Chariset: I'm really surprised Lucky Charms hasn't given up and simply sold the marshmallows. That cereal is a joke. You'd get more nutrition by eating the actual box.

Pretty much my thoughts too, reading the article. You'd think they'd make money doing that, selling the stuff in the snack aisle even.

I know I'm weird, but I don't like the marshmallows, I do kinda like the slightly sweet cereal. It's kinda like "Alpha-Bits" isn't it?

I should get together with the guy in the article, he can eat all the marshmallows and let me have the cereal.

Totally going to print this and I don't even like Lucky Charms. I prefer Captain Crunch because I enjoy lacerating the roof of my mouth!

I thought I was the only person who at all the cereal then the marshmallows.

/don't eat cereal anymore though.

HOLY CRAP PEOPLE WAS THIS SO HARD? ;) (new window)

Mall of America previously had a store that sold boxes of Lucky Charms with only Marshmallows. It... was... AWESOME! This is a cool gadget though I've moved on to the vastly superior Marshmallow Mateys by Malt-O-Meal.


/I half expected the headline to read "They're after me lucky charms and invented a way to avoid the nasty pickle part"

1. Google "marbits."
2. Buy marbits.
3. Eat marbits.

styckx: albuquerquehalsey: HOLY CRAP PEOPLE WAS THIS SO HARD? ;) (new window)

That seems legit...

He's been selling them for awhile.

doglover: This 3D PRINTED article 3D PRINTED was a 3D PRINTED waste of 3D PRINTED cyberspace and I 3D PRINTED want my 3D PRINTED time back 3D PRINTED.


Basically you can make the same sifter with a cup and drill bit. It's not even clever. I mean shaped holes that prevent some things from passing while allowing others? That's literally a baby's toy. But just 3D print your incredible unoriginal idea and you too can enjoy an article with no content seemingly written by a high school undergrad with a 3D PRINTED hard on for 3D printers.

It's tiresome, yes. For about the same 1300$ that scam artist scumbag wants for his piece of crap rickety Makerbot, you can get a QUARTER TON OF METAL machine tool that you can hand down the generations.

But saying "anyone with access to a milling machine can make holes" just doesn't get the little geek wieners stiff, it seems.

Shipping might be an issue....

GraphicAddiction: It's cheaper to just get a bag of mini marshmallows and leave them out to petrify for a week or so.

Or, just pour some milk into a bowl of circus peanuts.

Right now, I concoct a 50/50 mix of rice krispies, and fruity pebbles.

The rice krispies are basically tasteless by themselves, and fruity pebbles alone are way too sugary, this mixture gives a good even flavour.

/it also makes awesome rice krispies treats.


(on the left).

/and if you're curious, the ones on the right are made from cocoa krispies, and they have chocolate chips mixed in (leave the chocolate chips in the freezer overnight so that they can be mixed in without melting too badly).

Bring back Dino Pebbles

I freeze marshmallows and it's my life's work to share the idea.

Microwave marshmallows then freeze them. Same consistency.

Chariset: I'm really surprised Lucky Charms hasn't given up and simply sold the marshmallows. That cereal is a joke. You'd get more nutrition by eating the actual box.

Considering that Captain Crunch has been selling that "oops all berries" stuff for years now, I'm also surprised that Lucky Charms hasn't done the same. I wonder if there is an actual regulation about putting a bunch of marshmallows in a box and selling it as "cereal" that is stopping them from doing it.

doglover : Why can't the English let it go.

Um, I'm not English.

The extra u was a typo and the spell checker didn't mark it, that's my story and I'm sticking with it.

/ California by way of the USVI

Guess I'm weird, but I like the current ratio just fine. You need the bad times to appreciate the good.

Quantum Apostrophe: that scam artist scumbag wants for his piece of crap rickety Makerbot

Could you elaborate a bit on this?

Quantum Apostrophe: For about the same 1300$ that scam artist scumbag wants for his piece of crap rickety Makerbot, you can get a QUARTER TON OF METAL machine tool that you can hand down the generations.

Don't get me wrong a proper lathe/mill is AWESOME but the main difference being you have to know how to use the lathe/mill otherwise you just get crap or injured while on the other hand you just need to know how to use your computer and you can print on a 3D printer.

doglover: This 3D PRINTED article 3D PRINTED was a 3D PRINTED waste of 3D PRINTED cyberspace and I 3D PRINTED want my 3D PRINTED time back 3D PRINTED.


Basically you can make the same sifter with a cup and drill bit. It's not even clever. I mean shaped holes that prevent some things from passing while allowing others? That's literally a baby's toy. But just 3D print your incredible unoriginal idea and you too can enjoy an article with no content seemingly written by a high school undergrad with a 3D PRINTED hard on for 3D printers.

So you wouldn't download a car then. I get it.

Households that serve KiX in them should be grounds for CPS to step in.

KiX: Kid Detested. Evil Stepmother approved.

