I’m thinking of those Total commercials, where people order various types of cold cereal for breakfast, and the waiter brings a dozen or twenty or forty bowls, or however many bowls it would take of that cereal to match the vitamin content of Total.
Now I realize that the point of the commercials is not to represent real life, but only to provide a context where the actors have to name the various cereals so they can be shot down by Total’s awesome superiority. But I am curious. Do people actually do this? I have never seen anyone in a restaurant say, “We’ll take the Total!”
I’ve ordered corn flakes from room service, just to say I did it. But, I was on an expense account. It was like $5.95 for a bowl with a little bottle of warm milk. Yuck.
I’m a self-confessed Cereal Junkie, so I ALWAYS have the cereal when I stay in hotels!!
(What’s worse, is that if I go down to the resturant for breakfast and the hotel has a help-yourself selection, I’ll do my FAVOURITE thing and grab a “handful” of each cereal that takes my fancy and have a BIG bowl of mixed cereals, ice cold milk, cuppa tea and a glass of apple or orange juice (or BOTH if I can get 'em)!! If I can get FRUIT to add to the whole thing - so much the better!!)
Mmmmmmmmm… YUMMY!!!
I love to order cereal, especially if it’s the house-made bircher muesli.
At home, I don’t usually have the time or the foresight to make something like that. Also, they tend to make it more gourmet than I would, so it’s extra special.
My lad, when one is on expense account, one orders the caviare omelette with a side of apple-smoked bacon, fresh fruit, sauteed red bliss potatoes, and croissants. French-roast Nicaraguan coffee. And the Stolichnaya bloody mary fer dessert.
I also have a full fried breakfast with sausages, bacon, scrambled eggs, fried tomatoes, toast with marmalade, bagels, smoked salmon, orange and grapefruit juices, five cups of coffee and any regional breakfast specialities (such as madeira cake).
I’m not normally a glutton, but dammit, I paid for it in the exorbitant hotel price
I think I might have when I was a kid… although when I eat out anywhere, I try to order something I wouldn’t usually have at home because why eat something I can have any day ?
If I see any of those little single serving size boxes of Frosted Flakes on a breakfast buffet or cafeteria line, I’ll usually grab a couple. And on very, very rare occasion I’ll just order some at a regular restaurant. Normally, though, like Odinoneeye, I’ll eat steak and eggs.
My daughter and husband get it all the time. Daughter because she has lots of allergies (eats it dry, no milk) and hubby because he travels all the time and just likes cereal. /hijack/ Daughter and son ordered toast from room service three times in one night with their incredibly irresponsible uncle (my brother) in charge once. All were severly chastised when the bill showed up. /end hijack/
Cereal is about the only breakfast food that I can stand early in the morning. (I do like pancakes as a late night snack) I’ll eat oatmeal just as happily, but if it’s early I’m probably going to eat some sort of cereal. I’ve only ever ordered it at Denny’s a couple of times, when I got the fruit and oatmeal and all thing. When I stay in a “hotel”, it’s usually one of those cheap places that you get your choice of cereal, dry muffins, or hard little bagels for breakfast.
I’ve ordered it at restraunts a few times, mostly when I’m out with the family but it’s too early and my stomach is being to finicky to handle the usual greasy american breakfast foods.
I always get cereal at Fairfield Inns. But then again, they usually don’t have much else in the way of breakfast. I’m more of a “cereal as a snack” kinda person. I like my meals hot. So breakfast is usually a biscuit of some kind - sausage or country ham… Hmmmmmm!
When staying at a hotel it is not uncommon to have cereal and an orange juice for breakfast in the bistro. I havent seen the ad - would this scenario be consistant with it?