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Except chocolate covered sugar bombs, which is miniaturized dessert.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 44 points 1 year ago

Hush up and eat your Bachelor Chow.

[-] kibiz0r@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

Futurama called it “Bachelor Chow”.

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I just said that to a comment above this before I saw your comment 😂

[-] betheydocrime@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Except for Frosted Shredded Mini Wheats, which are glorified food pallets.

[-] Corngood@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Pallets are surely full-sized shredded wheat. Or Quaker Muffets, which seem to be discontinued? :(

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Quaker Muffets

Never heard of these, name made my stoned ass giggle, looked it up, they look like they're basically a round weetabix, and definitely belong in the food pellet category lol

[-] troglodytis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Mmmmm. Bails of fried spider legs, lightly sugared. What's not to love?

[-] betheydocrime@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Eating one dry is what I imagine biting a vacuum cleaner bag must feel like

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

I've always thought of microwave burritos as food pellets and cereal as human kibble. But that's just me.

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Bachelor Chow!

[-] Neato@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

If food pellets were good, there was enough variety to combat food fatigue, and they were nutritionally complete I'd be for them as a product. Cheap fast food is always going to be necessary. Soylent fills the fast purpose.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Do we even need those conditions? I’m already good with the same breakfast every day, and lunch is usually the same sandwich unless there are leftovers. I can’t be the only one who always prized convenience for those two meals, leaving only dinner for creativity/variety. I just need to be convinced soylent/food pellets is more convenient than making a sandwich

[-] snippyfulcrum@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I mean with a sandwich you have to go to the grocery story select the individual sandwich components, bring them home, put them away, put said components together to form the sandwich.

If you get the soylent in bottles it's just a subscribe to have them delivered to your door, put in fridge (or don't but I personally think they're better cold), grab a bottle out of fridge.

[-] Tedesche@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Is that supposed to make me want it less?

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

As a child i thought it's pretty wild that we can have dessert for breakfast. I didn't eat cornflakes during my adult life and foe some reason i bought these cornflakes that look like little cookies and holy shit that's exactly what they are. I couldn't eat them they were so sweet i felt like i was eating weaponized diabetes

[-] eatthecake@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

If I want sugary carbs for breakfast I'll just eat cake.

mmmmMmmMmmm glorified food pellets

my favorite are platelet shaped

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I stopped eating cereal years ago. Try the atkins diet sometime it is very eye opening.

But I swear Watterson was parodying Cookie Crisp cereal. My mind always went to that when he mentioned the sugar bombs. Yes, You CAN have cookies for breakfast.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cookie+crisp+ad&t=fpas&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D901oJVn7pgg

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Try the atkins diet sometime

We call that keto these days.

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think "keto" encompasses atkins but is just "low carb" in general. If you get the book, atkins has many guidelines, levels, etc.

So, very similar, lots of overlap but not the same.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Atkins was named after a man. Keto is the more accurate and clinical word for the same concept which is ketosis, the metabolic state your body goes into when you eat nothing but meat.

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

We will have to agree to disagree. This is not worth arguing about.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

it's been 30+ years since I've tried cookie crisp cereal but I'll never forget. Anyone who's expecting a cookie experience from this cereal is gonna be severely disappointed.

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I never knew there were different flavors. Vanilla?!?

And it has probably been that long since I've had it too. Can you still buy it?

It was a BIG deal when my parents let us kids buy a "sugar" cereal. Cookie crisp was my choice and I only remember buying it once.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

yeah all I recall it was more crisp than cookie, leaving abrasions on the roof of the mouth, and some gross synthetic sweetening that leaves a weird metallic aftertaste. and for those who have a sweet tooth, they're still gonna be disappointed because on a scale of 1 to 10, the sweetness of the cereal is about a 2.

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that crisp was the worst. I remember captain crunch actually made my mouth bleed. A literally bloddy breakfast. W.T.F.

That must be the food shellac mentioned in the Vacation movie...

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Might as well eat ice cream for breakfast.

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