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[Poll #1179972]

Comments

[simont]

I think I did eat three, once, just to prove it could be done.

Of course, now I couldn't.

[kjaneway.livejournal.com]

I couldn't eat one. It's like trying to chew your way through a bale of hay, IMO.

[gerald_duck]

They're quite nice topped with butter and Marmite.

Or with some lemon curd shoved down the middle.

[hotbadgerdeluxe.livejournal.com]

Weetabix topped with butter and Bovril are great.

[gerald_duck]

"Weetabix" is the plural?

So what's the singular?

I'd always assumed "Weetabix" was the singular, so the plural was, presumably "Weetabices".

[hotbadgerdeluxe.livejournal.com]

The plural is Weetabixen.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I think “weetabix” is both singular and plural.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Or mashed up with chocolate and made into Easter nests ;)

[arnhem.livejournal.com]

You're missing a tickybox for "could but wouldn't" ...

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

What arnhem said.

Mind you, I think the most I've ever seen someone eat in a single sitting was about twelve or thirteen. They're really not that big.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I always eat three, but then, I also eat Morrison's own brand rather than the real thing.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

You forgot "my parents were killed by a shredded wheat-gobbling black hole, you insensitive clod".

[imc.livejournal.com]

I could eat twenty three.

(What, you didn't mean spoon-size Shredded Wheat?)

[stephdairy.livejournal.com]

For some reason I thought the three thing related to Weetabix.

(S)

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Who can't eat three weetabix?

(Well, simont for one, I suppose :-)

[gerald_duck]

Actually, Weetabix and Shredded Wheat are pretty close in calorific terms. And, since three of either is only about 60g, 200kcal, it's really not hard to eat three of either.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

it's really not hard to eat three of either.

I know lots of people (without wheat allergy/intolerance problems) that can't handle shredded wheat because it gives them gutache, but who can eat weetabix, which is more or less mush once you put milk on it.

[gerald_duck]

The advert is clearly a cunning ruse to get kids trying to eat more Shredded Wheat, more than an attempt to make people prefer Shredded Wheat to other cereals.

When I was eight or so I did eat three at a sitting to prove I could. My mum was very mock-impressed in a long-suffering way… until she noticed I'd eaten them dry and wasn't thirsty. Then she got a little worried.

That should have been the first warning sign that I have absolutely no thirst reflex. In fact, things bimbled along until I got a kidney stone at the age of nineteen and incredulously asked how someone was supposed to drink that much when my consultant advised me to consume at least three pints a day of fluids.

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

Do they still do the three Shredded Wheat adverts? I remember the campaign was torpedoed by a poster showing a bowl of three shredded wheat with the caption, "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label."