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You were looking for further suggestions for ordinary things. Air conditioning has a surprisingly political (and racist!) past: www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n03/james-meek/take-a-nap. And, as that article doesn't mention, it was originally invented to keep the air dry, with the coolness as a side-effect.
One thing I learned in a marketing class this year, is that all of the mascot characters are looking downward on the box as a way to connect with smaller children that would be looking up at the isles
isnt that wring tho?? bc of the way our brains interpret 2d images, if a face is staring straight out at the audience then from most angles it will appear to be looking at them, but if theyre looking down itll still seem so from below.
@@KNylen it's still possible to draw something looking downwards, by making the bottom part largest and tapering in to the top, as in perspective with a high focal point, or looming over by making the upper body larger and bearing down.
I once had to write an essay that accounted for 75% of my final grade on an invention that changed America. Because I fancied myself a contrarian who could bullshit his way through the assignment, I chose cereal. Everyone else in the class chose things like the airplane or television...I aced the assignment on the grounds that it changed how products were marketed towards children forever...just happy to see someone else also undestands the impact of such an ordinary thing.
In Mexico since this year all the cereal (and any other bread, candy, etc.) mascots have been removed and are forbidden now, they also put huge ugly black seals in front of the package stating things like High in Sugar, High in Calories, High in Sodium, etc. I think is a good start.
As a kid in the 60s, I would put a solid layer of sugar on top of Frosted Flakes, then mix it in. This was usually accompanied by a big glass of Tang with at least a tablespoon of additional sugar. For lunch, dinner, and snacks we always had 3 or 4 desserts to choose from. Nobody blinked an eye. Ah well, my type 2 diabetes is under control now.
People don't really have any idea what eating was like in the past and it's kinda pathetic how much it's been ignored "Oh that's too much butter you're using!" "Really? Would you rather I use the half a pound our ancestors used for this same thing for over 600 years?"
@@lukeonukeExercise is certainly important, but at the end of the day, your diet is the true factor. I’d say a big factor has been the difference in portions and size options at restaurants, or even just the normalization of eating out so damn often as opposed to it just being a special treat.
Kellogg's younger brother was the one who really helped cereal reach its true potential as he added sugar in it to taste better despite his brother's insistance on it to be bland and healthy.
Blah. I avoid any cereal that has the teeth-destroying refined sugar added. I mean, if we want sugar, we can add it over top and mix it in; how long does that take? Like seconds? We add milk, right? Sugar is as easy to add! Besides, we can add some whole healthy sweetener instead of the forced junk. So, Kellogg's younger bro, you're EVIL.
He’s also the one that did most of the marketing for it, I’m pretty sure John didn’t even want to sell it and it took heavy convincing from his brother.
When I was in grade school, I used to stay at my aunts house a lot since she lived next door to the school. All they ever ate was cereal breakfast and dinner, later found out from her coworkers she would take cereal for lunch sometimes as well. I remember just feeling awful most of the time, and even though I was super active as a up until 5, by 8 I was just tired all the time. My parents would just say video games and TV were making me lazy, later to realize it was likely just having almost no nutrition in my diet, aside from what was in the school lunches. The one good thing to come out of that, by age 11 I just hated cereal avoided it, and realized I felt better eating other foods, by 13 I started to teach myself to cook. Now I'm so interested in cooking and nutrition, I cook balanced healthy meals on the daily. All driven by my desire to avoid eating cereal as much as possible.
Yes the fact is they ruined them by over refining them and stripping all the most nutrient parts like the bran and the germ, and pumping them with sugar, because otherwise unsweetened steel cut whole oats to make muesli and porridge with nuts and berries for added flavor, could also be a healthy breakfast.
I sat next to a traditionally dressed Indian woman on a morning flight. She was served a bowl of museli and carton of milk. She honestly looked like she didn't know what to do with them, and left the goods untouched until the steward collected them an hour later. Our concept of breakfast being grain flakes soaked in cow milk is so strange to many people around the world.
My newest find and one of my favorites!!! Love the subjects and the sense of humour peppered in makes me laugh out loud every episode! Keep on keeping on my friend. With love 💘 from Canada
I mean he ain't wrong (why you keep doing this, you are making it look all of us agree with cluster f*ck of a twitter converstation and make all of us look like some 📯E trash fires)
I think this was the first of his videos to branch out into the "darker" comedy (which i love more than normal comedy). Interesting how ypu can watch all their videos from oldest to newest, the transformation is amazing. Well done brotha, much love 💙
As someone who grew up OBSESSED with having cereal for breakfast, this was an excellent birthday gift. Just found your channel, and you've gained a fan!
Your channel is extraordinary, can't believe I've been on UA-cam for so many years and never saw a video from you until this week. After seeing your soda video I immediately subscribed, these older videos are still so good in quality in comparison haha.
