Cereal Killer

Not that I was deprived growing up or anything, but we ate a lot of, like, plain old corn flakes.

My mom would buy, um, would buy shredded wheat.

And I'm not talking about like cinnamon mini wheats or, you know, the kind of, the kind of, um, shredded wheat that people eat nowadays.

It's half sugar and half shredded wheat.

She would buy these giant blocks.

I swear the shredded wheat was as big as your hand.

It was so big.

You'd have to like break it into, which required a real feat of strength.

And it had no sugar whatsoever.

It was like eating a brick of compressed sawdust.

That's what it was like.

So God help you if you didn't get some sugar with your shredded wheat, but that was the most God awful stuff ever.

I don't know who thought that was a good idea for a breakfast treat, but it was not.

There were a lot of good cereals that are, maybe they're still around today.

I think honeycomb cereal, which the cereal itself was like, I guess it was supposed to look like a honeycomb shape, but they were big.

They were like the size of a quarter.

So they were kind of hard to eat.

I always liked life cereal.

That was probably one of my favorites growing up.

And you can still buy life cereal, I'm pretty sure.

But I liked it, and it was also one of the cereals that was, there were just a ton of ads when you were watching your Saturday morning cartoons, including the, hey Mikey, he likes it, that particular commercial.

But I just love Life Cereal.