This just in: Rice Krispies too buoyant

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You could always stir your Rice Krispies before eating them, thus making the really krispy ones come into contact with the milk.

Jibe, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah Jibe, I think you might be right here.

Though the risk of some falling around the place is very real.

Ronan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Life is risky ronan!

Jibe, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link

like Corn Pops?

Corn POOPS. They are just awful.

nathalie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link

That product Pete linked to looks awful - I blame MySpace.

Groke, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link

(now can i have a thread dedicated to finding post office elastic bands everywhere?)

Alan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I think experimentation with different kinds of milk is called for - Channel Island Gold down to skimmed, which, owing to their differing fat content, must have differing viscosity.

Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link

1. take a couple of dry rice krispies and put them in your pocket.

2. go to a big store where kitchen appliances are sold.

3. find a device similar to this one, but with holes that are smaller than the krispies you put in your pocket in step 1. If you can push the krispies through the holes, put the thing back and find one with smaller holes. Vv important that the holes are smaller than the krispies! Take note of this!

http://i18.tinypic.com/2hfnjmg.jpg

4. go to exit of store, pay, go home, put krispies in bowl, pour milk, use device to drown the little feckers until they're soggy

5. profit!

StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I loved Corn Pops, many years ago.

blueski, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I personally was too horrified at the prospect of the Chocolate Special K (aka almost certainly the most cynically marketed foodstuff ever). Then again I live with a girl who eats Special K for dinner while watching Bridget Jones's Diary and views this as a healthy lifestyle. The idea of being able to combine it with chocolate and STILL be thin and healthy may well cause some sort of explosion of excitement.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Unfortunately I only can have Alpro or other brands of soy milk.

x-post has anyone tried going on Dragon's Den with a product like this, adapted for the modern cereal user.

I think "Poseidon's Breakfast Trident" would be a good name for it, and we can ham up the maritime analogies.

Ronan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

5. profit!


But he just spent money, no profit then!

Jibe, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link

what if you just had a single layer of them, poured on milk, ate that. repeat.

Alan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link

oooooooooooh! i know what you can do with them!!!! (PO elastic bands that is)

i have seen the cocopop ad, i am confused though, is it 4 boxes separate or is it just 4 different shapes in the same box?

the problem with rice krispies is they taste of 0.

CarsmileSteve, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

or had some sort of weight on the top to keep them under the milk. like a piece of cork. you could market it as the Under Milk Wood

Alan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Re: profit/no profit ?

He could make money by selling this method of solving the universal problem of two or three spoonfuls of dry krispies that float on top?

StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Profit= advantage; benefit; gain.

They have the Special K diet plan: eat two bowls per day and a regular meal. Sth like that. Seems ludicrous.

nathalie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

This is my new favourite thread.

Ronan, if you just push them under with the back of your spoon, they'll get a reasonable coating and then bob back up. Remember, you're not trying to drown them, you're trying to find out what they know.

Also, the reference to Dragon's Den reminds me, I actually bought some of Levi Root's Reggae Reggae Sauce. It's very nice.

accentmonkey, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Special Rice Krispie bowl with a cover. Pour Rice Krispies, add milk, apply cover, shake, remove cover, eat.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I quite like Special K (also fruit beers, yes i am a lady) and recently bought a box with the freeze-dried berries included in the mix but these were so horrible that it ruined the whole affair.

blueski, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost .. don't remove cover if you are on diet.

nathalie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe you could drown those good-for-nothing krispies under a heavy coat of sugar. Not only would they get to mingle with the milk, you would also add taste to them.

Jibe, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Reggae Reggae Sauce is less viscous than I was expecting. As the Resonance FM studios learned to their cost.

xpost I see your Special K and raise you Optivita.

Groke, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link

(My Special K post was actually a bit unfairly bitchy and two years out of date so I feel bad now, but I still know exactly the sort of strawlady they are aiming at)

Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i bet if the milk was drizzled over with a shower-head like nozzle that the spread would mean they soak it up more. someone draw up a table of results NOW

Alan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Special Rice Krispie bowl with a cover. Pour Rice Krispies, add milk, apply cover, shake, remove cover, eat.

The only problem with this method is that you run the risk of recreating claggy end-of-box rice dusticles, which is disgusting sludge.

accentmonkey, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Those chocolatey Special K are horrendous. You might as well sprinkle ash over Special K.

nathalie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Use a liquid with a lower viscosity than milk, so it can penetrate the Krispy pores more easily? What about beer? (also: foam on top = even more chance that the upper krispy layer becomes soggy?)

StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Sperm?

nathalie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a shame there was never a Lollards slot on the marketing of breakfast cereals, which are essentially a million different variations on about four things, just aimed at different demographics.

I'd always assumed Optivita was kind of the Men's Health of breakfast cereals. Or is that Shredded Wheat?

Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Beer and cereal is not good. I repeat, it is NOT GOOD!

Jibe, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Optivita is actually quite nice! It's very expensive indeed for what you get though.

Groke, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Put the Krispies in a cafetiere with extra milk. Push down the plunger and pour out the surplus liquid.

NickB, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link

cornflakes in red wine

blueski, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link

red elastic bands:

If anyone else is feeling generous, I'm launching an appeal for Royal Mail red elastic bands to add to my red elastic band ball (currently 11.5cm in diameter) which will go on display as part of my gallery show next week. I am hoping by the end of the exhibition to grow the ball to its optimum size - that is, the size at which any new band added to the ball will snap. Spread the word. Red elastic bands can be handed in or sent to:

Red Elastic Band Appeal
Pump House Gallery
Battersea Park
London
SW11 4NJ

The names of all donators will be acknowledged in written form at the gallery. In the event of a sale, all donators will receive a proportional percentage of the purchase fee. Bands will be added on a first-come, first-served basis. If the ball should reach its optimum size, any excess bands will be used to form a new ball. Heavily damaged bands may be rejected. Only genuine Royal Mail red elastic bands will be considered.


