Hero or Dick - Season 2, Ep 2 - The Crunchy Chronicles of Cereal

Good morning, podcast family! It's time to pour yourself a bowl, grab a spoon, and join us for another episode of Hero or Dick with your favorite breakfast companions, Kate and KJ!

This week, we're spilling the milk on the fascinating history of cereal. How did this humble bowl of grains transform from a simple digestive soother to the kaleidoscope of flavors that jolt us awake every morning? We're journeying from cereal's milk-less beginnings to the explosion of rainbow colors and tastes in your bowl today.

As always, Kate's armed with fact-packed research, while KJ gets side-tracked by the non-existent connection between serial killers and cereal.

Join us as we take a light-hearted yet informative stroll through the cereal chronicles. It's hard to stay serious when you're talking about something as delightfully varied as cereal, but we'll do our best – or at least Kate will!

So, tune in to this episode of Hero or Dick for a breakfast of fun, facts, and classic Kate and KJ banter. It's the most important meal of your day for your ears!

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Transcript

Cereal

Speaker 1 0:00

Serial yeah, hi everyone, hi, you're over dick, episode 18. 18. It's January 20. Probably right. It's 23rd 23rd Tuesday, the 23rd 23rd, so we were just talking about Winter shoveling.

Speaker 2 0:22

It's still winter here.

Speaker 1 0:23

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 0:24

I'll be in Michigan. It will be for a few more months. Yeah but we didn't get any snow until January, after the first of the year.

Speaker 1 0:32

Right.

Speaker 2 0:32

So, and now everybody's all complaining. It's like it's only been two weeks that we've had snow Buck up.

Speaker 1 0:39

Mm-hmm, it's depression. Is it winter depression? It sees no effect. What's it called sad, seasonal Affected dis Disorder, disorder, I don't know. You think this is working? I hope it is Can you hear.

Speaker 2 0:54

Do you want to test it? I don't know I can hear myself. Hello yeah sounds good, yeah. So what's our topic today?

Speaker 1 1:02

Serial Isn't.

Speaker 2 1:04

Serial Killers.

Speaker 1 1:06

You know that was funny. I tried my hardest to find a connection between eating cereal and cereal killers and also tried really hard to find Serial killers that like cereal.

Speaker 2 1:16

What? That would be. A great life-type movie, Just one guy yeah he requested, his.

Speaker 1 1:22

He requested his last meal to be cereal. Lucky Charms no Frosted Flakes. Oh, another popular one, yeah, so anyway. Well, I always add information that's totally useless throughout the podcast, and that's where I get my joy. So you can go ahead and kick it off.

Speaker 2 1:40

Well, cereal has a not a long history, but a kind of an interesting history. It started out as a digestive aid.

Speaker 1 1:51

What's that mean?

Speaker 2 1:52

That means you. It was like a medicine you took if your stomach hurt. Here have some cereal, make it poop, maybe fiber fiber, fiber, one that's a cereal, or was yeah, it was cold and blow. That's the SNL cereal.

Speaker 1 2:08

Oh, that's right.

Speaker 2 2:10

Then it became the sugar snack. Right, they added sugar. What can we do to make this horrible stuff taste good? Let's add half of it, sugar sugar. And people went yeah, I'm on board with this. And it started. The first one was called granola granola Did you see that granola?

Speaker 1 2:31

granola 1860s?

Speaker 2 2:33

Yeah, and it was so hard that they had to add milk. That's where.

Speaker 1 2:39

Wait a minute was cereal originally just supposed to to be a.

Speaker 2 2:45

Nothing, just eat it no milk in the bowl. Oh and then it was hard, so they added milk.

Speaker 1 2:51

Oh, shit, not anything else.

Speaker 2 2:53

Who was sugar?

Speaker 1 2:55

milk, no, but I mean you could added water.

Speaker 2 2:58

Oh, I wonder how that came about.

Speaker 1 3:01

That's a whole podcast milk, that milk or milk People say and be okay.

Speaker 2 3:09

And then the surgeon named John Kellogg Made a version of a granola and he called it, as we know it today, granola.

