{"id":4718,"date":"2014-12-18T22:09:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T22:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2018-12-19T20:21:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:21:48","slug":"cereal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=4718","title":{"rendered":"Lovin&#8217; those spoonfuls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lifecereal.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7278\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lifecereal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>I still remember when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CLQ0LZSnJFE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Mikey<\/a> would eat anything<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oats sprinkled with almonds, served cold. That&#8217;s what I have most mornings. That&#8217;s my &#8216;cereal&#8217;. I&#8217;m putting it in tongs because gastronomes would call that a poor bowl of porridge (cold?!). But my mouth has many happy memories of thoroughly manufactured cereal. Given free rein it could easily demand a heady mix of crunchy fun shapes three meals a day, perhaps with the occasional\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=4225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vegetable<\/a>\u00a0thrown in to cleanse the palate. The only reason I don&#8217;t overdose on Frosted Mini-Wheats (an old favourite; note the optimistic built-in portion control), despite being an adult and legally allowed to buy and eat as much sugar coated grain as I want, is because some small sane part of me realises that&#8217;s not very good eatin&#8217;. Also those mini bundles of joy contain gelatin, which sucks for a vegetarian.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/dracu-chocula.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4761\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/dracu-chocula.jpg\" alt=\"dracu-chocula\" width=\"432\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/dracu-chocula.jpg 432w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/dracu-chocula-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cereal Killer Cafe [at least two of those words should probably be transposed] in London made a big splash in the press when they opened their boxes for business earlier this month. Some complained about the prices, apparently innocent of what a teabag in hot water goes for. I say, good for these guys. They&#8217;re providing a service for people who want a little colour in their milk.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/boxbowl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4723\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/boxbowl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/boxbowl.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/boxbowl-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWho ordered the Frankenberry slurry<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still remember when Mikey would eat anything Oats sprinkled with almonds, served cold. That&#8217;s what I have most mornings. That&#8217;s my &#8216;cereal&#8217;. I&#8217;m putting it in tongs because gastronomes would call that a poor bowl of porridge (cold?!). But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=4718\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4718"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7285,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions\/7285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}