why I can't eat cereal

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because once I start I can't stop! I just had three enormous bowls of raisin bran! I could just sit here and keeping pouring out more and more of it until I got permanent indigestion!

raisin bran is really good these days, by the way, I suspect genetic tinkering but the raisins are huge! and they're not lying about the two scoops thing--if anything their claims are modest!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 20 September 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm so tired

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 20 September 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

we once ate a box of C3P0 cereal in a day...

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 20 September 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

And by "we" do you mean "me and my stomach"?

― Chris P (Chris P), Saturday, 20 September 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I once had Hannafor brand Raisin Bran and I caused huge clouds of noxious gas to fill consecutive aisles of "Target". I had to keep pretending I was sick of looking at something and quickly go to another aisle to avoid suspicion. I think its a bit too much sugars and insoluable fiber for the small intenstine to absorb.

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Saturday, 20 September 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

and my spleen and my gall bladder, the whole gang was there, it wz just like the old days!!

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 20 September 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

possibly.

more likely me & my brother.

my sister had one as well, i think. Ah, life in 1985.

http://www.tvtoymemories.com/TN_BIG_C3PO_CEREAL.JPG

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 20 September 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

C-3POs were shaped like... little 8s? What did that have to do with anything?

― Chris P (Chris P), Saturday, 20 September 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

fuck if i know. blame the Kellogg scientists in Battle Creek...

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 20 September 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't put milk on my cereal. Not ever. I'm as likely to as you are to pour orange juice over your waffles.

Bring the hate.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 20 September 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

what do you put on it then?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 20 September 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

cum?

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Saturday, 20 September 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

cumflakes

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Saturday, 20 September 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry about that. I meant to say "artificial milk"

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Saturday, 20 September 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

or crazy glue, even!

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Saturday, 20 September 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a similar problem with mueslis, raisin wheats, raisin bran, Jordan's style rolled oats-based cereals etc. etc. I find it very easy to keep going for refills and just shovelling it in absent mindedly whilst at my computer.

― David (David), Saturday, 20 September 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I too find cereal so easy to indulge in. This is why I only buy ok but not thrilling types like generic cheerios ("toasted oats") and corn flakes. Anything more tasty and it's, for the lack of a better phrase, heavy duty shit time.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 20 September 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG, this post is so meant for me at the moment.

Like tonight, I'm really going to be wanting Corn Flakes for dinner. I love Corn Flakes. And that Mini Frosted Shredded Wheat cereal too, as well as so many other cereals. Hmmm. Perhaps a quick trip to the store is in order!

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 20 September 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

btw, the only time I have, um, that problem is when I'm eating something high-fiber, of course. Even then, though, I still look fondly at Grape-Nuts.

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 20 September 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, great, now I get to tell people that I hang out on a webboard with a bunch of people who take pains to avoid eating cereal because it's just too much for them.

― Chris P (Chris P), Saturday, 20 September 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Told you we were hardcore

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 20 September 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The weird thing is the actual serving size for most cereals is like less than a cup. Do you realise how littel that is? WHO THE FOCK ARE YOU KIDDING GEnREAL MILLS!?? AAAIGGH!!! EAT SHET COUNT CHOCULA!!!

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Saturday, 20 September 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

actual serving sizes are always wack. this lil' bowl of butter I bought claims there's 80 servings in there. They should provide serving size FOR ORSON WELLES information.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 20 September 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www2.kutxa.net/obrasocial/fototeca/fotos/sr5.jpg
"what from the depths of your ignorance...there couldn't POSSIBLY be more than four servings of frozen peas in this bag!"

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 20 September 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, frozen peas aren't meant to be eaten...

― Chris P (Chris P), Saturday, 20 September 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

somebody post a screengrab of that ep of the Critic...

"mmm, oh there's a french fry stuck in my beard."

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 20 September 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Cereal is a bit too healthy for me to get addicted to, and eating it while properly awake always feels a bit odd. Jaffa Cakes, on the other hand...

― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 20 September 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

" Show me a way that I can eat one half cup of CaptainCrunch, and I'll go down on you"

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Saturday, 20 September 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

FROOT LOOPS!

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Saturday, 20 September 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Crispex!

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 20 September 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Well it's either eat 2 or 3 bowls of it, or 'make it part of your complete breakfast' along with toast and eggs or whatever, and who the fuck is gonna do that? The whole point of eating cereal in the morning is the laziness factor.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 20 September 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha. Not cereal for me, but bread. I very nearly posted a thread asking 'why is bread so nice?' after I demolished an entire white crusty bloomer over the course of an evening last week.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Saturday, 20 September 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

oh man, I forgot about the "make it a part of your complete breakfast" concept. Has ANYONE ever made the gargantuan multi-course breakfast that qualifies as "complete" as according to cereal companies?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 20 September 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

(AND included cereal in it, I should add)

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 20 September 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

what do you put on it then?

