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When I was young, in the late 90s, supermarkets here in the UK had an entire aisle just with breakfast cereals. Now my local supermarket has about six feet of t
by chrisseaton 4y ago
When I was young, in the late 90s, supermarkets here in the UK had an entire aisle just with breakfast cereals. Now my local supermarket has about six feet of them and that's it. Crazy how an entire food sector has just entirely collapsed. Literally the only people I see eating cereal now are doing it ironically (Momofuku etc.)
- mrec 4y agoIt's still an entire aisle at my supermarket (granted, a big one) in the UK. I honestly wasn't aware that it had gone out of fashion. What are the cool kids eating instead now, avocado toast?
- chrisseaton 4y agoMy seven-year-old's friends seem to eat porridge, toast, fruit, that kind of thing. Genuinely can't remember the last time I saw a child eat a bowl of cereal, and that's not some kind of weird principle of mine they eat plenty of other junk. Now I think about it I think it's also a changing attitude to milk, not just cereal. People don't seem to just consume milk like we did as children.
- mrec 4y agoYeah, I did some digging and UK per capita liquid milk consumption is down 50% since 1974. That's quite a drop.
- kspacewalk2 4y agoDefinitely not the case in Canada. Still almost an entire aisle devoted to this particular kind of sugary junk food. Even in smaller grocery stores.
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoDepends on the store. Trader Joe's has 6 different boxes, when they have them at all. Local chain has an entire aisle, often with 3 or 4 sizes of the popular ones. 100's of choices. Dozens of granolas. Fruity rings from every manufacturer you've heard of and several you haven't. So alive and well in the US Midwest
- irrational 4y agoInteresting. Here in the US, there is still more than an entire side of an aisle full of breakfast cereal (brand name cereal on one side and generic cereal on the other side). The aisle is probably 40 feet long.