My morning cereal comes in boxes containing 7/8 ounce or 13/16 ounce of cereal. Why not one ounce? Based on the nutritional information on the individual boxes vs. the regular boxes, the individual servings are slightly smaller than regular servings.
When I was a kid the individual boxes had perforations on the front of the box and the waxed paper liner. The idea was that one could fold the front of the box and the liner back and eat the cereal right out of the box. No need to dirty a bowl or disposable cup. When and why was this discontinued?
They may very well have been one full ounce in the beginning, but got reduced as a way of keeping the same price while still making a profit. I’d bet 90% of foodstuffs have smaller versions now. Look at the way candy bars keep shrinking so that they can stay a reasonable price.
No idea on the other question. I haven’t seen an individual serving in years. How do they come now?
The cafeteria has General Mills cereals. The boxes have a rip-top, and the inner bag is closed in the same way as most other plastic bags; i.e., you pull the top apart.
Now, it is easier to pour the cereal into a styrofoam bowl and eat it from there; but the eat-out-of-the-box style packaging would be handy for camping and such.
Well, to be persnickety about it, weight at the surface of the earth is a measure of the force with which gravity pulls on a mass. Grams are not units of force, Newstons are.
Newtons have never been in common use as a unit of weight that I know of. But every time I see weight listed in grams I think, “It aughta be in Newtons.” Or dynes if cgs is preferred over mks.
It occurred to me that their box filling machinery might just measure in the metric system, lots of machines are that way, but for US consumers they listed the weight in oz.
But really, a consumer is more interested in how much “stuff” there is (the mass), rather than how hard gravity pulls it (the weight). But I know, it usually says “weight: 25 grams” which is nonsense.
It’s not so much that Newtons aren’t used as a unit of weight. Rather, when the metric system was introduced, people started talking in terms of mass instead of weight, because it makes more sense (for instance, if I go to the moon I will still be 75 kilos, but who knows what my weight will be). The term “weight” has unfortunately stuck around in common use to confuse people.
Newtons are used when it actually makes sense to talk about forces (which is mainly in scientific pursuits).
Johnny IIRC a single serving of dry ceral is always 100 or 110 Calories (I forget which). Take a look at the nutrional panel on the box. I will bet the total calories is either 100 or 110.
I didn’t look at your link, but if it’s what I think it is then the thought that someone would pick that nit crossed my mind. I thought that using lowercase would differentiate it from Styrofoam.
It’s 80 or 90, depending on the cereal. I like Total. When they run ot of that I eat Wheaties, then Cheerios.
Don’t know how that happened. I’ll just describe them. They’re individual plastic cups of cereal, with 1.3 to 2.8 ounces of cereal, depending on brand. They’re sold on that site in six-packs. In convenience stores, I see them sold individually.