@@backseatswitchyy Furries are the Pagans of modern day. They even have their own gods like Sonic the Hedgehog and Chester Cheetah. All they're missing is a leader to unite them to form The Great OwO Army.
bro i found you from the capten stede bonnet video and i became instently a fan of yours + you make high quality stuff that need a lot of work bro you are my fav youtuber now keep going !
Well, he stole granola. Corn flakes were an accident in his Sanitarium kitchen that turned out better than what he was actually trying to make, and that's what his brother stole. Or took, at least - John H. wanted to keep it strictly in-house and exclusive, where William H. knew it was a license to print money. Heck, maybe even people who _weren't_ vegetarian Seventh Day Adventists might like it!
I hate when there's a product I'm already buying and then I see an ad for it that leaves a bad taste in my mouth -- it's the complete opposite of what an ad is supposed to do!
No, you're right. Fuck Special K. I remember when I was 16, the Special K Challenge came along and me, being the impressionable, body dismorphic teen I was at the time, tried this challenge. Which then spring boarded my ED and dismorphia into actual carnage such as I hadn't experienced before. I was basically only eating cereal until I eventually fainted and was diagnosed as malnourished. Ten years on and I'm okay now, but that ad campaign is one sinister mother fucker and personally I hate the brand now. Still like a wee Weetabix tho, won't lie. Great video 👍
It's really these companies and industries that often mislead people to buy more of their products which can have such consequential effects that can be as bad as yours because they make false promises. It's pretty infuriating actually and scary
Similar thing happened to me. Just with regular cereal. Ate just cereal and ended up in the hospital for 3 months for starvation/ almost died at age 11. Hope your doing ok now and in remission.
I was just about to say, at the same age my own mother put me on the special K diet and I remember feeling faint and it definitely fueled disordered eating issues that I eventually worked through and no longer have issues with. But I have a chronic illness now and I know my teen years of y2k beauty standards and diet culture definitely played a role in the downfall of my health
You know, I ate a lot of cereal as a kid and it was never something I ACTUALLY liked, even cookie crisps or cocoa puffs. I think it was because I ate it so frequently I got tired of it. I'd MUCH rather have eggs and toast any day over whatever kind of cereal you push on me.
I agree! Sometimes cereal can still be super tasty I buy a small pack every 2 months:-) But yeah, eggs Benedict on your avocado toast with a few drops of hot sauce and tomatoe is like way better
I like to imagine that the reason Cereal sales have dropped cause people realized two things. First, leftovers make an excellent breakfast. Second, Eggs, biscuits, gravy, sausage, and pancakes are HELLA GOOD.
For me personally, there's also the fact I realised I can just not eat in the morning and be fine with it. I haven't eaten breakfast since I was 15 and I haven't had problems with it, breakfast is much less essential than you are told it is and two meals a day is more than enough unless you are working a very physically heavy job in the morning, for everyone else it's fine
This channel has made me laugh harder than hours of comedy specials, and hey, I might learn something, or remember it just long enough for it to be useful in some forgettable conversation…
@@OrdinaryThings Oh! Did you know that the zipper industry is a monopoly dominated by the Japanese company YKK? I looked it up once while bored at work.
I would always eat non sugary cereals with strawberry and banana slices in my bowl. Loved it tbh. Can’t stand sugary cereals now even when I get the craving, it’s gotta be bland cereal with fruit in the bowl for me
When lots of different people were put under brain scan machines over a long period of time and given lots of different things to see what the the brains liked the best they all went mad for sugar. Sugar is more addictive than all band drugs. in other words sugar is the most addictive thing on planet Earth for us humans. Really we are no different to the heroin user chasing his next fix, the only difference is are fix is sugar and the governments of the Earth can tax sugar where they can not tax heroin, hence why you are allowed to eat sugar. Cereal companies are your drug dealer. Hence why after watching this you will continue to eat cereal.
I think salt might make a good ordinary things video. You have its original collection as a mineral from salt flats under horrid conditions and its later refining and boiling down from sea water and saline springs making it arguably the first real mining industry. These practices were so widespread that nearly every culture in the world developed large scale salt refining independently from China to Europe. When french fur trader Pierre-Esprit Radisson was captured by the Iroquois in 1652, he even remarked about how they gave him salt enough for his journey. Presumably refined from saline springs north of Lake Winnipeg. That progresses into increased scales of production making it safer, cleaner, and more affordable than ever and the critical addition of iodine making increasing global IQ by at least 3 points up to 15 in some places by offsetting serious nutritional deficiencies. Then finally the modern salt industry. Where salt without added iodine has become something people buy as a kind of prestige good, and people buy pink salt and salt mined under those original horrible conditions from impoverished nations feeding a cycle of human suffering for the same basic mineral with no measurable difference in taste or quality all because they want to feel better about their own status. Actively contributing to nutritional shortcomings which ravaged the world for generations. You could even discuss how aside from those with a specific type of hypertension there's essentially no danger in eating a large amount of salt, the effects on wetlands ecosystems caused by salt runoff from salting the roads in the winter, and how some disorders such as POTS may actually benefit from consuming up to 10g of salt a day. There's a lot to talk about with salt and often the intuition people have about it and the common knowledge is entirely wrong.