Speaker 1 3:20

Oh, fancy did up with that a fancy did up.

Speaker 2 3:23

He changed the u2 at oh and then he said it's mine.

Speaker 1 3:28

Oh, what I say? A for Granola? They were no, no, they both ended in a yeah, sorry.

Speaker 2 3:34

So he was a former patient or no, a former patient whose name was post CW. Post use the same basic idea. And then he created grape nuts wait, a second post.

Speaker 1 3:49

CW post was a patient of Dr Kellogg of Dr Kellogg you serious.

Speaker 2 3:54

Yeah, can't be it's awesome. Yes, oh shit. And then they create he created grape nuts, which I don't know if they still make great, they do.

Speaker 1 4:04

I like the grape nuts. Do you get different variations of it? Oh, you got her work. It's a lot of work.

Speaker 2 4:09

It's a lot of crunching.

Speaker 1 4:10

It's like having jerky.

Speaker 2 4:11

It's you have to have a good dentist.

Speaker 1 4:14

You're great, great nuts and a lot of sugar.

Speaker 2 4:17

They're kind of pebbly, aren't they?

Speaker 1 4:18

they're like any little cobbles, yeah gravel.

Speaker 2 4:21

I love I remember that was the. That was the cereal choice of my grandparents when we went, stayed there.

Speaker 1 4:29

But have you had it with like yogurt?

Speaker 2 4:31

Yeah, it's good, you know, it's like a as a topping for things. It's Basically for yogurt. I don't know what else you'd top with that. Not putting it on ice cream.

Speaker 1 4:41

Maybe, you know how they make rice crispy treats.

Speaker 2 4:45

Yeah, maybe you know I'll treat Huh that might jazz it up granola treats or grape nut treats whatever Grape nut treats, that's what we're talking about. Be super crunchy, I don't know. No, okay, okay, also with the interesting guy. Or the interesting thing about the post, gentlemen, was he developed grape nuts and it was the first known product to offer coupon to buy it.

Speaker 1 5:12

Hmm again the whole other, the first known coupon. I'm gonna give you a coupon, coupon keeping or coupon, a coupon or just a cereal newspaper.

Speaker 2 5:24

Newspaper, but I'm not sure. Hmm, that's pretty, he was the first one to say you know, I really appreciate your research.

Speaker 1 5:31

Good job, I do the research out. Look, I don't have any of this stuff. I'm waiting to chime in with my first celebrity on a cereal box when you get there.

Speaker 2 5:40

Okay, well, I don't have that, I'm still okay. So 1900s, Kellogg's Brothers there's two of them, I. They made a flaked cereal and it was Crossed. The flakes, corn flakes.

Speaker 1 5:55

Same thing. First was corn flakes.

Speaker 2 5:58

Corn flakes.

Speaker 1 5:59

Kellogg's corn flakes.

Speaker 2 5:59

They added sugar and an inbox prize. The best part of cereal, the prize.

Speaker 1 6:07

The prize? Yeah, to gain interest of children.

Speaker 2 6:10

Yeah, it was the only reason I was eating cereal yeah. Not the only. And then what happened? Oh, Quaker Oats exploded the rice and had puffed rice and puffed wheat. I say ick to that too.

Speaker 1 6:27

That's what sugar smacks, is right.

Speaker 2 6:28

I don't like sugar. I never liked them.

Speaker 1 6:30

Sugar smacks. Yeah, they're stupid.

Speaker 2 6:33

They're just not good.

Speaker 1 6:34

They're floaty, they're floaty.

Speaker 2 6:36

They are too floaty and okay. In our household when we were growing up there were two kids. You pick one week, you pick the cereal the next week, and my brother always picked those sugar smacks.

Speaker 1 6:47

Why would he do that to you?

Speaker 2 6:48

Because I don't like them.

Speaker 1 6:49

Oh, but did he like them? Or just did it because he knew you didn't like it? I?

Speaker 2 6:54

don't know. I'll have to ask him if he really liked those or not.

Speaker 1 6:57

What did you pick?

