Snap, Crackle and Pop?

By Jim Hagarty
2016

So, Kellogg’s in Tennessee.

I wonder if this is the same Kellogg’s that left London, Ontario, near my home a few years ago in search of a higher class of workers in the U.S. to whom they could pay higher wages than in Canada. Workers who can think for themselves and find creative ways of battling the monotony of the assembly line, for example. Like the man who has been caught on video, peeing on the food.

This might at first seem an odd thing to do but the strategy is actually helpful as it adds an organic element to the cereal that, frankly, might have been missing.

This happened two years ago. I don’t know why none of us caught on till now. If you read the ingredients list on the side of your Rice Krispies box, it’s right there: Monoglucimate, Hefronalligate, Rankinallinate, Urinate, Ballonawfulate ….

How could we not have known?

Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.