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[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Lol name brand cereal? In this economy?

[–] ummthatguy 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Get you a 25lb unmarked box to last the year.

Keep eating it well after its gone stale.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Shit, is that an option? Do they sell ultrabulk economy boxes of cereal? Preferably without sugar??

[–] ummthatguy 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Apparently, Amazon does have it. Can't speak to the sugar.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

260 calories per quarter cup

~~Jesus, sometimes you forget how calorie dense seed oils are. Hilariously, adding more sugar to the recipe would actually reduce the calories/serving.~~ turns out it’s 3/4 cup

[–] AngryCommieKender 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So you're saying I should go back to being a kid and scoop three spoons full of sugar on this cereal?

[–] Jerkface 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I once heard a nutritionist say it was better to give your kid an unsweetened cereal and a bowl of sugar and just let them go nuts, because the vast majority of kids aren't going to spoon enough sugar on it to match what comes in the sweetened stuff. The equivalent of seven spoonfuls, if I remember right.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Wow what kind of rookie kids were they surveying?

[–] psycho_driver 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Was he taking into account whether or not said kid would shovel up the sugary sludge at the bottom of the bowl when all the solid stuff was gone?

[–] Jerkface 4 points 6 months ago

Pretty sure he was counting on it. I sure as hell did it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Or just eat pure sugar and take a multivitamin.

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[–] pbbananaman 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s for a 3/4 cup serving which doesn’t seem all that unreasonable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I’m sure you can see how I could make that mistake. My bad

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] ummthatguy 6 points 6 months ago

The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

My expectations are that the 1% will genocide the working class after full automation. They literally cannot go lower.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

My hopes are the reverse happens after they fire everyone in favor of automation, the working class eats the fucking rich.

[–] psycho_driver 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Numerically the odds are in our favor.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Yeah but we don't really have the best track record

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Letting us all die is cheaper than the cost of the bullets

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Exactly. It will be genocide by unemployment.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can still hear the jingle in my head

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

FOR ANTONIA DIAL 46340

[–] bitchkat 8 points 6 months ago
[–] over_clox 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lowered expectations? Hah!

No expectations, no disappointments 👍

[–] ummthatguy 11 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But, the boxes contain half the weight, are twice the price, and contain next to zero nutrient value.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Plus they're made from free prison labor farming the ingredients.

[–] Allonzee 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Do lower your expectations.

Don't forget the market capitalists are the ones that both fed you those expectations through their media machines, captured government, and influence on education, and now expect you to work just as hard if not harder with no expectation of retirement or even enough to indulge personal hobbies or experiences as you subsist creating value for them, more and more likely than ever to death.

Also don't forget whenever you're pressured by their captured society to feel guilt for being lazy for not working even harder to enrich them in exchange for a tiny sliver of the value you generate them, you know the "you're poor because you do the minimum at work and don't also have 2 side gigs, sleep when you're dead get that grind brah" crap, that the owners live their lives on vacation, barking mandates, layoffs, and activist shareholder threats via email that subordinates will have to entirely plan and execute while buzzed and high from some elite club, resort, penthouse, yacht, or wherever they feel inspired to vegetate that day on your back.

[–] ummthatguy 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, that's the stuff.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Holy crap. That upscaling...wow.

[–] art 8 points 6 months ago

Not upscaling, direct 35 mm print transfers.

[–] MehBlah 11 points 6 months ago

If your tight on cash stop buying low grade food like anything kellogg sells.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is a let down in comparison with "let them eat cake"

[–] ummthatguy 12 points 6 months ago
[–] Sanctus 8 points 6 months ago

Curb your enthusiasm

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Cereal is $7 to $11 per box at my grocery store.

Then after a few weeks they go on sale down to $2-$4 each as long as you buy 3 or 4 at once.

Infuriating shit.

[–] ummthatguy 4 points 6 months ago
[–] psycho_driver 7 points 6 months ago

Kellogg's cereal is over-priced. I know some of the off-brand cereals can suck but the ones from ALDI (and probably most of the great value knock-offs) taste about the same as the original for 1/2 to 1/3 the cost these days.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

pfft. those born in the 60's and seventies actually got to experience the 60's and 70's. a bit anyway. those nineties almost fooled us though.

[–] SeattleRain 1 points 6 months ago

Not me, I'm a guy and I just travel overseas.