Kellogg has a whole division called Kashi that makes “healthy” cereal. Most of them, of course, are still loaded with too much sugar, although the Kashi cereals do tend to have a little more nutrition (fiber, protein, etc.) than the mainline Kellogg branded products. My favorite Kashi product was Kashi Nuggets, which were essentially the same thing as Post’s Grape Nuts but with less salt and a notch more nutrition. But of course they discontinued that and came out with chocolate flavored Go cereal instead. Sigh.
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I’ve been eating oatmeal (with 100g of blueberries) for breakfast for a year or so now – it doesn’t spike my blood sugar quite like cereal does. I did, however, just pick up a box of Frankenberry this weekend because I’m only human! The one box will probably last most of the rest of the year because it’s not going to be my daily breakfast.
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Gaston Lachaille is confused. “too much sugar”? that’s not a thing.
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Out of curiosity I poked ChatGP about this stuff and it now just tells you what paradox you’re invoking.
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If I were the new cereal company, I’d reach out to Hollywood and try to get the Kellogg’s Cereal Cinematic Universe going:
Tony the Tiger
Dig 'Em Frog
Cornelius Rooster
Snap, Crackle, and Pop
and of course Toucan Sam. If done right, Toucan Sam can be the new Iron Man.
I can’t wait for the Tony the Tiger/Toucan Sam Civil War crossover.
And if they could buy Cap’n Crunch, the stories they could tell! The Soggies could be the new Thanos!
(Some cereal executive is throwing all this into Chat GPT right now to try to get a script during the strike, I promise you.)
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Though a good backstory is no guarantee it’ll help your cereal sales:
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… that just convinced me, if superhero movies were the stock market, we’re in the last five minutes before a crash 
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Honestly, ChatGPT is pretty good about that kind of stuff. You can confuse it on trickier paradoxical statements with more clauses, but, then again, you can confuse a human too.
You can even trie to formulate it in a way that ChatGPT wouldn’t have seen before, and it does fine. (I wrote: ‘Two kids are playing, Jimmy and Johnny. Jimmy says “the next thing Johnny says will be totally true!” Johnny says “Jimmy’s a ratbag liar and has never said a true thing in his life.” Who was telling the truth?’ ChatGPT broke it down for me correctly.)
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I’ll stick to my Weetabix
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The childhood memory that really sticks with me is how Captain Crunch cereal (and similar faee like Quisp) would shred my palate.
Ahhhh… Good times!
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I remember wanting all of the cereal boxes advertising marshmallows, but being wholly unimpressed with the cereal (Lucky Charms, I’m calling you out!). So I’d sit down to breakfast with a 60/40 ratio of marshmallows to base cereal, and toss the excess cereal nuggets out onto the lawn for the birds when my parents weren’t paying attention. Brilliant plan, except in winter when the snow made it obvious.
Count Chocula was probably my favorite. Now “Mateys” exist; a giant-bag cereal with ocean-themed marshmallows and a cereal akin to Coco Puffs. 
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Coco Puffs with marshmallows?!
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Holy shit, I think you just unlocked a buried childhood memory.
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My sister and I used to go on marathon sessions eating only the non-marshmallow parts to try to tip the ratio “legitimately.” Of course, this was “Magic Stars” cereal, the grocery store generic, so it was quite a grind for limited payoff. You’d think that would say something about how we would turn out but between my sister and me we’re not exactly the “marshmallow experiment success story.”
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I can remember when they were still skinheads:
[didn’t realise till now that they were voiced by Bob Hoskins, though]
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Damn, I remember that too.
I hope I’m not a cereal-triggered sleeper agent.
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Amazon can make your marshmallow ratios whole again…
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Neat, a bag of rainbow-coloured crack!
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Just out of curiosity, just how does one damit! sliced?. Does it involve Ginsu knives and Ron Popeil spray-on hair?.
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Nowadays I usually have hummus or some breakfast beans in the morning. Occasionally I’ll heat up some soy chorizo, or a microwave quiche. Less often I’ll make some sort of egg dish.
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