# Pass the Bran Flakes, please **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580 "2016-12-02T00:31:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/1 "2016-12-02T00:31:29Z")
> **[Breitbart Declares War On Kellogg's After Cereal Maker Pulls Adverts From...](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kellogg-breitbart-boycott-alt-right_uk_583fdf1de4b061fb97e4940c)** > > 'A spit in the face of our readers.' I release Breitbart is easy as targets get, but _that_ is just too hilariously bonkers fucked-up to go un-coal-raked. Colour me Frank Stallone, but if the following lipo discard doesn’t reek of the most screwed-up inverted horse-feces, my name’s Hamilton Jordan: > [@](#): > > …For Kellogg’s, an American brand, to blacklist Breitbart News in order to placate left-wing totalitarians is a disgraceful act of cowardice. They insult our incredibly diverse staff and spit in the face of our 45,000,000 highly engaged, highly perceptive, highly loyal readers, many of whom are Kellogg’s customers. Boycotting Breitbart News for presenting mainstream American ideas is an act of discrimination and intense prejudice. If you serve Kellogg’s products to your family, you are serving up bigotry at your breakfast table. - from Breitbart editor-in-chief and probably part-time cactus felcher Alexander Marlow Dang - tried (unsuccessfully) to google “list of Breitbart sponsors” and was gonna post it, with wagers on who’ll f.o. next. If anyone, more (_somehow_) diligent than yours truly, can conjure such a list, then that would be a very special, special thing. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/2 "2016-12-02T00:42:13Z")
Just curious: do a lot of 6 and 7 year olds peruse this Breitbart? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/3 "2016-12-02T00:47:23Z")
While I don’t have cites at hand, I’m sure there’s a few adults out there who like cereal too. Even hooded ones. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/4 "2016-12-02T00:52:50Z")
You mean it’s OK for someone in their 50s to eat Froot Loops? All right!!! Walmart, here I come! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/5 "2016-12-02T01:02:15Z")
This could lead to a lot of constipation among conservatives. The thing is, how will we be able to tell? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/6 "2016-12-02T01:07:24Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > You mean it’s OK for someone in their 50s to eat Froot Loops? > > All right!!! Walmart, here I come! _Totally_. Heard great reviews of the new improved ageist-free Special K. Bonus! > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > This could lead to a lot of constipation among conservatives. The thing is, how will we be able to tell? Especially if Ex-Lax turns out to be a sponsor and then _they_ pull out. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/7 "2016-12-02T01:10:53Z")
OTOH, a reduction in the excess of Froot Loops among this crowd might not be a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/8 "2016-12-02T01:21:57Z")
All of a sudden, I have a hankering for a big bowl of Rice Krispies… ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/9 "2016-12-02T01:40:11Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > All of a sudden, I have a hankering for a big bowl of Rice Krispies… I want Froot Loops! I want to eat them right out of the box. Right now. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/10 "2016-12-02T02:15:13Z")
Poor Americans and your lack of [Shreddies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shreddies). ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/11 "2016-12-02T02:18:58Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > While I don’t have cites at hand, I’m sure there’s a few adults out there who like cereal too. > > Even hooded ones. 🙂 Klan Krispies? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/12 "2016-12-02T02:21:55Z")
Brietbart promotes rrrrRAPE! ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/13 "2016-12-02T02:38:29Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Poor Americans and your lack of [Shreddies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shreddies). [Wheat Chex.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chex) Of course, they’re not from Kellogg’s, but that didn’t seem the point of your post. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/14 "2016-12-02T02:46:34Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Poor Americans and your lack of [Shreddies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shreddies). Wow - serious mind-blowage…Ha! No Shreddies in the ole U.S. of A.? Yes, you Americans are indeed suffering The Privations of the Damned. > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > [Wheat Chex.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chex) Of course, they’re not from Kellogg’s, but that didn’t seem the point of your post. Aren’t Wheat Chex sugar-y as all get-out? (which is the cool thing about Shreddies - not in the slightest) From one of my earlier posts I’ve been stuck with the image in my head of a klansman in white sitting down to his bowl of Fruity Pebbles\*. \*Not a Kelloggs product ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/15 "2016-12-02T03:01:09Z")
Good alt-right Americans eat toast, sausage, and eggs! So do I. How d’ya like 'em, alt-right America? Easy over or sunny side up? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/16 "2016-12-02T03:12:39Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > How d’ya like 'em, alt-right America? Easy over or sunny side up? I think they just wanna make their eggs great again. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/17 "2016-12-02T03:12:47Z")
The weird thing is that Wheat Chex are NOTHING like Shreddies. The general ingredients are the same but the end products are nothing alike. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/18 "2016-12-02T03:16:36Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > … > Aren’t Wheat Chex sugar-y as all get-out? > (which is the cool thing about Shreddies - not in the slightest) > … Wheat Chex are not sugar-coated. Some Chex cereals are sweetened, but not wheat, rice, or corn Chex. An introduction to the Chex family: [Chex Cereal Flavors | Rice, Corn & Wheat Chex](http://www.chex.com/our-products/) [aside] One of the very best snacks to make with Chex cereals is Party Mix. You toss one or more kinds of Chex cereals with some pretzels, nuts, butter, Worcestershire sauce, seasoned salt, garlic and onion powder. It’s flexible, and you can certainly add other stuff, but to me the original can’t be beat. Bake in a big roasting pan (aluminum throwaway is best). Man, is that stuff great! Can’t stop eating it! They sell pre-bagged Chex Mix, but it’s nothing like homemade Party Mix. > [@](#): > > 1952 Original Chex Party Mix > > 1/3 cup butter > 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce > 2 cups Wheat Chex > 2 cups Rice Chex > ½ cup nuts (peanuts or mixed nuts) > ¼ teaspoon salt > 1/8 teaspoon garlic salt > 1/8 teaspoon onion powder > > Melt 1/3 cup butter in a shallow baking pan. Stir in 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce. Add 2 cups Wheat Chex, 2 cups Rice Chex, and ½ cup nuts. Sprinkle with ¼ teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon garlic salt. Heat for 30 minutes in a 350 degree oven, stirring every 10 minutes. Keep a close eye on it. You want it toasty but not burnt. You may wing up baking it at only 250 degrees for 30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes.) Don’t skip the Worcestershire sauce or the butter-- to me that combo gives it the characteristic flavor [/aside] ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/19 "2016-12-02T03:32:33Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I want Froot Loops! I want to eat them right out of the box. Right now. Well, just follow your nose. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580/20 "2016-12-02T03:45:09Z")
I’m confused – does this mean Breitbart actually _supports_ masturbation? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pass-the-bran-flakes-please/773580.md?page=2)