Kellogg’s CEO advice to cash-strapped shoppers: Let them eat Corn Flakes for dinner

Last time I checked, corn flakes weren't that cheap. My go to is still rice.

- Look at fancy ass over here! 2 boiled eggs, 1 banana.
- Just eat cookies. Fat, sugar and flour with an egg or two. Cheap and delicious with a shitload of calories.
Rice is also expensive. My go to is bread and butter/margarine.
- Dude, a 20lb bag is like $17. I use that shit in so many dinners and I still haven't opened the 2nd bag. Makes any dinner with veggies and meat feel like a feast.
And rice is delicious! I like sticky sushi rice myself. Throw some chicken on there and you've got a meal!
- lol that is some bougie rice.. I usually get whatever long grain rice that comes in those 20lb bags for under $7. $1+ per LB is a no go.
- The green Knorr's flavored rice packs are only $1.25. Makes enough for 2 days.

Name brand cereal has gotten so expensive. I swapped to store brands and haven't noticed a huge difference. Probably better to stop eating cereal in general.

Not wrong, way too much sugar in it for it to be good for anyone's consumption
I was just at the store today, and overheard some kids asking when cereal got so expensive.
It illustrated just how rapidly they increased the prices.
I switched to Hot Cereal ( red mill ten grain) as my regular cereal was getting so expensive that I could justify my breakfast costs. Oat Milk+Cereal =$$ While what I switched to isn't the cheapest option, it keeps me going till lunch and I just add water, honey, and calcium powder to it. 👍

No fucking way did this dude just say the 21st century verion of "Let them eat cake"

He didn't. The title isn't a direct quote. His actual quote was pretty fucking tone deaf though.

I'm hearing an open invitation to guillotines!

Let's eat him, instead.

I'm a Cleveland Cavaliers (NBA) fan, and unfortunately the team is owned by Dan Gilbert who also owns Rocket Mortgage. During every game, they run this Rocket Mortgage commercial that shows this schlub of a man bringing home three bags of groceries while the voiceover says how it used to be six bags of groceries for the same price. Then his house starts talking to him, reminding him that he has equity in the house and thus can take out a second mortgage and use the money to pay for ... groceries. Just a horrifying, dystopic nightmare with catchy music and an animated smiley house.

Ah, ol’ Dan “Rant in Comic Sans” Gilbert… he also owns like half of Detroit doesn’t he?
- Yeah, which makes the "we're not Detroit" part of the Cleveland meme-song even more enjoyable.

Like anybody reduced to eating cereal for dinner is buying fucking Kellogg's when they can get the Aldi version for like a third of the price.

Thats Kelloggs too but without the name. You cant get rid of greedy Corporations because they are their own competitors after buying them.
- Yeah but it's still a third of the price
- I don't think that's actually true for Kellogg's, who made a big deal of advertising the fact that they don't make cereal for other brands.
  The Aldi ones are supposedly made by Malt-O-Meal.

I guess we have to reinvent the guillotine, version 2024. History will talk about let them eat cornflakes. It's so ridiculous because cornflakes here is more expensive than a loaf of bread.

Laser guillotine

This is the greatest work of art I’ve ever made in 30 seconds in ProCreate:

I salute you, good sir!
Is this the same family that was Secretary of State? I can't seem to find info on a quick search if they are different family branches of Kellogg

Fuck that. Oatmeal is way cheaper and more nutritious. If we're going that way I'm not giving Kelloggs money.

Remember, cereal was first proposed as a cure for masturbation, so rub one out for freedom.

I've done it for far less noble causes. It's just nice to be the good guy for once, you know?
3 freedoms so far today!
I love how Robert Evans stated that he wished John Kellogg could see how the future turned up with Redtube available to everyone.
Welcome to the Monkey House.
As were Graham’s Crackers, my dear boy

If I had to eat corn flakes for every meal, it would work the way John Kellogg intended. I wouldn't have the strength to jerk off. I would be too damn depressed.

This is why we proles need to stick together

You guys remember when a box of cereal cost $3?

Those were good times. You know…2021 or so.

Even at $3 it was a terrible deal for the quantity of food you actually get. Cereal has always been a ripoff, more about the marketing and added sugar than about being actual food
2000ish you could put 10ish bucks in your car to nearly fill it, buy a meal from fast food for 5 more, and rent a movie with the change.
20 bucks.
Now? 30-40 for 10 gallons. 10-15 for the same fast food meal. (Which got smaller btw) 2-5 still for the movie at Redbox (I think?)
40 - 60 bucks or 100-200% inflation over ~20 years. Neat.
I have an addiction to chai lattes. The cheapest place (which also, thankfully, has the best chai lattes) still costs over $5.

1kg Kellogg's cornflakes = €4.79

1.5kg Aldi porridge oats = €1.19

If I'm eating a cereal product for dinner I'll go with the more filling and versatile oats

Careful where the oats come from. Remember there was an article about oats in canada being grown with chemicals that were shown to decrease fertility. The U.S banned the product but not crops purchased elsewhere using the product.

This Kellogg's?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Kellogg's_strike

Ayyyy someone hasn't forgotten! I put in a handful of applications in when they were hiring scabs.
We still don’t buy Kellogg’s over that, and now they’ve only provided more grist for the mill
- I see what you did there.

I'd rather eat your children, Moneybags McFatfuck.

What a piece of shit CEO. I wish they people would feel unsafe saying this type of stuff to struggling people.

That's where we come in. We can start with harsh words, but there's a damn good reason so many are making allegories to the French Revolution. Times like this are to put the wealthy on notice, that they too may fear finding themselves staring up from the bottom of baskets to a crowd cheering the waterfalls of blood coming from their neck stumps.

Not as catchy as let them eat cake.