Dude, thanks for the sodium education. That was awesome. I definitely want to do an episode on salt, but I wasn't sure what perspective to take, and you have given me at least four
"essentially no danger in eating a large amount of salt" > huh? please explain. So, no high blood pressure? I go with the motto that too much of anything is bad for you. But aside from that, I'm fed up with pa constantly nagging ma about her salt intake that it's bad for her blood pressure, when I consider her need/want reasonable. He just won't let her enjoy in peace her last years; even if salt does raise her b.p., I say let her be, for a short life lived well in mental freedom is better than a long life lived under constant suppression.
Actually brings a lot of health risks overeating sodium and from hypertension, to coronary to cardiovascular diseases, and most people are already overeating it in packed foods, especially processed meat, and iodine thing is complete BS, because you shouldn’t search nutrients in salt, because they would in so much little concentrations that wouldn’t make any difference other than making salt sour and unpleasant.
Loved the video humour gets the message across.A friend of mine recently saw a dietician who discribed breakfast cereals as confectionery.Products can be shit as long as they are marketed right.
I mean....people are really being treated like sheep. I dont blame the ones doing it. I blame the sheep. There is a cartoon called robot chicken. Its writer admitted on camera, with a smile, that it was an experiment to see how stupid and lazy they could be and still make money off of people. But, people still watch it to this day.
Racism is used to control people, fun is used to control people, sex is used to control, people, and God is used to control people. Live your own life, if there is a god, they will be proud.
When I was a kid my mother didn't allow me to eat a full bowl of sweet cereal for breakfast, saying they were too sweet. I was forced to mix half a bowl with plain cereals. She wa s wise. Now as an adult I occasionally have cheerios or coco pops for snacks, but can't chow down a full bowl of those fruit loops
The way you explain in these videos makes me think you'd be able to make me learn the whole world's history in 20 minutes and even make it interesting and enjoyable
Your videos are gold. You should have more recognition. Or maybe you do and I'm out of the loop, you've probably been on Strictly Big Brother Baking or some such.
This was really well-made. Comedy was on-point. Info was solid. I'm definitely subscribing and watching your previous vids. (But I'm probably gonna eat cereal while I do that)
@@alexmott507 You just learned that breakfast cereal companies told mass amount of lies without giving a shit about your health and you just say "so what" You are not going to be alone in that thinking as I bet most people who watch this vido will continue eating cereal as the brain loves sugar so really what was the point of this guy making this video?
@@MrStephen182 veiws,money,having fun,educating himself,educating other people if he gets 100 people in a million to change their diet the video is still effective.
@@Pactastic042 its a real thing. Take a jar, put some steel cut oats in, pour in milk of choice, maybe fruit and other things. Then eat it in the morning
I was brainwashed to eat cereal for breakfast for decades. Once I had to put effort in staying not fat I cut the cereal - I still have to fight the “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” minions. Man the government really brainwashed me with their Food propaganda in school.
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oh wow! This is a great find. Thanks dude! (I also happen to love the LRB, so this is a double treat)
𝐁𝐨𝐱: "Kellogg's Coco Pops"
𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜: "Nestlé Cocoa Puffs"
🆆🅷🅸🅲🅷 🅸🆂 🅸🆃‽
@@OrdinaryThings A friend happened to post it on Facebook. She posts all kinds of interesting stuff.
ah cool! That's sick
Cigarettes: Part of a balanced breakfast, 0 calories, no dishes.
What about the ashtray?
@@LilRipper76 eat the ash
Smokepipe?
@timtommersen good idea, who needs diabetes when you have lung cancer
Smoking a cig while reading this comment
One thing I learned in a marketing class this year, is that all of the mascot characters are looking downward on the box as a way to connect with smaller children that would be looking up at the isles
Holy shit, mind-blowing
isnt that wring tho?? bc of the way our brains interpret 2d images, if a face is staring straight out at the audience then from most angles it will appear to be looking at them, but if theyre looking down itll still seem so from below.
@@KNylen yeah. His marketing class needs to do some serious homework before presenting that crap to the students like him
@@KNylen it's still possible to draw something looking downwards, by making the bottom part largest and tapering in to the top, as in perspective with a high focal point, or looming over by making the upper body larger and bearing down.
