• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    I remember when I was a kid in the 80s, they would advertise cereal as being “part of this complete breakfast,” which was supposed to be cereal with milk, toast, a glass of juice and a glass of milk. And even as a kid who would eat a meal of practically any size put in front of him, I was like, “who is having all of that at breakfast?!”

    Edit: I forgot! Also fruit! There would be like a whole banana next to the cereal bowl!

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      Yay, marketing. The nutritional value of the cereal is probably next to nothing, but if you ate everything else, you’d get all the nutrients you’d need. 1% of the total is still “a part” of the complete breakfast. Technically not false advertising.

      Basically, the more food you see, the less nutritional value in the actual cereal.

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      The kids who had that kind of breakfast were probably the ones asking to go to the bathroom all the time.