Shredded Wheat Biscuts

I was talking with some people the other day, when somehow the conversation got moved to breakfast cereal. One of the kids told us about these shredded wheat biscuits. I don't know why it's so funny to me, but I find it absolutely hilarious that they make these so big. I did a spit take when he said they have giant shredded wheat pieces. A shredded wheat biscuit comes in 10 oz. or 15 oz. sizes, and you just pour milk on it and wait for the it to get soggy, then cut it with your spoon to eat it. The whole thing, at first sounded fairly unappealing to me, but I do like mini-wheat pieces, so maybe I'll try it sometime. 

Now for a history of Shredded Wheat, provided by Wikipedia:

US

Henry Perky invented shredded wheat cereal in 1893. The wheat is first cooked in water until its moisture content reaches about 50%. It is then tempered, allowing moisture to diffuse evenly into the grain. The grain then passes through a set of rollers with grooves in one side, yielding a web of shredded wheat strands. Many webs are stacked together, and this moist stack of strands is crimped at regular intervals to produce individual pieces of cereal with the strands attached at each end. These then go into an oven, where they are baked until their moisture content is reduced to 5%. The Natural Food Company was based at Niagara Falls, NY in 1901. It became the Shredded Wheat Company in 1904. It was bought by Nabisco (National Biscuit Company) in December 1928. US production moved to Naperville in Illinois in 1954, where it is still made. In 1993, Nabisco sold the brand to Kraft General Foods, but it was still under the Nabisco name until 1999, whereupon it was given by the phrase "Nabisco brought to you by Post". Canadian production has been at Niagara Falls, Ontario, since 1904 due to nearby hydro-electric power. US production is also at Niagara Falls, Ontario. Until recently, US production took place in Niagara Falls, New York, but that factory was closed to consolidate the two factories.

A somewhat interesting piece of information that will doubtfully come in handy. So, what's you're favorite Shredded Wheat size? Take the poll and voice your opinion!

What's your favorite Shredded Wheat size?
	Bitesized
	Miniature
	Full sized (What I called "Biscuits")
	I like all sizes of Shredded Wheat!
	I don't like Shredded Wheat
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Deviance Project

This semester, I took a sociology class. For the final project in that sociology class, we are required to do either a participant observation, or a deviance project. I decided to do a deviance project, based on this video I found on youtube:

The creators of this video violated a norm prevalent in walking patterns. When walking, people will stagger themselves about an area in order to avoid walking next to someone they do not know. This can be observed anywhere that I've ever been, save for if there are too many people to enable this unspoken policy. I hope my explaination of this norm was sufficent, but if you are still confused, check the video's spot on youtube, because the makers of this video, username edanilkis offers a much better explanation. Under the discription for this video, it states that it was filmed in Funchal, Madeira.  which I looked up because I'd never heard of it. According to their website, Funchal, Madeira is, "Europe’s most picturesque and cleanest capital." Anyway, it is not in the United States, which obviously points to this norm being wide-spread and not exclusive to the American Culture. So, faithful followers, is this something that you see in your spot on the globe? 

We(')re all a little pathetic.

The title of the post has applies to a few ticks, a bit of a double meaning. Elliot and I are the first people who are pathetic, because it has been one day under a month since our last post. Pathetic. We are going to try very hard to post our regular crap, regularly. And hopefully it will eventually improve, but that's very unlikely. Any who we're- or at the very least I- am going to make a more impressive effort to post often. Maybe not so much regularly, but whenever I think of something brilliant to share with the world.

The second meaning I have for the post is something I came across right before posting this. I went to youtube and was planning to type in "you don't know you're beautiful" because I didn't know the name of One Direction's song What Makes you Beautiful. However, I was distracted by the auto suggestions offered by youtube which, I believe, show the most common searches. By the time I got to "you don'," autosuggestion offered me "you don't know your beautiful." Your. Your.  IMPROPER GRAMMAR YOUTUBE USERS! SHAME! And while I am completely aware that I'm being a doryphore (thanks for the word, Elliot), and quite possibly hypocritical because I've undoubtedly committed several spelling and grammar errors in this post, I still find it a little sad that you're/your is difficult for people.