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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)

Ronan you could always try Cracklin Oat Bran, i.e. the densest cereal known to man or woman.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Grape-nuts are made of antimatter fatteybits

I think you're confusing 'antimatter fatteybits' with GRAVEL.

― c sharp major, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

delicious gravel, though.

― c sharp major, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

Cracklin Oat Bran

i read this as Cracklin O'Brien

― blueski, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

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

When you're a kid, this is magical MAGIC!

― StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

I like Quaker Oat Hoops, myself, but they fall foul of Ronan's NO WHEAT policy, even if they claim to be oaty. Also they're hard to get, so last week I had to settle for Quaker Granola instead, which is all sugary and horrible. I'm thinking of just bashing it down and using it to make flapjacks.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

and you're not just making the milk brown, you're turning it into delicious chocolate milk! This is why chocolate Weetos never had the same power: they turned the milk brown, sure, but also made it taste weeeeeird. Also they were called 'Wee'tos, which is just asking for trouble.

― c sharp major, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah "turn the milk brown" is only the slogan because the true alchemical powers of Coco Pops are too dangerous to be revealed to the over-10s.

― Groke, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

I think the phrase has been "turn the milk chocolatey" for about 15 years, grandads.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Today's children have shorter attentions spans, cereals are competing with Playstations and MTV, 'brown' just doesn't cut it any more.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

i blame old Tony Blairs

― blueski, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

if the monkey swings the wrong way on his liana, he ends up in the Um Bongo advert.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

This thread makes me want rice krispie treats. The proper kind that you make, not the crappy ones that you buy in the store.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

eating cereal with milk = mentalism in my book. I realise I may be in a minority there.

― byebyepride, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

How about putting the Rice Krispies and milk into a blender, then process until smooth? Or even use them to make these rather delicious looking pancakes

― C J, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

what about yogurt?

― blueski, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Everbody gurts, sometimes.

I think the root of the problem is that because they taste of zilch, Ronan fails to produce adequate saliva to moisten his palate.

― NickB, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

I love Rice Kripies so much. The key to enjoying them is to put about half a pound of sugar at the bottome of your bowl. That way with each spoonful, the rice is lost in a mouth-burning pile of milky sugar. ::drool::

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Possible solution to the lack of saliva in Ronan's mouth:

- lick the back of your hand
- pour krispies over hand, causing some of them to stick
- drink a shot of tequila and immediately lick the krispies off your hand
- suck on scrambled egg
- repeat

― StanM, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Possible solution to the lack of saliva in Ronan's mouth:

he should snog someone with TOO MUCH.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, like a dog.

― NickB, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

If you give them an overnight milk soak they turn into Rice Squishies.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

pour the milk over the rice crispies. ie target them with the stream of milk and try and get decent coverage by moving your arm around.

alternatively, buy weetabix. those bastards sink like a stone.

― koogs, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

The female lead in The Namesake eats rice krispies with curry and peanuts. And it looks kind of good!

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

The krispie konundrum is what caused me to go granola for breakfast. That shit would sink in wet concrete.

― libcrypt, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

Krispie conundrum finally solved

― Matt DC, Monday, 8 October 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

so there is always a bit of cereal in the milk, just enough for you to spoon up and then tip some more into the milk-trench below?

― blueski, Monday, 8 October 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

I presume so. This = a Muller Crunch Corner in reverse.

― Matt DC, Monday, 8 October 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

this will only exacerbate things

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 8 October 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

I agree, make the madness stop.

― Sarah, Monday, 8 October 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

I do blame Muller for this actually - stupid Muller - the bit with the crunch is always just that BIT too small for the spoon and you end up with crumb dust flipping out of the pot and onto your clothes because the crunch has INEVITABLY been halfway beaten up by the time muggins here gets to it.

― Sarah, Monday, 8 October 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

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