BGB said:
BGB wrote:
except that grape-nuts come in one of two states:
gravel (try eating this stuff straight and dry, not very good);
bland mostly-flavorless glop (it directly transmutes from gravel to
glop given
time and exposure to fluids, and not consistently either).
and is also generally associated with old-people [sic].
Evidence, please?
Just because you have an idiosyncratic association doesn't mean the
general public does.
ever see people who aren't older who like the stuff?
hence, why it is as it is.
if something is usually only ever seen done by a certain demographic, it
is something associated with that demographic.
Or it might be just simply correlated to some particular medical aspect
that is itself correlated with progressed age. (I den't know for sure, though)
could be. I am not sure the reason, only all of this has been my what I
have seen (maybe potentially subject to sampling bias).
as far as I know, older people as well are the main ones who are all
into "health" and going to doctors for things as well, and it was
apparently advertised a lot for health in the 1960s-1980s, meaning they
would have been exposed to it.
otherwise one would need to do randomized polls:
whether or not they like the stuff;
their current age;
....
and probably comparing against more common cereal types (corn flakes,
raisin bran, bran flakes, ...) as well as sugary cereals (fruit loops,
lucky charms, frosted flakes, ...).
and probably having defined age-ranges as well.
but, in my case, I don't really care all that much about all this though.
it could also try be determined whether it is itself a product of
increasing age, or whether it is a product of "temporal environment"
(say, certain events at certain lines leading to certain impacts on the
people who experienced them).
it is like, older people also tend to prefer 60s music and make a big
deal out of Vietnam and similar (or preferences for certain TV shows, ...).
this is not likely itself a product of aging given:
many of them were not old at the time when this stuff was going on;
another person from another time-frame (say, someone from the distant
past or future), would likely have little reason to care about these
things either.
but, at this point, it doesn't really much change matters (it doesn't
matter for sake of demographics why something is the way it is, only
that it is this way).
