# "Lucky Charms! With Bloody Teeth!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 6, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980 "2012-02-06T14:44:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/41 "2012-02-09T14:12:01Z")
[Relevant Pickles comic strip today](http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/f2047bd02c94012f2fcc00163e41dd5b). ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/42 "2012-02-09T14:44:32Z")
A few months ago, our company installed a pantry with free beverages and snacks. Coincidentally, this morning I went down to discover that Lucky Charms is now one of the eight breakfast cereal options. Having read this thread, I had to have some. It tasted like I remember from my childhood, but the marshmallow shapes were horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/43 "2012-02-09T15:08:00Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Having read this thread, I had to have some. It tasted like I remember from my childhood, but the marshmallow shapes were horrible. Bloody teeth, yes? Am I right? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/44 "2012-02-09T15:38:36Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > You _must_ read [Breakfast of the Gods](http://breakfastofthegods.com/) by Brendan Douglas Jones. 🙂 Seconded. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/45 "2012-02-09T16:17:52Z")
Is it true that every box comes with a free bar of Irish Spring? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/46 "2012-02-09T16:20:31Z")
Would it make it easier for you all to accept the bloody teeth if you were to just assume that they had been knocked out with a shillelagh? ---
**Author:** ![Zulema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/db5fbb/32.png) [@Zulema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulema)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/47 "2012-02-09T17:19:43Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Lucky Charms is one cereal where the generic is better. I think we get the Malt-o-Meal version, but I’m not sure. > > Then again, it’s been forever since I’ve been able to eat them, so, for all I know, my memories of the taste are false. I agree. Marshmallow Mateys are far superior to Lucky Charms. The cereal/ marshmallow balance is more balanced and they come in a kichen trash bag sized bag for $4.00. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/48 "2012-02-09T17:38:57Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Is it true that every box comes with a free bar of Irish Spring? Yes, and it tastes better than the marshmallows. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/49 "2012-02-09T17:50:03Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > I cannot be the only one who saw this thread and thought you’d broken a tooth on the stuff!! I’m relieved that I was wrong. I was expecting a story about finding an actual bloody tooth in the cereal, like there had been some horrible accident at the factory followed by some _very_ shoddy quality control. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/50 "2012-02-09T17:54:08Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I was expecting a story about finding an actual bloody tooth in the cereal, like there had been some horrible accident at the factory followed by some _very_ shoddy quality control. Interesting word, shoddy. It comes from that part of the world, where the original meaning was for an inferior quality of cloth made out of cloth remnants. And you thought you wouldn’t learn anything in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/51 "2012-02-09T18:19:25Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Bloody teeth, yes? Am I right? I guess so. Honestly they all just look like blobs to me. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/52 "2012-02-12T00:16:38Z")
> [@Zulema](#): > > I agree. Marshmallow Mateys are far superior to Lucky Charms. The cereal/ marshmallow balance is more balanced and they come in a kichen trash bag sized bag for $4.00. I had a friend in college who loved “Marshmallow Mateys”, but he, a math major, called them “Marshmallow Calculus”, because one of the cereal pieces looked like the integral sign. We all called the cereal pieces in Lucky Charms (or Marshmallow Mateys) “cat food”. Guess the shapes kind of resemble Purina, sort of. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/53 "2012-02-12T00:29:04Z")
> [@Tamex](#): > > I had a friend in college who loved “Marshmallow Mateys”, but he, a math major, called them “Marshmallow Calculus”, because one of the cereal pieces looked like the integral sign. > > We all called the cereal pieces in Lucky Charms (or Marshmallow Mateys) “cat food”. Guess the shapes kind of resemble Purina, sort of. Purina Bachelor Chow 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/54 "2012-02-12T01:05:18Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Purina Bachelor Chow 😃 Exactly. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/55 "2012-02-15T00:56:56Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I like Lucky Charms marshmallows. I don’t buy the cereal anymore because whenever I do I end up picking all the marshmallows out and being left with nothing but a box of boring cereal, which seems like kind of a waste. You and my kids. The kindest birthday present ever was when my daughter bought multiple boxes of LC’s, poured them in a huge bowl, and proceeded to (with the help of the neighbor kids) sort all the marshmallows into one box. When her little brother opened his box of _ **“Just The Marshmallows”** Lucky Charms_, he was in heaven. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/56 "2012-02-15T01:02:21Z")
Hmmm, that same daughter, over ten years later, went to St. Olaf College, just downwind\* from the Malt-O-Meal plant where “Marshmallow Mateys” are made. Yes, the cafeteria had a whole wall of Malt-O-Meal cereals… **Marta masticated Marshmallow Mateys many a morning.** \*_Had a Facebook group titled: “My College Smells Better Than Your College”_ ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/57 "2012-02-15T02:18:44Z")
I had a nasty “Omigod, I said that out loud” moment yesterday. I was at the Duane Reade, at the cereal isle, at lunchtime, and saw the Lucky Charms. “\*Bluuudy \*taith!” I said, in an Oirish leprechaun voice. “Oh crap! I said that out loud!” ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/58 "2012-02-15T02:27:55Z")
Possibly TMI for a breakfast cereal thread but… when I drink Dunkin Donuts Hazelnut coffee my pee smells like Lucky Charms. That can’t be good. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980/59 "2012-02-15T03:41:16Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I had a nasty “Omigod, I said that out loud” moment yesterday. I was at the Duane Reade, at the cereal isle, at lunchtime, and saw the Lucky Charms. “\*Bluuudy \*taith!” I said, in an Oirish leprechaun voice. > > “Oh crap! I said that out loud!” I am SO sorry I missed that. Could you catch that on video next time? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucky-charms-with-bloody-teeth/611980.md?page=2)