# Cereal Boxes- Could they make them any damn THINNER!!!!!!!!!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 8, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-boxes-could-they-make-them-any-damn-thinner/193772 "2003-08-08T05:15:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nuthinboutnuthin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/96bed5/32.png) [@nuthinboutnuthin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nuthinboutnuthin)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-boxes-could-they-make-them-any-damn-thinner/193772/1 "2003-08-08T05:15:26Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-boxes-could-they-make-them-any-damn-thinner/193772/2 "2003-08-08T05:52:59Z")
They came up with a way to hold the cereal that costs less _and_ saves natural resources and you’re complaining? Haj ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-boxes-could-they-make-them-any-damn-thinner/193772/3 "2003-08-08T05:53:07Z")
I nominate this for most heartfelt-yet-trivial OP of the month. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-boxes-could-they-make-them-any-damn-thinner/193772/4 "2003-08-08T06:08:06Z")
They could be in envelopes, so shut yer yap! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-boxes-could-they-make-them-any-damn-thinner/193772/5 "2003-08-08T06:08:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hajario \* > \*\*They came up with a way to hold the cereal that \*\*costs less \*\*_and_ saves natural resources and you’re complaining? > > Haj \*\* But the price of cereal hasn’t come down at all–at least, that’s what i’ve noticed at Giant here in MD. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-boxes-could-they-make-them-any-damn-thinner/193772/6 "2003-08-08T06:32:41Z")
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… \* ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-boxes-could-they-make-them-any-damn-thinner/193772/7 "2003-08-08T07:11:02Z")
**nuthinboutnuthin** , may I steal the line “I remember the days when cardboard was AWESOME” for my sig? ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-boxes-could-they-make-them-any-damn-thinner/193772/8 "2003-08-08T07:18:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-boxes-could-they-make-them-any-damn-thinner/193772/9 "2003-08-08T09:54:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-boxes-could-they-make-them-any-damn-thinner/193772/10 "2003-08-08T13:32:49Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-boxes-could-they-make-them-any-damn-thinner/193772/11 "2003-08-08T14:40:17Z")
Don’t get me started on bags of chips. Or air, rather. Bastards! All of them! ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-boxes-could-they-make-them-any-damn-thinner/193772/12 "2003-08-08T15:29:15Z")
Yep, definately too thin. In fact, my last box of Fruit Loops came with roll of duct tape inside. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-boxes-could-they-make-them-any-damn-thinner/193772/13 "2003-08-08T18:57:52Z")
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.