As long as we're going to too much trouble to solve problems that don't really need solving...for this problem I'm picturing a slow releasing hopper feeding onto a conveyer belt to pass all the pieces under a camera connected to a computer controlling a high speed flexpicker that separates the cereal bits so the marshmallows can feed into a collection bin. I'm sure someone will do this if it hasn't been done already.

I was a fan of three cereals as a kid.

By order of awesomeness

1) Coco Pebbles
2) Frosted Flakes
3) Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but only after it stayed in the bowl for 20 minutes and got really soggy. Mmm..

Those fruity cereals like Trix and Berry Berry Kix tasted like AIDS.

Man, I like Kix. As a snack. As in, a decadent snack because that shiat is expensive.

But yeah, I like the slightly sweet but not too sweet cereal. Most US junk food is just way over the top too sweet for me to even consider it.

/I like coffee cake and tea bread too

Worst.Fark handle. ever.: Households that serve KiX in them should be grounds for CPS to step in.
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KiX: Kid Detested. Evil Stepmother approved.

Farkin' KiX! No added flavors or colors, unless you count the gleaming penumbra of corn syrup.

in a landscape: I was a fan of three cereals as a kid.

During one time in the US as a small child my parents actually signed me up for some cereal taste-testing scheme, no doubt because they would get paid.

The cereal in question was what is now "Captain Crunch." The test involved, they would send tiny unmarked boxes of cereal to the house, the kid eats both, and votes. But the the "brand X" was plain oat cereal (think: Cheerios) which was my favorite food evar at the time, so I voted it down :)

I just don't like overly sweet cereal. Though I never eat cereal for breakfast anyway, it's always a snack, but still I like the slightly sweet stuff. Either the plain Malt-O-Meal variety of "Cheerios" (which I prefer to actual Cheerios) or Kix, or maybe the Alpha-Bits.

/breakfast is either fish and rice, or eggs and bacon

i buy the discount no name corn flakes. i dont need any sugar, i'm sweet enough already.

Cyno01: Or you just buy the bulk bags of just marshmallows that somebody linked upthread.

Exactly. I was kind of attempting to make fun of the solution in search of a problem with something 1000x too complicated.

Chariset: I'm really surprised Lucky Charms hasn't given up and simply sold the marshmallows. That cereal is a joke. You'd get more nutrition by eating the actual box.

Actually "Myth Busters" did that. Checked out if the cereal box is actually have more nutrition than the cereal itself. Guess what, myth busted. Maybe you knew that. Just covering the bases.

Cyno01: angryviking: As long as we're going to too much trouble to solve problems that don't really need solving...for this problem I'm picturing a slow releasing hopper feeding onto a conveyer belt to pass all the pieces under a camera connected to a computer controlling a high speed flexpicker that separates the cereal bits so the marshmallows can feed into a collection bin. I'm sure someone will do this if it hasn't been done already.

The marshmallows are much lighter than the cereal pieces, wouldnt even need a camera or computer control, would just need a well calibrated air stream. Cereal pieces fly on by and the marshmallows get puffed a little further ont another line.

Marshmallows are squishier than cereal. Crush it all under rollers and sift the crumbs through a grate.

some_beer_drinker: i buy the discount no name corn flakes. i dont need any sugar, i'm sweet enough already.


You sound diabeetic

Lucky Charms jumped the shark when they added purple horseshoes. When I was a kid, we just had pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers. The addition of blue diamonds was a plus. I think Alpha-bits was pretty much the same without the marshmallow bits.

Honeycomb always had the coolest prizes in the boxes, but DAYUM that was nasty cereal.

Terrified Asexual Forcemeat: Cyno01: angryviking: As long as we're going to too much trouble to solve problems that don't really need solving...for this problem I'm picturing a slow releasing hopper feeding onto a conveyer belt to pass all the pieces under a camera connected to a computer controlling a high speed flexpicker that separates the cereal bits so the marshmallows can feed into a collection bin. I'm sure someone will do this if it hasn't been done already.

The marshmallows are much lighter than the cereal pieces, wouldnt even need a camera or computer control, would just need a well calibrated air stream. Cereal pieces fly on by and the marshmallows get puffed a little further ont another line.

Marshmallows are squishier than cereal. Crush it all under rollers and sift the crumbs through a grate.

The heavier, non-marshmallow bits have more density. Run the cereal through a centrifuge and the lighter, mallowed pieces will remain while the other material is separated out.

Quantum Apostrophe: It's tiresome, yes. For about the same 1300$ that scam artist scumbag wants for his piece of crap rickety Makerbot, you can get a QUARTER TON OF METAL machine tool that you can hand down the generations.

Minus the actual tools to work the material, of course. Also minus the skills required to actually fabricate the desired parts since using such a machine requires skill... and time.

The Makerbot is not top of the line when it comes to 3D printers but as things go, if you do a small but nontrivial amount of prototyping and hobby work, it's a decent investment. I've had opportunity to do both, and making a 3D model and printing it requires a lot less skill and time than designing a 3D part and machining it.

And you're not going to do this kind of stuff^ on a lathe no matter how much you spend on it.
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