Expires on 3/28… so that means if you hopefully get it by 2/28, you have 30 days to eat and poop
But if only eating one of these every day, then you still have 6 leftover, so you’ll need to double up on those days, which means double poops for six days…
Which means 6 extra rolls of toilet paper that’s probably out of stock - but when it does come in, might be up to one dollar per roll so …. Things that make you go hmmm… or meh … but I’ll still buying, since I still have to
But as the poo potpourri says on the bottle, “even my poops are cute!”
@alose@mcemanuel You can absolutely go a year past the date without even noticing much difference. Best by dates are not a legal thing and totally up to the manufacturer to pick. I think part of the reason it’s there is to get people to keep buying new stuff even if just to replace.
@mcemanuel
The hell with the “Best by” date, that’s just pointless in something that was pretty awful to start with. And I tried Kashi a while back. It’s one of a number of “healthy foods” that were so unappetizing that they went in the trash after one exposure. I doubt that the possums would have eaten it.
Hm, interesting territory we’ve got going on. I suck at math but the box says 7 servings. If I just bought this crap at the store at Wally World its listed at $3.17 online, divided by 7 servings, its 45 cents a serving. Meh has some nice fun easy math and if you are VMP for the free shipping already its 50 cents a servings.
Trouble being, though the price isn’t terribly bad, that firstly that’s a lot of excess packaging, and secondly, who the hell eats only a serving of cereal? I just pour it into the bowl yup that looks good enough and eat it. No way I’m measuring, too lazy.
So I suppose if you don’t care about having all these cups knocking around and have the self control to be good and eat just one it isn’t the worst possible price point compared to just buying a box.
The huge problem is the whole expiring in a month part…I feel like we could fire sale price this a touch lower cause 35 days if they arrived near instantly to eat 36 cups before they expire roughly is a race if there ever was! Not that expiration dates on dry goods mean all that much. I mean hell I was eating raisin bran from 2012 until last year. Tasted like plastic but not totally inedible…
@gwrankin@Tiamat114
Tums are basically chewable rocks, they’re so stable that if stored properly, they’d outlast the container. Stuff made from grain can contain fractions that oxidize and/or otherwise change their chemical makeup with time, and the result can be less palatable, less nutritious, or less safe to consume - or any combination of the three. That said, the best-by dates are seldom the result of actual testing, and they can be either optimistic or pessimistic. My experience (of many decades) has been that for grain-based highly-processed unopened products that have been stored at room temp, the quality declines sharply after less than a year. For this stuff, it’s hard to say how one would tell that the quality had declined because “quality” is close to an oxymoron for it.
By way of a different example, one of my favorite artificially-flavored-and-colored drink mixes comes with a two-year best-by date about which They Are Not Fucking Kidding. Get more than two months past it, and the mix will be discolored and badly off-flavor. Sometimes they crater a few weeks short of the date. And the same holds true for the Mio sports-drink squirt drops, I’ve discovered. Out of date = probably BAD.
You know what, I’m in for 1 just because of the terrible reasoning of wanting to save this from going into a landfill if nothing else. I know I’ll eat it. I like Kashi and pretty much every other bland flavorless cereal, like Uncle Sam and Wheetabix. A personal guilt trip.
@gwrankin@werehatrack Oh, I have no doubt. The extremely strong plastic taste is what led me to dispose of a few boxes eventually after getting real food. I forgot I had gotten a bunch for free and left them at my parents when I moved out. Re-discovered them in 2020. It was a rough year and you gotta eat what you can sometimes even if its awful what I’m sure is cancer inducing cereal.
The amount of cereal in each of these varies, but I will be generous and say that each contains ~2 oz of cereal. That is ~72 oz total, which works out to $.25 cents/oz. A 13 oz box of Kashi cereal at my local Kroger is $3.69, which works out to about $.28 cents per oz. This is cheaper if you have a membership, but not if you have to pay $5 for shipping.
@caffeineguy@stolicat
Purina made better cereal than this; they were the originators of Chex. Kashi just proves that in the wrong hands, any tech can be employed to make utter and complete crap.
Eye can contest that this healthy pooping cereal taste like grass clippings. We bought a box of Kashi years ago; it actually went way beyond the date as it was avoided in the pantry. This is an assortment of yard waste. Grass, leaves, sticks and twigs. Eye will stay with what eye love: rasin brand, bunches of oats, multi-grain chereos.
@Pufferfishy I remember hearing about a study that the cardboard boxes were more nutritional than most cereals, too. Don’t know if it was tongue in cheek or not, but then I didn’t really want to try it empirically.
Nice try, meh. As several have pointed out, these are not even a mediocre deal, as one can buy non-expired cereal at a comparable price. Knock another $5 off and then you’ll have a few dozen folks take on the extra burden of all this single-serving plastic waste.