@@philliusphoggwick8299 in that case it would still be looking straight at the “camera” for everyone, even though the pupils would be lower in the eye
I once had to write an essay that accounted for 75% of my final grade on an invention that changed America. Because I fancied myself a contrarian who could bullshit his way through the assignment, I chose cereal. Everyone else in the class chose things like the airplane or television...I aced the assignment on the grounds that it changed how products were marketed towards children forever...just happy to see someone else also undestands the impact of such an ordinary thing.
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Can you show us your essay then? For reference and research purposes ☺
You sir have my utmost respect.
@@Halapep cereal forever
In Mexico since this year all the cereal (and any other bread, candy, etc.) mascots have been removed and are forbidden now, they also put huge ugly black seals in front of the package stating things like High in Sugar, High in Calories, High in Sodium, etc. I think is a good start.
I saw this on cheetos and was so confused, thanks for shedding some light
@@Squid666 Cheet-O's?
It is amazing what happens when consumers are given the facts about the food they are consuming.
Unfortunately Mexico are the biggest consumers of sugary drinks in the world, a shame the government doesn't have the same attitude to Coke.
@@SewerPossum the government there doesn’t do a whole lot about any kind of coke… but it’s good to see the steps they’re taking against sugar at least
"Nutritionally vacant" sounds like a cereal-based punk cover band would be called.
With your permission I am going to steal this idea and make it a reality
@Carl Olov Andreasson on it
Got to give it to Internet Historian, he wasnt wrong that I would like your content
same, he mentioned him in a video and here i am binging.
@@synapris what video man
yep ;)
Yeah im also wondering which video
@@kasumikat it was "Monsters." On the 2nd channel. And a few more since
Imagine giving your kids a dessert for breakfast every morning and then blaming anything else for their inevitable health issues lol
As a kid in the 60s, I would put a solid layer of sugar on top of Frosted Flakes, then mix it in.
This was usually accompanied by a big glass of Tang with at least a tablespoon of additional sugar.
For lunch, dinner, and snacks we always had 3 or 4 desserts to choose from.
Nobody blinked an eye.
Ah well, my type 2 diabetes is under control now.
Cancer is coming in smoothly and unnoticed though.
People don't really have any idea what eating was like in the past and it's kinda pathetic how much it's been ignored
"Oh that's too much butter you're using!"
"Really? Would you rather I use the half a pound our ancestors used for this same thing for over 600 years?"
@@victorkreig6089
but people were thin, mostly.
they werent healthy but they were thin
id say its the more movement you had to do
@@raw_si_sihtnot if it gets caught early 😏
@@lukeonukeExercise is certainly important, but at the end of the day, your diet is the true factor.
I’d say a big factor has been the difference in portions and size options at restaurants, or even just the normalization of eating out so damn often as opposed to it just being a special treat.
Sugar, also known as “white cocaine”
That's just cocaine tho
but- coke is white the main difference it just the texture and consistency.
@@milli9532 you ruined the joke man, you're high go home
Also death salt
fun fact: sugar is an alcohole.
I love how most ice cream shops offer cereal now as a topping.
You're lying, right?
@@quadrotix4979 Nope!
@@MrFuggleGuggle you're right dude
And that's delicious
(Note: the ones I see around where I live, is the cheapest and therefore with less sugar, and yet is super sweet)
@@quadrotix4979 nope, cold stone offers it.
Kellogg's younger brother was the one who really helped cereal reach its true potential as he added sugar in it to taste better despite his brother's insistance on it to be bland and healthy.
Blah. I avoid any cereal that has the teeth-destroying refined sugar added. I mean, if we want sugar, we can add it over top and mix it in; how long does that take? Like seconds? We add milk, right? Sugar is as easy to add! Besides, we can add some whole healthy sweetener instead of the forced junk. So, Kellogg's younger bro, you're EVIL.
He’s also the one that did most of the marketing for it, I’m pretty sure John didn’t even want to sell it and it took heavy convincing from his brother.
@@rswow tbf both brothers are insane in the opposite parts.
@rswow dude sweetener is just as bad lmao
@gusg613 why are sweeteners bad?
When I was in grade school, I used to stay at my aunts house a lot since she lived next door to the school. All they ever ate was cereal breakfast and dinner, later found out from her coworkers she would take cereal for lunch sometimes as well.
I remember just feeling awful most of the time, and even though I was super active as a up until 5, by 8 I was just tired all the time. My parents would just say video games and TV were making me lazy, later to realize it was likely just having almost no nutrition in my diet, aside from what was in the school lunches.
The one good thing to come out of that, by age 11 I just hated cereal avoided it, and realized I felt better eating other foods, by 13 I started to teach myself to cook. Now I'm so interested in cooking and nutrition, I cook balanced healthy meals on the daily. All driven by my desire to avoid eating cereal as much as possible.
Yes the fact is they ruined them by over refining them and stripping all the most nutrient parts like the bran and the germ, and pumping them with sugar, because otherwise unsweetened steel cut whole oats to make muesli and porridge with nuts and berries for added flavor, could also be a healthy breakfast.
