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The ingredients listed for the frosted strawberry Pop-Tarts are as follows:

Enriched Flour (wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate [vitamin B1], Riboflavin [vitamin B2], Folic Acid), Corn Syrup, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Dextrose, Soybean And Palm Oil (with Tbhq For Freshness), Sugar, Contains Two Percent Or Less Of Cracker Meal, Wheat Starch, Salt, Dried Strawberries, Dried Pears, Dried Apples, Cornstarch, Leavening (baking Soda, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate), Citric Acid, Corn Cereal, Gelatin, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean , Caramel Color, Modified Corn Starch, Soy Lecithin, Xanthan Gum, Modified Wheat Starch, Tricalcium Phosphate, Color Added, Turmeric Color, Vitamin A Palmitate, Red #40, Niacinamide, Reduced Iron, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (vitamin B6), Yellow #6, Riboflavin (vitamin B2), Thiamin Hydrochloride (vitamin B1), Folic Acid, Blue #1, Less Than 0.5g Trans Fat Per Serving.

http://www.kelloggs.com/en_US/pop-tarts-frosted-strawberry-toaster-pastries.html

+5 informative.

Ultimately, the companies that hire Infosys should pay for this outrageous behavior. What other strategy will yield the fastest end to this degradation of American workers? ...or even, put a stop to the entire H1B visa abomination? Here's a list of Infosys Clients.

Pick one at random. How about: Kellogg's? (They have such a homey, "All-American" brand image, don't they?)

Make them pay: Shame them, give them bad publicity, DESTROY THEIR BRAND -- do anything legal & necessary to make them drop Infosys as a vendor, permanently.

Frosted Mini Wheats -- collect nine (!) proof of purchases and get a Star Trek flash drive.

No joke. 1 GB, pre-loaded with Trek content, recommended for ages 8 and up.

Try these.

I prefer YogurtBytes, satisfyingly funny.

who would run an OS that uses a smily sun as it's logo?

Forget FF. You want Tiger Power(tm) cereal! That's what I've been having since T-day..

qz

You know I was alway suspicious of those Snap, Crackle and Pop guys...

All Bran of course.

It's Sollog's brother Kellogg, who eats his nuts as part of a balanced breakfast.

Are suggesting that these people think the strawberry is? I don't know if that is the most ridiculous thing I have every heard, or the saddest.

While Chocolate S'mores actually contains more fat and salt they contain less sugar, more protein, as well as magnesium and copper. Neither strawberry or S'mores contain any Vitamin C. Based on this information the only reason to choose strawberry over S'mores its lower fat content. S'mores are actually slightly more nutritious.

While I'm sure they are fortified with vitamins and minerals, they have about the same nutritional value as an energy bar. They cost less than your average engery bar at about 40cents/unit.

They are not recommended for unsupervised children because they present a fire hazard in toasters. Pop-Tarts are a perfect in the event of a natural disaster because they are a high energy food that can be used to start fires in a pinch.

Strawberry Pop-Tart Strawberry

Serving size = 52g (1 pastry)
Calories = 200 Calories from fat 45
Total fat 5g 8%
Saturated fat 1g 5%
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 170mg 8%
Total Carbohydrate 38g 13%
Dietary Fiber 1g
Sugars 19g
Protein 2g

Vitamin A 10% Vitamin C 0% Calcium 0%
Iron 10% Thiamin 10% Riboflavin 10%
Niacin 10% Vitamin B6 10% Folic Acid 10%
Phosphorus 2%

Frosted S'Mores

Serving size = 52g (1 pastry)
Calories = 200 Calories from fat 50
Total fat 6g 9%
Saturated fat 1g 5%
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 200mg 8%
Total Carbohydrate 36g 12%
Dietary Fiber 4g
Sugars 18g
Protein 3g

Vitamin A 10% Vitamin C 0% Calcium 0%
Iron 10% Thiamin 10% Riboflavin 10%
Niacin 10% Vitamin B6 10% Folic Acid 10%
Phosphorus 6% Magnesium 4% Copper 2%

Are suggesting that these people think the strawberry is? I don't know if that is the most ridiculous thing I have every heard, or the saddest.

While Chocolate S'mores actually contains more fat and salt they contain less sugar, more protein, as well as magnesium and copper. Neither strawberry or S'mores contain any Vitamin C. Based on this information the only reason to choose strawberry over S'mores its lower fat content. S'mores are actually slightly more nutritious.

While I'm sure they are fortified with vitamins and minerals, they have about the same nutritional value as an energy bar. They cost less than your average engery bar at about 40cents/unit.

They are not recommended for unsupervised children because they present a fire hazard in toasters. Pop-Tarts are a perfect in the event of a natural disaster because they are a high energy food that can be used to start fires in a pinch.

