Favorite Cold Cereal

theski · Post by **theski** » 2003-04-28 12:47pm

Local radio station had this on this morning. Did a search could not find another thread. MODS lock it if its been done.

1. Fruity pebbles
2. Fruit loops with marshmellows
3. Golden Grahams
4. BOO berry
5. Quisp

Cthulhu-chan · Post by **Cthulhu-chan** » 2003-04-28 12:58pm

Grape Nuts. It's like eating sand, but it's just so goddamn tasty! Especially with yogurt.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-04-28 01:00pm

Froot Loops and Lucky Charms. It's a shame they can't make them all marshmallow.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-04-28 01:01pm

I actually don't eat cereal with milk, just dry. But I like Frosted Mini-Wheats.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-04-28 01:15pm

Apple Cinnamin Cheerios or Rasin Bran. I'm not especially picky.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2003-04-28 01:15pm

NONE.

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-04-28 01:19pm

LIFE!!!!!

And when I'm eating unhealthily, Coco Puffs.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-04-28 01:24pm

Durran Korr wrote:I actually don't eat cereal with milk, just dry. But I like Frosted Mini-Wheats.

Hey! Me too. But I also like any cereal that is chocolate.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-04-28 01:27pm

Coco Puffs...or Cocoa Krispies.

No milk...Mini Wheats

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-04-28 01:34pm

Corn Flakes.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-04-28 01:38pm

Honey nut cheerios.
Corn flakes.
Special K.
Rice Krispies. (Snap Crackle Pop)

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-04-28 02:08pm

Lucky Charms. I just wish they'd stop fucking with the marshmallows. Pink hearts, orange stars, yellow moons, green clovers, blue diamonds and purple horseshoes. THOSE are the marshmallows. Not this fucking red balloon shit. What the fuck do balloons have to do with luck, except that if you don't have any luck, your balloon will get tangled in power lines and you'll die? And by the way guys, nice try trying to weasel out of your responsibility to produce one yellow marshmallow and one orange marshmallow with this two color "pot of gold" horseshit. The only new marshmallow I would keep is the rainbow, and that's IN ADDITION to the classic six. And while we're at it, strip the sugar coating off the oat bits. The whole point of the cereal is the contrast between the sugary marshmallows and the bready oat bits. You eat your oats and pick around the marshmallows, then when you're done, you have a big bowl of marshmallows to eat. It's like having dessert with breakfast. The sugar coating totally fucks everything else. Now the marshmallows aren't a treat, they're just more fucking sugar. On the other hand, you could probably sell a cereal which was just the oat bits in the sugar coating. It's not the sugar-coated bits I disapprove of, it's the sugar coated bits and marshmallows that piss me off.

And when I can't eat Lucky Charms because all this marshmallow fuckery sends me into a rage, I like Cocoa Krispies. Mmm...chocolate cereal milk.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-04-28 02:12pm

Well Purple Horseshoes also isn't a part of the original design

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But yeah...why all the weirdo shapes....or does anyone remember the whale?

Sokar · Post by **Sokar** » 2003-04-28 02:23pm

When Im eating to NOT strip years off my life I enjoy Grape Nuts, with a dash of honey.

When its time to be a kid again : Captain Fucking Crunch!! The single greatest cereal ever invented

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-04-28 02:24pm

Ick. Too much sugar in most choices.

I prefer simple oat rings. They don't have to be Cheerios, I don't really care about brands.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-04-28 02:33pm

Ghost Rider wrote:Well Purple Horseshoes also isn't a part of the original design .

But yeah...why all the weirdo shapes....or does anyone remember the whale?

But a horseshoe is exactly what you'd expect to find in a cereal called LUCKY CHARMS.

Pink hearts: Finding love is often a matter of luck.

Orange stars, yellow moons: In many human cultures, the stars and the moon and their interaction with each other can be portents of good luck.

Green clovers: Does this need to be explained?