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CarsmileSteve, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Nathalie: thank you, but no. Keep it.

StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

How can I keep it? I'm a WOMAN! Actually I did and now I'm PREGGERS. heh

Cereal with soy milk is crap. Except maybe with banana flavoured soy milk. That said, I think cereal is crap. There's no need for it. At all.

nathalie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

these are all good suggestions.

I like Rice Krispies because they taste of 0.

Ronan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Results 1 - 3 of 3 for "rice krispies problem". (0.15 seconds)

StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

what is the point of food that tastes of 0 though? especially if you are also agin their other USP, ie KRISPINESS, as previously mentioned. you mayaswell just eat rusks...

CarsmileSteve, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Cereal is a Summer thing for me. it's a doughy breakfast throughout the winter months. too lazy to make porridge.

blueski, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Rice Krispies because they taste of 0.

DOn't get all Smashing Pumpkins on us.

nathalie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Do not eat the ones which float. They are witches and suitable only for burning.

Pete, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

what is the point of food that tastes of 0 though? especially if you are also agin their other USP, ie KRISPINESS, as previously mentioned. you mayaswell just eat rusks...

I can't eat very much lately and corn flakes get stuck in my teeth a little too much, plus don't taste very nice.

Ronan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

How come you can't eat much lately? :-(

nathalie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Save the floaters (hmm...), they clearly refuse to be eaten, they are volunteers for our next ILX project: this wonderful Kellogg's® Rice Krispies Treats® Mother's Mug!

Here's one I made earlier:
http://i11.tinypic.com/2s6an3m.jpg

StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link

That is for amateurs. Scale model of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia Cathedral or nothing.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link

or dalek cakes

Alan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG!!!

"Rice Krispies are known by different names depending on the country. In Australia Kellogg's sells the product under the name Rice Bubbles."

StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

They should change the name to Ricebergs

NickB, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i would never, ever complain about a thing about Rice Krispies, since it is obviously the best cereal on earth.

you have to forgive me (surm), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link

Cereals that float are a problem. Eating them in a deep, deep bowl is the only real solution.

in addition to cereal sog, if the milk was able to retain the same coolness throughout it might not be so bad.
― blueski, Wednesday, April 18, 2007 6:10 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Quite often I freeze a bowl in preparation for an ice-cold treat. Especially nice with a little milk added before freezing it!

the faggiest vampire (Jesse), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link

omg deep bowl otm! i just had the best experience with a deep bowl and a lot of rice krispies

you have to forgive me (surm), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link

coco pops @ sugar puffs pwn all over krispies, even if they are splinter groups from krispies to begine with.

ice cool HOOSicle (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link

I think you need a eatmecrunchy cereal bowl, seems to solve many a problem!

― rayanbee, Monday, October 8, 2007 11:31 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

my gf got me some eatmecrunchy bowls a few years back. she paid some ridiculous amount of money for them cuz they weren't available in the states. they work pretty well tho

carne asada, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link

uh, wtf is an eatmecrunchy cereal bowl

you have to forgive me (surm), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link

http://www.eatmecrunchy.com/

carne asada, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link

Mixing cereals is also a delightful thing to do.

Chocolate Special-K is very good! The chocolate tastes real and while the chocochunks are not milk-soluble, they somehow does not turn into frozen, tasteless chococicles.

Raisin bran is :(

Plain bran cereal is :) x ∞

xp - ugh, I do NOT want that bowl. I like the sog.

the faggiest vampire (Jesse), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link

eat quicker?

ice cool HOOSicle (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link

i don't know what anybody is complaining about anyway, i mean part of the fun is that they're floaty and they get all over the place and make noise. i mean come on

you have to forgive me (surm), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link

Snap crackle *plop*

carne asada, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link

i think that's been done, tbh

ice cool HOOSicle (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link

My only real problem with them (and Cheerios) is that due to my preferred milk/cereal ratio, the cereal overtops the bowl when I go in to spoon up some milk. Sometimes I use my palm to submerge the riceberg, but I don't need that sort of high maintenance kind of bullshit out of my cereal.

the faggiest vampire (Jesse), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link

xp

SNAP

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, 19 April 2008 03:44 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

CRACKLE

― latebloomer, 19 April 2008 03:46 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

LOL

― latebloomer, 19 April 2008 03:46 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Aww, see here I was just trying to be nice and you hadda zing me...

― Mr. Odd, 19 April 2008 13:07 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

*PLOP*

― Curt1s Stephens, 20 April 2008 02:37 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I have been seriously pwned by one Curt1s Stephens at my own failed zing

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ice cool HOOSicle (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link

haha

carne asada, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link

This thread reminds me of the brilliant bit in Cryptonomicon about eating Cap'n Crunch:

"World-class cereal-eating is a dance of fine compromises. The giant heaping bowl of sodden cereal, awash in milk, is the mark of the novice. Ideally one wants the bone-dry cereal nuggets and the cryogenic milk to enter the mouth with minimal contact and for the entire reaction between them to take place in the mouth. ... The next-best thing is to work in small increments, putting only a small amount...in your bowl at a time and eating it all up before it becomes a pit of loathsome slime, which takes about thirty seconds in the case of Cap'n Crunch."

Number None, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link

^^^ Weird synchronicity, just read this passage in the book yesterday!

what of the fuck you talkie bout (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link

I like the Cap'n's slime.

the faggiest vampire (Jesse), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link


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