You’re right. It takes a while. It means I wake up earlier than the rest of the family, start the oats, and relax for maybe 10-15 min with a quiet cup of coffee before the craziness begins. It’s quite nice, but doesn’t work for everyone.
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… but if a venue is run well, is it really D.I.Y. 
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I don’t know about anyone else, but a lot of my childhood memories are connected to the cereals I ate as a child. The fight over who would get the prize in the box, the TV jingles for them during Saturday morning cartoons, deciding whether to be Team Quisp or Team Quake. I was a diehard Quisp fan, and still have a thing for aliens to this day. LOL At 65, I still on occasion buy a box of Cocoa Krispies to savor and still hate Frosted Flakes because of their penchant toward sogginess, and preferred them more as a dry snack. My millennial sons grew up on Lucky Charms and Honey Nut Cheerios, although now as grown young men who are both ridiculously healthy eaters (unlike me who is a sugar freak), I doubt they would touch the stuff. Those wacky sugar-laden cereals will always be a source of nostalgia for me and it’s a little sad to see the end of yet another era.
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When I ate oatmeal, I would cook up a big pot of the steel cut oats and store them in the fridge. They were a real treat reheated wonderfully in the microwave.
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Welcome to BoingBoing!
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What! No Welsh rarebit!?
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My favorite factoid about Post Cereals is that the company’s founder C.W. Post got the idea to start a breakfast cereal company after having a mental breakdown and spending time as a patient in John Harvey Kellogg’s sanitarium (it has been suggested that he outright stole the Kelloggs’ recipes).
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finally. thank you.
I really like this one; has a special place in my heart.
and my standard after the first coffee is a big müsli with oats, rolled oats, raisin, some dried fruit, lots of different nuts, one whole (damit!) sliced apple and all mixed with orange juice, a bit water and some kefir. let it stand for some time and enjoy. no milk, no sugar.
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I’ll live without cereal if it goes extinct. I could also see just doing some wheat toast/english muffin or a couple of eggs in the morning, boiled most likely. For now, I still eat it, and yes I eat the “maple brown sugar flavored” Quaker oats, because I’m just not that into unflavored gristle in my teeth in the morning. But if it makes you happy (and healthy) more power to you.
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Hmm, hungry now.
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One of the foundations of nutritional science is a paper or two from the late 1950s in which the authors proved the importance of a healthy cereal/sugar breakfast… they provided food to a group of hungry children and showed that they behaved better and learned more in school than the control group who remained hungry.
And thus the Traditional American Breakfast was born.
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No, no, make that an Ulster Fry (AKA “Pan Dip”). Basically the same but with at least five different types of fried bread. (Pan slice, Soda farl, Wheaten Farl, Potato Bread farl, & Pancake). Oh, and a savoury duck.
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So, maybe people just aren’t so worried about masterbation any more. Or maybe the corn flakes aren’t working any more.
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Especially at the Weekends.
Snap, crackle, pop.
Especially the 43% liquor in the upper left corner.
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I like sugary cereals on occasion, but it should be understood it’s in the decadent dessert category, only eat once in a blue moon(green stars, yellow clover…). I usually have coffee with milk for breakfast, just because, for whatever reason, my appetite doesn’t wake up until 11 or so. My oatmeal, which I’ll often have for a small meal/snack, is cold rolled oats with milk, with frozen berries or other fruit, cinnamon and sometimes a dab of honey and chili.
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That came up during a scene in The Shape of Water…
Giles: You know, cornflakes were invented to stop masturbation.
Eliza: (Pauses abruptly)
Giles: It didn’t work.
Eliza: (Resumes eating breakfast)
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