Speaker 2 6:58

I usually see I couldn't, I wanted to be vindictive like that but it's like I don't want to eat crappy cereal, so I usually pick crust of flakes or Captain Crunch.

Speaker 1 7:08

Yeah, I love Captain Crunch yeah.

Speaker 2 7:12

Okay, puffed wheat yeah. And because accidents make the best products. A health clinic is that a word?

Speaker 1 7:23

Yeah, it can be today.

Speaker 2 7:26

Accidentally spilled a wheat brand mixture onto the hot stove, and that's how Wheaties became a thing.

Speaker 1 7:35

That's fascinating.

Speaker 2 7:36

I made it up. I didn't make it. I don't know. Oh, you're making it up, I didn't make it up. I'm saying we should check that.

Speaker 1 7:45

I only have one source on that. Where's our factory, leonard? Where's Leonard?

Speaker 2 7:49

I only have one source, so you like to have a couple sources. It's not a research paper, though. Whatever. I think that happens.

Speaker 1 7:56

This whole thing's fictitious.

Speaker 2 7:57

Accidents make the best products. So then, what happened? Oh, did you find out about Ralston?

Speaker 1 8:09

The dog food company.

Speaker 2 8:10

Well, now they are, but they were then. It was Ralston Purina.

Speaker 1 8:16

Exactly Purina.

Speaker 2 8:18

And they introduced wheat checks, but they called it shredded Ralston.

Speaker 1 8:23

That's a horrible name it is. That's why they changed it.

Speaker 2 8:25

Wheat checks. But it was meant to feed the followers of Ralstonism, which is a strict racist social movement of the time, the 30s that also included a belief of mind control.

Speaker 1 8:42

Stay away from that cereal.

Speaker 2 8:43

I know that's horrible. Well wheat checks are still around, though too.

Speaker 1 8:49

I like wheat checks too.

Speaker 2 8:50

Maybe you don't.

Speaker 1 8:52

Maybe it's just a mind control. No, I really like wheat checks, but only with sugar.

Speaker 2 8:58

Well, okay, I like it in a checks mix.

Speaker 1 9:00

Oh, checks, mix, that counts, it does, and the whole thing too, the things you can make with cereal. Yeah Well, I think we covered it.

Cereal History and Favorite Discussion

Speaker 2 9:07

Checks, mix and rice and crispy treats, boom Done. And then you got cheery oats, which is morphed into cheery oats. Of course, that's selling cereal in the USA Honey, not cheery oats.

Speaker 1 9:22

It is.

Speaker 2 9:23

Yeah, don't you read anything about cereal I have here.

Speaker 1 9:27

That cheery oats was a classic heart healthy O-shaped cereal it is. I enjoy it and I really am. I don't like that bee a whole lot, but the bee yeah, but I do like honey nut cheery oats. But it's just fascinating. That's the number one.

Speaker 2 9:40

It's the number one, according to that was a couple sources, and here's why I love cheery oats because babies can't be babies without cheery oats. Okay, you got that one. Yeah, I'm not a huge, I mean they're fine, but babies need cheery oats.

Speaker 1 9:57

Well, there's a lot of different varieties of cheery oats now.

Speaker 2 9:59

Yeah, there is Almost too many.

Speaker 1 10:03

Too much variety of everything.

Speaker 2 10:08

Some stuffs phased out. So then, after World War II, baby boomers, there's Chow and the Sugar cereal down. They love the Tony the tiger because they're great, great. And then in the 60s there was Quisp and Quake. You two young to remember that throwdown, but they had a Quisp and Quake and they were both like aliens. And then it was you had to vote for which one you liked the best.

Speaker 1 10:44

Just burped, excuse me, I tried to keep it away from my mind I didn't notice, so thanks for unwalting it. Well, someone's going to hear it. What was it again?

Speaker 2 10:54

Quisp and Quake Quisp. Quisp One of them still around, I don't know which, probably Quisp, I think, so I like the name. And then 70s brought in the fruity monsters like pebbles. Fruity pebbles Count Chocula, frankenberry, boo Berry, whole family of monster cereal.

