Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for September 15, 2024

Hot dogs see whether you can cut the mustard or are just playing ketchup

Fibrous Clumps — Good For You. Yoicks.

Rabid unicorns — or rabid anything — do not belong on cereal boxes.

Alice is right, Bland-o aren’t very good.

Man, a conversation between those two…don’t get Petey in on it!

Back in the day, I had a friend who had a favorite burger joint. He said the burgers were mediocre but that he went for their excellent condiments. Madness.

A box of Twix comes to mind.

Practice safe eating. Use condiments.

Condiment vehicle sounds so 50s.

You don’t want to know what hot dogs really are

This sounds like a great podcast.

The cereal aisle has to be the most colorful one in the grocery store. That and maybe the snack aisle.

Alice has a point, when I was a kid back in the early ‘70s, my Dad decided us kids should not eat sugary cereals for breakfast. This was actually a good idea as we ate things like Sugar Smacks, Fruit Loops and Sugar Pops (way before 2 of these were renamed Honey Smacks and Corn Pops in the 2000s). However, his grievous error was to try to get the family to eat Product 19. This cereal basically tasted like metallic cardboard though it had vitamins and minerals like a One a Day or Flintstones chew-able vitamin. This lasted for about 6 weeks until my mom (who usually ate half a grapefruit from the back yard and a Thomas’ English Muffin) was goaded by my oldest sis to try this Product 19……. Soon after, us kids got to eat corn flakes and rice crispies though the old man stuck with that Product 19…..

There was a time when my idea of making a cereal choice meant Quisp or Quake?

As the kids told the rabid “Trix are for kids!”

I liked the commercials when I was a little kid, but I was not coo coo for Cocoa Puffs. I was a fan of Corn Puffs. I also remember thinking it was wrong to deny the silly rabbit a bowl of Trix. ☺️

Yeah, poor segue Dad. On the other hand, I’d love to see an actual segue from Rabid Sugar Bombs to Condiment Vehicles. Sounds like a podcast I’d listen too.

We weren’t allowed Sugar Bomb cereal growing up. Cheerios, Kix and Grape Nuts was as exotic as it got, but you could always dress it up with sugar or fruit, etc…

Sugar Bear: Can’t get enough of that Golden Crisp.

There is only so much you can say about cereal and you said it. It’s time to move on.

The trend in my youth was locally made crunchy granola, if you were too lazy to get some rolled oats and nuts and make your own. Actually homemade is best, because you can customize the mix from one day to the next. Dannon yogurt (in a paper cup) was also very popular.

Calvin and Hobbes: Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, with their mascot Buzzy the Hummingbird. LOL!

I remember shopping for cereal when single in my late 20’s/early 30’s. I suddenly caught myself looking at the top shelves where all the healthy cereals were, instead of my favorites like Sugar Frosted Flakes, Cap’n Crunch, etc. I ended up buying some Cracklin’ Oat Bran. I realized a mental switch had been flipped and it’s been hard to go back to the cereals of my youth.