William Shatner Eating A Bowl Of Cereal In His Car Is a Reminder Raisin Bran Was a Top Tier Healthy Cereal In The 1990s
I don't know if the All-Bran people are gonna be thrilled...
Once a TV pitchman for that cereal, William Shatner was caught crushing a bowl of Raisin Bran in his car. In his driver's seat. At a stoplight.
The guy is 94. Live your life, Mr. Shatner. Even if it's not some fancy self-driving car, I have no problem with this.
I've eaten salads while driving. Subs. Pizza. Sandwiches. Pasta. Protein bars. Smoothines. Wraps. All of the above.
Am I going whole hog like Francis while I'm flying down 495 or 93 South? Of course not. But I used to eat dinner in my car every night before my show on Boston radio. Imagine eating around other people unless you absolutely had to? Couldn't be me.
So yeah, like, I'd eat whole meals out there in the WEEI parking lot when I wasn't driving.
But this is not about eating and driving, it's about Raisin Bran. As a cereal expert, that's clearly what the famous actor is eating.
UCG. Getty Images.And as someone who grew up in a 'healthy cereal' household, let me say for the record, Raisin Bran is a CLEAR Top Tier 'healthy' cereal.
I'll stop now, but I used those 's around healthy because what's healthy now and what was healthy in the 80s and 90s has changed a ton. Where breakfast used to be the most important meal of the day, now there's a whole group of Intermittent Fasters who skip breakfast altogether. And what's in and healthy now will change a hell of a lot more over the next 30 years. I'm not here to judge.
But we could only get healthy cereal at our house. We also didn't have cable TV until I was a junior in high school, but that's a different blog. But Raisin Bran made the cut as healthy; healthy, in this case, defined by my parents' random definition. All I know is that it was and still is delicious.
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And it was a clear Top 5 'Healthy' Cereal -
1. Honey Nut Cheerios
Justin Sullivan. Getty Images.Clear cut #1. GOAT.
2. Raisin Bran
Sweetest Raisins in the game. Good use of the word plump in those old commercials. So many cereal commercials as a kid. Big Cereal had some unreal marketing.
3. Crispix
Bloomberg. Getty Images.I don't think I've seen this on the shelves recently, but it held up well in milk. Also very solid in a dry snack mix.
4. Kix
Justin Sullivan. Getty Images.Advertisement
Sneaky hard. I had to let them sit in the milk before diving in.
5. Wheaties
Bloomberg. Getty Images.A+ marketing for try-hard wanna be athletes like me who thought this would help them get to the NBA. I might be overrating these a bit.
Also Recieving Votes: Mueslix. Frosted Wheat. Triples. Chex. Special K.
RIP, Triples. Delicious and for sure discontinued.
Yeah, these were all deemed healthy in the Mutnansky Household. What's wild is, I'd be allowed pour two big spoons of sugar on Corn Flakes, and that was somehow better than a bowl of Fruity Peebles??? Something to discuss with a therapist… eventually.
Shoutout William Shatner. Getting his daily bran on the ride to, well, who knows. Live long and prosper, indeed.