Too Old for Cocoa Puffs

I'd like to think that cereal was invented for someone who wants to eat a healthy, quick meal which will get your day started right. I don't think that Mr. Kellogs(?) would have approved of a sugar filled morning treat like fruity pebbles or Smacks! as a proper nutritional start to your day.

--Although, when Mr. Kellogs was alive, that's if he was a real person, they probably didn't have nutritional facts and a climbing obesity rate. If they did, we really haven't come very far as a human race in the breakfast aisle for the last 100 years.

Anyways, I think that we should have age limits to the type of cereal you can buy. I think it should be a backwards I.D. system. Almost the opposite of the drinking age, but the cereal age, if you will. If you are over 21, you can't buy a sugar ridden cereal like cocoa puffs, Smacks!, or Lucky Charms. You could only buy the bran cereal, or something that tastes like cat food.

This will achieve two things.

1. It will do it's part to lower the obesity rate, which is the obvious.

Number two is less obvious but more fun.

2. For all the sugar junkies out there who need their fix in the morning, they will be asking the under 21-year olds to buy them cereal. This is, of course, an ironic position to be in, because of the notion that under 21-year olds need elders to buy them alcohol. This will build some respect for the younger generation, and allow possible "illegal" trade-offs of alcohol for cereal.

Well, I better be getting to those Honey Combs that are calling my name while I still can.

Just doing my part.

-Nick