I’m still can’t believe some crazy guy 100 years ago convinced the whole country that eating sugar with milk is somehow a healthy breakfast. And the same guy convinced the same country to do the genital mutilation on male infants.
You’re combining the two Kellogg brothers. One thought that pleasure was sin, and that a good diet should be as bland as possible to maintain piety. The other thought his brother’s cereal tasted like shit and was really hard to market and sell, until he added sugar and salt, then subsequently became filthy rich.
Ironically, pre-sugared cereal may have also reduced the amount of sugar in kids’ cereal. For a while, kids were taking regular cereal and dumping sugar on it. Instead of actually parenting and telling them no, the parents started buying sugary cereal.
And both were done with the goal of reducing masturbation.
Knowing better has a full day’s worth of content on this, if you’d like to know more
Fuck that guy. I’m gonna go buy a box of corn flakes and eat it while I jerk off all day.
? I thought both Jackson and Kellogg didn’t like sugar? Kellogg even believed excitement caused masturbation, and wanted bland unexciting food was the way to go. That and dick piercings that would make erections painful.
Dont forget the yogurt enemas.
Yeah true but it’s so fucking good sometimes
Genital mutilation?
Don’t fucking judge my breakfast
Kellogg’s theory was that bland foods that were full of fiber would stop people from masturbating.
Because he didn’t approve of that kind of icky nonsense.
So I think the sugar came later.
I think Graham of Graham crackers was working with a similar concept.
I’m always blown away by these tiny cookies. They came after me and bought them for fun once. I couldn’t even eat them, they are beyond sweet. Eat some cookies for breakfast fatso
Someone probably shouldn’t be your teenage son AND your husband.
It takes an enormous amount of energy to grow. One of my friend’s sons actually has stretch marks because he grew so quickly one summer.
Within limits, I think teenagers have a license to eat ridiculous amounts of food.
oh yeah, I remember being able to eat an entire large pizza and 32 garlic bread bites in one sitting as a teenager
When I was a teenager, my mom made some baked pasta and brought it with a 2 liter Pepsi to me while I was working on stage crew at the high school.
I took it up to the spot light booth and ate it.
When I got home she asked me how everyone liked it. I told her I ate it all. She said she made enough for the entire stage crew. I told her she was wrong, it was only enough for me.
I hit 6’4" tall when I was 14. At my lowest weight at that height, I was 165 pounds.
I wish I had been taught to eat a single serving, wait, and then eat more if necessary. It wouldn’t have made a difference at the times when I needed to eat like twelve people, but it would have made it easier to stop eating like twelve when I didn’t need to.
However, I’ve had smaller adults try to tell my kids that they were eating too much. How can you meet me, get a pain in your neck from looking up at me, and still think you understand how much my kids need to eat?
I wish I had been taught to eat a single serving, wait, and then eat more if necessary.
My parents kinda did.
They did prevent us from eating more than about a plateful in one go, but it was never done in such a way so as to shame us.
If we were still hungry 15 minutes later, then yea have some more.
In the same vein, our parents made it a point that if we were hungry, we could eat. Wake up in the middle of the night hungry? No worries, fix yourself a sandwich or whatever else. They never, ever, shamed us for eating when hungry.
It was always “are you really still hungry” or “careful, too much too fast and you’ll feel like throwing up” and also “don’t forget to eat, I bet you’re hungry by now” when we got old enough to prepare meals for ourselves.
Food was never off limits at home, and the amounts were always about feeling good. Enough to be sated, not so much you felt sick.
My wife and I have been working out and losing weight and now the question is “am I hungry, or is it lonely mouth?”
Though I’m burning so many damned calories it’s usually I’m really hungry. 🥺
that coochiesabishii hits really hard sometimes though
God this was my brother, by 14 he was 6’1 at one point his growing pains where so bad that a doctor gave him fucking pain killers. And the good shit at that.
Not to mention the sheer glut of food he could eat. I was a highly active runner and still growing my self and God damn he could eat circles around me.
We would have lost the house if food costs what it does now back then. My poor mother.
You don’t need to eat a bag of sugar to grow
That’s where the “within limits” bit comes in.
When I was a teen in highschool… I was in a weightlifting gym class and I did soccer. When is get home, for a snack if have a party pizza (or two). Probably went through a carton of milk myself. God my mom was so pissed. I was probably half or grocery budget alone for a few years
I’ve got a cousin like you – football club all day every day. Ate like a wolf and ran it all off within an hour.
