From Scott Ott’s ScrappleFace column in The Washington Examiner…
After the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that health information on the box could cause Cheerios to be regulated as a drug, General Mills said it would soon offer a prescription-strength version of the oat-based breakfast favorite.
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35 responses so far ↓
1 gafisher // May 15, 2009 at 8:32 am
Sadly, this story has a grain of truth.
2 gafisher // May 15, 2009 at 8:52 am
Having grown up not too far from the Mecca of breakfast cereals (and having in fact taken part in a family pilgrimage to that hallowed ground in my youth) it’s impossible to ignore the extremely close link which has always existed between these foods and the medical profession — as well as to various branches of Biblical faith. Follow [this link] for a quick but fascinating history of those connections.
3 onlineanalyst // May 15, 2009 at 9:05 am
It’s all part of a GrapeNuts® conspiracy. (Take it with a grain of grain.)
Great line about Fruit Loops in San Francisco, Scott.
4 JamesonLewis3rd // May 15, 2009 at 12:34 pm
http://www.redstate.com/blog/2009/05/15/obama-administration-set-on-igniting-trade-war/
5 boberinyetagain // May 15, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Take 2 Cheerios and call me in the morning?
6 camojack // May 15, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Honey, you’re a nut.
7 boberinyetagain // May 15, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Hey, we could kill 2 birds here…Cheerio recipes!
8 boberinyetagain // May 15, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Cheerios teddy bear…awwww
3 tablespoons butter or margarine
32 large marshmallows
5 cups Cheerios® cereal
4 large black gumdrops
2 small black gumdrops
1 roll Betty Crocker® Fruit by the Foot® chewy fruit snack roll
Shape like a bear
9 onlineanalyst // May 15, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Some people will do anything for Kix®.
Do we have to be careful not to exceed the dosage on Spoon-Size Shredded Wheat®?
Funniest thing: My WV is narcs the
10 onlineanalyst // May 15, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Are Frosted Flakes® the preferred prescription for people with anger-management issues?
11 Darthmeister // May 15, 2009 at 3:48 pm
I heard General Mills was also coming out with a lithium-based version of Cheerios™ for perpetually angry liberals and Obamatons. Sheesh, talk about niche marketing!
12 boberinyetagain // May 15, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Gotta love Friday unannounced meetings…or not
5% pay cut across the board, no more 401K matches…
Pass the Cheerios…better yet the Frosted Flakes I suppose.
13 boberinyetagain // May 15, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Darth, on the contrary, not niche at all…the majority would like them…if the polls are correct
14 R.A.M. // May 15, 2009 at 4:57 pm
2 thoughts. Either Obama is wanting (Cheerios), General Mills to fail so he can give them a bailout and then takeover ownership or, maybe this is his new “healthcare Program”, a box of Cheerios for every family when they get sick?
blabberinyetagin has 5 of 13 posts. Not quite his usual 50% but it’s early yet.
Just because I know you love them, here are a few more blabber.
15 R.A.M. // May 15, 2009 at 5:02 pm
re#12: Probably Bush’s fault right blabber?
Couldn’t be Obama, could it?
Better stock up on ALL cereals, beans, soups, canned goods. Americans will need them if we are to make it through the “Obama years”.
Hopefully, they will be FEW!!!
16 mindknumbed kid // May 15, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Thank you Scott. I haven’t had much to laugh at lately and this one really got me! I think I’ve experienced one of the side effects from the over the counter Cheerios™ though, what should I do?
17 JamesonLewis3rd // May 15, 2009 at 9:26 pm
http://jamesonlewis3rd.com/Blog/?p=486
18 MajorDomo // May 15, 2009 at 11:59 pm
It’s the new National Cereal. Cherriobamas. Take the circle with red and white stripes, wrap the srripes around the O and there you have it: The Obama presidency with a hole in it.
19 onlineanalyst // May 16, 2009 at 2:26 am
Instead of having tea parties to demonstrate our disgust with the profligate spending and destructive economic agenda of Obama and the Dem-led Congress, maybe we should just wave boxes of Cheerios®.
The debt that the Big O and this gang of thugs is imposing has less nutritional value that those harmless little O’s floating in a bowl of milk.
20 Darthmeister // May 16, 2009 at 5:13 am
The Hypocrite Obamarx Tells Tempe Students: Live As I Say, Not As I Did
BTW, this country’s debt under Obamarx and his socialist regime can probably best be symbolized by the number 1 and the number of O’s in a box of Cheerios.
Hey Scott, given that California has more than its share of liberal fruits, flakes and nuts (unfortunately many California liberals have fled the nightmare they’ve created there and are now polluting Idaho, Montana, Colorado and Nevada with their presence, stupid ideas and higher taxes mentality) , don’t you think the medicated version of Fruit Loops™ might be a rather tame OTC breakfast cereal for this crowd?
