JoJo Siwa is a 19-year old singer/dancer who dresses like she’s 10. She also makes $2 million a year doing YouTube videos and has her own breakfast cereal. Yes, I just typed that. JoJo’s cereal is officially called Strawberry Bop and, as you can see by the photo on the box, it is (mostly) Pink. The crunchy, corn-puff-based cereal reportedly has a flavor similar to the Strawberry Shortcake Cereal. There are also reports that eating it will turn your poop pink. TMI.
Photographed in the Lot Less Closeout Store on West 14th Street, NYC
When Covid dictated a shift from working at an office to working from home, my daily routine changed in many ways. One small but significant shift involved what I regularly enjoyed eating for breakfast each morning while sitting at my desk. The office pantry always stocked fresh milk in the fridge for our coffee or cereal, so it was super convenient (and saved me a few bucks) to keep a box of my favorite cereal — Barbara’s Peanut Butter Puffins, available at Trader Joe’s — at work. At home, I rarely purchase dairy milk because it basically starts to go bad as soon as it’s packaged, and it’s easy to forget to use it up before the expiration date hits. Needless to say (but you can see I am about to) when I started working from home — one year ago — I stopped eating packaged breakfast cereal entirely. That changed recently, when I found out about Koita, a line of shelf-stable, plant-based milks from Italy! Today I’m going to review Koita Organic Coconut Milk, which has brought the joy of breakfast cereal back into my life.
Here’s another entry in this rad blog that I invite you to file under “Things You See at Kroger.” This box of Strawberry Frosted Shredded Wheat Cereal caught my eye when I was grocery shopping with my sister while visiting California at Christmas. Because the search for Pink Things observes no Holiday!
MTV’s subversively groundbreaking animated sitcom, Beavis and Butt-Head, has been off the air for two decades at this point, though it has enjoyed a lively pop cultural resurgence in the past few years due to Trump’s useless male progeny bearing an uncanny resemblance to the idiotic duo. The important difference being that Beavis and Butt-Head are at least somewhat loveable.
But if you were ever a fan, you will immediately recognize the design on the above T-Shirt, advertising a fictional breakfast cereal called The Great Cornholi-O’s, as a reference to Beavis’s maniacal alter ego, Cornholio. Conholio is known for uttering several memorable catch-phrases — “I am the Great Cornholio!,”“I need TP for my bunghole!” and “Are You Threatening Me?” — all of which are represented in this fun and nostalgia-inspiring shirt. Own yours now by clicking on This Link, and enjoy free shipping this week only! Perhaps your Bunghole will thank you!
Hey, I know it’s still early in the morning, but let’s rock a little bit, shall we? And perhaps also enjoy a bit of Breakfast Cereal and assorted food porn, courtesy of the video for an earnestly awesome tune called “Sincere”, from London-based three piece Doe. The band’s lead singer/guitarist Nicola Leel, is just so, so pretty (Also: Pink Hair), but she sounds like she could kick your ass, so watch out!
According the to band, “‘Sincere’ is a rage pop song about dudes who are great at learning and regurgitating information and appearing like they actually give a shit about women’s issues, when their behavior in private shows a different story. [The lyrics] ‘I know who you are when no-one else is looking’ pretty much sums it up.” Sounds a lot like a certain orange-faced dude currently running for public office here in the US, but I digress.
Doe’s “hook-sharp, melody-based-yet-heavy rock songs have been compared to The Breeders, Weezer and Sleater-Kinney (all valid), but way “Sincere” reminds me most of is L7’s sublime “Pretend We’re Dead.” Your mileage may vary. Nicola’s band-mates include Jake Popyura (drums, vocals) and Dean Smitten (guitar), and “Sincere” can be found on the band’s latest album, Some Things Last Longer than You, which will be available September 9th, 2016 via Old Flame Records. Enjoy!
