Pickles by Brian Crane for May 21, 2023

Opal 1 Earl 0.

He was right this time

If you mix crunchy cereals together, you can drive Opal crazy.

Your battle axe is a real charmer

I think that might make a tasty bowl of cereal.

I’ve mixed rice krispies and rice Chex together for years. Not a true mix though. More like the Chex are a topping. Something about the extra crunch appeals to me.

Mrs. Redrum loves Cheerios. To me they’ve always tasted like damp cardboard.

Actually that sounds like a great idea, only you would wind up with cups of cereal that would take a mixing bowl to eat out of.

I’ve done that before when I had only a little of a bunch of different cereals to make one bowl. I had mixed results.

Of course, I have to let all this nonsense go somewhere.

Sounds like a great plan. It’ll go right from the cereal bowl to the toilet bowl in about a minute and a half.

Good one Opal!

Just one drawback Earl, check the sugar content of each cereal, might surprise you!

I might try this if I could afford to buy that many boxes of cereal all at once.

Reminds me mixing together breakfast cereals when I was a kid … and also building a wall of cereal boxes.

She shouldn’t be that way. With only Nelson as the kid who would eat cereal regularly, they have too many kinds. I would bet a lot of it is pretty old and either needs eating or thrown out. Earl is just doing his part.

I thought my Alpha Bits were haunted until I realized they were Cheerios.

I mix Fiber One with Frosted Mini Wheats, have for years

CHIPS cereal?

Whenever I hear of something with health benefits, I add it to my morning cereal. The current list is: large flake oats, oat bran, wheat germ, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, almonds, ground flax seed, Thompson raisins, raw cranberries, gooseberries, and blueberries, with skim milk.

My grandma was so frugal that she’d pour the remnants of every box of cereal when there wasn’t enough in any box for a full bowl together. Word of advise. Wheeties, Klackers, Apple Jacks and Rice Krispies DO NOT got together…

Apparently, Opal’s job is to suck every little bit of fun out of Earl’s life that she can.

I mix four different cereals together in a 2 1/2-gallon ice cream tub. Two for flavor and two for fiber. It is a very tasty mix and it makes me a regular guy.

2oz each of 2 brands of cereal, 1 tbs each of 4 no sugar added fruits, half a banana, 5 oz 2% milk, + 2 meds, +1 vitamin cap, +1 omega cap. Tasty, filling, lasting – good stuff.

Spoken like a woman that was raised to steam the #ell out of broccoli, put the mushy broccoli in the bowl and then wonder why no one eats it.

If Earl likes mixing his cereal, what’s the problem? He’s not hurting anyone by doing it. Mind your own business woman!

I put the crunchy on the bottom and anything that gets mushy on top

No Lucky charms?

My wife and I have at least 10 boxes of cereal open at the same time for variation.

Funny. Made me laugh.

I notice no one mentions my favourite – Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. Followed by Raisin Bran Flakes.

Yes. There is not problem here Pearl. Save for a carb crash nap on the couch. If Earl makes it away from the table. It speaks highly of their financial situation that they can afford so much cereal.

Cereal – the human version of kibble.

Your wrong again.Opal, the cheerios are for the hole in his heart from all the hurtful things you say to him… stop being so mean

@ about 4-5 dollars a box, good luck with that, Earl!

This is a way to use up the last partial bowl of multiple cereals … as long as you strain out the cereal dust.

Atta girl Pearl……….

My dear mum called Cheerios “Cheerioats”, and I would razz her. The joke was on me – a name change in 1945 after a suit from Quaker.

Does she ALWAYS have to be insulting..???????

Well, this boy must agree with her. Look, he has no scale to proportion them out evenly. But the sugar high will be quite a rush.

Opal doesn’t appreciate a creative genius.

What was the fee for product placement and name dropping?

I’ve been mixing cereal since I was a teenager. (In my late 60s now). I consider it an art! Some mix well and you end up with something great. Others…not so much. You just have to experiment. It’s sortavalmost like cooking.

Anything has to be better than “magic spoon”. We tried both the cinnamon and the fruit flavored. In both cases, it tastes stale, flat and altogether blah.

A dietary supplement was marketed toward seniors. The name of the product suggested it was formulated for seniors. Ads on TV suggested viewers had “iron poor blood” and emphasized the iron content. It was later discovered seniors need less iron, and are more likely to suffer an iron overdose.

My stepdad (RIP) used to mix up all his cereals that way & put the mix in Tupperware containers as soon as he got home from the store. There wasn’t a box of just one kind of cereal in the place!

Don’t tell me that y’all don’t mix cereals too.

I actually agree with Earl on this one…

Actually I’m with Earl on this one. As long as he closes all the boxes and puts them back in the cabinet…

But no Trix because they are for kids.

mental spousal abuse at its best.

This morning I mixed Cheerios (my favorite) with a "cereal artesanal " with dried cranberries and almonds, topped with tiny chunks of bananas. ¡Muy rico!

Thanks Brian, made my day, great laugh, great set-up, great kicker, great fun…

Looks like a free plug for Cap’n Crunch and Cheerios.

Many mothers tell their children: “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.” Either Opal doesn’t know what “nice” means or doesn’t know how not to say anything.

When Kellogg’s heard that Queen Elisabeth had Special K for breakfast, they shipped two cases of it to her every January..

Earl tops me on cereal.

My family was poor growing up, & I remember my parents combining the last little bit of a couple kinds of cereal when there wasn’t enough in any of them for a whole bowl. I hated it & didn’t understand the reason.

Opal, you oat to be ashamed.

I’ve always mixed my cereal. Plain cereal on bottom, sweet cereal in the middle, and flakes on top. I usually buy Kroger or Malt-O-Meal brand. So, toasted oats, fruit rings, and raisin bran is the usual combination.