You know that aisle in the supermarket where the breakfast cereals riot in colorful profusion--Cocoa Puffs, Frosted Flakes, Honey Nut Cheerios, Count Chocula, Peanut Butter Toast Crunch, and the innumerable rest?* You know that aisle in the supermarket where the breakfast cereals This is a list of breakfast cereals. Many cereals are trademarked brands of large companies such as Kellogg's, General Mills, Malt-O-Meal, Nestlé, The Quaker Oats Company, and Post Cereals, but similar equivalent products are often sold by other manufacturers and as store own riot in colorful profusion--Cocoa Puffs, Frosted Flakes “Frosties” redirects here. For the cola-flavored hard candy, see Frosties (candy). Frosted Flakes (North American countries) or Frosties (UK, Commonwealth of Nations and EU countries) is a cereal similar to Corn Flakes from Kellogg's, but coated with , Honey Nut Cheerios Honey Nut Cheerios is a variation of Cheerios breakfast cereal, introduced in 1979 by General Mills. As the first variation from Cheerios, it is sweeter than the original, with a honey and almond flavor. , Count Chocula, Peanut Butter Toast Crunch, and the innumerable rest? Well, there is a new trend on those shelves. Apparently concerned that parents might think their children are having unhealthy nutrients thrust on them via gaudy packaging--perish the thought-cereal companies are now marketing "Low Sugar" cereals. The catch is, those wily cereal makers, having reduced the sugar in their product, maintain essential crunchiness by increasing carbohydrates. Reading of this in a news report, a California mom named Jennifer Hardee, who had been diligently feeding her offspring "low sugar" cereal in blithe blithe adj. blith·er, blith·est 1. Carefree and lighthearted. 2. Lacking or showing a lack of due concern; casual: spoke with blithe ignorance of the true situation. confidence that she was thereby improving their health, reached for the Attorneys section of her Yellow Pages, and a class-action lawsuit is now underway. A General Mills spokesman explained calmly that: "Consumers wanted less sugar, so we gave them less sugar." That won't do. Mrs. Hardee, through one of her regiment of lawyers, declared herself "extremely upset," and we all know that no corporation in modern America may cause extreme upsetness to any citizen, least of all a doting dote intr.v. dot·ed, dot·ing, dotes To show excessive fondness or love: parents who dote on their only child. [Middle English doten. mom. |
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