Poll of the Day > the beef propaganda we saw as kids was even stranger than milks

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wild

Something that delicious doesn't need propaganda, either

Where's the beef?

I still can't get over how insanely successful kellogg's propaganda machine was. we have a set type of breakfast food because one religious guy thought hypnoxing was the devil and bland foods would counteract that sinful desire

frosted flakes are goat tier though

made after his death and not during it, because he would never invent anything so damn tasty

agesboy posted...

I still can't get over how insanely successful kellogg's propaganda machine was. we have a set type of breakfast food because one religious guy thought hypnoxing was the devil and bland foods would counteract that sinful desire

Wait what? I need to hear this story

Lynyrd_Skynyrd posted...

Wait what? I need to hear this story

??? How have you never heard this? History channel plays it all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0aKKFybRNM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StY4tcm-ebk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idnwh6iDnXA

Though really my favorite Wendy's commercial is this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CaMUfxVJVQ

yeah but beef is so good. you ever had a snake river farms ribeye?

cereal was wild

if you pair it up for breakfast with orange juice, toast, a bagel, an apple AND a banana, you will be balanced.

BlackScythe0 posted...

??? How have you never heard this? History channel plays it all the time.

I don't watch history channel lol

argonautweakend posted...

cereal was wild

if you pair it up for breakfast with orange juice, toast, a bagel, an apple AND a banana, you will be balanced.

in a few of those commercials it always showed the mom having been up since 4 am doing nothing but cooking $400 worth of breakfast foods to cover the entire dinner table in it, only for the slacker cool teen to be like "fuck you MOM i'm havin CAPTAIN CRUNCH"

Lynyrd_Skynyrd posted...

Wait what? I need to hear this story

Dr. Kellogg was a puritan who wanted to cut down on people's sex drive. He developed several of Kellogg's earlier cereals (Corn Flakes being the main one) under the belief that bland, high-grain breakfasts would help with that goal. I'm not 100% sure what his rationale was, whether there was some link between grain intake and suppressed sex drive or just because believed a more ascetic diet would cut down on hedonism in other regards, but that was the logic.

He's also largely responsible for circumcision becoming an American tradition, for the same reason. He championed circumcising men as the default because it would make sex and masturbation less pleasurable and thus less desirable, and that idea took off among fellow puritans and has been the standard for Americans ever since. For female babies, he proposed burning the clitoris with oxalic acid for the same reason, but thankfully that one didn't take off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QIe5h8o3uA

agesboy posted...

I still can't get over how insanely successful kellogg's propaganda machine was. we have a set type of breakfast food because one religious guy thought hypnoxing was the devil and bland foods would counteract that sinful desire

If Corn Flakes is the anti-fap cereal, then Frosted Flakes is like nun porn.

when i make meatloaf, i soak bran flakes in milk to star getting a little soggy, and i then i drain the hell out of them and use that instead of crackers

you get a more moist loaf of meat while also enabling other tastes to get more depth

it's the same as using regular cornflakes, it's just i eat bran flakes so it's usually what's on hand