It's count chocula season, motherfuckers
some people are like "my pumpkin spice!" And other people are like "Halloween deco!", but this is my shit
one year I bought a box of every monster cereal at the same time and kept them in my filing cabinet at work (Back in the desk job days)
and someone would come along looking for snacks and I would just pull out this rolodex of riboflavin
I always look most forward to Count Chocula every year 
HELL YES
I’m gonna have to grab some myself, cereal is the best snack anyway and count chocula is SEASONAL
lol yeah I always have seasonal in my cabinet but I don't even buy milk
it's a good choco snack without the guilt from a bag of m&ms
the illustration unsettles me
but i used to love him and the boo berries
i think we used to have that here but it has been years
I saw it on the shelves at work, today, and was like FINALLY!!!
Booberry season too.
'I have no idea what that means,' she said in European 
Also I literally had m&ms earlier
LOL that's true! Cereal culture is a very American thing, I think
... pls teach me, great American frand
count chocula is just like. chocolate-flavored oat cereal with chocolate marshmallows
but like
Count Chocula 1989 Commercial
the count was chocolate, and he had friends frankenberry (a strawberry homunculus) and boo berry (a blueberry ghost)
there were other monster cereal mascots but they were more of a 70s thing so I don't have nostalgia for them
Booberry is vaguely fruit tasting.
It has the spirit (hah!) but it's a little confused.
I still eat it though.
IT'S ALL PRETTY REGULAR, TBH but the mascots make it special
it doesn't sell well enough now to justify being on sale all the time, but they'll still make monster cereals around halloween
booberry really does taste like the ghost of berry flavor
and now it's an Event to eat my childhood
Speaking of which...
omg i had no idea count chocula was seasonal i just thought it was a thing over there always
it's an autumn luxury!!
it used to be! But it was discontinued altogether for a while
aw!
i was inspired and did a quick search to see if there was some speciality store where i could get a box but
all i found was this new design which
is the real horror tbqh
oh lol yeah
the display I found was all the retro 70s box designs
Yeah, I think that new design was what they used last year.... 
omg that is. magical
like there is cereal lore
that explains so much about your country
oh there is a TON of cereal lore
let the trix rabbit have a fucking bowl of cereal, you awful children
we have Captain Iglo who is this fisherman who brings frozen food mostly fishsticks in the commercials
Trix Rabbit 1970s Silly Rabbit Trix Are for Kids
awful fucking trash children never learned to share
Those commercials used to upset me so much as a kid 
give the bunny some cereal
Trix Cereal Commercial 2 199020 years later 
90's Trix Commercial
the actual worst
there are also shitty kids in Lucky Charms lore
the cereal sits at the end of the rainbow so they just show up and steal it from a leprechaun who was minding his own business
children are so rude
but also you say captain iglo like we didn't have
Kellogg's Frosties Werbung 1993
90's Lucky Charms Commercialracially insensitive but that was still allowed in the early 90s
Kellogg's Smacks Werbung 1993
or rude monkey who does not share with aadvark
Kellogg's Coco Pops Werbung 1993
omg mouette that commercial with tony the tiger and the skateboarders
we had that and it's wild to see it not in english
OMG I LOVE THAT
back in the ancient days of 1993 i had no idea what was going on anywhere else in the world media wise but apparently the answer is
that
Kelleggs Frosted F lakes 1990 commercials
I couldn't find the skate one but this is from the same era
more rude children!!!
I've never had count chocula!
but omg that's so bizarre like. once I got to a certain age my media influences were both German and English, but all my early childhood stuff is German only so whenever I hear it in English im like what do you mean it Englishes?!?! it's not supposed to do that and my brain breaks a little
I can't... for at least a week and a half... my next day off has to go to an electrician, rip 
that is the saddest story ;-;
if those commercials have taught us anything it's that you should eat breakfast cereal with the electrician?
having food with someone coming over to fix something is also how porn starts though
only sexy food though
don't have oysters or strawberries with your cereal and you'll be fine
I don't think porn features cereal no
usually pizza
do they ever get a chance to eat the pizza before sex though?
I have doubts
no the guy just shows up to deliver the pizza and then no one eats it
They probably never eat the pizza bc pizza isn't sexy food
What a waste of pizza
RIGHT
although i guess pizza is fine cold also?
not cereal. it would get too soggy
fishrepairs: I feel the German childhood memories thing to my bones
R I G H T? 
so if you open the door while eating cereal you should be fine
I am far more interested in the pernil than the count chocula.....
commercials are wild
pork shoulder was only 2.99/lb! so I was like "lol guess I'm making pernil this week" and I have no idea how it's going to turn out
I've never made one when not helping my mom prep thanksgiving
i just looked pernil up as well and it looks a lot like stelzn so yes i agree it sounds great please go to jessie's home and bring me back some pernil so i can compare for science
it's like a shredded garlic pork!
There is sadly no way I can make it over this week lol if it was next week!!!! Alas.
is it on the bone or no?
I just want you to take care of yourself I the middle of taking care of everyone else
fishrepairs: cooked on the bone! usually marinated for a day or two, then cooked and shredded after. the bone is discarded after after shredding happens
Omg I was like "Is Stelzn the Austrian term for Haxe?" just now. And it is, isn't it?
Divided by a common language
Divided by a common language
YES the haxe
There are no spoons left for me right now, also alas.
AND I SEE ty ty that sounds like a lovely dish
Tonight may well be an all nighter and I'm not happy about it.
I was just about to introduce you two, yumi and mouette, so I'm happy you're already establishing the germany/Austria thing
I don't understand the various cultural intricacies between your nations, but I have so much respect for your deep dive into english-language things
well it's easy germany is germany and austria is either also germany or australia depending on who you ask
lmao so is it like a china/Taiwan situation?
also I return from Google with a sample of what I'm making for dinner 
except I'm lazy and making boxed rice and beans so it won't look that good
picture doesn't display please send live sample
we've talked about how that doesn't work
....I was about to sob over wanting gandules so I'm glad you added that disclaimer
I have to make empis for Josie this week, maybe I'll go on a pigeon pea hunt.
yeah like I have actual habichuelas and COULD make real beans? but eh. I could just throw this stuff in a pot and let it cook itself
thank you Ana for being here to understand pr cuisine
/hi5s PR and Venezuelan dishes are the only things my lita could actually cook
She was so bad at anything else and yet these things were only for special occasions lmao I did not eat well as a child.
probably because it's hard to make small portions of that stuff
if you're committing to arroz con gandules, you've decided to make a boatload of it
Yeah, you need to make a full caldero of it.
and not one of those shitty tiny calderos
But I'm making empis for... five or six? Cuz I have two friends visiting so.
That's enough people to merit a caldero.
I bought a caldero set for my mom off the internet one year and the biggest one was like a frying pan size??? and it was like "wtf when would you ever use this"
...where did you buy yours from???
I do have a small one but have never used it for anything lmao.
lol Amazon
like I wasn't trying but I was still mad when it came
They have real ones too!!
Cuz yeah the fuck do you even make with the small ones...
the Jessica of three Christmases ago did not know how to look for a real one
I think it could be cute for like a serving option?
the small ones are how you send rice over to tables in a restaurant? no idea otherwise
Kinda like bringing out a small cast iron skillet?
lol yeah that
It's too small to cook in tho yeah
there's a taqueria around the port authority that does that
Idk I've never used it
Austria is also Germany or Australia omfg xD
fishrepairs: hello 
omg I didn't know it only came back once a year