bacon, eggs, hashbrowns & Gevalia coffee for me. cereal is rare.

I do this really crazy thing. I buy fresh fruit and cut it up and put it on oatmeal or granola (yes, I eat granola and I am not a Democrat). Then all I have to worry about is pesticide residues.

ok, I just need to point out that anyone who would think that the "berries" in dry cereal are real would have to be too stupid for their own good... If you want a shelf stable dry but edible fruit in your cereal your choice is some pretty scary sounding chemistry or not eating it in the first place. In the meantime lets keep in mind that there is LD50 data for distilled water floating around out there somewhere..

Cheerios man myself. great article.

banana pancakes over something called liver pudding. yeeee

I could do banana pancakes, although regular pancakes with Huckleberry syrup is really good too.

Later on I discovered grits could also be served with 'liver pudding', a pepper spicey ground-meat concoction shaped like a sausage that completely hides the 'flavor' of grits.
Not so much a breakfast dish though.
(Now, I do make some good banana pancakes for breakfast.Real bananas, too ;^)

That was the first breakfast I had my first morning in the south. I didn't know it was grits and I thought I was getting something edible. I was wrong.

Didn't anybody have breakfast in the south? Grandad used to make grits with cheese for me as a kid. (Hated grits unless it had the cheese though.)

We weren't allowed sugary stuff either. The closest we got to anything like that was on a cold rainy day we'd get hot Shredded Wheat that was baked with a little butter & sugar on top and milk for moisture. We did get candy on holidays. I still remember getting ribbon candy in my christmas sock and See's chocolate bunnies at easter.

We never had boxed cereal - 5 boys and a widowed mother - MaltoMeal, Cream of Wheat, Oatmeal - all with butter and molasses. I still can't eat breakfast

I'm not sure you can get it everywhere. another type-close-is Malt-O-Meal. But it's not as chocolatey.
when I was a kid, our mom wouldn't buy sugared cereal. so it was Cheerios, chex or coco wheats or oatmeal. I would longingly look at the cereal aisle and dream of Boo-Berry or count chocula or Lucky charms. it was only to be if I was at someone else's house, until I had my own money. Then, I never chose it over jolly ranchers or rootbeer balls-we weren't allowed to have candy either. My kids could eat mostly anything. They never really cared for cereal nor candy. After Halloween, their bags of candy would sit there for a few months before I threw it all away.

I'm glad I prefer plain old Oatmeal and Cream of Rice with the occasional Shredded Wheat.

Cream of Rice is actually quite good. Like Cream of Wheat only rice instead ;). I've never tried cocowheat. I'll look in the store today.

cream of rice?! gruel. cocowheat

Great post! Very detailed and enlightening. Now if only these same investigators can move onto random colleges & universities to prove that they don't teach anything except indoctrination. I can see these investigators going far in their career.