Cereal actually isn't that good for human consumption since the invention of agriculture, most teeth decay through history is linked to it.
"Body O Christ, God they're good" was an amazing slogan 🤣
thanks! I also had 'salvation in every spoonfull'
@@OrdinaryThings also good, but I think you went with the right choice.
haha, thanks
@@OrdinaryThings Is body o’ Christ fake then? Because I really want it to be real.
There needs to be a Kickstarter to make it real.
"It can be consumed... Straight from the box, if you're lazy and / or stoned"
I feel personally attacked.
On _two_ fronts.
Was literally sat here eating blueberry cheerios straight from the box XD
somewhat too but slightly true
@@phallup2136 Those exist?...
@@phallup2136 that sounds fire
I remember putting spoonfuls of sugar on top of Life cereal as a kid.
Ah, a childhood with 6 cavities.
oh the irony
My mother did this and wonders why our entire family (most extended relatives included) struggle with obesity. She's just now seeing the connection
There was a time in my life where I used to eat Nutella straight out of the jar.
@@bradford_shaun_murrayyes most of them advertised the iron in their products
@@DogDogGodFogeat fruits if you have sugar cravings
I sat next to a traditionally dressed Indian woman on a morning flight. She was served a bowl of museli and carton of milk. She honestly looked like she didn't know what to do with them, and left the goods untouched until the steward collected them an hour later.
Our concept of breakfast being grain flakes soaked in cow milk is so strange to many people around the world.
As a woman nothing leaves me feeling more empowered than laughing after sundown
LMAO!!! Great comment
What about using both of your arms?
one of my favorite comments on the internet
You go girl er woman.
this is why tampon adverts are so popular. They really capture that empowering feeling of "looking out of a window" and "using a treadmill"
"Part of this balanced breakfast"
*Shows a thanksgiving feast with a cereal bowl on the side*
yeah, it's the DESERT
I always love to accompany my grilled meat with a side of sweet cereal with milk.
I honestly cannot get over how well spoken and witty this dude is. An absolute pleasure to hear you talk.
My newest find and one of my favorites!!!
Love the subjects and the sense of humour peppered in makes me laugh out loud every episode!
Keep on keeping on my friend.
With love 💘 from Canada
“Steroid-pumped furry wet dream” LMAO 😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah this is great
Poor tony
@@asegundacontadopedrolopesn9445 have you found The Entertainment yet?
@@juanrafaelojedamanuitt4966 no
I mean he ain't wrong (why you keep doing this, you are making it look all of us agree with cluster f*ck of a twitter converstation and make all of us look like some 📯E trash fires)
I still eat cereal to this day, just not as breakfast. It's more of an occasional snack now, like cupcakes.
Captain crunch Oops all berries for when I'm high.
For me, cereal is a great midnight snack
Same
Same
I steal the prize out and seal the box as if new and watch my kids look for it.
More please. Just working thru your back catalogue! So keep em coming !!!
I think this was the first of his videos to branch out into the "darker" comedy (which i love more than normal comedy). Interesting how ypu can watch all their videos from oldest to newest, the transformation is amazing. Well done brotha, much love 💙
As someone who grew up OBSESSED with having cereal for breakfast, this was an excellent birthday gift. Just found your channel, and you've gained a fan!
thanks dude! Glad you like it!
So it was the cereals fault?
T-posing to assert dominance before it was cool
I think Jesus iconography beat him to the punch mate.
Jesus this made me laugh in the face of the Cyberpunk T posing bug nightmare
Lol
Your channel is extraordinary, can't believe I've been on UA-cam for so many years and never saw a video from you until this week. After seeing your soda video I immediately subscribed, these older videos are still so good in quality in comparison haha.
“Along with his gang of radioactive condoms” lmao
I was in tears when he said that
I love how he says things like “a furry’s wet dream” so casually
i love furries but i rerely eat cereal.
@@dying101666 fuck furries 21st century my ass furries are just fucking weird in the head
@@backseatswitchyydone
@@backseatswitchyy
>Fuck furries
Don't mind if I do
@@backseatswitchyy Furries are the Pagans of modern day. They even have their own gods like Sonic the Hedgehog and Chester Cheetah. All they're missing is a leader to unite them to form The Great OwO Army.
Informative and low-key comedy gold. My new favourite channel.
bro i found you from the capten stede bonnet video and i became instently a fan of yours
+ you make high quality stuff that need a lot of work
bro you are my fav youtuber now keep going !
I always thought Kellogg was the inventor, funny he stole it from another guy, but his brother stole it again and started this whole business.
Well, he stole granola. Corn flakes were an accident in his Sanitarium kitchen that turned out better than what he was actually trying to make, and that's what his brother stole. Or took, at least - John H. wanted to keep it strictly in-house and exclusive, where William H. knew it was a license to print money. Heck, maybe even people who _weren't_ vegetarian Seventh Day Adventists might like it!