If this came in reusable and reclosable containers, I might grab a set and chuck the contents out in the yard to see if it’d reduce the squirrel population. (The little bastards keep destroying all my pecans, so they stopped being cute and entertaining for me a long time ago.)
Specs
Product: 36-Pack: KASHI Assorted Cereal Bowl Variety (Honey Toasted, Blueberry, Original & Crunch)
Model: 1862733313
Condition: New
Nutritional Information
What’s included?
Price Comparison
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Friday, Feb 25 - Tuesday, Mar 1
Yeah, but what does it taste like…?
@haydesigner Sticks & twigs probably.
@haydesigner @Kerig3
Those break my bones
One month!!! Eat and poop
fast!
Meh. I’m hungry.
/giphy ruddy-creepy-bird
@billymayfield Your giphy has reduced my appetite.
@billymayfield What. The. Hell.
@billymayfield She’s hot.
challenge accepted
/giphy misanthropic-mischievous-skeleton
@awk Yeah, but has the “good by” date occurred yet?
More sawdust?
Expires on 3/28… so that means if you hopefully get it by 2/28, you have 30 days to eat and poop
for six days…
But if only eating one of these every day, then you still have 6 leftover, so you’ll need to double up on those days, which means double poops
Which means 6 extra rolls of toilet paper that’s probably out of stock - but when it does come in, might be up to one dollar per roll so …. Things that make you go hmmm… or meh … but I’ll still buying, since I still have to
But as the poo potpourri says on the bottle, “even my poops are cute!”
@mcemanuel best by 3/28, not expire. It will be fine to take a little longer to eat them all
/giphy invest in a bidet
@mcemanuel food does not “expire” especially when it’s sealed
@alose @mcemanuel You can absolutely go a year past the date without even noticing much difference. Best by dates are not a legal thing and totally up to the manufacturer to pick. I think part of the reason it’s there is to get people to keep buying new stuff even if just to replace.
@mcemanuel
The hell with the “Best by” date, that’s just pointless in something that was pretty awful to start with. And I tried Kashi a while back. It’s one of a number of “healthy foods” that were so unappetizing that they went in the trash after one exposure. I doubt that the possums would have eaten it.
@mcemanuel you use a whole roll for each poop‽
Hm, interesting territory we’ve got going on. I suck at math but the box says 7 servings. If I just bought this crap at the store at Wally World its listed at $3.17 online, divided by 7 servings, its 45 cents a serving. Meh has some nice fun easy math and if you are VMP for the free shipping already its 50 cents a servings.
Trouble being, though the price isn’t terribly bad, that firstly that’s a lot of excess packaging, and secondly, who the hell eats only a serving of cereal? I just pour it into the bowl yup that looks good enough and eat it. No way I’m measuring, too lazy.
So I suppose if you don’t care about having all these cups knocking around and have the self control to be good and eat just one it isn’t the worst possible price point compared to just buying a box.
The huge problem is the whole expiring in a month part…I feel like we could fire sale price this a touch lower cause 35 days if they arrived near instantly to eat 36 cups before they expire roughly is a race if there ever was! Not that expiration dates on dry goods mean all that much. I mean hell I was eating raisin bran from 2012 until last year. Tasted like plastic but not totally inedible…
@Tiamat114 hahaha I still use my tums that expired in 2010
@gwrankin @Tiamat114
Tums are basically chewable rocks, they’re so stable that if stored properly, they’d outlast the container. Stuff made from grain can contain fractions that oxidize and/or otherwise change their chemical makeup with time, and the result can be less palatable, less nutritious, or less safe to consume - or any combination of the three. That said, the best-by dates are seldom the result of actual testing, and they can be either optimistic or pessimistic. My experience (of many decades) has been that for grain-based highly-processed unopened products that have been stored at room temp, the quality declines sharply after less than a year. For this stuff, it’s hard to say how one would tell that the quality had declined because “quality” is close to an oxymoron for it.
By way of a different example, one of my favorite artificially-flavored-and-colored drink mixes comes with a two-year best-by date about which They Are Not Fucking Kidding. Get more than two months past it, and the mix will be discolored and badly off-flavor. Sometimes they crater a few weeks short of the date. And the same holds true for the Mio sports-drink squirt drops, I’ve discovered. Out of date = probably BAD.
You know what, I’m in for 1 just because of the terrible reasoning of wanting to save this from going into a landfill if nothing else. I know I’ll eat it. I like Kashi and pretty much every other bland flavorless cereal, like Uncle Sam and Wheetabix. A personal guilt trip.
/giphy flippant-elegant-grade
@gwrankin @werehatrack Oh, I have no doubt. The extremely strong plastic taste is what led me to dispose of a few boxes eventually after getting real food. I forgot I had gotten a bunch for free and left them at my parents when I moved out. Re-discovered them in 2020. It was a rough year and you gotta eat what you can sometimes even if its awful what I’m sure is cancer inducing cereal.
