• Rusty@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    I’m still can’t believe some crazy guy 100 years ago convinced the whole country that eating sugar with milk is somehow a healthy breakfast. And the same guy convinced the same country to do the genital mutilation on male infants.

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      5 days ago

      You’re combining the two Kellogg brothers. One thought that pleasure was sin, and that a good diet should be as bland as possible to maintain piety. The other thought his brother’s cereal tasted like shit and was really hard to market and sell, until he added sugar and salt, then subsequently became filthy rich.

      • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        Ironically, pre-sugared cereal may have also reduced the amount of sugar in kids’ cereal. For a while, kids were taking regular cereal and dumping sugar on it. Instead of actually parenting and telling them no, the parents started buying sugary cereal.

    • Cort@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      And both were done with the goal of reducing masturbation.

      Knowing better has a full day’s worth of content on this, if you’d like to know more

  • Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Cereal is the most delicious thing in the universe that doesn’t require anything more than pouring two things into a bowl. No peeling, heating, mixing, blending, layering, etc. Two things, in a bowl, and what you don’t use goes back in the place it came from.

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      6 days ago

      It’s designed that way on purpose. Cereal manufacturers are some of the most egregious abusers of hyperpalatable foods.

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      6 days ago

      Until one day, when you’re eating soup and innocently toss in some croutons, only to realize that what you’re eating is essentially cereal: savory edition, which you find so inexplicably disgusting that you can’t even stomach the thought of regular cereal for a depressing amount of time

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      6 days ago

      That bowl was a little big for me, I’ll just drain the milk back into the jug and put these soggy bits back in the box.

  • ickplant@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 days ago

    To be fair, my husband will just have 6 bowls of cereal in a row all of a sudden.

    But my son… here he is with his mixing bowl.

    Edit: when my son went through a miso soup phase, he would get the big mixing bowl and use a whole block of tofu. Probably straight up 2L of miso broth. For context, he is 6’2” and 19.