So I grab some cereal, the &%^$ ing box totally caves in.
You charge a ^^%^%## ing fortune for the cereal and yet the box keeps getting flimsier and flimsier.
YES, I could put the cereal in another container…
BUT I DONT WANT TO!!! I want to look at the box just like every other red blooded American.
I dont know how they could possibly make it any flimsier.
I remember the days when cardboard was AWESOME
They came up with a way to hold the cereal that costs less and saves natural resources and you’re complaining?
Haj
I nominate this for most heartfelt-yet-trivial OP of the month.
They could be in envelopes, so shut yer yap!
But the price of cereal hasn’t come down at all–at least, that’s what i’ve noticed at Giant here in MD.
The OP has so much passion about boxes that I think he has the foundations of a truly heartfelt song:
*So gather round kids while I tell you a story,
Of my youth in its corrugated glory.
I remember the days when cardboard was AWESOME,
The thickness was of a proper gauge.
My teeth would rot, 'cause I wouldn’t brush or floss 'em,
And I could watch cartoons for days.
Dreams of quality cardboard with me I’ll carry,
As I stare up at the sky,
And wonder who killed Boo Berry,
And why they had to rename Sugar Smacks,
And why the prizes now suck in the Cracker Jacks…
*
nuthinboutnuthin, may I steal the line “I remember the days when cardboard was AWESOME” for my sig?
What are the odds? I was just thinking how cereal boxes are too thin these days.
Oh, wait…what I meant was I WASN’T THINKING THAT AT ALL.
If you’re going to gripe about cereal boxes, I’d think that it’d be more important to gripe about the fact that the boxes have stayed roughly the same size and prices have stayed the same or risen, meanwhile, the amount of cereal inside has decreased. A box of cereal used to be 16 oz. and now usually weighs in around 13.5 or so. The same phenomenon can be seen in coffee, bottled juices, frozen pizzas and yogurt. It’s quite distressing.
Don’t talk to me about coffee tlw, I bought a can a couple of months ago it had 12oz of coffee in it, in a can that used to hold a full pound. When they first lowered the amount, they said it was because of the way it was ground. In this can, though, the can was barely 3/4 of the way full. Just a big olde ripoff!
Don’t get me started on bags of chips. Or air, rather. Bastards! All of them!
Yep, definately too thin. In fact, my last box of Fruit Loops came with roll of duct tape inside.
Oh, I don’t know-- ‘more’ isn’t necessarily ‘better.’
Just as it’s possible to use a full dozen bits of superfluous punctuation in the thread title, while still neglecting to make the sentence into a proper interrogative, I’m sure Kellogg’s could manage failing to make a functional enclosure for your Fruit Loops, even if they used quarter-inch thick corrugated cardboard.