Lmao they won’t even arrive in time to eat then
@sum1
That would only be true if they never arrived.
@chienfou @sum1 You have a point. It’s not like the stuff becomes poison. Probably wouldn’t even taste a difference in a year.
@chienfou @gwrankin @sum1
Def wouldn’t taste better, and worse is probably not going to register.
The amount of cereal in each of these varies, but I will be generous and say that each contains ~2 oz of cereal. That is ~72 oz total, which works out to $.25 cents/oz. A 13 oz box of Kashi cereal at my local Kroger is $3.69, which works out to about $.28 cents per oz. This is cheaper if you have a membership, but not if you have to pay $5 for shipping.
No matter what they say, I am not a cereal killer…
@eeterrific
/youtube The killers all the things that I’ve done
What are “Crunchy Fiber Twigs”?
I mean, aside from the obvious jokes, seriously, what are those?
Fibrous material reconstituted in the shape of a twig? Are there twig extruders in the food industry?
Actual fibrous twigs, dried to a state of crunchy?
Inquiring minds, etc…
@stolicat That doesn’t sound too appealing!
@Kyeh @stolicat I assume that’s the shape and what they are made of. Fiber one is all twigs
/image fiber one
@Kyeh @stolicat and actually I think they are the same company. They are probably just dumping fiber one in as one of the parts to hit their target
@Kyeh @stolicat @unksol Kashi is Kellogs.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg's
@andrewj @Kyeh @stolicat thanks I made a mistake chasing the corporate chains up and down the ladder.
@andrewj @Kyeh @stolicat @unksol pretty soon they’ll merge too.
@stolicat The pelleting machinery to generate the twigs is typically used by the animal feed industry.
@caffeineguy @stolicat
Purina made better cereal than this; they were the originators of Chex. Kashi just proves that in the wrong hands, any tech can be employed to make utter and complete crap.
Eye can contest that this healthy pooping cereal taste like grass clippings. We bought a box of Kashi years ago; it actually went way beyond the date as it was avoided in the pantry. This is an assortment of yard waste. Grass, leaves, sticks and twigs. Eye will stay with what eye love: rasin brand, bunches of oats, multi-grain chereos.
@whomeyesu Even the quick snack bars taste like dry molded oats and this cereal is no different.
What the hell.
/giphy absorbing-debonair-needle
@kensey I think this post should be enshrined in the Meh hall of fame as embodying the essence of Meh
Is this even mehs final form?
@mexicantacos
Don’t cross the streams!
There are things that a chicken will not eat.
@werehatrack True, but it’s a pretty short list.
Probably more flavor in eating the carton -vs- the contents.
@Pufferfishy I remember hearing about a study that the cardboard boxes were more nutritional than most cereals, too. Don’t know if it was tongue in cheek or not, but then I didn’t really want to try it empirically.
I’ll stick with the Super Colon Blow!
@Kerig3 This gives me a chuckle every time i see it. That little jingle at the end really puts a bow on it!
@ircon96 This sketch holds up—and I’m missing Phil Hartman.
@Kerig3 Amen.
Nice try, meh. As several have pointed out, these are not even a mediocre deal, as one can buy non-expired cereal at a comparable price. Knock another $5 off and then you’ll have a few dozen folks take on the extra burden of all this single-serving plastic waste.
March of 2028? I still can’t eat it fast enough
yeah, I just buy this stuff by the (recyclable) box.
So fake honey nut cherries, granola, the left over stuff in the yard you can’t rake up, and dogfood pellets. OK. Got it. Nope nope nope.
If this came in reusable and reclosable containers, I might grab a set and chuck the contents out in the yard to see if it’d reduce the squirrel population. (The little bastards keep destroying all my pecans, so they stopped being cute and entertaining for me a long time ago.)
Just what I need: more single-use plastic. Hooray!
I bought this. I like ‘em and don’t care what anyone else says!
Not gonna spend my hard-earned Cash-y on this Kashi that’ll just cause hurt for my Ass-y!!
/giphy constipated
According to the map, as of 3PM, nobody in Wyoming had ordered this. I guess even the bears around Yellowstone know better.
@werehatrack Well, now only Vermont and Hawaii are holdouts.
I bought it. Been eating Shredded Wheat this week that was best by May 2021….Totally fine.
/buy
@erthian It worked! Your order number is: curvy-urgent-onion
/image curvy urgent onion
Amazingly fast delivery. Got it on the 3rd day.
The blueberry one was good for lunch with soy milk today.
I’ve been enjoying these with yogurt &, given the crazy price increases for food, I’m glad I bought them.