21 mindknumbed kid // May 16, 2009 at 10:17 am
re#1 – That’s a whole grain of truth!
22 Ms RightWing, Ink // May 16, 2009 at 11:06 am
Hey, are all you Michigan Scrapplers going to sit back and take this.
What about Dr. John Harvey Kellogg who transformed health care in the nineteenth century and cereal industry magnates C. W. Post and W. K. Kellogg. These dudes died trying to convince you to eat shredded wheat biscuits and drinking Postum to make you live to be 190.
23 mindknumbed kid // May 16, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Hypothetically speaking if those men’s arguments were wrong and shredded wheat biscuits, postum, or Cheerios, in fact were harmful to your health, would they be considered “cereal killers” in the present day anti-big business hostile environment?
wv – Until flannel…that could open a can of worms.
24 What Did Pelosi Know? | Adam's Blog // May 16, 2009 at 11:49 pm
[...] The Obama FDA takes on cheerios. (Hat Tip: Don Surber.) A reasonable solution. (Hat Tip: Scrappleface.) [...]
25 F3 Coalition - [Faith. Family. Freedom.] » Blog Archive » What Did Pelosi Know? // May 16, 2009 at 11:59 pm
[...] The Obama FDA takes on cheerios. (Hat Tip: Don Surber.) A reasonable solution. (Hat Tip: Scrappleface.) [...]
26 mindknumbed kid // May 17, 2009 at 2:34 am
http://tinyurl.com/r5exq8
27 onlineanalyst // May 17, 2009 at 10:23 am
Ah, the irony: President Palin’s First 100 Days
Did you hear the one about the secret bunker beneath the National Observatory? Ask Joe Biden about it? Mark my words. He told the audience the descriptive details at the Gridiron Club. Stand up, Joe. God love ya.
28 mindknumbed kid // May 17, 2009 at 4:27 pm
You realize of course that with the government required changes in packaging, ingredients, etc. the prescription version will cost you about $55 for a 12 ounce box…
29 Fred Sinclair // May 17, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Strange – I’m using a borrowed laptop to post this. My computer died this morning so I’ll be saving up my $$$ until I can get a new one. One of my church friends who is very computer literate says he can probably salvage my hard drive to put in the new computer when get it. From my SS Check it will probably take me three or so months to save up the $$$, so except for perhaps use of an occasional borrowed laptop I will be out for awhile. Ciao for now. – Heirborn Ranger
30 onlineanalyst // May 18, 2009 at 10:27 am
“Geithner: Still a Mess at Treasury”
We are talking about serious issues that are not being addressed, and the Obama administration wants to increase the debt load into a bottomless pit.
Most incompetent administration evah, the failed Obama presidency. But. hey. he’s popular.
31 Laughing@You // May 18, 2009 at 6:58 pm
“Most incompetent administration evah, the failed Obama presidency. But. hey. he’s popular.”
What “evah” can you be saying? Our country has NEVER been attacked on Obama’s watch!
None of our citizens has been deserted in a time of great need, as they were in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
ALL of our economic problems are a direct result of Republican deregulation of our banking and investment sectors. That, and the tax cuts YOU sold our countries security to get, while starting wars on two fronts to enrich Halliburton, and who knows who else.
All of this to feed the gluttonous ego of your megalomaniac moron.
After Bush anyone, except another Republican, would be popular.
Everthink?
32 Laughing@You // May 18, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Country’s
33 gafisher // May 20, 2009 at 9:11 pm
OLA Re#9, Kix just keep gettin’ harder to find.
As for #31, we haven’t been (openly) attacked because our leaders no longer pose a threat to our enemies.
(The rest of that post is the usual pointless Bush Derangement Syndrome nonsense, but with a fox guarding the henhouse it’s not hard to figure out why the doors and windows aren’t showing signs of forced entry.)
34 gafisher // May 21, 2009 at 11:59 am
p.s. to #33: Kudos to the Obama Administration for not calling off the investigation, begun during and conducted under the rules of the Bush – Cheney Administration, which resulted yesterday in the arrest of a terror cell which had already planted what they thought was a large bomb in New York City and was preparing to attack an airport in New York with what they had likewise been fooled into believing were Stinger missiles.
The only real surprise in the new poll which reports both Bush and Cheney are quickly gaining in popularity is that CNN reported it.
35 What Did Pelosi Know? - adamsweb’s blog - RedState web01.prod.theplanet.eaglepub.com 174.120.27.221 // Aug 13, 2009 at 1:46 pm
[...] The Obama FDA takes on cheerios. (Hat Tip: Don Surber.) A reasonable solution. (Hat Tip: Scrappleface.) [...]
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