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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --It started as a joke, an offhanded remark about granola between an Ely man and his wife. Eight years later, that joke has turned into a full time job and a company with a name you ...

Forget a nickel; I'd a sixpence for every piece of conservative crapola spin I heard in the last two months. In retrospect, it's very revealing about they try to game the system to get places like ...

Crapola — yes, that’s really the name — is a cranberry-apple granola. Crapola, says Brian Strom, “is a joke that we took a little bit too far.” How far? Far enough to reach the shelves of Kowalski’s, ...

The creators of Crapola granola in Ely are undergoing big changes this year. Brian and Andrea Strom, who started making the cranberry-apple granola mix 14 years ago, have officially rebranded their ...

The name Crapola doesn’t necessarily stir the appetite. But take a closer look at the Ely, Minn.-based company’s cranberry apple granola, and it’s obvious the founders were onto something with their ...

A party joke has grown into a serious venture -- or as serious as you can be, when you've named your signature product Crapola granola -- for Brian and Andrea Strom, the husband-and-wife team behind ...

Crapola! is the brand of high-fiber granola that "Makes Even Weird People Regular" – and while they may use humor to highlight the nutritional benefits of dietary fiber, Crapola! is serious about its ...