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yes stuff your face with our cheap Glysophate with a side of empty calories and shut up, says the millionaire CEO.

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Feb 28·edited Feb 28

This sounds entirely too pedantic, but I stopped watching sports years ago, so I end up learning stuff.

Mesoamericans knew how to prepare maize in a way that avoided causing a serious vitamin B deficiency known as Pellagra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra

They used limewater in a process that became known as "nixtamalization." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization

Rather the adopting the same techniques, american and european food manufacturers simply add niacin to the end product. https://www.southernfoodways.org/malnourished-cultural-ignorance-paved-the-way-for-pellagra

Pellagra was a huge problem. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6451741/

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OMG. I love reading the very intelligent and funny as hell comments on this blog. It is a great way to start my day. I particularly love snide humor... LOL!

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Reminds me of Marie Antoinette- Let them eat Froot Loops....

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What the CEO should have advised - if he had a shred of decency - is that it would be more nutritious to eat the Kellogg's box than its contents.

Thanks, Ben.

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If people get diabetes from constantly eating Frosted Flakes for dinner, the pharmaceutical companies will be super stoked! It's a win-win for everyone, except the poor peasant who is now diabetic.

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I haven’t watched CNBC in years. The Spoxhole interviewing the cereal peddler looks like he has been eating a lot of Fruitloops. He definitely could benefit from some fat shaming.

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Ha! that's a ripe one--Kellogg's from the git-go wuz invented ta dull lib-ee-doze an' decrease over-pop-u-lay-shun (the man felt we Americans were jus' too frisky! even back then):

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3185011/What-Corn-Flakes-masturbation-common-Mr-Kellogg-believed-sexual-desires-caused-disease-invented-plain-cereal-stop-self-pleasuring.html

So not only wuz the food arty-fish-all crapola fer ya (keeps dentists in biz fixin' rotten teef too!)--it fit the de-pop agenda jus' dandy--so eat up proles! peasants! Globalists sez it's Grrrrreat! (no ass-per-shuns on Tony the Tiger via Paul Winchell who remains a fond mascot in my book ;-)

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So disgusting considering the cell, brain, and organ killing additives and chemicals.

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I'm still laughing....

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This is beyond beyond. Of course, the Sheeple are as stupid as a bag of rocks and will take him up on the offer.

Did the CEO mention how overpriced his food is? Pound for pound, a sack of flour or dried beans is about one tenth the price.

Of course, over the years, the generic cereal is just about the same cost as the name brands. I can recall the days, back in the 1980's, when you could get a bag of generic puffed rice for 29 cents, versus $1.29 for a box of Puffed Rice half the size.

Times have sure changed.

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Well it ain't ph*cking cheap, it's mostly ph*cking air. Ullage on special, for the Little Ones.

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Poison for dinner.

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Cornflakes were originally a dietary aid at Krazy Kelloggs' fatty sanatorium if I remember correctly... So lose more weight whilst one eats? Corporate America wants us dead...

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I doubt Mr. Pilnick or his familty will be eating cereal for dinner.

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