Dear Post Cereals:

[Wombatwarlord777]

At the risk of steering this thread off-topic, I must say that of all the various words and phrases invented to market products, I dislike "crasins" the most.

It's not that I don't appreciate dried cranberries, mind you. It's just that for whatever reason, the aggregate effect of reading or hearing the word "crasins" is akin to having grade-F sandpaper vigorously applied to my cerebrum. Perhaps somebody died choking of crasins in front of me when I was a tot or something.

[Crisis]

I hate raisins but I love grapes. Also the only cereals I've been able to eat over the summer have been All-bran (when I can stand it) and Weetabix (the rest of the time).

postin' in the cereal thread

[Green Gibbon!]

I've always wondered what they mean by "two scoops." Is there some government or industry standard for raisin scoops that they're using as a reference? Otherwise "scoop" might mean like teaspoon or something.

Not that I think they're skimping on raisins or anything - at least not yet - but it always comes out sounding like an empty promise.

[Farmer]

I sincerely hope there's a standardized scoop of raisins in a vault somewhere, next to the kilogram.