Speaker 1 11:17

There's a lady.

Speaker 2 11:18

Fruity Cocoa Pebbles.

Speaker 1 11:19

I forget her name. I had it here Some Kate, somebody or another. She was an artist and she created a whole series of cereal art. It looked like the boxes. They weren't really put on the boxes, but it was pretty cool and it was based off of those.

Speaker 2 11:36

The fruity ones.

Speaker 1 11:36

The goons the monster ones. Yeah, but they were murderers, Fictitional horror people Freddie Kruger, jason Mike Myers, and it was pretty cool and she made them into cereal boxes. Yeah, they should have put it in production, I think, but you got people would buy it yeah. But then everybody wants a piece of that action. But I thought that was pretty cool. That's interesting Do you know who the first celebrity was. I want to use this.

Speaker 2 12:03

Okay, use it. I'm gonna say what is the cereal.

Speaker 1 12:08

Wheaties. Oh, that's not an athlete.

Speaker 2 12:10

Oh, is it Shirley Temple God damn it. Is it really? I didn't know that. I mean, I'm guessing. Nice job, she's very popular. In her day she was like the Beyonce of the toddlers.

Speaker 1 12:24

I mean, she was young.

Speaker 2 12:26

Oh good for Shirley, she can market like no other.

Speaker 1 12:29

Yeah, what about your discontinued cereals?

Speaker 2 12:32

Oh, what are those? I don't know.

Speaker 1 12:34

I had a couple and the weird thing is the one that they mentioned Oreo O's.

Speaker 2 12:39

I just saw those on the show.

Speaker 1 12:41

Those are discontinued, yeah, they said that they discontinued them and then brought them back, I guess.

Speaker 2 12:45

I want you to know that I wrote down my five favorites, and Oreo O's is my five favorites.

Speaker 1 12:52

I've never had them.

Speaker 2 12:54

Do you like Oreos? Oh yeah, Then you would love those, and I never really well, I did eat them for breakfast too, but they were like a snack.

Speaker 1 13:02

Sure, Well, that's a good thing about cereal. That's a good snack, you know dry wet.

Speaker 2 13:08

Yeah, oreo O's. Anytime of the day is what I wrote.

Speaker 1 13:11

Well, good for you. What about Wafalos? Those were discontinued.

Speaker 2 13:15

Jenna somebody I think it was Jenna mentioned those to me. Somebody did Wafal. I thought they still made them Wafal crisp.

Speaker 1 13:22

No, this is a Wafalos. Wafalos.

Speaker 2 13:25

But you can get a waffle cereal. It's called Wafal crisp.

Speaker 1 13:28

Can you really?

Speaker 2 13:29

Yeah. Okay, you're not living man You're just not living.

Speaker 1 13:33

I'm in the cereal aisle two to three times a week too. I'm going to have to find it you ever buy the big bags of cereal.

Speaker 2 13:40

I have. When I had children in daycare, yeah, but not now.

Speaker 1 13:45

No, no, you buy boxes of cereal, yeah, once in a while. Many boxes and main boxes.

Speaker 2 13:50

We're not big in cereal. We're like granola now Boring. Yeah Colon blow, yeah, colon blow. I do still have some gingerbread. What is it called Cinnamon? It's not cinnamon toast crunch, it's gingerbread toast crunch, I guess yeah. I have a little bit of that left I think we talked about that. That's what brought us into that subject.

Speaker 1 14:16

Yeah.

Speaker 2 14:16

Because I was going to make the Rice Krispie style treats with them, and then I ate the cereal. No, I just have a bag of marshmallows left.

Speaker 1 14:24

Oh, I love those too, just the marshmallows.

Speaker 2 14:27

I don't like marshmallows. That's the only way I eat them.

Speaker 1 14:29

You don't like marshmallows? No, in general. In what about cereal marshmallows?

Speaker 2 14:35

Well, lucky Charms, marshmallows aren't really marshmallows, now are they?

Speaker 1 14:39

They're not.