I don't put anything on it! Cereal comes in three types: the dessert type stuff, your Boo Berry, your Cap'n Crunch, and no milk is needed for that because it's pretty much cookies; the munchie type stuff, your Cheerios, your granola, and so on, and you munch on that as you would pretzels or popcorn; and the stuff I don't eat.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 20 September 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

you know what the worst for me is, compulsiv-eating-wise? LIFE. holy shit, I could walk around with a Life IV all day and... and be happy. finally be happy.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 20 September 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

thing about Life is, it's so great, so toothsome, but it gets soggy so fast you have to eat it at this really accelerated rate and then you build up momentum and it requires a massive effort to brake.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 20 September 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

you could go easy on the milk ... put in enough to have the cereal taste milky, but not enough so that it instantaneously turns to mush.

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Saturday, 20 September 2003 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

slutsky is embarassingly OTM about Life. That cereal is what all other cereals are judged against. Must resist urge to buy some... MUST...

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 20 September 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Life turns to mush if you so much as exhale near it. also it is the namby-pamby man's shreddies.

― jones (actual), Saturday, 20 September 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

isn't it true that Marilyn Manson was Mikey in those old Life commercials?

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Saturday, 20 September 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, and then he died after eating Pop Rocks and drinking soda.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 20 September 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

that's some AWESOME mush though. I really don't mind. fuck, I'm buying some tomorrow.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 20 September 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

shreddies are for prudes

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 21 September 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah? well don't say i didn't warn you when Miccio's cashier writes 'SISSY' on his grocery bag and laughs him out of the store, and on his way home he gets his ass kicked. TEARS TURN LIFE TO MUSH TOO. SALTY, BITTER MUSH.

― jones (actual), Sunday, 21 September 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

cashiers don't write "SISSY" on everyone's grocery bag?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 21 September 2003 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

haha i just had a vivid sense-memory of being totally sick of shreddies. i think the last time i had them i was 9.

― jones (actual), Sunday, 21 September 2003 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I knew it! they are dull!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 21 September 2003 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

(well actually i was having nonstop wild sex back then, so your prude theory is still wrong)

― jones (actual), Sunday, 21 September 2003 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

whaddya think that "sense memory" was all about?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 21 September 2003 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 39 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

OK, I thought you meant you ate cerealy so slowly that the milk went bad before you finished.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 22 September 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you noticed that the cereal bandits are getting better? I dont maind hardly any fakes now, and indeed they are often a kind kiss ot the palate, especially sandpaper-factor

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Monday, 22 September 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Shreddies were an ascetic cereal? But I thought they were a treat! I still occasionally buy them now!

Pecan and maple crunchy cereal, Asda or Sainsburys' own, is my petit dejeuner du jour at the moment. I am curious about the crispy half moon shaped things, though. Hmm.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 22 September 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all piss and cum with you, Hanle y.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 22 September 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Nza: The story behind Grape-Nuts not having grapes nor nuts.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 22 September 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

What size container of milk do you buy, NA? I buy a quart, and I can usually finish it before it goes bad.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 22 September 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow thanks for the link Chris! That's pretty interesting about the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and how it excludes fancy-pants names for things from prosecution for false advertising in particular.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 22 September 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

companion milk thread: When the milk goes bad....

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 22 September 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I had the same problem as Nick and Sarah, but then I kinda stopped eating cereal. Then I got roommates who drink milk, but I didn't start eating cereal again.

Man, cereal sounds good.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 22 September 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

I can't stop eating cereal! I even have different cereals for different times of day!!!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 12 November 2004 03:53 (twenty years ago)

you and slocki are gonna get diabetes

― TOMBOT, Friday, 12 November 2004 03:57 (twenty years ago)

you are gonna get SERVED

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 12 November 2004 03:58 (twenty years ago)

...cereal

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 12 November 2004 03:58 (twenty years ago)

you are turning into your brother

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:04 (twenty years ago)

next you'll tell me you love the Libertines

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:05 (twenty years ago)

I LOVE THE LIBERTINES

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:15 (twenty years ago)

i'm cutting down on my sugar intake

well, besides those reese's peanut butter cups i just had

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:17 (twenty years ago)

fuck i love those things

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:17 (twenty years ago)

almost as much as adam loves the libertines!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:17 (twenty years ago)

The white Reese's Cups are a guilty pleasure of mine. I know they're gross and yet still I buy and I eat.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:23 (twenty years ago)

Adam "loving" the Libertines sounds like another bad slash fiction story.

― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:23 (twenty years ago)

Adam wants to make the Libertines part of his good nutritious breakfast.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:26 (twenty years ago)

I don't eat cereal at all. I find this talk of cereal puzzling.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:26 (twenty years ago)

The Libertines want to C on your (cheeri)Os.

― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:28 (twenty years ago)

I'm glad you clarified that, Nicole.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:32 (twenty years ago)

I am not allowed to buy cereal, I think. I bought a box of President's Choice muslie/granola a couple weeks ago, y'know, just to try, and ate it in 2 days. It had so much good stuff in it! But it was kind of insane, the cereal binge thing. And it hurt.

But there's an entire cereal aisle! It's hard to resist. And to make it worse, cereal is almost always across from the cookies! It's a sugar corridor.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:32 (twenty years ago)

*white* reese's?!
xpost.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:34 (twenty years ago)

white reese's that's GROSS

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:39 (twenty years ago)

not to mention WRONG.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:43 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. Let's talk cereal. Now we're talking. I tried every single cereal in the local health food store and used to mix and match until I finally settled on one brand and mix it with grape nuts and diced walnuts every morning. Soy milk softens the crunchiness sooner than regular milk, too. As far as I'm concerned it's ALL about cereal.

― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:49 (twenty years ago)

I'm currently addicted to Kellogg's All Bran Bran Flakes with a banana sliced up into it, no sugar and very little skim milk. So very tasty and by golly I'm as regular as Old Faithful.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:40 (twenty years ago)

My dad used to eat bowls of cereal every night. And by bowls I mean tupperwear containers that contained half a box of Captain Crunch.

He does, indeed, now have diabetes.

he'd usually follow the cereal with a triple decker peanut butter and jelly sandwich, in fairness.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:41 (twenty years ago)

President's Choice? I thought that was a Jewel-only brand. Where do you live, rrobyn? Oh wait, but it's also a "product of Canada." I don't get it.

I love cereal, esp. GRANOLA.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:42 (twenty years ago)

Ally: I can just imagine the pain from eating that much Cap'n Crunch. He must've had callouses on the roof of his mouth.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:43 (twenty years ago)

I toyed with eating a bowl of cereal before digging into my now-mentioned-on-three-threads hummus container.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:43 (twenty years ago)

Adam never said what cereal he eats. Not all are sugary kiddy chocco marshmellow cereals. Have you (to no one in particular) looked at the nutrition panel on Multi-grain cheerios?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:50 (twenty years ago)

I know what Adam eats!
http://www.twentysix.net/update/updates/001119/box-old.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:51 (twenty years ago)

President's Choice stuff rocks. I live in Montreal, yes, Canada. I guess Pres Choice is making it out of Canada then? That's good to know. They have this sugar-reduced jam/'fruit spread' that I've recently discovered - I find jam too sweet, but this is perfect.

Haha - I remember Fruit Loops top-of-mouth pain...

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:52 (twenty years ago)

god I wish I had some cereal. Even Kashi would do. I haven't eaten cereal in about two years.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:52 (twenty years ago)

that is what I have just been eating!!! WHY?

xpost multigrain cheerio's I mean.
mrs adam just gave away TWO unopened boxes of good friends to the food drive at work!!!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:53 (twenty years ago)

Just look at those faces!!!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:53 (twenty years ago)

Multi-grain cheerios are really good for you, that's why. Keep up the good work, here's a star sticker, now go brush your teeth and get to bed.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:55 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, here you can only get President's Choice at a specific grocery store chain in Chicago, so I thought for a long time that it was the store's own brand. My parents used to buy Pres. Choice cookies all the time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:56 (twenty years ago)

I sometimes make my own granola by toasting wheat bran, oats, raisins and whatever else I feel like - put it all in a bowl, mix in some sugar/honey/syrup/fake sugar, maybe a bit of olive oil and then put on a baking sheet and toast in the oven for about 15 min. Maybe I'm a hippy, but it's really good!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:56 (twenty years ago)

I thought that too, jaymc, cause PC seemed to make it's debut right after they got rid of the generic white-packaging-with-boring-black-font products at Jewel.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:58 (twenty years ago)

WOW, you should move to Berkeley and buy an art car or something!

xpost

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:59 (twenty years ago)

At first I thought you meant Jewel the singer-songwriter and I was like "Jewel-only brand?" Then my senses kicked in.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 November 2004 06:06 (twenty years ago)

There isn't enough homemade fcking granola in the world to make me do that.
xpost.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 November 2004 06:09 (twenty years ago)

Man, I want some granola.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 November 2004 06:19 (twenty years ago)

ILX has ruled my eating today - first tacos, now cereal. But I have not given in to this cereal pushing, no.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 12 November 2004 06:23 (twenty years ago)

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