Nix the Weetabix!

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=VHj4OWp_XsY


 

Coincidentally to my sister's blogpost, Weetabix has a new banana flavor and it has the tag line - "Fuel for little monkeys." I know this, not because I am a fan, but from their website, searched just before I posted this. I was the one for whom my sister bought Weetabix while I was visiting her in Paris. I foolishly wanted to start my day with some wholesome grain-based goodness- simply from being a creature of habit- since I was happily at the Boulangerie for warm croissants each morning.

So, I tried Weetabix. Tried is the key word- as in "try to eat these ground-up wheat stems...pretend you are a cow while you chew them...perhaps that will help." (This is my own tag line and is not approved by Weetabix Limited- interesting that the UK has Limited this company after they have produced this chaff-based product.)  So, by the company's own advertisement, this is basically monkey-chow, as the commercial shows a child behaving like a monkey after eating Weetabix. They mercifully do not show any "flinging"' but it is implied due to the regularity caused by such a hearty product.

 If you have not tried Weetabix, first imagine the cedar shavings you would use to line a hamster cage compressed into a small brick, and decide if that would make a tasty breakfast. There are not enough bananas in the world...