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[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago (5 children)

for cash-strapped families

Is Kellogg's cereal even cheap at all?? I'm not in the US so I could only imagine but I'd guess it's not, is it?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Fun fact: if you were to drink a cup of gasoline, it would have enough calories to sustain you for the rest of your life!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I prefer to eat a kilo of uranium

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Just a lick of the demon core will last you your whole life 👌

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

A gallon of gasoline only contains about 28k Calories, so about enough energy for 10 days

A cup would barely last you a day

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

A day sounds about right if it ends up being the last day 😵

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Sure, but neither would you, if you drank a cup of gasoline.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A cup would barely last you a day

I believe that was their point . . .

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I may be dense... xD

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

At point of sale. If you include subsidies and tax breaks for fossil fuel corpos...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

You haven't watched the trailer for Summer 2024 yet, have you?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

Not really, no. I mean, it's cheaper than, like, steak, but it usually goes for twice as much or more than the store brand or bargain brand cereals.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Cereal is actually weirdly expensive nowadays. You can do much better for less.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I'm pretty sure Ukraine was a big cereal exporter before the war, so it makes sense I guess

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's cheaper than good cereal, but more expensive than the identical store brand

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And compared to dinner?

I'm asking because if I was "strapped for cash" I'd always go for cooking something rice or potato based myself, rather than buying already processed and packaged food, a most likely overpriced brand no less!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think it’s partly that any home cooking is more difficult and time consuming than it. I have cheap and easy meals I do but they’re less feasible than cereal. Except dipping bread in pesto that’s dirt cheap and easy as fuck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Good point, time consumed by cooking has value in itself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's cheaper than a traditional dinner probably... But yeah might as well get the cheaper cereal.