Speaker 2 14:40

Well, they're kind of back. They're like compressed. Sure Dehydrated marshmallows Dehydrated marshmallows.

Speaker 1 14:47

They put marshmallows in everything.

Speaker 2 14:48

now All the cereals have marshmallows.

Speaker 1 14:50

Yeah, I don't. And Lucky Charms doesn't even have the green clovers, the blue diamonds and the lucky horseshoes. They changed it. I think it used to be the clouds, the horseshoes, the diamonds. What the fuck did I just say?

Speaker 2 15:01

The blue diamonds, the green shamrocks.

Speaker 1 15:04

Horseshoes, horseshoes, clovers, horseshoes, diamonds oh, I bet they still do Traditional.

Speaker 2 15:11

But they probably added some unicorns or something.

Speaker 1 15:14

Well, that would be a good time. If any of our listeners wanted to give us some feedback on Lucky Charms, they could do that by emailing us at heroordic2023 at gmailcom.

Speaker 2 15:26

That's true, that's true.

Speaker 1 15:28

We've got some fan mail, probably to read later.

Speaker 2 15:30

One more thing about the history of cereal is in the 80s cereal got together with cartoons and TV shows and they co-branded.

Speaker 1 15:43

Let's do it. I got the list too.

Speaker 2 15:46

I remember having this in our household in the 80s. Thank you, cassidy, mr T.

Speaker 1 15:52

Oh, I never had that one. Wait, yeah, that was kind of like Captain Crunch, wasn't it? I think the fool who doesn't eat it.

Speaker 2 15:57

Yeah, it was edible Donkey Kong Smurf.

Speaker 1 16:01

Smurf Berry Crunch. I quite enjoyed that one.

Speaker 2 16:06

That wouldn't be horrible.

Speaker 1 16:07

That's really similar to Captain Berry. Boo Berry, boo Berry.

Speaker 2 16:11

Isn't it called Boo Berry, boo the blueberry, captain Crunch, one or no, that's the monster one.

Speaker 1 16:17

Blueberry.

Speaker 2 16:19

Captain Crunch has got some blueberry stuff going on?

Speaker 1 16:21

How long before they take Captain Crunch off a box because there's some kind of ritual stereotype?

Speaker 2 16:25

I think they tried to. I think he might have changed Like he's taller now.

Speaker 1 16:29

Let's not make him so short, yeah you can't have that crazy mustache, that 70s porn mustache. Take it off, because that was actually something that came up in my research. No, not the porn mustache, that's a different website I go to. But the cultural stereotypes but mine wasn't really serial. For some reason it brought up. It's like making me think that there's racial and cultural stereotypes. But Aunt Jemima, but that wasn't really.

Speaker 2 17:00

Yeah she has a serial, didn't she have a serial? No, she's got a syrup. She doesn't have a serial.

Speaker 1 17:06

She should have. She makes a damn good product.

Speaker 2 17:08

Syrup flavored flakes or whatever.

Speaker 1 17:11

Syrup flakes.

Speaker 2 17:12

Syrup flakes yes, now I also did a poll I guess you would call it Very informal of some people and asked them about their serial.

Speaker 1 17:26

Oh, we can get some belly hoos in. I bet.

Speaker 2 17:28

Oh, I got a lot of belly hoos. Alright, first of all, kassidy said Frosted Flakes, reese's Puffs, reese's Puffs are delicious.

Speaker 1 17:38

I don't think you could have many of those at once. One medium sized bowl.

Speaker 2 17:45

You could, but why stop there? And then Harley hey Harley, and Jay, her brother, they both voted for Peanut Butter, captain Crunch, not just Captain Crunch, peanut.

Speaker 1 18:00

Butter, captain Crunch. Yeah, that's pretty good.

Speaker 2 18:03

High on the list. I think both of them said that second place was lucky charms.

Speaker 1 18:08

Yeah, I love lucky charms.

Speaker 2 18:09

Yeah.

Speaker 1 18:10

They're magically delicious.

Speaker 2 18:12

They are so what I hear. Then Corey said cinnamon life, which I totally agree with anything cinnamon.