"Let them eat flakes."
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So when do we pull out the guillotines?

stop asking and just do it
- See the problem with lone gun activists is they get heavily punished. If the Jan 6th insurrection was performed by one dude he'd have been locked in prison for life.

Do they make cake cereal? Missed opportunity if you ask me

This was going to be my angle as well but you beat me to it, have an upvoot
Every time I walk down the breakfast aisle I see so many disgusting flavors of the same 10-or-so brands of cereal (under maybe two parent companies).
I can't say for certain there's a cake flavor but I'd immediately take that bet.
- I just saw a new one at Walmart that's like little cupcakes. Or maybe it had cupcake-shaped marshmallows. I almost bought that shit until I saw the price was over $6 for a medium sized box.
There's a Post Tim Hortons Birthday Cake Timbit Cereal in Canada.
https://www.postconsumerbrands.ca/brand/tim-hortons/products/post-timbits-cereal-birthday-cake/

Sorry, but how does he think someone who is cash strapped is buying the name brand, and not the dollar tree version? Wow this dude is so out of touch

Store brands usually comes from name brand, and sales are sales.

Sometimes it's best to shut up

Revealed that he has no idea about their market demographics. Cash-strapped homes don't buy kellog's cornflakes.

is this what late stage capitalism looks like, when the cause of the problem tries to disguise itself as the genius solution?

Always has been 🌏👨‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

Well, if I still ate cereal, I would stop eating kellogg's.

Besides, that breakfast cereal was created because Kellogg thought that it would stop people from masturbating.

I mean, it works though. I’m not masturbating most of the times I eat corn flakes.
- "most of the times"
Man, I cant help but laugh at this. I give my boys advice on how to clean up after, not like they arent going to do it anyways. Even monkeys wank often using their own mouth, god bless them. Some religions have their gods wank us into existance...
I think Kellog was a closeted homosexual pederast, why else would he spend so much time and effort thinking of teenage boys and their bits?

Grains loaded with added sugars for your largest meal. Surely that won't contribute further to this country's health crisis, like it didn't already do that by marketing itself as healthy for growing children.

Bachelor Chow.

Now with flavour

As a child i always thought cornflakes in any shape are a good breakfast. As an adult i'm just scratching my head, wondering why we got diabetes for breakfast. If i'd be too poor to eat properly, cornflakes would ve the very first thing that has to go. But i don't eat them in the first place, so fuck you kellogs boy.

The original corn flakes has actually fewer calories than the special K counterpart. Talk about deceiving. Fuck them.

And here I am buying flour and eating pancakes all day long. Or potatoes. If only I could afford corn flakes!

Here is a money saving tip for Gary Pilnick: eat shit!

So we just stop buying Kellogg's products.

One should never eat corn flakes.

What happened to a chicken for every pot?

Probably labeled a socialist now.
"In ev'ry pot he said "a chicken" But Herbert Hoover he forgot Not only don't we have the chicken We ain't got the pot!" Who knew "Annie" the musical was so prophetic? Just remember that tomorrow they'll be sun.

So... If he was selling guns, he'd suggest people just killed themselves?

Now let’s eat the rich for cereal! :3

Odd that the words are so similar to "let them eat cake"

As the solution it led to was caused by LESS of a problem than exists now. The economic disparity of 18th century France was less than the disparity of today

It was done intentionally by the author. That exact quote wasn't said by the CEO (although his comments certainly give off that vibe).
The "Let them eat cake" was a political slander. IIRC she was actually quite sympathetic, but the revolution needed fuel.
- It was actually completely unrelated to the revolution. Voltaire was dead for a decade by the time the whole thing kicked off.
- Thomas Jefferson characterized her as an aloof stubborn person who's choices brought herself to the guillotine. I wouldn't say sympathetic, but pandered in hopes of avoiding harm to her and her immediate family, but without giving an actual shit about the country.
I think the version we have now was done more slowly so people didn't notice as much maybe. Lots more distractions today too

Stop buying half full cereal boxes.

The picture is depicting Special K, not Corn Flakes. Some "adult" cereals like Special K and Total (do they still make Total?) actually have 100% or more of certain vitamins and minerals, so it's a totally viable option as a "meal replacement". I don't know Gary Pilnick from Adam, but it wouldn't surprise me that some rich dickhead said something that comes off as completely tone deaf.

I watched some video on YouTube where they tried to tackle the question "what one thing could you eat day-in and day-out and survive the longest on without suffering some kind of malnutrition." I think they ended up on Subway's Veggie Delight or the Cold Cut Combo with all the fixings, so that you're getting at least some of your USRDA of vitamins.

See how you almost sound credible and then readers slowly realize that the average bowl of Special K cereal contains more sugar than a Krispy Kreme doughnut. Nutritional information on cereals is often misleading because its based on unrealistic serving sizes as displayed (people will often eat larger portions of food they perceive as "healthy").
- Nutritional information on cereals is often misleading because its based on unrealistic serving sizes
  This is only tangentially relevant, but I am baffled at how this is allowed:
  
  "100% Vitamin C per 8oz" -- container only holds 6.75oz
- I'm people and i tend to eat 3 times the suggested serving, not because i think it's healthy it's because i'm trying to not lose more weight.
  I'm already bodybuilder stage ready low bodyfat, their serving sizes seem to be aimed at lazy office workers who sit on a chair 10h a day and not the commute to work by bicycle 40km a day and have a physically demanding job for 8h lifting heavy shit and running around.
  I need more food to survive. Make it more affordable if you're not going to adjust my wage to your demands of my body.

Mmmm…

Monsanto flakes. So tasty

Store brand cornflakes at best

I suggest that Gary Pilnick eat my ass for dessert.

I lived on Grape Nuts for like three months in college.

Difference now: I'm not in fucking college.

emmmmm, Chlormequat