I've eaten Cinnamon Toast Crunch dry, out of a bowl, like peanuts when watching tv. Stuff is gooood.
Cereal Thread
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Total HR kind of post, except you remember Fruit Brute...impressive
I had milk and Old Grand Dad at a party once. I don't remember which I poured into which though.
Only 2 legitimate milk-drinking scenarios: (1) to wash down decadent cake, cookies, or other rich bakery items, or (2) to finish off what remains of a cold cereal binge.
I judge the worthiness of a cereal by it’s eatability straight out of the box. There are plenty of cereals that never reach the inside of the bowl at my house but are enjoyed straight out of the box/bag (ala Doritos). Frosted Mini Wheats (all flavors) and Cinnamon Life are true perennial top 10-ers, whether eaten at home, at work, or on a cruise liner.
Boo Berry and Franken Berry definitely did not live up to early projections and fell back to the pack in recent years (did they change the frickin recipe!). OTOH, Count Chocula has separated itself from its 2 classmates and made the post-season, although it still is not in the same rarified air as Cocoa Puffs or Cocoa Pebbles among the chocolatey class.
I grew up in a family with several brothers. So, yeah, breakfast was a legit competition every day and was akin to Final X on Saturday mornings.
I judge the worthiness of a cereal by it’s eatability straight out of the box. There are plenty of cereals that never reach the inside of the bowl at my house but are enjoyed straight out of the box/bag (ala Doritos). Frosted Mini Wheats (all flavors) and Cinnamon Life are true perennial top 10-ers, whether eaten at home, at work, or on a cruise liner.
Boo Berry and Franken Berry definitely did not live up to early projections and fell back to the pack in recent years (did they change the frickin recipe!). OTOH, Count Chocula has separated itself from its 2 classmates and made the post-season, although it still is not in the same rarified air as Cocoa Puffs or Cocoa Pebbles among the chocolatey class.
I grew up in a family with several brothers. So, yeah, breakfast was a legit competition every day and was akin to Final X on Saturday mornings.
Lactose intolerant or just unAmerican?? Vitamin D Red Cap everyday, especially at 3am when I'm thirsty as hell. Yum
I'm glad someone brought this up. Sometimes my urine smells like Sugar Smacks, even though I didn't eat Sugar Smacks. Thinking it might be from Captain Morgan. I'm elated to have a forum to address this.
Captain Crunch for me, either peanut butter or crunchberries. Haven't had the sandpaper roof of mouth happen in 40+ years - learned long ago they need to soak in the milk for just the right amount of time before consuming.
ALWAYS drink the remaining milk when done - pouring that down the sink should get anyone that does it a swift kick in the nuts.
ALWAYS drink the remaining milk when done - pouring that down the sink should get anyone that does it a swift kick in the nuts.
Turk! Amen! Americans drink full bodied Milk.
the rest of you hit ancestry.com to see if you're french, or spanish or some shi!t
You have totally redeemed yourself.
I can't do cereals with marshmellows. Just don't feel right with milk.
I'm glad this feels like a safe enough space to talk about urine for you guys.
As someone above said: versatile. Breakfast can truly be for any meal, but cereal almost even more so, given it's accessibility and low barrier to enjoyment.
Anyone ever had the grocery-purchaser come home with the Great Value Walmart brand cereal and die a little bit inside? I know it's not THAT much different, but I wanna see vibrant colors and advertising on the box while I'm eating at age 10, ya know?
I'm glad this feels like a safe enough space to talk about urine for you guys.
As someone above said: versatile. Breakfast can truly be for any meal, but cereal almost even more so, given it's accessibility and low barrier to enjoyment.
Anyone ever had the grocery-purchaser come home with the Great Value Walmart brand cereal and die a little bit inside? I know it's not THAT much different, but I wanna see vibrant colors and advertising on the box while I'm eating at age 10, ya know?
Digging to the bottom is uncouth and crushes the cereal. Be civilized and pour the whole box into Mom's largest mixing bowl, retrieve the prize, and return the cereal. Washing Mom's mixing bowl is optional.
Can't die that slow death, since I've already had to eat puffed rice and puffed wheat out of those big @$$ plastic bags with a half-and-half mixture of real milk and powdered milk. So these days it's top shelf cereal for me, or nothing.
Every now and then I buy a bowl of Frosted Flakes and I am always amazed how good it tastes with cold milk.
And anyone who pours out cereal milk must be a sociopath! There is a bakery in NYC that does wonderful things with cereal milk.
https://milkbarstore.com/
And anyone who pours out cereal milk must be a sociopath! There is a bakery in NYC that does wonderful things with cereal milk.
https://milkbarstore.com/
Oh, and BTW MaltOMeal cereals are normally better than the name brands and cheaper. They sell by the bag, no boxes. And make many stores pl items.
I work in the private label food world. I still remember a presentation I made comparing Froot Loops to MOM’s pl version, MOM was much better, I was surprised how skimpy and mis-shaped the branded Froot Loops were.
I work in the private label food world. I still remember a presentation I made comparing Froot Loops to MOM’s pl version, MOM was much better, I was surprised how skimpy and mis-shaped the branded Froot Loops were.
When I was a photographer for a living I often shot food, and one recurring job I had was shooting cereal box covers, including Alpha-Bits. You'd be surprised at what goes into those shots.
For one thing, you can't use milk b/c you'd never get the shot, the milk would soak through the bit too quickly. So for years photographers would instead use Elmer's glue, but that presented different problems, because you'd need to arrange the bits just so, and the glue would harden.
