• gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org
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    22 hours ago

    lots of food products taste boring in the west because

    • we’ve been told that stuff that tastes good is probably full of additives and therefore bad for your health (think of all the chemicals!)
    • and because of the same christian mindset that got us the cornflakes:

    Cereal would create fortunes and create multinational companies that we still know today. But Dr. John Harvey Kellogg , the inventor of corn flakes, did not care about profits. For him, cereal was not just a health food because it would improve Americans digestion. He believed a diet centered on bland foods like cereal would lead Americans away from sin. One very specific sin: masturbation.

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      18 hours ago

      Thank god my regular unflavoured cigarette don’t have any dangerous chemicals!

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      Watch the road to wellness, it’s about Kellogg and it’s fantastic. Matthew Brodrick gets jerked off by a machine and gets a bunch of yogurt jammed in his butthole and at some point corn flakes come up. You know, proper cinema of a bygone age long past.