My dad ate Super Sugar Crisp, alternating with Grape Nuts. Somehow we tended towards cereals from Post and General Mills.
Cap‘n Crunch was a treat when we rented a cabin with relatives, as my parents wouldn’t but it, but my cousins ate it every day.
In college the cafeteria offered cold cereal at lunch and dinner, in addition to breakfast. They had Lucky Charms and Cracklin‘ Oat Bran.
According to this site, Cracklin‘ Oat Bran has more sugar than Lucky Charms.
Well, technically, at 16 I could try to make that argument but no - I was trying (and failing) to say I didn’t eat sugary breakfast cereal until I was an adult.
@puzzlegal - yeah, I deserved that for not proofreading, I was having cereal for dinner!
My mother went back to work when I was in seventh grade, so after that skipping school was easy – I’d just call the school and ell them I was sick. 
Usually I’d stay home, but starting around 11th grade I’d go to the library. My high school required four years of utter boredom PE to graduate; the six weeks of swimming each year were great, but other than that I hated it. So I ended up flunking a semester in 10th grade, due to nonparticipation, and having to retake it in 12th – meaning I had two PE classes every day, when I didn’t even want one! One of my few good friends was in the extra class, and we started walking to the library instead of going to class – and like as not, we’d get so involved in what we were reading that we’d lose track of time and end up skipping the next class, too. (Interior Decorating, in my case.) After a few weeks we were both suspended for two weeks; my reaction was “You want me to spend all day at the library, instead of just an hour or two? Great!” Unfortunately, the two-week suspension was the two weeks immediately before Easter vacation – and after three weeks of 10- to 12-hour days at the library, I was enjoying freedom so much I didn’t go back. (I did, however, get a GED ten years later.)
Froot Loops and Apple Jacks, and “you forgot” Alpha-Bits with Crazy Shapes (“It’s got stars, diamonds, moons, rings, aeroplanes, and all kinds of crazy shapes…”) My real favourite, though, was Special K.
Straight Dope Dark. All that white space in the others hurts my eyes.
Five prescription meds, and for a while my doctor was also prescribing vitamin D; I assumed that was his way of telling me I needed to get out more. Blood pressure, cholesterol, depression – I suppose the most important is the blood thinner, but dropping it wouldn’t really be life-threatening.
Same here. I chalk it up to being the 1960s and 1970s, and having a very indulgent mom, who was just happy to see me eating something.
Ah, I remember my wild crazy days of youth, when I’d skip school to watch presidential inaugurations or go to the library. Sometimes when I was feeling really out of control, my friends and I would skip a whole day of school and play chess. Hard to believe I survived those years.
I didn’t mark anything. My mom never bought sugared cereal. And when I started doing the family grocery shopping when I was eleven, I knew not to buy any!
But if I was ever anywhere that had those individual boxes of cereal, I always looked for Trix.
I got a D in PE senior year. I was so proud! I skipped a lot, and I intensely disliked all the PE teachers. I just laughed when I saw that the last semester teacher wimped out and gave me the D instead of the F I probably deserved.
It’s kitty corner. It’s also catty wampus. Both are correct.
Re: Indy 500. I have an objection to the poll because the early days of IRL were also littered with accidents and fatalities until they got their act together. It was improving at the time it merged with ChampCar. Also, I like the whole darn history.
I would’ve loved to have taken Interior Decorating!
But not as much pork. Yes, Lucky Charms contain pork.
Dad liked Frosted Flakes so there was always that. I was the one who usually went to the store with Mom so I always got to pick out the cereal, and the rule was I could choose anything as long as she had a coupon for it (somehow she never had one for Lucky Charms 
). She always had a coupon for Cap’n Crunch or Froot Loops. My brother liked Fruity Pebbles but those were like instant mush, I didn’t get it. Cocoa Puffs always sounded like better idea than it was. I’d get something else every now and then but those were the main ones.
I have seen 2 new cereal ideas recently-mini. Mini trix and mini cinnamon toast crunch.
Is it for those with bad teeth?
I see “Mini Trix,” and I think of a European brand of N scale model trains. 
I’ve always had a huge sweet tooth, and my mom was very indulgent, so my older sisters and I had just about every one of those listed sugary cereals at one time or another in our youth. The top three were Sugar Smacks, Froot Loops and Honey Comb, though, so I clicked those boxes. Even now I always have a box or two of sugary cereal on hand for when I get a craving. Still haven’t found Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs at the grocery store, though, no matter how hard I look…
None of my prescriptions are life-saving, and none of them are something I have to take every day, just on an as-needed basis. I know seniors who take literally dozens of pills every day; I’m not looking forward to that time myself.
I don’t follow the Indy 500 or car-racing generally, but I voted for the more-exciting older days. The drivers knew what they were getting into, and assumed the risk of injury or death for the possibility of bragging rights and a big payday. Nothing wrong with that.
Discourse Classic for me, mostly out of inertia.
Agreed, and LOL.
In the gelatin that is part of the marshmallows?
Think it’s just part of the ongoing trend of miniaturizing food. Chicken nuggets. “Fun size” candy bars. Mini bagels. Donut holes. Mini cupcakes. Bite-size burgers.
I figure this is essentially the same thing:
Thanks, but until I see Calvin digging into a bowl of them by name, I will not be satisfied!
I have been at my current job for nearly 30 years.
But right after college, I went through a string of jobs a few months at a time.
That drug the average down to 6.8 years.
My HS was pretty casual, so it was common to blow off a class or two during the day, but I rarely just skipped a whole day.
I remember eating too much Cap’n Crunch – that shit really tears up the roof of your mouth if you overdo it. Even when soggy.
I would not go get the garbanzos because I would not use them in the first place. For some reason, they are a problem for me.
21.5 years in the Navy, but never more than ~5.3 years at any one duty station. It works out to an average of 7.5 years counting the Navy time as a single figure, and around 4.38 years dividing it up.