Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for March 01, 2021

of course

Rock-cereals.

Mountain Dew and a Moon Pie…..or better yet a Mr. Pibb and a sausage biscuit with grape jelly. Don’t laugh…its very popular in the Carolinas!

Papi needs to monitor the cart when the family is at the supermarket.

Coke and Funyuns. Not me, high school kids where I worked ages ago.

Sugar buzzzzzzzz!

Are they smaller than Cheerios?

I still think Calvin’s “Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs” is the best hyperbolic cereal name.

From (presumably) Martin Mull: “Little sugar-toasted, sugar-frosted, sugar-enriched… bits of sugar. (With just a hint of wheat flavoring to let you know it’s morning.)”

It’s still less sugar than was in those cinnamon sweet rolls my family sometimes had for breakfast.

We were never allowed to have any of that heavy sugar-laden breakfast cereal as a kid. Rice Crispies, Wheaties, Quaker Puffed-Wheat/Rice, or Shredded Wheat were the morning cereal staples in our house. Dad liked Grape-Nuts or Corn Flakes – neither of them favorites of mine – although I’d eat the Grape-Nuts but never have liked Corn Flakes, except for use in certain cooking recipes.

i had diet coke and oreos; sounds gross now!

So in what year is this supposed to take place? There hasn’t been a cereal with “sugar” in the name for decades (except Alpen No Sugar). And why didn’t he recycle the aluminum can?

I see Baldo is ready for college life.

When I was a kid, I went through a phase during which I ate chocolate-filled cookies and drank chocolate milk for breakfast. My wise mother let me do it because she knew it wouldn’t last, and it didn’t.

For many years, my breakfast of choice was: steak, eggs, home fries or potato pancakes, fresh bread & butter, washed down with a couple of bottles of good cold ale.

Don’t do the beer-for-breakfast anymore, but still eat a major meal in the morning. Then, a very light lunch or snack in the afternoon and a small but balanced supper.

Makes good sense to me.

Pepsi and a BBQ hot link!

When I was going to college I would drink “Tab” (Diet Coke was not out yet) for breakfast and other meals. My dad asked how I could do so on a rare day we eating breakfast together – I pointed out caffeine, sweet taste – same as his coffee with artificial sweetener. He thought about it and never questioned it again.

That will keep him awake for the first two periods.