OT: Best Cereal

[John]

It just occurred to me. When I was a wee kid I never asked..."Who the flock is Euell Gibbons?!?"

he's a famous gravel muncher of yore.

 

[Dove]

he's a famous gravel muncher of yore.

Not a carpet muncher? Hmmph.

 

[bobbygt]

Except one: Grape-nuts.

Wtf.

"Hey, let's make a cereal that recreates what it would be like to eat a mouthful of gravel!"

Sounds like you just don't have the stamina to be a Grape-Nuts fan.

 

[Kitaman]

Sounds like you just don't have the stamina to be a Grape-Nuts fan.

I had to soak those things for a while to soften them up, when I was young. Was that the correct way or just eat them like jawbreakers with milk?

 

[BIGMAC]

Grain berry Honey Nut -Much better than Cheerios
Grape-Nuts ,
Shredded Wheat

For the Sugar
Cap'n Crunch
Frosted flakes
Apple Jacks
Fruit Loops
Puffa Puffa Rice

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

My standby is Honey Bunches o'Oats. Just the regular. With blueberries and whole milk.

I used to love Cracklin Oat Bran as a couch snack, but it's not the healthiest thing and these days is pretty expensive.

If you can't get enough of cereal milk and are looking for more ways to enjoy it, I'll share this from my buddy Jay in Baltimore: a recipe for Fruity Pebbles cappuccino.

I was at the ready to bring up Momofuku's ice cream and then decided to first click on your link even though it's not of interest.

 

[meyers7]

Captain Crunch variations can do that too.


Anyone remember King Vitamin?

Have breakfast with the King.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

I have a container of pre-cooked McCann's steel cut Irish oatmeal in the refrigerator. I'll add raisins, maybe almonds & a splash of half and half, or just almond milk to a lightly nuked bowl.

Though I'm on extended hiatus, my sugar delivery system of choice has traditionally been bulk candy, two bags, one fruity & one chocolate-y, eaten in random order and eventually mixed together at the end.

I nonetheless enter this thread at my own peril and discover a few things:

I like the company.

I've eaten all the cereals up through when Cap'n Crunch was introduced, and less than a third thereafter. I can still recall picking mashed clumps of Cap'n out of my molars not long after all my baby teeth were replaced.

Being here for the discussion is not unlike how I'm up-to-date with the Tournament thread but haven't watched a single game yet. And I like the name Raphael Chillious; it'd be great in an urban graphic novel set a few years into the future.

Ultimately, I feel as out of place in this thread as Lady Hans felt last Sunday at a screening of "Repo Man," which I still love. Might as well blame society.

 

[Deepster]

Not a carpet muncher? Hmmph.

Based on your question, I'm not sure you know what that term means.

 

[Dove]

Based on your question, I'm not sure you know what that term means.

ha ha...guess not. Assumed it was all-inclusive.

 

[Dogdeacon]

Ultimately, I feel as out of place in this thread as Lady Hans felt last Sunday at a screening of "Repo Man," which I still love. Might as well blame society.

Good post, I followed everything you were saying until cameo post appearance by Emilio Estevez.
I initially thought and was proven 1000% correct that Repo Man is a parable about Emilio Estevez overcoming the black sheep inference of the ethnic 'Estevez' surname and gradually being introduced & accepted into Hollywood. Proven out by subsequent 2 films, Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's.

But I digress and am curious, if Sunday's "screening of Repo Man" means you put a tape in a 1989 VCR or something more profound.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Good post, I followed everything you were saying until cameo post appearance by Emilio Estevez.
I initially thought and was proven 1000% correct that Repo Man is a parable about Emilio Estevez overcoming the black sheep inference of the ethnic 'Estevez' surname and gradually being introduced & accepted into Hollywood. Proven out by subsequent 2 films, Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's.

But I digress and am curious, if Sunday's "screening of Repo Man" means you put a tape in a 1989 VCR or something more profound.

Show at Hamden's Best Video Film and Cultural Center, as opener in a Sunday night Gen X film series. That was the selling point to bring my sweetheart along instead of UNC-Kentucky. She didn't like the movie all, and couldn't get why others were laughing, though she did recognize a number of things I regularly say as being sourced from it.

 

[Dogdeacon]

Show at Hamden's Best Video Film and Cultural Center, as opener in a Sunday night Gen X film series. That was the selling point to bring my sweetheart along instead of UNC-Kentucky. She didn't like the movie all, and couldn't get why others were laughing, though she did recognize a number of things I regularly say as being sourced from it.

Wow, gotcha - who knew of the diverse 'culture' offerings in Hamden!

 

[Bliss]

Had cereal every morning when I was a kid; usually whatever my mom bought on sale. Sugar on nearly anything makes it taste better. Dad was a shredded wheat man but I never could tolerate eating straw. Breakfast now consists of black coffee and vitamins.

 

[Mano]

Oh how I miss Lionel Hutz & Troy McClure.

A million likes!!!!

As for cereal, Reese's Puffs is my go to. I very much enjoy Cracklin' Oat Bran but as StorrsRoars said it's pretty pricey as cereals go. The Kashi granola-y one with yogurt and berry crunchy things is pretty good too.