# Breakfast: spin-off from "Three men froze to death" thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [February 8, 2024, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414 "2024-02-08T14:36:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/41 "2024-02-11T00:14:13Z")
Hmm, maybe not stout but Godiva or Kalua, possibly even Amaretto. ---
**Author:** ![pirviii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pirviii/32/3233_2.png) [@pirviii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pirviii)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/42 "2024-02-11T03:13:57Z")
I saw something similar in Vegas last year, it was shakes with all kinds of things sticking out of them, like pieces of cake, candies, cookies, cotton candy, all kinds of stuff. There are pictures on google and trip advisor. We didn’t try one, we had some giant nachos and were just too full. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/43 "2024-02-11T03:31:25Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Mikey hates everything. Mikey reluctantly tries Life cereal and loves it. Therefore… > > 1. Message to kids: Every kid will love it. You too. So every kid should bug Mom to buy some. > 2. Messagw to Moms: Even fussy eaters will like this stuff. And it’s healthy. Every Mom should buy some. Right, Mikey does like it. (altho he probably didnt) > [@pirviii](#): > > I saw something similar in Vegas last year, it was shakes with all kinds of things sticking out of them, like pieces of cake, candies, cookies, cotton candy, all kinds of stuff. There are pictures on google and trip advisor. We didn’t try one, we had some giant nachos and were just too full. Yeah there’s a place in Downtown Disney that does that same. The shakes are good, but all the crap just raises the prices and get in the way. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/44 "2024-02-11T04:41:54Z")
Life cereal gives me false expectations. A cereal called Death might not sell well tho’, just sayin’ (I think I saw that in Mad magazine once) ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/45 "2024-02-11T04:48:42Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > A cereal called Death might not sell well tho’, just sayin’ [![](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG2.NM4AbjaLGBWPLmRK8OmX?dpr=2.6&pid=ImgDetMain) ](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG2.NM4AbjaLGBWPLmRK8OmX?dpr=2.6&pid=ImgDetMain) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/46 "2024-02-11T05:05:18Z")
Nice! AI quacker oats guy kinda scary. 💀 ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/47 "2024-02-11T05:08:05Z")
Quaker was selling [death cereal](https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/quaker-recalls-granola-bars-and-granola-cereals-due-possible-health-risk) a few months ago. > [@](#): > > The Quaker Oats Company today announced the recall of specific granola bars and granola cereals listed below because they have the potential to be contaminated with _Salmonella_ , an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/48 "2024-02-11T09:02:28Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > When Iwas a kid my dad used to make a “cakeshake” He put a slice of cake in a glass, poured in some milk, and mashed it all up. When I was growing up, we would make Bisquick strawberry shortcake. We never had whipping cream, so we would put the cake in the bottom of a bowl, add strawberries (normally lightly sugared) and add some milk. At some point I started eating the strawberries off the top and then and would add a bit more sugar, and then moosh the shortcake, sugar and milk together. If my mother caught me she might say something about playing with my food. But her father was even worse, so as long as I ate it, she didn’t complain much. My grandfather always ate Wheaties with honey and milk, but only after the Wheaties had turned into mush… Ever so often General Mills would advertise that they improved the recipe so that the Wheaties would stay crispy longer. He complained every time, because it meant he needed to wait longer for his Wheaties to turn into mush. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/49 "2024-02-11T11:51:40Z")
I just want to say that the title of this thread needs to be nominated for some kind of weirdness award. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/50 "2024-02-11T14:16:40Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Nice! AI quacker oats guy kinda scary. 💀 Looks like a cereal killer. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/51 "2024-02-11T14:26:10Z")
Oh my. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/52 "2024-02-11T14:31:24Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > the title of this thread needs to be nominated for some kind of weirdness award. That’s because it’s a spin-off of a completely unrelated thread (about three men who did, in fact, freeze to death under odd circumstances) and the chatter idly turned into several hijacks (“conversational drift”) until it was an utterly sidetracked convo. I’ve never seen a thread split off like this before, though. Interesting move. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/53 "2024-02-11T14:36:53Z")
If there’s a reasonable clean split, it seems less disruptive of the conversation than to say, “stop this hihack”. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/54 "2024-02-11T14:38:04Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I just want to say that the title of this thread needs to be nominated for some kind of weirdness award. Yeah. One for Threadspotting for sure, if that still existed. > [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > > > Nice! AI quacker oats guy kinda scary. 💀 > > Looks like a cereal killer. We’re really all working on sleuthing out what their last meal was. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I’ve never seen a thread split off like this before, though. Interesting move. Discourse makes this practical, whereas vBulletin made it pretty hard. Some mods seem to find this worthwhile. ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/55 "2024-02-11T14:52:59Z")
Just some feedback: it’s less jarring if when you do something like this you also edit the main body of the new thread’s OP with an explanation that the apparent OP is not starting the thread and this was split by a moderator. I got quite a way in, thinking JAQ had made a weird new thread. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/56 "2024-02-11T14:55:25Z")
Thanks. I thought the thread title would do that, but I’ll also add a mod note to the op. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/57 "2024-02-11T15:12:33Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > We’re really all working on sleuthing out what their last meal was. The salmon mousse! ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/58 "2024-02-11T15:25:40Z")
I still think the ad had odd wording. “Try it.” “No, you try it.” “”I’m not gonna try it.” “Let’s get Mikey. He won’t eat it. He hates everything.” From this it sounds like you’re bringing in a third party who won’t try it either. But in the next scene they have Mikey trying it. Soooo…he tries a lot of stuff but he hates it all?? Wouldn’t it be “He hates everything, but he’ll try anything.” Or better would have been “Let’s get Mikey, he won’t like it, he hates everything.” By saying “”He won’t eat it” it makes it awkward that a second later he’s eating it, regardless if he likes it or not. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/59 "2024-02-11T16:08:23Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Lucky Charms cereal is my gf’s guilty pleasure. Count Chocula for me and I pour it into a cup and eat dry as a snack. I actually like the so-called marshmallows, setting them aside and eating them one at a time once the cereal is gone. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414/60 "2024-02-11T16:09:14Z")
> [@colinfred](#): > > I got quite a way in, thinking JAQ had made a weird new thread. Ha! I never noticed that _I_ was the new OP. No wonder I keep getting notifications. For the record, (as the “OP”) I didn’t mind the hijack. We could have always gotten back on track as new information became available. It wasn’t like the thread was a RIP for the dead guys anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-spin-off-from-three-men-froze-to-death-thread/997414.md?page=4)