At some point photographers figured out that Wild Root hair tonic looks exactly like milk, but because it was oil based, wouldn't permeate the bit. So that's usually what you see in the photographs on the box. There's probably rice in the bowl as a base, then the hair tonic, then each bit carefully arranged. In the case of Alpha-Bits you had to be concerned that you weren't accidentally spelling anything, and the letters were equally distributed, and no bits that weren't discernible as letters, etc.
For one thing, you can't use milk b/c you'd never get the shot, the milk would soak through the bit too quickly. So for years photographers would instead use Elmer's glue, but that presented different problems, because you'd need to arrange the bits just so, and the glue would harden.
At some point photographers figured out that Wild Root hair tonic looks exactly like milk, but because it was oil based, wouldn't permeate the bit. So that's usually what you see in the photographs on the box. There's probably rice in the bowl as a base, then the hair tonic, then each bit carefully arranged. In the case of Alpha-Bits you had to be concerned that you weren't accidentally spelling anything, and the letters were equally distributed, and no bits that weren't discernible as letters, etc.
Bingo 98 lbser!!! You're not eating cereal unless you start out with a Jethro Bodine size bowl. My personal favorite is a half box of Cheerios mixed with a half box of Wheaties. I was #5 out of 6 brothers and the monthly cereal bill was like a car payment.
The last bowl crumbs from a box of Capn Crunch should be it’s own cereal. I would drink the remaining milk from Turks bowl of this cereal.
Damn. I ate a lot of that as a kid and don't think it ever occurred to me there was a difference: Frog vs Bear. I ate'em both but thought they were the same brand.
Underrated: Golden Grahams, Cinnamon Chex, Frosted Flakes.
Cap'N Crunch with chocolate milk was legit.
Crisps vs Smacks
Golden vs Honey
Bear vs Frog
Post vs Kellogg's
One would have to have an ultra-refined palate (unabused by the Capt'n) to discern a difference.
The only real difference maker is likely to be which one Mom had a coupon for, which Kroger's would double.
would get you taunted mercilessly just like wearing Kmart shoes to school instead of Chuck Taylor or Pro Keds sneakers.
Years ago as a kid? Probably, but those were the days of black and white “generic” packaging. Nowadays “own brands” are great! Stores put much more emphasis on their programs and most of the time quality is on par if not better than the nationals.
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Too bad I was inculcated as a kid. I guess maybe I should consider going to some kind of branding re-education camp.
Still, I notice today's hipster youth seem to be all in with retro Chuck Taylor's.
Yeah, at some point even the thought of taking in that much whole milk makes me feel bloated. My junk cereal days disappeared from the rear-view mirror decades ago and I'm even past the bacon egg sandwich days. Now it's a cup of oatmeal every morning.
As for the milk, since it came up...
Whole milk, 2%, 1%, skim, or other?
Whole milk, 2%, 1%, skim, or other?
Back in the day: 50/50 powdered/whole (when lots of mouths to feed). 100% whole, or canned milk as a treat.
Today: Unsweetened plain almond milk or heavy cream (It's nothing or all, and regular milk will spoil too soon).
Wild Turk was right about red cap vitamin D milk being the best. Today we keep 2 gallons in the fridge. 2% and skim. My son drinks the 2%, that's his favorite, and skim for protein shakes. I never thought the milk type made much of a difference with the cereal.
Those are my two favorites!
Quaker used to sell a very dense cereal in a small box with lots of sugar, nuts and, I think, honey. That was the best, but every time I bought a box and ate it, I would gain pound(s), so I stopped that vice.
Hey, Tikk, is it too late for us to do a class-action lawsuit on the mouth destroyer cereal?
Also, people, it’s the ceiling of the mouth, not the roof!
Also, if the cereal is not soggy yet, you can still eat safely, but eat only small bites so you can bite only with teeth and not with the ceiling of your mouth.
Here's a PSA, from personal experience...
I thought I would make the switch from cow milk to soy milk to avoid the lactose. Shortly thereafter, I developed painful, long-lasting, recurring sores on my tongue. Didn't give the soy much of a thought for a while, but in all of the googling around, finally came across a site that said soy is a potential allergen. Sure enough, gave it up, and the sores went away.
Of course, there's soy in lots of stuff these days, but however that milk is processed allows the allergen to do its thing.
I thought I would make the switch from cow milk to soy milk to avoid the lactose. Shortly thereafter, I developed painful, long-lasting, recurring sores on my tongue. Didn't give the soy much of a thought for a while, but in all of the googling around, finally came across a site that said soy is a potential allergen. Sure enough, gave it up, and the sores went away.
Of course, there's soy in lots of stuff these days, but however that milk is processed allows the allergen to do its thing.
It's now been more then a year since that Lone Star tick bite made me allergic to all mammal meats so bacon, which helped makeup some of my favorite sandwiches, is a distant memory.
Very good point about the Cap'n crunch. Sure, Daniel-san could've sanded the deck with Cap'n crunch, but the devouring of massive tablespoons without caution also contributes to the roof damage.Hey, Tikk, is it too late for us to do a class-action lawsuit on the mouth destroyer cereal?
Also, people, it’s the ceiling of the mouth, not the roof!
Also, if the cereal is not soggy yet, you can still eat safely, but eat only small bites so you can bite only with teeth and not with the ceiling of your mouth.