Speaker 1 18:21

Mikey said that, or Corey Corey. What about Mikey? What happened to him?

Speaker 2 18:26

I have Actually Jenna's. Mike said cereal, meh, he's not so nuts about it. That's all right and Cody too.

Speaker 1 18:34

So yeah, I'll be Jerry Seinfeld.

Speaker 2 18:37

Living on cereal. M& Steve both said cinnamon toast crunch cinnamon. And Ava said lucky charms, oh, here's a new one to Jay's wife. Laney said hey, laney, frosted mini -weets oh yeah, yeah, yeah and her runner-up was the most popular Honey Bunches of Oats. Hmm, oh, those are. Is that the Cheerio one? No any bunches of votes. No, that's different.

Speaker 1 19:04

I think that's like a cluster, mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 19:06

Yeah, those are good. I Was also surprised, so thank you all to all my nieces and nephews.

Speaker 2 19:13

Valley who's who voted in my informal poll. I also was surprised that people have many different ways to eat them. I Mean some people eat them in a cup without, some people traditional bowl Yep cereal, put the milk in. Harley says no, you put the milk in first. Yeah, a little bit of cereal, eat the cereal, doesn't get soggy. Then you add a little bit more, doesn't get soggy, never. She never has the soggy problem because she's adding the milk and then a little bit of cereal at a time.

Speaker 1 19:49

No, I try it.

Speaker 2 19:50

I think that's genius.

Speaker 1 19:51

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 19:54

A lot of people just pick out the lucky charm, lucky lucky charms, marshmallows and eat those.

Speaker 1 20:03

Just.

Speaker 2 20:04

Eating the middle of Oreo. Yeah, stop talking about the Oreos.

Speaker 1 20:08

I had an addiction problem for those two Oreos you need to get the cereal, I need to buy some Oreos.

Speaker 2 20:15

They have way too much I do, is I get?

Speaker 1 20:17

the biggest Tupperware bowl we have. You know like it's usually. It's a serving dish and I put about a half of Pack of Oreos in there, the cookies, and then I pour milk on that.

Speaker 2 20:28

Oh, so you were making your own Oreo cereal.

Speaker 1 20:31

Yeah, and I eat it with a salad spoon.

Speaker 2 20:33

So it's like, it's like a bowl of ice cream to you. Yeah, I thought a lot of Oreos that one.

Speaker 1 20:39

So yeah, I can do it.

Speaker 2 20:41

Okay, so my I'm gonna say my favorite favorite cereals. Well, cheerio Do you have to have, because the baby is weird. He talked about that. Frosted flakes classic. Come on, who doesn't like frosted flakes? No they're great. Oreo O's any time of day and anytime I would eat some Captain Crunch tastes like childhood. That's. That's a childhood favorite and the one I I still eat. Cinnamon toast crunch. I like that one. So those are my five favorite. Do you have a favorite?

Speaker 1 21:19

I do.

Speaker 2 21:20

What are they?

Speaker 1 21:21

Um. First I want to talk about the most outrageous find in a cereal box.

Speaker 2 21:26

Oh, like a million dollars no.

Speaker 1 21:30

One more guess a razor blade.

Speaker 2 21:32

Oh, went the other way.

Cereal

Speaker 1 21:33

It was pretty good, but actually it was methamphetamine 2012.

Speaker 2 21:38

What kind of cereal?

Speaker 1 21:40

You know what I?

Speaker 2 21:43

Don't know.

Speaker 1 21:44

I don't know, I didn't get that, but let's think of what cereal would probably have methamphetamines in it.

Speaker 2 21:49

What are meth people? Tricks except for methods. Tricks never came up tricks never came up, but Tricks are acceptable yeah kicks An unflavored tricks, yeah.

Speaker 1 22:08

Okay, did you know that, colonel Brian?

Speaker 2 22:13

does he like cereal?

Speaker 1 22:14

I know you probably were gonna bring a lot too, but cinnamon toast crunch he seems like a lucky charms guy to me.

