Thursday, February 4, 2010

Cereal Letdown

This morning I opened up a fresh box of Cheerios. At the very top of the box was a toy car wrapped in plastic sitting on top of the unopened bag of cereal. I find it tragic that the cereal manufacturer is robbing children of this memorable expereince. The whole fun of the "prize" in the cereal is the thrill of the chase. I remember my Mom always had the rule...."No digging through the cereal with your hands to find it". That prize would be buried on the bottom somewhere and we would have to keep eating and filling our bowl to get to it. Chad and I would eat more than one bowl not because we were hungry but because we wanted the prize....because in those days, there was no sharing the cereal prize, if you got to it first, it was yours. I can see us now, looking each other in the eye with our sly smiles reaching for the box to refill our bowl while the other one thought the themselves.....please don't get the prize, please don't get the prize. A huge sigh of relief when the prize didn't come. The next one would pick up the box and pour their cereal but would lean it real far in all different directions to see if they could get that prize to surface to the top somehow. There could only be one winner and that person was the luckiest kid in the world for that day as they blew the cereal dust off their prize and figured out what it was. I still remember the magic coin trick prize, I believe Chad beat me to that, it was so cool, you put a coin in and there was a secret slot on the bottom that the coin slid under as you said the magic words.......SIGH, the good old day!!

So, General Mills, Kellogg's and all the other cereal companies out there, Enough of this handing it to children on a silver platter, it is things like this that are making children soft and wimpy. Man up, bury that thing way down there and get rid of the sissy wrapping, a little cereal dust never hurt anyone!!

6 comments:

  1. Remember when dad cut a hole in the bottom of the cereal box, put his hand in there, asked us if we wanted the prize and then as we reached in to get it he grabbed our hand and scared the crap out of us?

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  2. I do remember that! I may need to try that and bring back some of the thrill to my kids....

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  3. It seems like I'm hearing a lot of stories about your family scaring the crap out of you as kids lately. Are you going to dress up like a burglar and chase your kids onto the couch too? :)

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  4. Don't you guys ever remember your mother scaring you? I fully agree with your cereal assessment.

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  5. Holly aren't you getting scared for Dylan? Guy keeps whining about being portrayed as the bad guy.... even though it is likely true.
    Posted by Susan

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  6. Hey Heather, if you do let me film it :) Would make for a good blog video :)

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