The Great Cereal Conspiracy

.....[c]2006 by Richard L Zorek......1.07.06.....I like Raisin Bran and Honey Nut Cheerios. Not together , of course, but with a little soy milk, a bowl or two is a meal for me. (I have lactose issues, so soy milk works). When I was a kid I loved Captain Crunch with Crunch Berries. Actually, probably any cereal with sugar on it was OK. And that common denominator of sugar makes them all actually taste the same. The way they looked made you think they were different. It was a psychology game that cereal manufacturers and experts played on unsuspecting kids: All the cereal was the same. Just looked different. It aided the kids imagination. That's why parents let us eat it. It was a conspiracy of sorts. We couldn't eat lots of candy, but they let us the cereal for breakfast. So we imagined we were eating strawberry crunchberries, or chocolate count choculas and they really didn't taste any different. But the imagination flourished. The ultimate test was the cookie cereals. It was supposed to taste like chocolate chip cookies. It proved successful. Kids from all across the country bought the cereals thinking they were eating something that tasted like chocolate chip cookies when the only thing different from the rest of the cereal was that it said it was "choclate chip" on the box. But there was a counter movement to this conspiracy. And that came from those that made the toy surprise inside. Kids would also buy the cereal just for the toy. After digging the toy out of the box, the cereal would be forgotten. And there was really no way to imagine the toy as being anything but cheap worthless junk that was funner to dig for in the box than it was to actually have it. I used to get the cereal that had the record on the back. You could cut the little cardboard record off the back of the box and listen to the Monkees or the Sugar Bears, though when 45 rpm record were only abut 39 cents, it would have probably been cheaper to buy the actual record. And it would have lasted longer than the record on the box which might play through once, but usually skipped at least once or just got stuck. Any way after left the hole in the back of the box and then put the box back in the cupboard, I hoped no one would notice, but they did. And, as they say, so much for my imagination.

So now you know the truth about cereal. And you though this web site was not educational.