Interesting. I hadn't ever processed the male-dominated cereal mascot matter. I guess Wheaties long-time face, Bruce Jenner, changed that up; but that was later on.
And as for the nutrition of breakfast cereal, that hadn't crossed my mind until some 25 years ago when I heard a public speaker talking about correlations between children's nutritional intake and their academic performance. He asserted – in all seriousness – that eating the box in which the cereal was packaged was similar to the nutritional value of eating the cereal itself. We've been off the breakfast cereal bandwagon for years now in our home, with great results.
Thanks for sharing, Scott! Your grab bag of daily topics always keeps me on my toes.
Your writing cadence has inspired me! I'm working on getting back to my Substack routine. I write hundreds of thousands of words each year. Most of them never see the light of day. I need to change that. Your posts (from way back) were my introduction to Substack. Thank you for that!
I will make a point of making a post about the nutrition point I shared. (I assume that was what you were referring to in your reply comment.) Have a great weekend!
That is a great graphic. Brings back a lot of good memories. Boy did I used to love eating cereal. I think Booberry was my favorite. Oddly I never thought once about the gender of the character on the box. I was focused on the taste of the cereal.
It’s interesting point about avoiding sugars in children food. Curious to know what could be the motivators for them to avoid sugar. Young body has pretty high tolerance so there are no immediate side effects
Interesting. I hadn't ever processed the male-dominated cereal mascot matter. I guess Wheaties long-time face, Bruce Jenner, changed that up; but that was later on.
And as for the nutrition of breakfast cereal, that hadn't crossed my mind until some 25 years ago when I heard a public speaker talking about correlations between children's nutritional intake and their academic performance. He asserted – in all seriousness – that eating the box in which the cereal was packaged was similar to the nutritional value of eating the cereal itself. We've been off the breakfast cereal bandwagon for years now in our home, with great results.
Thanks for sharing, Scott! Your grab bag of daily topics always keeps me on my toes.
This should be a post not a comment. Thank you
Your writing cadence has inspired me! I'm working on getting back to my Substack routine. I write hundreds of thousands of words each year. Most of them never see the light of day. I need to change that. Your posts (from way back) were my introduction to Substack. Thank you for that!
I will make a point of making a post about the nutrition point I shared. (I assume that was what you were referring to in your reply comment.) Have a great weekend!
That is a great graphic. Brings back a lot of good memories. Boy did I used to love eating cereal. I think Booberry was my favorite. Oddly I never thought once about the gender of the character on the box. I was focused on the taste of the cereal.
And the toy inside
It’s interesting point about avoiding sugars in children food. Curious to know what could be the motivators for them to avoid sugar. Young body has pretty high tolerance so there are no immediate side effects
Not sure about this