There's Strangeness With Cereal.
When I was a kid, like most kids, I enjoyed eating breakfast. However, also like most kids, my folks would insist on buying me ‘healthy’ cereal with about as much excitement and flavour as a small piece of grey cardboard.
This was overcome buy smothering the cereal in copious amounts of sugar, which really ruined the point of the cereal from both a taste and nutritional level.
What I can’t understand is that nowadays, I’ll happily eat cereal such as Shreddies. Sure, I won’t enjoy it as much as I would a bowl of Coco Pops or Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes, but I’ll eat it nonetheless, and it doesn’t offend my taste buds like it used to when I was younger.
My arch nemesis in the cereal world when I was a child was Shredded Wheat. Containing less inspiration than a piece of dried wood, and about as much taste, I hated eating it. It wasn’t just that it wasn’t tasty to me, but also that eating it seemed to be torture. It was like it had been designed with the purpose of torture as one of the primary designs. If I wanted to eat miniature bales of straw, in my previous life I would’ve asked Buddha to turn me into a horse.
Today for breakfast I ate Shredded Wheat. It still reminds me of straw, or maybe dried sticks. I would imagine that the little wooden avatars in the Blair Witch Project probably have just as much taste as shredded wheat. There are only 2 reasons why I ate shredded wheat - taste and the ‘fun factor’ wasn’t a contributor I can tell you that much. In actual fact, the reasons are far more mundane. Firstly they were 100% extra free, meaning that I got 36 small cardboard tasting bales of straw, rather than 18. The second was that I occasionally feel bad about eating 2 tubs of Ben & Jerrys for dinner, or that maybe two 100 gram bars of cadbury’s chocolate in one day, is a touch excessive.
Really, I should be a fat bastard, but I’m not. However, if I don’t stop eating sweets and junk, eventually I will be. Shredded Wheat doesn’t count as real food, which is why it must be good for you. It’s 100% Wholewheat fibre, apparently, which probably explains the taste, but as fibre doesn’t get digested, it’s like eating nothing, or cardboard. Both are low in calories.
So why now can I eat Shredded Wheat, whereas before I’d rather have stabbed myself to death with my spoon, or drowned myself in the milk at the bottom of the bowl? Only takes a centremetre or two, so I’ve heard.
Anyway, this is a temporary post to keep you people going. I’ve been pretty busy over the last week or so, what with Jurassic 5, DJ Format, and beers all round. I’ll tell you more about DJ format and other bits and bobs tomorrow or something.
Later…
This was overcome buy smothering the cereal in copious amounts of sugar, which really ruined the point of the cereal from both a taste and nutritional level.
What I can’t understand is that nowadays, I’ll happily eat cereal such as Shreddies. Sure, I won’t enjoy it as much as I would a bowl of Coco Pops or Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes, but I’ll eat it nonetheless, and it doesn’t offend my taste buds like it used to when I was younger.
My arch nemesis in the cereal world when I was a child was Shredded Wheat. Containing less inspiration than a piece of dried wood, and about as much taste, I hated eating it. It wasn’t just that it wasn’t tasty to me, but also that eating it seemed to be torture. It was like it had been designed with the purpose of torture as one of the primary designs. If I wanted to eat miniature bales of straw, in my previous life I would’ve asked Buddha to turn me into a horse.
Today for breakfast I ate Shredded Wheat. It still reminds me of straw, or maybe dried sticks. I would imagine that the little wooden avatars in the Blair Witch Project probably have just as much taste as shredded wheat. There are only 2 reasons why I ate shredded wheat - taste and the ‘fun factor’ wasn’t a contributor I can tell you that much. In actual fact, the reasons are far more mundane. Firstly they were 100% extra free, meaning that I got 36 small cardboard tasting bales of straw, rather than 18. The second was that I occasionally feel bad about eating 2 tubs of Ben & Jerrys for dinner, or that maybe two 100 gram bars of cadbury’s chocolate in one day, is a touch excessive.
Really, I should be a fat bastard, but I’m not. However, if I don’t stop eating sweets and junk, eventually I will be. Shredded Wheat doesn’t count as real food, which is why it must be good for you. It’s 100% Wholewheat fibre, apparently, which probably explains the taste, but as fibre doesn’t get digested, it’s like eating nothing, or cardboard. Both are low in calories.
So why now can I eat Shredded Wheat, whereas before I’d rather have stabbed myself to death with my spoon, or drowned myself in the milk at the bottom of the bowl? Only takes a centremetre or two, so I’ve heard.
Anyway, this is a temporary post to keep you people going. I’ve been pretty busy over the last week or so, what with Jurassic 5, DJ Format, and beers all round. I’ll tell you more about DJ format and other bits and bobs tomorrow or something.
Later…
Ryaninja flipped out at 7:42 am
Throw me a Stabby Shuriken - 2 thrown so far!
2 Comments:
I rediscovered postsecret via your link on the right, and it reminded me of something I saw on TV the other morning. I can't remember who they are exactly, but some pop-punk sounding band have released a song called "Dirty Little Secrets", and the video featured either these exact postcards, or something strikingly similar. Maybe they're linked projects or something.
Shut the fuck up, Foss!
Cheers Foss, just spent 20 minutes looking at that, when I should be doing more constructive things! :)
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