Friday, 12 November 2010

Cereal Killer

I hate cereal.
I really do.
However, I being me, my deep-rooted hatred of cereal comes not from the fact that it tastes like cardboard no matter how much chocolate, sugar or milk you put on it, nor from the fact that it's actually those twirly things that come out of a pencil sharpener when you sharpen your pencil. No, cereal is a sign of today's world. Mass-produced, quickly-prepared, tasteless, no-one in their right minds would touch a bowl of cardboard cereal unless they had a boring modern job in a boring modern office to go to, and all they had to look forward to was a boring modern life. Cereal could not exist in a remotely interesting life. It is the dreary spawn of a dreary life, and it warps the space-time continuum around it, transforming the land around it into Plath's "province of the stuck record", ensuring the times are tidy. History's beaten the hazard, and now we can all have boring cereal for breakfast. Whoop de bleedin doo.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm a hypocrite, and if I were dropped somewhere I would deem interesting, I might, within five minutes, be ardently wishing to be sitting here whining. I certainly cannot tell for sure. I do know one thing though. Whatever the deeper meanings of it all, I bloody hate cereal.

2 comments:

  1. You're eating the wrong cereal. I veritably LIVE on this stuff:

    http://www.mornflake.com/products/crunchy.php

    You poor on a fair bit of milk and microwave for two minutes, and it becomes this gooey, oaty, splordgey mess full of fruit sugars and delicious!

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  2. HA HA! Why do I hear a mother dimly in the background demanding you eat your cereal?

    "...unless they had a boring modern job in a boring modern office to go to, and all they had to look forward to was a boring modern life."

    Don't bring Gundrea into this! So unfair.
    Besides, he eats cold tears for breakfast.

    I have to admit, I was never one for cereal either.

    Try and buy the really expensive granola and nut stuff that proclaims to be healthy but is really CHOCK FULL of fat and delicious delicious sugars. Douse it in real honey and throw a handful of raspberries on top, add thick creamy milk, and it's like you're eating dessert instead of breakfast.

    You're a growing boy. Eat up.

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