Then he quit football and chonked up because he didn’t know how to reduce his food intake
Oh man, that hits home… just before COVID hit, I was doing 5k’s and got injured. And I didn’t transition to a lower calorie intake to adjust to the lower physical activity. Just as I was starting to get back into the gym… COVID landed and the gym was closed. Now, I’m a fat bastard. But trying to work on that.
I mean I think it happened to all of us. I used to cycle 30km a day before COVID, and then once work became fully remote, I just started hibernating for winter and never stopped.
Also a fat bastard, but I live in the hope that it’s nothing that a gym can’t fix. Here’s to 2026, friend!
I had a project to track my calorie intake for a few weeks when I was 15. It was over 7000 calories a day.
Lpt: replace all - and i mean all the snacks and prepackaged food with fruits and vegtables or just healthy things. Watch, as these thi gs will last for seemingly forever. Until you’ll be forced to eat them. It’s funny
It won’t last forever. It will rot the day after I buy it.
-_-
Keep them in a well ventilated space, if they rot too quickly it may be due to ethane making them ripen too fast. A mixed fruit bowl is one of the worst possible ways to store fruit.
Apples offgas ethane as an example, making other things around them ripen faster. In a cool, ventilated environment where you replace the ethane with something inert they can last over the winter.
I tend to get 1-2 weeks of shelf life from fruit, though I tend to only buy the stuff that stores well. (apples, bananas, oranges etc.)
I have learned more from your comment than anything else in my adult life.
In my experience, without the drive of ‘I need to eat better’ really being cemented into your soul, this will just result in everyone covertly buying snacks and letting tons of fruit go to waste.
People do seem to like nuts though, barring a legitimate reason like an allergy; I don’t think I’ve met anyone that dislikes nuts.
That makes sense. They are full of fats, proteins, and other carbs. Lots of them are even dusted in salt or sugar
One of my best friends doesn’t like nuts. He’s very sensitive to bitterness.
See that just blows my mind, I would never describe nuts as bitter.
Or they might develop cooking skills, which enables you to turn even the healthiest of ingredients into delicious junk.
I bought a cantaloupe recently. It sat there for a week because I didn’t want to cut it. Then when I cut it, it disappeared within hours.
It’s human kibble basically
Try this:
- instead of a giant bowl pour a regular bowl with extra milk
- when you finish the cereal do not drink the milk
- pour more cereal
- repeat as desired
I unironically wish this was a thing. And was halfway decent and nutritious.
This is what I would refer to the extra big bags of cereal as when living with a friend and it was his turn to do grocery shopping.
“1x bachelor chow cinnamon crunch, 1x fruity pebbles.”
You said kibble?
Is that Chiwetel Ejiofor?
Dominique Tipper from The Expanse.
And after about halfway through the third bowl you begin to regret everything
Food pellets.
The milk gets too warm.
… Too warm?
You guys don’t eat the cereal milk heated?..
Are you saying you heat the milk you pour in cereal? What in the actual fuck?
Yes??? I heat it as hot as soup would be??
Y’all eat it cold from the fridge???
Like sugary breakfast cereal or like instant oats or oatmeal cereal. Because if we’re talking about hot milk in sugary breakfast cereal then I’m equal parts horrified, disgusted, and fascinated. Why, how did you start heating your cereal milk?
Idk??? I guess my parents always did it and I kept doing it until I’m now in my 20’s
I eat all kinds of cereal. Nowadays I do half simple corn flakes and half oats with chocolate chips so I don’t take in tooo much sugar
When I was little my parents would always buy sugary cereal.
Well…
I guess I just found out not to do this around other people LOL
Corn flakes, and oats in hot chocolate sounds more like a confection than breakfast but hey man let your freak flag fly. Be sure to stay on top of the dental hygiene!
Cold coffee tastes great, hot coffee tastes great. Room temp coffee… not so much.
Same applies to countless other things as well.
I agree with this one
Nah, its warm like it just came from the udder and full of chunks and mucus, just as god intended.
Can’t wait! I’d eat like 4-5k calories a day, and literally couldn’t put on weight, although swimming competitively helped a bit I’m sure. Was just a bean pole.
Smoked an unhealthy amount of weed as a kid too, and my go-to high snack was a half gallon of milk and an Entemann’s All Butter French Crunbcake. Believe it or not, I cannot eat like that anymore.
although swimming competitively helped a bit I’m sure
Swimmers fallacy :)
I lifted weights (not competitively), had PE class and did folk dance and that was enough that I could also eat around 4-5k calories daily and not put on much weight besides a little muscle mass
Ah and I also cycled to school oftentimes
Was it not illegal back then to smoke weed when you were a teen
Ah yes, because the legality of it famously stopped so many people from smoking weed…
Well, you could get put in jail! They would risk getting high for that? Bit stupid, honestly.