Funny how a guy with a huge beard and no mustache invented granola, only for it to be stolen by a guy with a huge mustache and no beard.
I hate when there's a product I'm already buying and then I see an ad for it that leaves a bad taste in my mouth -- it's the complete opposite of what an ad is supposed to do!
That might have been the funniest yet most informative idea I have eva seen. Thank you. I subscribed
Brother , You are on another level man , Love Your Channel , keep rising
No, you're right. Fuck Special K.
I remember when I was 16, the Special K Challenge came along and me, being the impressionable, body dismorphic teen I was at the time, tried this challenge. Which then spring boarded my ED and dismorphia into actual carnage such as I hadn't experienced before. I was basically only eating cereal until I eventually fainted and was diagnosed as malnourished.
Ten years on and I'm okay now, but that ad campaign is one sinister mother fucker and personally I hate the brand now. Still like a wee Weetabix tho, won't lie.
Great video 👍
Yeah! F*ck cereal!
fuck special k all my homies hate special k
It's really these companies and industries that often mislead people to buy more of their products which can have such consequential effects that can be as bad as yours because they make false promises. It's pretty infuriating actually and scary
Similar thing happened to me. Just with regular cereal. Ate just cereal and ended up in the hospital for 3 months for starvation/ almost died at age 11. Hope your doing ok now and in remission.
I was just about to say, at the same age my own mother put me on the special K diet and I remember feeling faint and it definitely fueled disordered eating issues that I eventually worked through and no longer have issues with. But I have a chronic illness now and I know my teen years of y2k beauty standards and diet culture definitely played a role in the downfall of my health
So *that’s* why Ryan Gosling wouldn’t eat his cereal
you qualify for an internet veterans discount
@@annonymous7286 3 more vintage memes and I get a free Dancing Baby!
Oh this is the best comment
So happy that you've post that kind of information to open peoples eyes.
This was great. Thanks OT!
You know, I ate a lot of cereal as a kid and it was never something I ACTUALLY liked, even cookie crisps or cocoa puffs. I think it was because I ate it so frequently I got tired of it. I'd MUCH rather have eggs and toast any day over whatever kind of cereal you push on me.
i dont eat a lot of sugary cereal. i love plain cheerios and chex cereal lol. i dont understand how people can eat cookie crisps so much
I agree! Sometimes cereal can still be super tasty I buy a small pack every 2 months:-)
But yeah, eggs Benedict on your avocado toast with a few drops of hot sauce and tomatoe is like way better
@@TVsMyBeloved ok tbh Cookie Crisp Rules but Cinnamon Toast is the absolute best of all cereals
@@sophiaromanamanuela I prefer golden grahams
At least we know that eggs and toast consist of eggs and flour, there's no guarantee what's in the damn cereal.
".. had his hands full of wankers.."
I exhaled so hard now there's coke everywhere
You support and give validation to my nihilism and misanthropy, thank you. Subscribed.
This channel deserves way more subscriptions
I like to imagine that the reason Cereal sales have dropped cause people realized two things. First, leftovers make an excellent breakfast. Second, Eggs, biscuits, gravy, sausage, and pancakes are HELLA GOOD.
For me personally, there's also the fact I realised I can just not eat in the morning and be fine with it. I haven't eaten breakfast since I was 15 and I haven't had problems with it, breakfast is much less essential than you are told it is and two meals a day is more than enough unless you are working a very physically heavy job in the morning, for everyone else it's fine
A cup of coffee and a single microwaved egg is all you need for when you really dont want your stomach acting up in important days
@Rainbowstargang i have the metabolism of a small bird and don't care that i'm statistically likely to die at 55, so no, i don't think i will.
@@goddamnarshia microwaved egg? Heathen.
@@neilkurowski4991 quick and easy.
The production quality on this is super high for a channel with less then 5k subs. Great job!
thanks dude, lol, I try
He's at 230k now hard work pays off
500k and growing.
I’ve watched these countless times can’t get enough
Sweet Jesus that was entertaining. Thanks for the video- you just gained another subscriber!
"Only trace amounts of donkey shit" Why is this so funny?
“Yaassss Quaker” was such a good visual bit
This channel has made me laugh harder than hours of comedy specials, and hey, I might learn something, or remember it just long enough for it to be useful in some forgettable conversation…
Grain is used for cereal, grain is used for beer, beer = cereal. Beer is part of balanced breakfast.
“more garish, fluorescent colors than an episode of rupauls drag race”
I would love to learn more about zippers.
Ooh that’s a really good one. I’m planning one on buttons so maybe I could do a pair of episodes or somehow interlockkk them...
@@OrdinaryThings Keep up the amazing work my friend!
