Episode 345: Magically Delicious

Show Notes Episode 345: Magically Delicious This week Host Dave Bledsoe angrily insists that Lucky Charms cereal prizes be tiny bottles of Jameson and is thrown out of the Kroger. (Again) On the show this week we open up the kitchen cabinet and pull down a box of Nostalgio's, the breakfast cereal for old people! (Don’t worry, they taste so bad you won’t WANT to eat them!) Along the way we learn that Dave’s little sister used to beat him up on the regular. (We’re sure he deserved it!) and then we dive right into the history of a balanced breakfast, from Roman times right through today! (It is surprisingly full of people with some VERY Interesting ideas about race and masturbation.) Then we talk about modern breakfast cereals and how kids in the 1970’s made informed decisions on their breakfast nutrition. (It involved an awful lot of talking animals.) Then we explain that cereal box prizes were ALWAYS a scam. (#Capitalism) Our Sponsor this week is Vodka Bombs, the breakfast cereal for big girls and boys! We open with George Carlin squabbling with his breakfast and close with Putnam Pig dropping some deft rhymes about a balanced breakfast! Show Theme: https://www.jamendo.com/track/421668/prelude-to-common-sense The Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_Podcast The Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/ www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/OmhusjvU0Ys We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: History of Breakfast Fact Sheet https://www.breakfastcereal.org/assets/uploads/files/00579-history-of-breakfast.pdf Wikipedia: John Harvey Kellogg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg Wikipedia: Ralstonism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralstonism MONSTROUSLY DELICIOUS: AN ORAL HISTORY OF MONSTER CEREALS https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/monster-cereals-oral-history Franken Berry, the Beloved Halloween Cereal, Was Once Medically Found to Cause Pink Poop https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/franken-berry-the-beloved-halloween-cereal-was-once-medically-found-to-cause-pink-poop-7114570/ Uncited Additional Reading:  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/22/dining/history-of-cereal.html https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2021/03/10380335/breakfast-cereal-history-future-strange-facts https://www.seriouseats.com/history-of-breakfast-cereal-mascots https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/648354/cereal-history https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/68718/8-throwback-movie-tie-breakfast-cereals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_breakfast_cereal_advertising_characters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices