I’m a Cleveland Cavaliers (NBA) fan, and unfortunately the team is owned by Dan Gilbert who also owns Rocket Mortgage. During every game, they run this Rocket Mortgage commercial that shows this schlub of a man bringing home three bags of groceries while the voiceover says how it used to be six bags of groceries for the same price. Then his house starts talking to him, reminding him that he has equity in the house and thus can take out a second mortgage and use the money to pay for … groceries. Just a horrifying, dystopic nightmare with catchy music and an animated smiley house.
Ah, ol’ Dan “Rant in Comic Sans” Gilbert… he also owns like half of Detroit doesn’t he?
Yeah, which makes the “we’re not Detroit” part of the Cleveland meme-song even more enjoyable.
One should never eat corn flakes.
Store brand cornflakes at best
Grains loaded with added sugars for your largest meal. Surely that won’t contribute further to this country’s health crisis, like it didn’t already do that by marketing itself as healthy for growing children.
This Kellogg’s?
Ayyyy someone hasn’t forgotten! I put in a handful of applications in when they were hiring scabs.
We still don’t buy Kellogg’s over that, and now they’ve only provided more grist for the mill
I see what you did there.
Odd that the words are so similar to “let them eat cake”
As the solution it led to was caused by LESS of a problem than exists now. The economic disparity of 18th century France was less than the disparity of today
I think the version we have now was done more slowly so people didn’t notice as much maybe. Lots more distractions today too
It was done intentionally by the author. That exact quote wasn’t said by the CEO (although his comments certainly give off that vibe).
The “Let them eat cake” was a political slander. IIRC she was actually quite sympathetic, but the revolution needed fuel.
It was actually completely unrelated to the revolution. Voltaire was dead for a decade by the time the whole thing kicked off.
Thomas Jefferson characterized her as an aloof stubborn person who’s choices brought herself to the guillotine. I wouldn’t say sympathetic, but pandered in hopes of avoiding harm to her and her immediate family, but without giving an actual shit about the country.
Do they make cake cereal? Missed opportunity if you ask me
There’s a Post Tim Hortons Birthday Cake Timbit Cereal in Canada.
https://www.postconsumerbrands.ca/brand/tim-hortons/products/post-timbits-cereal-birthday-cake/
Every time I walk down the breakfast aisle I see so many disgusting flavors of the same 10-or-so brands of cereal (under maybe two parent companies).
I can’t say for certain there’s a cake flavor but I’d immediately take that bet.
I just saw a new one at Walmart that’s like little cupcakes. Or maybe it had cupcake-shaped marshmallows. I almost bought that shit until I saw the price was over $6 for a medium sized box.
This was going to be my angle as well but you beat me to it, have an upvoot
Name brand cereal has gotten so expensive. I swapped to store brands and haven’t noticed a huge difference. Probably better to stop eating cereal in general.
Not wrong, way too much sugar in it for it to be good for anyone’s consumption
I was just at the store today, and overheard some kids asking when cereal got so expensive.
It illustrated just how rapidly they increased the prices.
I switched to Hot Cereal ( red mill ten grain) as my regular cereal was getting so expensive that I could justify my breakfast costs. Oat Milk+Cereal =$$ While what I switched to isn’t the cheapest option, it keeps me going till lunch and I just add water, honey, and calcium powder to it. 👍
Price difference has always been huge as far as I remember. I don’t think I even have bought anything from Kellogg’s myself, cost always seemed too high.
If I ever eat this stuff I prefer muesli over regular cereal. For me it tastes better and in general it should be also healthier since it contains real oats, nuts, dried fruit, sugar amount is not as high. That said I often take the one with chocolate pieces :)
It’s all the same dumb shit. There’s like 3 factories that make all the shit.
I can tell the difference in name brand cereal and HEB or malt-o-meals, but its all just carbs and sugar. So i dont need the highest quality frosted flakes or w/e.
Bachelor Chow.
Now with flavour
I’m hearing an open invitation to guillotines!
Lots of free red meat!
Hurry up now, chop chop
If I had to eat corn flakes for every meal, it would work the way John Kellogg intended. I wouldn’t have the strength to jerk off. I would be too damn depressed.
This is why we proles need to stick together
I go out of my way to avoid giving that fascist family any of my money.
Fuck you you fucking fucks.
“My, my, my, someone sounds like they need a yogurt enema.” --John Harvey Kellogg’s ghost, probably
This was the real reason for the gogurt packaging.
15 quarts of water up the pooper will flush that cancer away
No fucking way did this dude just say the 21st century verion of “Let them eat cake”
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He didn’t. The title isn’t a direct quote. His actual quote was pretty fucking tone deaf though.
So we just stop buying Kellogg’s products.
Keep getting them at the shops, just stop buying them.
I guess we have to reinvent the guillotine, version 2024. History will talk about let them eat cornflakes. It’s so ridiculous because cornflakes here is more expensive than a loaf of bread.
Laser guillotine