@@OrdinaryThings why not do one on an interlockkk ignition device??
@@OrdinaryThings Oh! Did you know that the zipper industry is a monopoly dominated by the Japanese company YKK? I looked it up once while bored at work.
Nah, buttons are where it's at.
I would always eat non sugary cereals with strawberry and banana slices in my bowl. Loved it tbh. Can’t stand sugary cereals now even when I get the craving, it’s gotta be bland cereal with fruit in the bowl for me
Non-sugary cereals are not healthy, either. Nutritionally vacant, as he says.
Wow, amazing job! You really did your research.
"This is very interesting and informing!"
*continues to eat cereal anyways*
When lots of different people were put under brain scan machines over a long period of time and given lots of different things to see what the the brains liked the best they all went mad for sugar. Sugar is more addictive than all band drugs. in other words sugar is the most addictive thing on planet Earth for us humans. Really we are no different to the heroin user chasing his next fix, the only difference is are fix is sugar and the governments of the Earth can tax sugar where they can not tax heroin, hence why you are allowed to eat sugar. Cereal companies are your drug dealer. Hence why after watching this you will continue to eat cereal.
@@MrStephen182 woke
@@MrStephen182 your body actually needs sugar you can't really compare it to other substances.
@@cyphaborg6598 yea but only in small amounts, our society eats waaaaay too much sugar
@@cyphaborg6598 But the body can produce its own sugar so you don't need to eat it
Came from Reddit, Stayed for the Special K burns.
FUcK Special K
Oh Yeah
Lol I did the special k diet basically my entire junior and senior year of highschool over a decade ago. Apparently that was actually called anorexia.
Didn't realize there's also a cereal by that name.
I love your sense of humor!
Dude your videos are always 🔥👌💯, keep up the great work. Always have me laughing.
"Mad house of guilty wankers" - Shakespeare that one year
I'm just surprised British people also say 'cereal' and not something like 'milk crisps' or something else weird.
In the north, people still call it Wheat-Lucys or Bran Cakes, depending on the region
@@OrdinaryThings Disgusting.
It's our language so we can do whatever we want with it.
@@AA-hg5fk ok funny bri'sh man
@@OrdinaryThingsWe do?
Bravo! Great Presentation.
I’ve watched a couple of these now, but this is the one that won me over 😂😂😂 take my sub
“Furry threesome”
That got me laughing for quite a bit.
I think salt might make a good ordinary things video. You have its original collection as a mineral from salt flats under horrid conditions and its later refining and boiling down from sea water and saline springs making it arguably the first real mining industry. These practices were so widespread that nearly every culture in the world developed large scale salt refining independently from China to Europe. When french fur trader Pierre-Esprit Radisson was captured by the Iroquois in 1652, he even remarked about how they gave him salt enough for his journey. Presumably refined from saline springs north of Lake Winnipeg.
That progresses into increased scales of production making it safer, cleaner, and more affordable than ever and the critical addition of iodine making increasing global IQ by at least 3 points up to 15 in some places by offsetting serious nutritional deficiencies. Then finally the modern salt industry. Where salt without added iodine has become something people buy as a kind of prestige good, and people buy pink salt and salt mined under those original horrible conditions from impoverished nations feeding a cycle of human suffering for the same basic mineral with no measurable difference in taste or quality all because they want to feel better about their own status. Actively contributing to nutritional shortcomings which ravaged the world for generations.
You could even discuss how aside from those with a specific type of hypertension there's essentially no danger in eating a large amount of salt, the effects on wetlands ecosystems caused by salt runoff from salting the roads in the winter, and how some disorders such as POTS may actually benefit from consuming up to 10g of salt a day. There's a lot to talk about with salt and often the intuition people have about it and the common knowledge is entirely wrong.
Dude, thanks for the sodium education. That was awesome. I definitely want to do an episode on salt, but I wasn't sure what perspective to take, and you have given me at least four
bery educational . liked it.
"essentially no danger in eating a large amount of salt" > huh? please explain. So, no high blood pressure?
I go with the motto that too much of anything is bad for you. But aside from that, I'm fed up with pa constantly nagging ma about her salt intake that it's bad for her blood pressure, when I consider her need/want reasonable. He just won't let her enjoy in peace her last years; even if salt does raise her b.p., I say let her be, for a short life lived well in mental freedom is better than a long life lived under constant suppression.
Actually brings a lot of health risks overeating sodium and from hypertension, to coronary to cardiovascular diseases, and most people are already overeating it in packed foods, especially processed meat, and iodine thing is complete BS, because you shouldn’t search nutrients in salt, because they would in so much little concentrations that wouldn’t make any difference other than making salt sour and unpleasant.
Loved the video humour gets the message across.A friend of mine recently saw a dietician who discribed breakfast cereals as confectionery.Products can be shit as long as they are marketed right.
Thanks for sharing very useful !
