Saturday, October 28, 2006

"The 1 and Only Cheerios"

I remember when I was younger, seeing a TV ad for Cheerios, where there a bunch of kids running up this grassy hill at night time and they're all cheery and smiling. And when they get to the top of this hill, there's this giant radio/satellite dish (I think), and it's tilted so that it's like a bowl.

Then all the kids starting pouring milk into the giant "bowl" an they're still smiling. Then out come the boxes of Cheerios, and they get dumped in and so now there's bigger smiles and such, and they all start to eat it. So picture about 10 kids or whatever, around a giant bowl, all eating Cheerios digging in to this huge dish, and while they do so, they're still smiling/laughing at each other and enjoying the cereal. I think one was supposed to feel good after watching it.

Anyways, I think while growing up, my Mom only bought Cheerios once and I hated it. I don't remember if I persuaded her to buy it after watching that commercial, but if I did, I severely regret it and I now know what a stupid little kid I was for doing so. Cheerios are the pits. I don't care if it's healthy or if its low in trans fats. I don't care if it lowers the risk of heart disease or is part of a balanced breakfast. Cheerios were and are still disgusting to me.

They have this super Cheerio-ey taste and it's not sweet. Where's the sugar?!?! Where's the fancy coloured box?!?!? I don't want to eat cereal from a boring yellow box (nothing to do with racism...I hope) that doesn't taste like anything. (Honey nut Cheerios, however, are a completely different story. Yum.)

Almost all commercials I see now for Cheerios seem to be targeted at middle aged people and up. I rarely/(never?) see kids eating Cheerios in commercials. When I think about this topic, I sometimes wonder if there are any kids in realy life who currently each Cheerios. And if they do, why do they torture themselves? Or why do their parents torture them? In short, Bleagh + Wheat = Cheerios.

Wow this post was really pointless. Except now you know, I hate Cheerios. Because they taste bad. If you have read this last paragraph first, you could have saved yourself a whole lot of reading. Too late for that.

6 comments:

Bernice said...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I was just about to come and yell that Honeynut Cheerios are good, but then I realized the other paragraph. D'oh! And in answer to your plain cheerios sucking. Yup. That's why, as you said, they are for the middle aged people who have health problems. But of course you can always to the way I do it when you have plain Cheerios *grins*. Icing sugar/brown sugar/white sugar and a whole lotta honey. =) anyways...

oh and tim... nice grammar =) oh and little kids eat plain ones... at least the ones in the daycare my mom used to have and in the nursery at my church do...

so... yes... PLAIN cheerios suck. but Honey-nut Cheerios RULE. Yep.

Tim said...

grammar is poop.

and as long as i'm talking about cereal, oatmeal crisp (maple) is probably the best out there...

then again....i haven't really had the chance to try cornpops, frosted flakes, honeycomb, and other sweet stuff in a loooong time.
and oreo cereal, i want to try that.

um...so anything loaded with outrageous amounts of sugar....

o yeah, there was a great cereal in australia i had that was like rice krispies but all choclate. i think it was called coco something and had a monkey on it. that was good...

Bernice said...

oooh, costco has this really good mango passionfruit cereal... YUM.

and btw... the australian cereal is called coco pops
http://www.kelloggs.com.au/DisplayPage.asp?PageID=483&brandid=5

Tim said...

wow, good procrastination skills at practice. (of course i was too lazy to google it)

and mmmmmm.....coco poops...
i mean coco pops.
delicious!

J ^_^ said...

COCO POPS!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..(sorry all.. me gone haywired... exam stress...).. i prefer Milo cereal.. mmmMmmmm... the chocolate taste is better than Coco pops, not too sweet, and you can munch on them quite conveniently and not so messy =) .. you'll just love it!! (i think Milo should pay me for this =_=')

but unfortunately, the store at my dorm don't sell milo cereal anymore ='( ... only coco pops and the other multigrain/wheats/cornflakes/etc cereals.. =S

anyway.. back to stressing..

Tim said...

a few things:

1. coco pops are awesome. they are the cats pajamas.

2.school and stress are kicks in the butt. or groin, depending how much of it.
those were supposed to be metaphors, not literally.

3. i would like to try chocolate frosted sugar bombs some day

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