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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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

― nathalie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

(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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

― nathalie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

Sperm?

― nathalie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

― Jibe, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

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

― Groke, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

cornflakes in red wine

― blueski, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

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.

from Richard Dedomenici

― CarsmileSteve, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

Nathalie: thank you, but no. Keep it.

― StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

these are all good suggestions.

I like Rice Krispies because they taste of 0.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

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

― StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

I like Rice Krispies because they taste of 0.

DOn't get all Smashing Pumpkins on us.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

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

― Pete, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

― nathalie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

or dalek cakes

― Alan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

They should change the name to Ricebergs

― NickB, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Damn.

Ronan, sorry, but we won't be able to call this The Ronan Effect, I'm afraid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheerio_effect

― StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Also: save the persistent floating krispies and put them in your pocket as an emergency floatation device when your boat sinks.

― StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Explain me Coco Pops. I could never understand how making the milk brown could possibly be considered a Good Thing.

Stan, I bet Snap, Crackle and Pop go by different names in different countries too.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Even more important: this looks like a dissertation on the exact problem Ronan described!

http://www.ug.cs.sunysb.edu/~litzker/cereal.html

― StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: Yep!

In Sweden, Snap, Crackle and Pop are called "Piff, Paff, Puff". In Germany they're known as "Knisper, Knasper, Knusper" (that's when Rice Bubbles speak German!) and in Mexico they're called "Pim, Pam, Pum"!

( http://www.kelloggs.com.au/DisplayPage.asp?PageID=277&brandid=26 )

― StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Cereal that doesn't float and stays crispy. You're welcome.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/14/Grapenuts.PNG/200px-Grapenuts.PNG

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

I could never understand how making the milk brown could possibly be considered a Good Thing.

it gives kids the illusion of control, makes them feel like GODS.

― blueski, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

surely it merely reinforces their powerlessness? No matter what they do they can't prevent the cereal from turning the milk from its natural white to an unwelcome and improper brown.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was especially practical for kids who are losing their milk teeth. Everything that's brown = not one of your teeth that has fallen out and therefore safe to put in your mouth.

― StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

those Grape Nuts are just amazing. Eat them and you lose 10 lbs. They're the only cereal with negative mass!

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

No matter what they do they can't prevent the cereal from turning the milk from its natural white to an unwelcome and improper brown.

no because if they wanted the milk to stay white they wouldn't want CocoPops in the first place - there is no other reason to want them other than 'lol brown milk, I AM A KING'

― blueski, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

Grape-nuts are made of antimatter fatteybits and will mutually annihilate your regular-matter fattey bits.

This is scientific fact.

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

The Grape Nuts box is printed in Poland.

The instructions were: "Price: £10"
The results that came back: "Lose 10 lbs"

― StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

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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*

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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 (sixteen years ago)

haha

― carne asada, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:41 (sixteen years ago)

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 (sixteen years ago)

^^^ 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 (sixteen years ago)

I like the Cap'n's slime.

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

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