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Okay, add him to one of the lists… which one? I dunno. The group guillotine assembly line? The obstacle course of razor sharp objects? The Wu-Tang reverse speed feeding bonanza? The volcano catapult layup competition? O, I know. The scarecrow harvester mowdown. We’ll put him next to former Monsanto executives.
Weren’t corn flakes invented to suppress the urge to masturbate with their blandness or something?
Yeah, there was like a whole movement of “doctors” who recommended bland food to suppress masturbation, which would supposedly make you healthier.
That’s also how we got Graham crackers.
I miss the days when psychologists thought everyone was obsessed with banging their parents and cocaine basically solves all your problems.
That or a yogurt enema and some chaste thoughts, too bad for Kellogg that’s what I’m into.
Yeah seems like some yogurt squirting up there might be something at least a few people are into.
Also prescribing orgasms!
I mean, hot.
Was literally the standard treatment for hysteria. So much so that the vibrator was invented as a labor saving device for doctors.
huh what?
You read that right
Dr Kellogg’s whole thing was trying to prevent masturbation for health reasons. Advocated a super bland diet to avoid anything at all stimulating. Corn flakes were invented as part of that.
Graham crackers were invented by one of his contemporaries for the same reason.
Kellogg is also the reason why routine circumcision became a thing in the US to start with (circumcision reduces sensation, he thought the reduced sensation would prevent masturbation while not reducing it so far that it prevented reproduction), and tradition and the uses of human foreskin in the biotech and cosmetic industries help keep it going.
Just be glad his treatment for girls meant to be akin to circumcising boys never took off. Which was burning the clitoris with acid to scar it and reduce sensation.
Look up John Harvey Kellogg sometime. Dude was the Gwyneth Paltrow of his day.
Except for the part where he was all about keeping your goop in.
Makes sense since his cereal turns to goop after being in contact with milk for like three seconds
that’s not what i use it for 👀
Yes. That’s right, but only in a clinical context when they were first invented.
Every time I’ve eaten cereal for dinner, it was never because it was cheap. I’ve always had cheaper and healthier alternatives. Cereal for dinner isn’t a poverty meal, it’s a poor mental health meal.
Yeah, but being poor and overworked will also kill your mental health, so…
ok but i unironically eat cereal for dinner because cinnamon toast crunch is delicious
ok but I unironically eat kellogg’s for dinner because crunchy
Oh god…the video is so much worse.
I remembered being poor early in my life and eating cereal with water. Reading this shit makes me hate this man even more than I thought I could.
People are broke and broken. They don’t care anymore and settle for sugar frosted cardboard for dinner. This guy is up there smiling and thinking “all this misery is great for business!”
Lol. We should just skip straight to calorie pellets at this point
They would be even more expensive than cereal because they would upcharge for the convenience of not having to pour cereal into a bowl.
Yes, cereal is bad. Yes, it’s expensive. Yes, it’s unhealthy. But what many people here are forgetting: There is a whole industry advertising cereal as a healthy breakfast (and now apparently dinner). You go into a supermarket and it is full of colourful boxes telling you what an awesome meal cereal is. Potatoes don’t have that. There is no TV ad for potatoes. And yes, cereal tastes great, because of the sugar.
Meanwhile Rocket Mortgage over here telling me to refinance my house so I can afford groceries . . .
you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like!
The thing that everyone ITT seems to be forgetting is that while yes making rice or beans or something similar can be cheap and also very filling. When someone is working 40+ hours a week at multiple jobs to keep a roof over their heads, depression is inevitable. Living paycheck to paycheck is stressful, anxiety inducing, and depressing. So when someone is exhausted and depressed, sometimes all they have the energy for is to pour a bowl of cereal, because anything beyond that is just too much.
I’m more or less in the situation you describe, but I don’t find rice and beans to be particularly stressful.
Part of that is that I do cheat with canned beans instead of making them from dry.
But rice is pretty much get home, start rice, go pee, get out of work clothes, curse my existence, and boom, rice is done.
I’m not in the financial situation you describe. I can afford better food. But better food does take effort that I don’t want to put in after twelve to fourteen hour days. I’m way too tired to be bothered with chopping and prepping. In slower times of the year, I’ll do that in Sunday for the whole week, but in these busier times, I can’t even get to that.
How long until French Revolution 2: Electric Boogaloo?
I’ll ask Madame Guillotine if she is up for another round.
I can count my lucky stars my income level never dipped below the rice-and-beans povery level, but it has dipped below cereal made by Kellogs and General Mills. They’re a false product like Nestlē baby formula as sold in Africa. They are expensive by the ounce and poor nutrition.
But if you are that dirt poor and have a 60 hour job then you may not have the time or energy to make rice. You’re also stuck in bonded servitude. That isna profound level of fucked.
Pilnick is celebrating selling desperation food at inflated prices to slaves.
I’m right there with you. Beans, rice, potatoes, and the occasional pasta dish. Whatever vegetables were inexpensive, and whatever meat was on manager’s special or BOGO. I did eventually figure out that inexpensive tofu could be purchased in bulk at some asian grocery stores, but by then I was on my way off the struggle diet.
At one point, it was clear that stuff like “hamburger helper” was too expensive, and going after raw seasoning ingredients and pasta was going to save a substantial part of the shopping bill. Boxed cereal was also out of the question.
Edit: energy costs (electricity) were bundled into my rent at the time. I don’t even want to think about how to navigate that situation by paying for butane, propane, or natural gas on top of everything else.
In what country is Kellog’s cereal affordable to cash strapped families
I assume they also own a bunch of the budget brands.
i’ll buy it when kellogs box isn’t $40
I have never bought Kellogs I get the no name brand that looks and tastes like Kellogs, probably made in the same factory on a different day.
