Can you relate?
@cmconseils all I remember is Thiacin. To this day I have no idea what that is

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A vintage health extract made from concentrated extinct Tasmanian Tigers?

@cmconseils I feel SO seen. And still do it at 71.
@cmconseils There certainty were tablets when I was a kid. But the clay took forever to dry.
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Oh yes. Nearly every morning. Thatโ€™s how I learned to read: my mom cut up the letters from Post Toasties boxes and made different words for me to learn.
@cmconseils After you looked inspired to see if there was a prize

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There were mini cereal boxes so you could have it in your pocket and read it anywhere !

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Made me laugh, until I remembered that it's designed to be read while eating...

@cmconseils Good characters, weak plot.
@cmconseils Absolutely. And I didn't even eat cereal.
@cmconseils Sometimes there were good stories on them.
@cmconseils Yep. Unfortunately, my parents didnโ€™t believe in sugary cereals, so it was the nutritional facts of whole wheat bread, peanut butter, Cheerios, and whatever else that happened to be sitting next to the toaster.
@cmconseils My parents also didnโ€™t believe in buying video game consoles, so whenever I wasnโ€™t reading every single book I could get my hands on, I spent an inordinate amount of time playing with my pocket calculator. No, not a graphing calculator; just a regular scientific calculator with a lot of buttons.
@cmconseils Sometimes you could cut the box top and send it in to redeem a cheap plastic toy. Woohoo!
@cmconseils I used to read a book or whatever packet/box in front of me ๐Ÿ™‚
@cmconseils Sports column of the Hindustan Times for me. On weekends, it was the comic strips - Calvin and Hobbes was the most awaited.
@cmconseils I stopped eating breakfast a while ago. Also do people actually do activities while eating breakfast? It takes like 4 minutes tops to eat cereal.
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Definitely. At some point I graduated to reading the newspaper at breakfast.
@cmconseils That's how I got my start in chemistry (not really).
@cmconseils what happened to the toys that came in the box?
@cmconseils And that's the way we liked it dammit!

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Every single day... ๐Ÿ˜

@cmconseils read cartoons for every single breakfast. And a few other meals as well ๐Ÿ˜€
@cmconseils I still donโ€™t know what riboflavin is. ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ
@cmconseils I'm sorry, but it's giving "back in my day ๐Ÿง“" ๐Ÿ˜ญ
I agree that kids shouldn't grow up with screens tho
@cmconseils @Reticulum there were riddles on it ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
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Have a ton of ebooks, still read cereal boxes & pretty much anything in front of me
@cmconseils @benroyce The nutrition facts were so much better back then, lengthy tomes listing every vitamin. Theyโ€™re basically comic books now.