The Proud Boys have an initiation ritual where new members are beaten by the group until they can recite the names of five different breakfast cereals.

  • yesman@lemmy.worldOP
    50·
    1 month ago

    Obviously this frat-boy shit is dumb, but if you had to figure out if someone was a real American or a spy, this would be an excellent way to do it.

    Like if someone said “I eat musli” or “I like grape nuts” you could go ahead and shoot the spy.

      • loie@lemmy.world
        192·
        1 month ago

        Yeah and everyone who ever ate it was like “oh god, no” and immediately came out with a better cereal.

        Like corn flakes. Itty bitty tortilla chips make a better cereal than fucking grape nuts.

      • yesman@lemmy.worldOP
        21·
        1 month ago

        I didn’t say it wasn’t American, I said it’s not American to eat it. No American has ever purchased, much less consumed grape nuts. They don’t even put the product in the boxes anymore. Just some led shot and asbestos to give it weight and they change out the box design every once in a while. They’ve been doing this since the 80s, it has to remain on the shelves to satisfy the terms of a demonic contract.

        Before that, Grape Nuts was funded by the dentist lobby hoping to cash in on all those broken teeth. But nobody ever bought any and the dentists gave up.

        • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          I meant it in a way that implies Americans love American things. Compared to muesli, which sounds like some European stuff.

        • blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          1 month ago

          I was born in California to parents born in New Jersey and Illinois, have been an American citizen since birth, and have bought and eaten Grape-Nuts multiple times.

  • hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world
    31·
    1 month ago

    See I have to believe at least some of this shit was because the leader of that group was a federal informant. This is the kind of thing the FBI agents in Ms Congeniality would think is funny.

  • ABCDE@lemmy.world
    28·
    1 month ago

    Coco Pops, Special K, Bran Flakes, Cornflakes, err…

    Lucky Charms. Phew.

    Also, what?

  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
    251·
    1 month ago

    Can I “join” and not name any cereals just to beat the fuck out of a bunch of proud boys?

    • Hikermick@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 month ago

      Does it count if you’re old and all the cereals you remember still have “sugar” in the name?

  • lengau@midwest.social
    6·
    1 month ago

    ProNutro, Weetbix, Maltabella, Jungle Oats, Otees.

    Five cereals that Proud Boys have probably never heard of.

  • GroundedGator@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 month ago

    I had to look this one up. Why the Proud Boys Initiation Ritual Involves Cereal

    I would say these are a bunch of frat boys who peaked in college but I think they are just cosplaying what they think being in a frat would be like.

    Yosef Ozia, a member of the Southern Proud Boys chapter who’s based in Atlanta, Georgia, told Extra Crispy that this all stemmed from a fart joke. Yep, a fart joke. McInnes introduced this step based on a rule his buddies had in the past: if someone farted, they’d get beat on until they could list five kinds of breakfast cereal. “It doesn’t mean anything,” Ozia said. “[Initiation] is mostly a joke. A lot of people take it seriously, and they shouldn’t really.”