Strawberry Pop-Tart Strawberry

Serving size = 52g (1 pastry)
Calories = 200 Calories from fat 45
Total fat 5g 8%
Saturated fat 1g 5%
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 170mg 8%
Total Carbohydrate 38g 13%
Dietary Fiber 1g
Sugars 19g
Protein 2g

Vitamin A 10% Vitamin C 0% Calcium 0%
Iron 10% Thiamin 10% Riboflavin 10%
Niacin 10% Vitamin B6 10% Folic Acid 10%
Phosphorus 2%

Frosted S'Mores

Serving size = 52g (1 pastry)
Calories = 200 Calories from fat 50
Total fat 6g 9%
Saturated fat 1g 5%
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 200mg 8%
Total Carbohydrate 36g 12%
Dietary Fiber 4g
Sugars 18g
Protein 3g

Vitamin A 10% Vitamin C 0% Calcium 0%
Iron 10% Thiamin 10% Riboflavin 10%
Niacin 10% Vitamin B6 10% Folic Acid 10%
Phosphorus 6% Magnesium 4% Copper 2%

no, that's your Rice Krispies . . . but you forgot the snap ;)

Try these. They're made of mostly egg whites and soy protein. Before you judge them too harshly, give them a shot. They really taste great, as long as you cook them just right (burn very easily), with a little bit of olive oil.

LEGO(R) my Eggo(R)!

Actually, I really don't like the smell (let alone the taste) of coffee. Any kind of coffee, even the stuff they have over in Europe. I am addicted to something in the morning, and I can't wait to get me some of it, it's called Crispix. I go through a large box of the stuff in about 5 days. It used to cost me $5.00/box when I lived in the Bay area, so that was like a dollar a day in cereal. I swear they must put crack in it or something. I'm hooked...

Look Jon -- It's a convenient device to raise the battle between Spider-man and AotC to the level of culture-shifting battles between one kids generation and the next.

But to say that Lucas has a lock on marketroid obsession and that the Stan Lee clan hasn't tried to "shroud Spider-man in market hype", and that that's why Spider-man is winning the hearts of all the little Generation X++ers, isn't just wishful thinking... it's plain wrong.

For breakfast this morning, I had Kellog's Spider-man cereal. (Honestly. I really did.) It tasted just like Cap'n Crunch Berries, but it sure looked like little spider webs. I could have tried the Spider-man Pop-tarts or Rice-Krispies, but I was in the mood for something a little sweeter.

After breakfast I signed up for the new Spider-man Cingular account that I saw lots of cool commecials for, and entered to win a custom Spider-man Dodge Viper.

Then I popped over to Wal-mart to pick up the new Spider-man game, and found out I could get a free trip to Universal Studios, complements of Sam Walton! For lunch I "swung into Carl's Jr" or did I "drop into Hardee's" for a quick Spider-man burger, and washed it down with a Spider-man Dr. Pepper, which I became a big fan of ever since I heard they were racing a Spider-man Dr. Pepper car in the NASCAR Busch Series.

The amazing thing is, even the marketing press is completely aware of what Sony Pictures is doing with Spider-man. Why aren't you?

IANAT, but IAAB (I am a biologist/bioinformaticist).
Your points are valid. I'm struck, however, by the similarity with opinions once expressed about the Human Genome Project (HuGeP).
Many biomedical scientists were rationally skeptical---"but even a trained molecular biologist can only sequence N base pairs a year!"---when it (the HuGeP) was proposed. As biology becomes more oriented towards "grandiose" projects like this we (biologists) may find ourselves eating our own words more frequently.
Big science/technology done with proper financial and political backing has demonstrated time again that the "impossible" is usually just bloody difficult---or just bloody difficult to imagine. We've put men on the moon, simulated the Big Bang, tunnelled through mountains, sustained Moore's Law for decades and now we can even lose up to 6lbs in two weeks(TM) eating a tasty cereal.
You also describe the aftermath of mega-taxonomy hunts and it sounds a lot like the problems people are now having recruiting enough good bioinformaticists to help biologists and medics make the most of the fruits of the various genome projects.

I'd rather have a bowl of Co-co pops

Oh yeah

Bom bum bam-bam bum bom

Ooh

Bommm bum-bom bam bum bom!

I'd rather have a bow-el of Co-ah-co pops, yeah!

Tony the Tiger says "They're Gr-r-reat!®"

Tony the Tiger says "They're Gr-r-reat!®"

Tony the Tiger says "They're Gr-r-reat!®"

Tony the Tiger says "They're Gr-r-reat!®"

Aim:

To examine the effect of Y2K on cereal products.

Method:

The following standard Y2K tests were applied:

1. Date rollover - both GM and "organic" products were sent forward to Y2K and examined as the date rolled over. Detractors argue that since the grain can't be bought back in time again, we won't know until it's too late anyway.
2. Black Box testing - samples of grain were sealed in a box which was then painted black. None of them sprouted. Detractors claim that this is a pointless test.
3. Source Code examination - a group of underpaid West Coast Tasmanians (used because they have 2 heads) spent hours cutting open seeds and poking around inside looking for evidence of 2 digit dates. Detractors claim that the researchers were innumerate, and wouldn't recognise a date if they saw it growing on a palm tree in an oasis

A cost benefit analysis of the likelyhood of lawsuits from poisoned consumers shows that the likelyhood of surviving the poisoning is low enough and the costs of using organic grains high enough that there is a higher profit expecation in doing nothing.

Executive Recommendations:

1. Produce a movie about people being poisoned by GM foods with a plot full of holes and a romantic sideplot.
2. Create "community groups" which make clearly false claims about how planting a GM crop will make butterflies in China flap their wings and throw around buzzwords like "Chaos".
3. If anybody raises valid concerns, lump them in with the above and laugh at them.
4. Buy Organic "Vita Brits" for breakfast instead of "Wheat Bix".