Mini-Poll: BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

It's widely accepted that sugary cereal is the king of Saturday Morning Breakfast, sure... and we'll be getting to a poll about your favorite 80's Breakfast Cereal somewhere down the line... but not everybody ate cereal! For instance my friend, Greg, always had two toaster waffles with raisins in the holes. Kevin had Pop Tarts. And Amber had Hippie Parents so she always had either Granola or an actual "Well Balanced Breakfast" (I loved getting to sleep over at Amber's house). And even I myself was known to have an English Muffin with cheese on top every once in a while :) So this has got me thinking... Cereal has always been considered king, but what if it's actually something else?

Let's make this official. Let's use SCIENCE and DATA to determine once and for all what the KING of Saturday Morning Breakfasts should actually be shall we? Vote for whatever you actually at at breakfast, check all that apply and if I've missed anything feel free to mention it in the comments :)

[Poll #1766782]

Comments

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

OMFSM me too! I grew up on a farm some 12 miles away from the nearest "town" (2 grocery stores, 6 churches, 17 bars and 2 fish processing canneries). My dad wasn't a hunter, but he WAS a foreman at one of the canneries so he was able to trade salmon and whatnot to the other lo0cal hunters. Gold-N-Soft Margerine in the yellow tubs were our tupperware... it came full of margerine and then became a handy cereal bowl afterwards!

I have an extensive collection of 1980's "Collect All Six" glassware now that I'm an adult... everything just tastes better that way :)c

The Family Farm

[igniprimum.livejournal.com]

Don't want to drift too far off the subject of the Saturday shows, but...

I didn't grow up on a farm (we lived in a white-trash "suburb" of Kennewick, WA, a town of about 40,000 at the time, still to this day no more than 50,000,) but my father ran our house pretty much like it was one.

But yeah, most of our meat and whatever vegetables we couldn't get from our own garden came from trade and labor with friends and family in the industries.

Also, in addition to the Tupperware, the collectible stuff was key to the aesthetic of our household. Some of it, like the Coca Cola/Godfather's pitcher and glasses set, was actually kind of classy for folks like us. The rest of it was total trashy kitsch or just straight up trashy (like the several different series of 'collect them all' Big Gulp cups from 7-Eleven).

In between, we had a few items collected by mail with the aid of a few UPC symbols cut from boxes or labels. One that comes to mind is a Campbell's Soup bowl in the color scheme with logo.

From 1980-82 I successfully managed to only eat Campbell's soup from that bowl, and to prevent others in the house from touching it.

In Summer '82, my sister and her boyfriend came visiting from college, and he ate Super Sugar Crisp from my Campbell's Soup bowl, which threw me into a small rage, and gave them razz material to level against me for the rest of my childhood.

Strangely enough, we didn't use tub margarine until after my parents divorced and my father moved out. We used Imperial in cube form. I think it was because they used it for cooking and baking as much as for a condiment, and preferred to cut to measure instead of getting the measuring spoons all greasy. Our plastic tubs were mostly cottage cheese containers.

Re: The Family Farm

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I am well associated with Kennewick, I feel your pain... I'm in Bothell and the other Mod of this community is in... I want to say Lakewood? This community was originally founded to try and round up a bunch of locals to do a live watch-along at a local hotel or something... you still in the area? If so I'll have to insist that you bring your fam to this event once we get the physical (non-virtual) version going :)

Re: The Family Farm

[igniprimum.livejournal.com]

I am well associated with Bothell and Lakewood, though moreso with Seattle. Lived there off and on in the early 1990s (and commuted to Bothell and Lakewood both for short employment stints in their respective office block wastes) before going to WSU in Pullman, then eventually moving to Portland OR.

I've been in China now for about four years, but have been trying to get up the habit of flying back during the summers. Made it last time, missed it this time.

I'm thinking next summer I'll try to be in 3C for the hydroplanes (last week of July,) and of course that will mean seeing friends in PDX and SEA either the week before or the week after.

Re: The Family Farm

[aurora77]

Eastside is a good enough descriptor for my location.

Re: The Family Farm

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

EEESS SIE REPRE-ZENT WUT WUT *double chest-thump*!!!

That's right... personal note: Once Mr. Menton gets settled in to his new digs we'll all be way too close to one another to NOT have regularly scheduled gaming stuffs, won't we?

Re: The Family Farm

[aurora77]

Oh I hope so! ^_^

[aurora77]

Substitute the fish processing canneries for fruit packing sheds and that sounds like home to me! Well, my old home.

No hunting in the area, though.

And who didn't have at least one or two of those glasses? I had some of the Peanuts ones which were my favorites. ^_^