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Jerico Roman won’t be going hungry any time soon.
The nine-year-old from Surrey, B.C., has autism along with extreme oral aversion and complex eating challenges, and will eat virtually nothing but a particular type of maple cinnamon waffle.
Jerico’s mother, Jenna, says the growing boy usually puts down two boxes of the waffles a day.
But earlier this year, panic set in when she learned the product, manufactured by Nature’s Path, had been discontinued.
Now, the company has followed through on a pledge it made last month to ensure Jerico has all the waffles he can eat for years to come.
Nature’s Path was able to adapt the recipe for the product — which is usually made in massive batches — for home use. On Friday, it delivered that recipe, along with the necessary ingredients to the family.
It’s a major relief for his mother, who had started a GoFundMe in an effort to track down and buy every remaining box of the product in North America amid fear she wouldn’t be able to feed her son.
Taaxzo on March 8th, 2021 at 11:48 UTC »
This reminds me of that story where a boy with autism only wanted to drink from a special kind of plastic cup that unfortunately was discontinued, and that cup broke and the boy refused to drink, so his father reached out to the company who made this cup, and they found their old mold and made 500 copies to this boy.
Found it https://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/30/health/tommee-tippee-sippy-cup-autistic-boy-trnd/index.html
LuckyPichu on March 8th, 2021 at 06:56 UTC »
we have played into his hands. now that he has the secret formula, none will abate his appetite for this staple breakfast pastry. he has been made too powerful
Quiet-frog on March 8th, 2021 at 05:20 UTC »
I remember seeing the news where the company sent him the last cases of the waffles that had been made. Glad to see that his family will always be able to make the waffles at home.