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Lileks: Back when kids were kids and breakfast meant a sugar high
Mpls. Star Tribune ^
| 9/23/11
| James Lileks
Posted on 09/23/2011 9:10:13 AM PDT by rhema
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posted on
09/23/2011 9:10:16 AM PDT
by
rhema
To: rhema
Anybody remember, “come home when the street lights come on.”?
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posted on
09/23/2011 9:14:19 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: rhema
The ingenious joy that once fueled the breakfast cereal industry seems to have sputtered and died, replaced by a grim insistence that you eat so much fiber it starts shooting out your cuffs like hay from an overstuffed scarecrow. They must be talking about "Colon-Blow" cereal, brought to us by the folks at SNL.
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posted on
09/23/2011 9:16:35 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't Blame Me, I voted for Kodos!)
To: rhema
The ingenious joy that once fueled the breakfast cereal industry seems to have sputtered and died, replaced by a grim insistence that you eat so much fiber it starts shooting out your cuffs like hay from an overstuffed scarecrow. They must be talking about "Colon-Blow" cereal, brought to us by the folks at SNL.
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posted on
09/23/2011 9:16:50 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't Blame Me, I voted for Kodos!)
To: rhema
I happened to be cukoo for cocoapuffs
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posted on
09/23/2011 9:17:09 AM PDT
by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
To: rhema
I can remember when Kellogg’s “Corn Pops” cereal used to be called “Sugar Pops”; and when “Super Golden Crisp” used to be called “Super Sugar Crisp”
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posted on
09/23/2011 9:18:40 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't Blame Me, I voted for Kodos!)
To: rhema
When I was a little kid I pretended that I was Chairman of
General Corporation which had subsidiaries of anything and everything with the word
General in it. Thus I oversaw General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, General Mills, etc....
Wow, was I living too high on the hog for this..resident.
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posted on
09/23/2011 9:21:46 AM PDT
by
onedoug
(If)
To: cuban leaf
Anybody remember, come home when the street lights come on.?Yep! My parents also had a whistle that they'd use to call us home for supper.
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posted on
09/23/2011 9:21:46 AM PDT
by
stayathomemom
(Beware of kittens modifying your posts.)
To: WayneS
I can remember when Kelloggs Corn Pops cereal used to be called Sugar Pops; and when Super Golden Crisp used to be called Super Sugar Crisp "High Fructose Corn Syrup Pops" and "Super High Fructose Corn Syrup Crisp" failed in test marketing.
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posted on
09/23/2011 9:23:13 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Compare "Delay is preferable to error" - Thomas Jefferson // "Pass this bill now!" - Barack Obama)
To: stayathomemom
We had cows that needed milking.
That was our clarion call to be home.
To: rhema
“In 2045, breakfast will be a rutabaga dipped in warm marrow. Maybe they’ll call them Root Loops. But it just won’t be the same.”
Organic Free-Range marrow, I hope.
Hilarious article, thanks for posting.
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posted on
09/23/2011 9:24:08 AM PDT
by
dnandell
(I don't need no stinkin' tagline)
To: freeangel
When my son was about 5 years old he very innocently asked me at breakfast one morning: “Dad, can I put Yoo-Hoo on my Cocoa Puffs instead of milk?”
My first thought was: “Wow, what a GREAT idea! Why didn't I think of that? This kid might be a genius!”
But then my “Dad genes” kicked in and I had to tell him that too much chocolate and sugar at one time wouldn't be good for him. He was disappointed but he understood.
Later, after he went to school, I discovered that the combination was every bit as delicious as it had sounded...
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posted on
09/23/2011 9:26:14 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't Blame Me, I voted for Kodos!)
To: WayneS
That is such a cute story. My son refuses to drink milk..chocolate or otherwise, but he loves Yoo-Hoos...go figure.
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posted on
09/23/2011 9:30:24 AM PDT
by
sipwine
(Eat well, stay well....)
To: ridesthemiles
There weren’t too many cows in Detroit when I was growing up.;-)
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posted on
09/23/2011 9:33:46 AM PDT
by
stayathomemom
(Beware of kittens modifying your posts.)
To: rhema
See Ag Secy. Tom Vilsack’s remarks to the Restaurant Association the other day.
“America’s tastes WILL have to be changed, and you WILL be our partners in helping to achieve this”.
What say you, Hermain Cain, former President of the aforementioned organization?
To: WayneS
“Later, after he went to school, I discovered that the combination was every bit as delicious as it had sounded...”
LOL
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posted on
09/23/2011 9:44:02 AM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: freeangel
Cukoo for cocoa puffs? Then you'll love these.
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posted on
09/23/2011 9:44:16 AM PDT
by
Liz
(The rule of law must prevail. We canÂ’t govern ourselves by our personal point of view.)
To: WayneS
LOL! One of the great SNL spoof-commercials!
Or what was it Denis Leary said: “I eat so much f’ing fiber, my colon is the strongest muscle in my body! I could pass Elvis through my colon!” Or something to that effect....it was on “No Cure For Cancer”.
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posted on
09/23/2011 9:45:33 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: WayneS
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posted on
09/23/2011 9:47:53 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: rhema
Is there a cereal without sugar, beside Grape Nuts? I did find Post Shredded Wheat without sugar. Instead it had butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) - a suspected carcinogen - added for preservation’s sake.
Who’s going to preserve our lives? BHT is in many cereals and other supposedly for-human-consmption foods. I bet the executives at the food companies don’t feed that stuff to their kids or themaelves.
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posted on
09/23/2011 9:52:02 AM PDT
by
RoadTest
(Organized religion is no substitute for the relationship the living God wants with you.)
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