Speaker 2 22:21

He does because I can see him doing that. Yeah, he does it, the lucky. Okay, because he's so, iris fruit looks by the way for 2024 in Conan O'Brien out out Jason baby.

Speaker 1 22:36

Don't even say his name anymore, just kidding. Fruit loops I enjoy fruit.

Speaker 2 22:42

Oh yeah, fruit loops yeah.

Speaker 1 22:45

Fruit loops was actually referenced by another person that I'd like to have on our show. Who's that? Vince Vaughan. Oh, and the show couples retreat and Jason Bateman's in that movie.

Speaker 2 22:54

Yes, he is, I Would guess, their buds. I don't know.

Speaker 1 22:58

Yeah, they get along. Yeah, you don't have you listed smart with shit.

Speaker 2 23:02

Yeah, I listen to it. They've talked about it in the spot.

Speaker 1 23:05

They say that when they're out and about, like he is, like he is, he's gregarious and just Mr Blah blah talking all the time. But anyhow, yeah, there's a scene where he comes down with his kid after his kid pisses the bed and he's got him under his arms and they're joking about it and he's like he wants some fruit loops but his wife won't give him fruit loops. She'll only give him fruit because he's got to cut down on the sugary Fruit pebbles, fruit pebbles. I enjoy it golden grams, Cheerios and Lucky Charms.

Speaker 2 23:33

Yeah, I agree with all of them.

Speaker 1 23:35

You know, cocoa pebbles aren't bad either.

Speaker 2 23:37

Cocoa pebbles are okay, supposedly. You know you get the cocoa pebbles and then at the end you look and you have chocolate milk left and you drink it. That's the catch with cocoa pebbles.

Speaker 1 23:48

I have a hard time. Do you drink the milk at the end? It depends, because I often have an incorrect balance of cereal and milk. It seems like I always have too much milk left.

Speaker 2 23:57

I think.

Speaker 1 23:58

But I like what? Who was it Harley Harley, who was saying about the? You know, put the milk in.

Speaker 2 24:04

Put the milk in little bit of cereal.

Speaker 1 24:06

Eat, put some more cereal More cereal?

Speaker 2 24:08

Yes, yeah, I think so too. 70% of American households eat cereal.

Speaker 1 24:15

That's it. I thought it'd be higher, just kidding.

Speaker 2 24:18

That's three quarters of American households. And here's a good statistic. One more yeah, 2.7 billion cereal boxes are sold annually. That's a lot of fricking cereal, that's a lot.

Speaker 1 24:35

Yeah, what about the recycling effort there?

Speaker 2 24:37

I don't know. Hopefully they take the boxes back. Do they still put prices in cereal? I don't think so.

Speaker 1 24:46

Why not?

Speaker 2 24:47

I don't know, but it doesn't seem. First you had to dig through the cereal and that, oh, that's sanitary. You know, hey kids, with your scummy hands. Then they put it in a little plastic thing on the side and I don't even know if they do it anymore. I don't buy it enough to know.

Speaker 1 25:07

How we should have bought some cereal for this.

Speaker 2 25:09

We should. We don't even have a prop. None Leonard, you know I wanted to say one more thing about cereal before I give my determination if it's here or did. Those little tiny cereal boxes that you take on camping trips, I love those. And you can open them up and then you cut the open the pour the cereal or the milk right in there.

Speaker 1 25:32

That was like wait a second.

Speaker 2 25:35

What Didn't you do that?

Speaker 1 25:37

Pour it into it.

Speaker 2 25:38

Into the box. So you open the box, have prefer preparations on the top and you open the box and then be like a little bowl and then it'd be in the little plastic thing and then you could open the plastic thing and you pour the milk right in there. Go buy some. I don't know if it's still like this, but that's how it was.

Speaker 1 25:55

I just remember the mini cereal boxes. Yeah, which are cute as a kid you know I was like, oh, it was great when my mom and dad decided to get the mini boxes.

Speaker 2 26:03

Oh my God, it's a good day grocery shopping man. When you see those. Um what else do you want to add about cereal?

Speaker 1 26:11

Concerns about herbicide traces.

