Follies of the Madmen #295

So that's where corporate executives come from! It's something in their breakfast cereal as kids!

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If every claim made by breakfast cereal manufacturers were true, we would be a nation of seven foot tall, Olympic class supermen / superwomen.

Posted by KDP on 11/01/16 at 10:34 AM

It's interesting how the advertising of shredded wheat has changed. Back then, it had "improved wheat protein." Now it's touted as wheat and nothing but wheat.

Posted by ges on 11/01/16 at 07:01 PM

In my classes, the guys who wore their gym shorts with the waist nearly at their armpits like that didn't turn out to be so much the executive type.

Posted by Virtual on 11/01/16 at 10:03 PM

As a child: improved wheat protein. As an executive: cocaine for breakfast.

Posted by Richard Bos on 11/02/16 at 07:23 AM

And today shreaded wheat is personna non gratus due to the gluten epidemic that affects everyone in the world.

Posted by GFinKS on 11/07/16 at 11:08 AM

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