I don't eat breakfast cereal, and haven't for years. One of the main reasons is too much sugar. I thought the problem couldn't get any worse, however, until I walked down the cereal aisle with my wife and saw Chocolate Cheerios for the first time.

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> One of the main reasons
> is too much sugar

I like wine. Switching from Cab (& even the less-sweet Merlot) to nearly-sugarless Chianti has been life-changing. Things that felt like hangover were actually carb expulsion.

This is a dark sentiment, but you can see what he's getting at.

One of the main reasons is too much sugar. ~ roadgeek at August 7, 2020 4:31 AM

I cut back on sugar a few years ago and tried to find a low-sugar breakfast cereal. It was nearly impossible. The only one that comes close is shredded wheat; I'd rather eat the box it comes in.

Artificial sweeteners are not an option for me, so "diet" anything is out.

I'll have to try Crid's chianti suggestion. I googled* "low sugar wine" and got this.

* If you're using it as a verb, do you need to capitalize Google?

First our consumer goods became disposable, then our durable goods, then the workers who made them, now the cities in which we live ~ from a link by Crid at August 7, 2020 5:17 AM

I think malls and chain stores had a lot to do with that. Downtown shopping areas gave cities personalities, even if they had the ubiquitous and uniformly-bland Woolworth in them. Malls all have the same stores. If you were to drop someone into any mall in the country, they'd be hard-pressed to identify the city by the interior of the mall.

Even listening to the accents of the shoppers wouldn't help. We all sound the same now. We've watched television and patterned out speech after what we heard. Strong accents are ridiculed regularly in entertainment, so no one wants an accent anymore. Very few regionalisms - like "y'all" or "fixin' to" - remain regional anymore.

Food isn't even regional anymore, although there are some bright spots. Ordering grits in some places is still not recommended. Mention "barbecue" in certain places and you'll get an earful about sauces, rubs, and cooking times. Mention "barbecue" in LA and people think you mean cooking on a grill.

The Great Migration brought soul food to the North - or "food" as my father called it, since he grew up eating the same thing, back when it was what everyone south of the Mason-Dixon line served. The same migration brought "y'all" and "ain't" to the inner cities of the North.

Now, since everything is the same in every city, your loyalty to a specific patch of ground is diminished. New York CIty has a Foot Locker; so does Boise, Idaho. Los Angeles has a Cheesecake Factory; so does Gainesville, Florida. And you can afford to buy a house in Gainesville and Boise.

Oooh.. This one is really dark:

https://twitter.com/GPrime85/status/1291742144445779969

I like wine. Switching from Cab (& even the less-sweet Merlot) to nearly-sugarless Chianti has been life-changing. Things that felt like hangover were actually carb expulsion.

Crid at August 7, 2020 4:49 AM

Get one of a 3oz spray bottle and fill it with 95% alcohol Everclear. It's better than the average hand sanitizer due to the fact that it's just pure alcohol with just a tiny bit of water.

Oops, forgot to mention that it also doubles as a flavor enhancer for soft drinks.

I think this has been posted already, but anyway...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3F1U95v0JPs

It's a 2015 parody of the 1971 "Hilltop" Coca Cola ad.

Very sad - in a good way.

Yes, we're supposed to take personal responsibility as adults - but when you grow up in a household where the PARENTS drink Coke at breakfast (as do the kids), and accusing your parents of having the wrong lifestyle is pretty much taboo (as in most families), it can be hard to break away from the attitude that sugar is crucial to happiness.

Hard boiled eggs and an apple. Maybe coffee if I'm feeling fancy. Don't make life complicated.

Who was that NYT journalist that complained about how awful it felt to hold a firearm?

https://twitter.com/TrumpGirlOnFire/status/1291582812072550400

Six: Gersh Kuntzman. No, really.

Not a link, a question:

Goddess, I seem to remember the Insight's been sold - but what happened to the 1960 Metro?

> do you need to capitalize Google?

Might be one of those delightful cases where pro grammerians are looking to us to find out.

Why anyone would choose Honey Nut Cheerios , when they could breakfast on tastier Fruit Loops for not that much more sugar, is beyond me.

Thoughts on commedians http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2020/08/linkpod.html

Well, personally, I tend to assume that anything that's clearly loaded with food coloring is to be avoided.

But at any rate, one could argue that the cereal aisle has almost as much sugar as the cookie aisle. So why go there at all, unless you're just picking up some oatmeal?

I couldn't believe what a mother said, back in the 1970s: "If I don't buy their favorite [and heavily advertised] sugar-coated cereal, they keep pestering me until I do. Why can't there be advertising for healthier foods?"

Why not try telling the kids that begging and whining will be rewarded with an early bedtime (and maybe far less TV time) INSTEAD of what they want?