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[camwyn]

note to self: nutritional yeast and Frosted Mini-Wheats really don't go together.

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[genarti]

...Oh god, I'm making an offended cat face just thinking about it.

In what context did you discover this fact?

[camwyn]

We get free cereal at the office, and I had brought the nutritional yeast to add to smoothies. I thought I'd try it with the cereal.

This was not a good idea.

[genarti]

Makes sense! And also oh dear. I hope you had a smoothie or something to get the taste out of your mouth.

[camwyn]

Yeah, eventually. It was one of those moments where I kept waiting for things to get worse- I mean, it wasn't good at all, but there was more of a threat of horrible taste than actual full-blown horrible taste, if you know what I mean.

[in_the_blue]

In Cowboy Bebop, Spike watches Ed pour milk on her cereal, so he tries copying her with the beer in his hand and makes such a face at the result.

This is what I imagine when I hear this story.

Personally, I've always believed nutritional yeast was invented for popcorn alone.

[ymfaery]

What exactly does nutritional yeast do? >.>a

It's been a while since I tried frosted mini-wheat, but I vaguely recall it wasn't sweet enough to balance the plain parts.

[camwyn]

Mostly it supplies flavor and some extra B vitamins. Minerals, too, I think. They use yeast extract to produce some of the salty/savory flavor in things like Doritos, but I had sort of mentally blocked that fact in favor of the nutrition numbers.

The cereal was mostly because if you look at the nutritional information, they somehow claim to get 90% of the USRDA of iron into a serving. I'm not sure how. Maybe an industrial-sized rasp and a big iron bar poised over the initial wheat paste vat.

[derien]

No, that... doesn't sound as if it would be a very good combination. Kind of like putting lucky charms in sweet and sour soup.

[camwyn]

Not quite that bad, but it's up there.