Speaker 2 26:13

Oh, yeah, I think if you're eating cereal, you're not really worried about your health. I guess not. So that will not that one off the list.

Speaker 1 26:21

Um then I just had like a couple more cereals that were inspired by TV shows. Oh, the Teenage Mutant Ninja, Turtles. Oh, and then your favorite Hannah Montana. Hey, is that Hannah Montana? Who was that?

Speaker 2 26:35

Was that Miley Cyrus? Yeah?

Speaker 1 26:38

Oh, the wrecking ball.

Speaker 2 26:40

Oh, that doesn't give a cereal, or maybe it does wrecking ball cereal. Oh my gosh. Are you listening, miley?

Speaker 1 26:48

She'd probably come to the show on her wrecking ball. Yeah, I don't keep. What's his name? Make you break your heart. Her dad, yeah.

Speaker 2 26:58

Billy Ray yeah, I don't want him here.

Speaker 1 27:01

Um, what else did I have? I guess that's it. You did all the hard work, as usual. Go ahead, hero or dick.

Speaker 2 27:09

Well, you know, I think cereal, like a lot of things, went through a transition. They probably started out as a hero. It's like, oh, you got this new food, and then they were a dick.

Speaker 2 27:20

It's like, oh hey, let's have these Ralstonian people eat it. And then they were a hero again because baby boomers were eating them and they needed breakfast stuff. And then they were a sugar dick that's a thing. And then they and now I think they're heroes again because they caught the sugar. Yeah, you still get some sugar in it, but don't we need some sugar in the morning? Oh, all day. And I think for the most part they are a happy memory of most people's childhood, if not adulthood as well.

Speaker 1 27:55

So I'm going to say hero. Yeah, hero, I mean it's delicious.

Speaker 2 28:03

Well, it can be, it can be gross, yeah, soggy cereal.

Speaker 1 28:07

Right, favorites, the favorites. They're the reason that they're the favorites. I guess Everybody's got their own. I don't know. It's memories of childhood and sometimes it's kind of cool, like nine o'clock at night pour a little bowl of cereal, you know.

Speaker 2 28:22

You got to get those Oreo-os, I will. You got to get them.

Speaker 1 28:25

Anything else you want to talk about before we say goodbye to everybody I want to talk about uh any community news.

Speaker 2 28:33

I got nothing. I've been holed up, so you know hibernating Pajama month. Thank you, kathy and Elaine, for that uh definition of January.

Speaker 1 28:45

They called it pajama month in there Pajama month, yeah, in.

Speaker 2 28:48

Michigan, it's pajama month.

Speaker 1 28:49

Can you ask for pajama right now?

Speaker 2 28:51

I do Kind of half of them. Yeah, it's cool.

Speaker 1 28:55

I have mine on too, not no, I don't it's not pajama day, but it's pajama month. Month, the whole month.

Speaker 2 28:59

The whole month.

Speaker 1 29:01

Hey, there was a guy we saw last night picking his kid up.

Speaker 2 29:04

Did he have his pajama on From the?

Speaker 1 29:05

A-Plex. Boom. He picked his PJ and I have has and my daughter who works at A-Plex said oh, that's someone. So he always wears pajamas when he comes to pick up his uh kid. And I'm like, hmm, and I'm thinking well, who knows, maybe he got a late shift.

Speaker 2 29:21

Maybe he has to wear a suit all day, and so he gets home and puts pajama pants on.

Speaker 1 29:24

Oh, there's nothing wrong with that, as soon as I get home, if I can.

Speaker 2 29:26

Yeah, sweat pants.

Speaker 1 29:27

The flannel flannel, oh no, flannel pajamas.

Speaker 2 29:29

Flannel pajamas, Not the top, Just about. Yeah. Flannel bottoms yeah, agreed.

Speaker 1 29:34

All right, okay, all right, thanks everybody. Yeah, what was it again?

Speaker 2 29:39

Uh, here or dick Two zero, two, three at gmailcom.

Speaker 1 29:44

All right, thanks everyone Right.