Blue diamonds: This one is sorta iffy, I'll admit. But if I found a diamond, I'd certainly call it lucky. And if you haven't already noticed, the six marshmallows are the color of the rainbow, so you could say that the marshmallows taken together form a seventh lucky charm, and of course, seven is often considered a fortutious number, especially in Las Vegas (where a diamond can be very lucky if there's ten of them and you've got three others with pictures of royalty and one other with the letter "A").

Purple horseshoes: completes the rainbow, and horseshoes are also lucky.

Now let's see what they've done with their fuckery:

Red balloons: How are balloons lucky? I can ride in a balloon for ten bucks at the Philadelphia Zoo. If they needed red, they could have just darkened the heart, but even that isn't really necessary, considering the pastel shades they used for the other marshmallows except the horseshoe, probably because pastel purple would be indistinguishable from either the pink heart or the pastel blue diamond. So they've fucked up the rainbow formed by the marshamallows and ruined the subtle "six charms plus the rainbow makes seven" symbolism by bringing the total number of symbols to eight. Now, I consider eight to be MY lucky number, but it really has no significance to the rest of the world.

Pots of gold: while I would have no objection to a pot of gold charm should it have been introduced in place of, say, the yellow moons, what those hatfuckers have done is consolidated the yellow (turning the blue charm into a moon, perhaps the only positive move they've made) and the orange. While losing the star, a much more significant symbol than pots of gold in the mythology of luck, was bad enough, we've even more thoroughly wrecked the original symmetry of the six charms. This would bring us back down to six charms, but since the color symmetry has been broken, it doesn't matter.

Rainbows: apparently someone at General Mills realized they'd ruined the carefully constructed symbolism of the original six marshmallow lineup, they introduced a rainbow piece. While I would not object to the addition of a rainbow to the original lineup as a sort of avatar for the symbolic rainbow formed by the other six pieces, in the current mess they've made of Lucky Charms, it's a band-aid slapped on a severed leg.

EDIT: The temporary marshmallows, like the whales or the pine trees or whatever else some marketing schmuck dreamed up are not addressed here, as they are utterly beneath contempt.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-04-28 03:21pm

Frosties.

Or, for when I've been really good: Chocolate Frosties

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-04-28 03:23pm

Honey Nut Cheerios
Generic brands of Lucky Charms

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-04-28 04:00pm

Smacks

Next of Kin · Post by **Next of Kin** » 2003-04-28 06:29pm

Good ole corn flakes...the rest are just sugary death traps.

Darn! I forgot too mention that Weetabix rocks!

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2003-04-28 06:54pm

I usually eat Pop-Tarts. Cocoa Puffs are good though.

Mark S · Post by **Mark S** » 2003-04-28 07:48pm

Durran Korr wrote:I actually don't eat cereal with milk, just dry. But I like Frosted Mini-Wheats.

I actually used to be the same way. I got into eating it with milk a few years ago though.

Generally I don't eat breakfast but I have to agree that The Cap'n has a kickass cereal.

I've always wanted to see a Mortal Kombat style fighting game featuring cereal characters. Count Chocula vs Lucky? FIGHT!

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-04-28 08:00pm

Actually, I often prefer my cereal dry. Not all the time, you understand, but occasionally I'm just not in the mood for soggy cereal (ironically, I often have a glass of milk with my dry cereal).

That said, Peanut Butter Capn' Crunch is perhaps the greatest cereal I have ever had the privelidge of digesting.

Other notables:
Lucky Charms,
Cheerios,
Frosted Flakes,
Apple Jacks,
Fruit Loops.

Cthulhu-chan · Post by **Cthulhu-chan** » 2003-04-28 08:04pm

Cap'n Crunch is fine... as long as you enjoy lacerated gums! Besides, Crunch Berries kick the yellow shit's ass.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-04-28 08:09pm

Waffle Crisp, or Cinamine toast Crunch. ^_^

p.s. Pop Tarts Rule, i wish i had some

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