Hey space cadets.  Life sure can be rough in this day and age.  What with the price of gasolina and potash, it’s no wonder that cereal prices keep going up.  Bad news for some people (cereal eaters, natch), good news for…General Mills stock owners!  That’s right, according to Jim Cramer, heirophant of the mystical and often paradoxical stock mahket to millions of ma and pa day traders, predicts smooth sailing for the coming months.  Citing strengths in brand production, innovation and smart acquisition, JC feels that GM can weather the storm and outpace the other, possibly less whole-grained, manufacturers out there. More deets here.

A few points off the 52-week high, General Mills (GIS) is trading at 65.94 as of the time of this post.

Anyone in favor of a CerealBlogger index tracking fund? I’m thinking General Mills, Kellogg, ConAgra Foods…any other suggestions? COMMENTS PLZ!

Or should I say ‘the FASTination!!!!!’

I should.

The only thing i love more than a cereal bowl that tells me what i already know, its a cereal bowl shaped like a thing. In this case, my 11th favorite car of all time! (In order: the Ghost Busters’ Ecto 1, the Back to the Future Delorian, Herbie, the Inspector Gadget-Mobile, the General Lee, any Bond car, the Cars, CARrie Underwood, CARpel Tunnel Syndrome, that yellow thing from Nash Bridges, and the Speed Racer Mach 5).

Through a special deal through General Mills (cereal reporting celebrities get special treatment) they are willing to send me a Speed racer Mach 5 Cereal Bowl! I just need to prove to them (somehow) that I have purchased two boxes of Cheerios. Unfortunately, the United States Postal Service refused to participate in the spirit of the deal, and needs to be paid $1.75 for their apparent trouble.

So that’s all it takes! 2 Proofs of Purchase (still don’t know how I’m gonna do that) , and $1.75 shipping and i get to have the fastest breakfast on the block!

Stay tuned for the unboxing, i would have to expect that this would arrive quite expeditiously.

Dan, Pat,

Would you write me a couple a letters of reference that i can send to General Mills?

Have you ever been day dreaming about your favorite cereal from the past? No? Well I do, all the time. Sure you might think its weird but remember you are the one reading a poorly written website all about a breakfast food by some fools on the east coast!

Reader CM Asks:

Do you, does anyone besides me recall a cereal called “Stacks”? It was little brown squares, and yes, you could stack them, try and see how high a stack you could make.

I think they were short lived, probably in the late 1960s or early 1970s. Can’t find anything on the Web.

So intrepid CerealBloggers and readers of the internet, do you know the answer? If so contact us, or just leave a note in the ole comments section.

It’s summer time here in the big Apple, Jack! That means 2 things: even more tiny dogs lugged around in tiny totes and NYC Restaurant week! Restaurant week is the special time of summer when you can indulge in a price fixed menu at any number of fine NYC eateries for the reasonable sum of 35 bones. Things snuck up on me this year, so while I am out scrambling to pick a place, I got to thinking about all the other amazing restaurants in my hood that I have not had a chance to dine at.

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Courtesy of AOL Food comes the Breakfast Cereal Quiz. After each answer it tells you a little something about that cereal.

[Editor's note: 19 out of 20 for me; I blame windy conditions for my failure]

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Just like your dear old mother, we here at CB are going though some changes. Elliot is out of town on a journey of mega proportions. The rest of us have been quite busy workin hard for the money. We promise to have a whole slew of articles up soon and maybe even some new types of content. So stay tuned. To hold you over here is the latest Cereal Wednesday.

Wa-Wa-Wa-Wake up kids! It’s time for a sweet deal. After reading Dan’s gripping review, I’m sure you are just begging for some Kashi. But wait, after buying a bowl of self esteem, some random junk on eBay, and a ‘my other car is a horse‘ license plate frame you are all out of money. That’s OK though, because Kashi is giving away sample of their GoLean Crunch cereal.

This is definitely not the first time Kashi has given away free samples. After some digging I discovered they gave away some trail mix bars in a similar ad campaign. Then I found the money shot, a video of some guy reviewing his free sample. So now you have proof that you will actually get something for free.

Click here for the free GoLean Crunch.

FYI- I am eating some Apple Cinnamon Cheerios while writing this and they are mmmmm tasty.