks Jrnl. 24 Mar. 275 Granola,..A product for food. 1928Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 8 Nov. 288 The Battle Creek Food Company, Battle Creek, Mich... Granola.
b. A mixture of rolled oats, wholewheat flour or wheatgerm, nuts, dried fruits, oils, and other ‘natural’ ingredients toasted and sold as a breakfast cereal, biscuit-like snack, etc. (Not proprietary in this sense.)
1970Time 16 Nov. 63/1 Rows of unfamiliar foodstuffs are appearing in middle-class cupboards: brown rice by the bucketful, as well as packages of ad[z]uki, granola, gomasio, ginseng and miso. 1974Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 16 July 17/1 Increasingly, consumers are becoming aware of the low nutritional value of traditional breakfast cereals, and more and more they are turning to the granola products which offer more in the way of grain cereals combined with nutritious products such as raisins, nuts and seeds. 1976C. Bonington Everest Hard Way 213 Doug Scott revealed his cravings for granola and French nougat. 1977Time 9 May 62/3 Williams' happier ending is blended for the granola '70s. 1984S. Bellow Him with his Foot in his Mouth 89 Katrina woke the girls and told them to dress and come downstairs for their granola. 1985New Yorker 3 June 73/1 She drank the juice and ate a granola bar.
▸ Used allusively, esp. (freq. attrib. or as adj.) with reference to people typified as leading an unconventional or hippie lifestyle, esp. one involving earnest left-wing political views, concern for the protection of the environment, and the eating of health foods. Also prefixed to words, as in granola-head, etc. Cf. crunchy-granola n. and adj. at crunchy adj. Additions.
1975Jrnl. Philos. 72 793 The Granola view of man won't be complete until these, possibly tainted, ingredients are purified of their unnaturalness. 1980N.Y. Times 20 Feb. a24/1 Republicans describe Jerry Brown of California as the granola governor, appealing to flakes and nuts. 1983National Rev. (Nexis) 5 Aug. 924 Sierra's Washington office is one of the few environmental headquarters with vestiges of the old Seventies granola. At its cluttered suite..a receptionist in a lavender bandana, Indian-print skirt, and Birkenstock sandals directs visiting volunteers to the Alaska Room for an orientation session. 1990People 19 Feb. 4/2 I've had it with these granola heads trying to palm their emotional guilt trips off on the rest of society. 1993Globe & Mail (Toronto) 1 Feb. c3/5 World Beat, a term so unspeakably granola that we'll speak of it no more. 1999Nation 20 Dec. Hardhats and longshoremen standing with granola crunchers and tree huggers. 2001N.Y. Mag. 16 July 17/1 In the American media mind, we've made anti-globalization out to be a granola sort of thing. |