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On 12-11-17 10:12 PM, Gary Istok wrote:
> cereal maker WEETABIX (similar to USA "Cream Of Wheat") in 1980. It had a box
I'm allowed to be off-topic, right? :-)
WEETABIX is nothing like "Cream of Wheat". I don't know about the US, but for a
while WEETABIX was sold in Canada as well. Think of small bran flakes moulded
into an oval form, about 3/4 inch thick and 4 inches long. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weetabix
My grandmother used to *mail* them to us for a couple years. They came as mostly
crumbs, so eventually she stopped.
-Chris Gray (NALUG)
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In lugnet.general, Chris Gray wrote:
> On 12-11-17 10:12 PM, Gary Istok wrote:
> > cereal maker WEETABIX (similar to USA "Cream Of Wheat") in 1980. It had a box
>
> I'm allowed to be off-topic, right? :-)
>
> WEETABIX is nothing like "Cream of Wheat". I don't know about the US, but for a
> while WEETABIX was sold in Canada as well. Think of small bran flakes moulded
> into an oval form, about 3/4 inch thick and 4 inches long. See:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weetabix
>
> My grandmother used to *mail* them to us for a couple years. They came as mostly
> crumbs, so eventually she stopped.
>
> -Chris Gray (NALUG)
Chris... like most American's, I've never had Weetabix before... I've based my
entire knowledge about it on Showtime's THE TUDORS miniseries BLOOPERS clip...
(starting at 3:13 in this clip)....
http://youtu.be/jh2-ztulM3E
It looked like Chocolate Cream of Wheat... but I guess it's not... ;-)
Gary Istok
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On 12-11-18 04:05 PM, Gary Istok wrote:
> Chris... like most American's, I've never had Weetabix before... I've based my
> entire knowledge about it on Showtime's THE TUDORS miniseries BLOOPERS clip...
> (starting at 3:13 in this clip)....
> http://youtu.be/jh2-ztulM3E
>
> It looked like Chocolate Cream of Wheat... but I guess it's not... ;-)
You're right, it does! I have no idea of what that was about. The comment was
about it being "too biscuitty". Maybe they had just smushed them up a lot. I
will admit to doing that occasionally.
-Chris Gray
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In lugnet.general, Chris Gray wrote:
> On 12-11-18 04:05 PM, Gary Istok wrote:
>
> > Chris... like most American's, I've never had Weetabix before... I've based my
> > entire knowledge about it on Showtime's THE TUDORS miniseries BLOOPERS clip...
> > (starting at 3:13 in this clip)....
> > http://youtu.be/jh2-ztulM3E
> >
> > It looked like Chocolate Cream of Wheat... but I guess it's not... ;-)
>
> You're right, it does! I have no idea of what that was about. The comment was
> about it being "too biscuitty". Maybe they had just smushed them up a lot. I
> will admit to doing that occasionally.
>
> -Chris Gray
Chris in that scene of The Tudors Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) was pole
vaulting over a swampy area... and the pole snapped and he got stuck underwater
in the mud. They must have "pulverized" the Weetabix to give the appearance
that Henry had a mouthful of mud when he eventually got himself loose from the
mud... hence his 2 friends worried faces at the beginning of the bloopers
wondering why he wasn't coming up. So they must have grinded the Weetabix a
consistency that it usually doesn't have when eaten.
Gary Istok
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