Internet Shaquille said Cereal is just dog food for humans. I haven't been the same since
I mean....people are really being treated like sheep. I dont blame the ones doing it. I blame the sheep. There is a cartoon called robot chicken. Its writer admitted on camera, with a smile, that it was an experiment to see how stupid and lazy they could be and still make money off of people. But, people still watch it to this day.
Racism is used to control people, fun is used to control people, sex is used to control, people, and God is used to control people. Live your own life, if there is a god, they will be proud.
Shaquille Oatmeal
I haven't habitually eaten cereal for breakfast in 6 years. feels good man
Have a bowl it's great.
Same! Admittedly, I’ve kinda replaced it with pancakes and waffle ovens, but it’s nice to not be addicted to cocoa puffs for once!
Poptarts are equally worse for you.
My mom and I, would eat it as a snack ..😁🤣
@@kilgoretrout4491 I didn't know granola came from granula
I remember that old school Special K ad when I was a kid. It tickled me in parts that until then I hadn't realized could be tickled.
Saved, to show my niece and nephew. Liked, for the good content. And subscribed, to see more.
When I was a kid my mother didn't allow me to eat a full bowl of sweet cereal for breakfast, saying they were too sweet. I was forced to mix half a bowl with plain cereals. She wa s wise. Now as an adult I occasionally have cheerios or coco pops for snacks, but can't chow down a full bowl of those fruit loops
As someone who studies Quakers semi-professionally, I'm totally stealing "Yaaaas, Quaker."
Thank you for blessing the world with that.
Great video, very entertaining.
Nice video looking forward to more
The way you explain in these videos makes me think you'd be able to make me learn the whole world's history in 20 minutes and even make it interesting and enjoyable
he probably could at this point
I expected to see at least half a million subs and at least double that in views. Great stuff m8.
thanks dude. fingers crossed lol
@@OrdinaryThings are they still crossed?
@@OrdinaryThings congratulations on your almost half a million sub ☺
As usual great informations.
This content is fantastic and necessary!! Thank you for compiling and sharing the knowledge!! Liked & subscribed!!
Im glad i came across this channel
U R 2 Gud @ Dis. Plz stop!
Never change. Stay Hydrated
Never change. Stay Hydrated
@@OrdinaryThings no
Trap lore tossing Ordinary's salad.
Geez imagine these two at a party together! 😂😂😂
My disappointment at you not living up to your channel name is immeasurable.
This is the guy who knows how "internet historian"looks like
Your videos are gold. You should have more recognition. Or maybe you do and I'm out of the loop, you've probably been on Strictly Big Brother Baking or some such.
Your stuff is gold.
This was really well-made. Comedy was on-point. Info was solid. I'm definitely subscribing and watching your previous vids.
(But I'm probably gonna eat cereal while I do that)
thanks dude! Really cool that you're digging it
@@OrdinaryThings Really cool that you're making it! (Eating Honey Bunches of Oats btw)
@@alexmott507
You just learned that breakfast cereal companies told mass amount of lies without giving a shit about your health and you just say "so what" You are not going to be alone in that thinking as I bet most people who watch this vido will continue eating cereal as the brain loves sugar so really what was the point of this guy making this video?
@@MrStephen182 veiws,money,having fun,educating himself,educating other people if he gets 100 people in a million to change their diet the video is still effective.
The updated Boo Berry mascot looks like someone you'd encounter on a busy city street trying to sell you a watch from his trench coat.
Brilliant! Spot on sir! Hilarious yet maddening!
Sending this on to my UK lovin' adult cereal eating daughter, well done!
Listen, all I know is Oreo's cereal goes hard.
I used to love those
“Soaked in milk *overnight”*
Yikes, that sounds like a recipe for food poisoning
Have you never eaten overnight oats?
@@adamiotime no mate wtf?
@@Pactastic042 its a real thing. Take a jar, put some steel cut oats in, pour in milk of choice, maybe fruit and other things.
Then eat it in the morning
@@robkoh7290 Probably ought to mention you refrigerate it too so people don't think we eat warm, sour milk grain.
Idiot
Internet Historian brought me here. Glad to have made the journey. Well done sir.
Ive been saying to friends for years that breakfast cereal is the biggest scam of the 21st century, and they all laugh at me.
Glad the caveman from the commercials is doing even better now.
I was brainwashed to eat cereal for breakfast for decades. Once I had to put effort in staying not fat I cut the cereal - I still have to fight the “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” minions. Man the government really brainwashed me with their Food propaganda in school.
Lobbyists in the food industry.
Such a quality channel
This guy should have way more subs. Just got one more. Excellent channel.
"But cereal is finally losing its ring-like grip on our breakfast bowl movements" 😂
"Pac-Man also got in on the action along with his gang of radioactive condoms!"
This channel is so hilarious I wish I had found it years ago