Yes, it was. Nobody was going to jail over weed though. They handed it a year of probation if you got caught by the cops.
That’s because that isn’t food.
No, it’s because teenage boys eat a lot
Source: was teenage boy, ate a lot
Cereal isn’t food? I am curious to hear your logic here…
I’m sure you could scarf down an entire party size bag of Doritos on your own as well. That doesn’t make it a good or preferred source of nutrition.
Try asking the kid if he can routinely scarf down a dozen eggs every morning. He won’t, unless he’s the size of Andre The Giant, because that’s actual food that will correctly signal satiety.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/are-breakfast-cereals-healthy#sugar-carbs
Anyways I assume the story is referring to the industrial sludge Americans call “breakfast cereal”, garbage that is designed to be addictive. And not, say, some kind of ancestral Kashi type of thing.
If it were actual food, you wouldn’t be able to eat so much of it. Nothing in nature would have been easily available in industrial quantities like that, making it extremely unlikely we evolved to eat so much of it. It’s engineered to be that way.
I could eat an entire fucking box of plain “corn flakes” if you let me when I was 16. No sugar, no milk. Was some store brand knock off cereal too. Didn’t even have added sugar. Was basically cardboard flakes.
But fuck did I love them. I miss those shitty ass cereals now everything has a pound of added sugar ):
I do NOT buy cereal for this reason. I have no restraint. Whether it be Bran Flakes (lovely), Special K (mmm!), or Crunchy Nut (oooh my god!), I will scarf the entire box down with milk in about 20 minutes whilst watching cartoons.
So I don’t buy it. I know what I’m like. Thank god I never took up smoking.
“But once I’ve got my Wheatabix, I know that I’ll survive, I’ll survive…” I know their adverts very well :P
Hm. I remember I ate 6-8 scrambled eggs with two packed sandwhiches for breakfast when I was a teen, and I am only average height.
On the other hand, once my metabolism slowed down I started inflating like a baloon and had really hard time learning how to eat less xD
Name checks out…
It’s candy.
I remember visiting some friends in the US they were so excited to have us try all the famous cereal brands like Fruit Loops etc. It was so sugary it was totally inedible to us, absolutely disgusting.
That said there obviously is cereal out there that can be eaten healthily.
Ah, so you’re British or? Because I’ve brought plenty of American candy and snacks over to my Danish colleagues and they fucking love them.
British, yeah. We just didn’t anticipate cereal being so sugary. I also couldn’t handle the drinks either lol. Seeing so many people drinking these huge drinks and knowing it was real sugar and not even a substitute is honestly one of my main memories of being in the US, which feels pretty sad. Amazing views at least!
They eat licorice in Denmark, so…
Sure, but licorice is full of ammonium salts. Not sweet in the slightest.
I mean they have weird taste in Denmark :)
the solution to every human problem is “don’t have kids”
no humans, no human problems
pull out of her.
pull out of her.
Do you want kids? Because that’s how you get kids.
Hey there are worse methods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_birth_control_methods
Also people suck at using condoms
What is awesome is that you will go through like six boxes of cereal in two weeks, but then when you buy six boxes for the next month they are still sitting there.
Dammit this is so true. With us, it’s chips. My teenage son poured himself almost an entire bag of Doritos into a bowl the other day. But them sometimes I notice our pantry is overflowing with bags of chips because everyone has magically decided they don’t eat chips now.
We usually have four young people around the house ages 16-21 ((only three are ours). We’re lower middle class and don’t receive any food assistance. Our food bill straight up destroys our budget.
I have 4 boys 12-17. Costco treats me like royalty.
Yeah for me Costco is almost an hour away but Sam’s Club is about 5 mins. So yeah that’s where I do a lot of shopping. Thank goodness for bulk packs.
I remember a reddit post from forever ago where the guy said that the grocery store had asked his mom to let them know when their son went to college because him leaving would impact the quantities of chocolate milk they stocked.
I remember that one too. What a world.
Yeah that was me. Come home from school after eating a big school lunch, eat a quarter loaf of bread and 1L milk. Have a 2 hour nap, eat 2 servings for dinner, ask if anyone else wants more before scraping the leftovers in the pots and pans onto my plate.
My parents always had rice in the rice cooker and some kind of stew in the fridge. My favorite is the pig feet stews.
Cereal is overated
Agree. Cereal is so overrated.
Bachelor chow!
And they wonder why Americans aren’t having more kids
