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Do Tigers really like to eat Frosted Flakes?

Asked by Yellowdog (12216points) July 24th, 2018

And Tucans eat Fruit Loops, etc etc?

I have a theory that tigers only pretend to like Frosted Flakes in order to lure human children—which is what they REALLY like to eat.

But then again, what WOULDN’T like Frosted Flakes? My dog does. Why not a tiger? (my cat shows little interest in them)

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ragingloli's avatar

They are more interested in big, juicy, frosted butts.

MrGrimm888's avatar

I’ll say no…

Tucans like fruit. Probably not Froot Loops.

rebbel's avatar

According to the acclaimed Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association :

To keep your cat healthy, don’t feed them sugary foods. Though sugar isn’t toxic to cats, it can cause obesity and potentially diabetes (as is the case with humans, too). It could also take a toll on a cat’s dental health.

ucme's avatar

Wouldn’t have thought so but then advertisers play that card frequently, I mean, who wipes their arse with a labrador puppy…eh…eh?

Mimishu1995's avatar

Of course! Monkeys like Coco Pops, chickens like Corn Flake, and dwarves like Rice Krispies ~

Lots of you here don’t seem to get the reference. You can google all the names mentioned and you’ll understand.

elbanditoroso's avatar

Would you buy auto-insurance from a gecko?

MrGrimm888's avatar

If you want to save 15% on insurance…

Dutchess_III's avatar

No. Dogs do because they’re omnivores, pretty much. They eat grass and grains and all kinds of non meat foods. Cats are obligate carnivores. They only eat meat.

flutherother's avatar

I wouldn’t trust any orange coloured celebrity that promised to make America G-r-r-r-reat.

ScienceChick's avatar

I don’t tend to trust anything that was formulated by a man hell bent on cutting off the foreskin of every male child and that promoted the circumcision of girls. Viva la masturbation. To hell with Kellogg.

Dutchess_III's avatar

^^^^ I’ve been trying to verify your claims, but I can’t find anything. He was a vegetarian and a Seventh Day Adventist. Also, he bred Arabian horses.

Dutchess_III's avatar

His brother, John Harvey Kellogg was a wack job concerning masturbation and circumcision.

ScienceChick's avatar

The family were whack jobs. The brothers worked together on the promotion of the cereal and their campaign to circumcise every child in order to stop the sin of masturbation.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Closet pedophiles.

Inspired_2write's avatar

Phone your local Zoo and find out.
Maybe they would lap up the milk only.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Why would you call a zoo when you can Google it?

LadyMarissa's avatar

This Tiger LOVES her Frosted Flakes!!!

Yellowdog's avatar

The Kelloggs’ were Seventh Day Adventist / Millerites. They were vegetarians and ran a health resort or ‘sanitarium’ (not a mental institute). My initial information on them came from roleplaying games by Chaosium so I’m sure if there was any bizarre stuff about masturbation, it would have been covered there. Everything else I’ve read about them was about their breakfast cereals, vegetarian health resorts, and the invention of Granola—mostly from history (Religious and of Battle Creek, Michigan) and religious sources

YARNLADY's avatar

ONLY IF THEIR NAME IS TONY

ScienceChick's avatar

From ‘Psychology Today’ – In the United States, circumcision wasn’t popularized until Victorian times, when a few doctors began to recommend it to prevent children from masturbating. Dr. Kellogg (of Corn Flakes fame) advocated circumcision for pubescent boys and girls to stop masturbation: “A remedy which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anæsthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment… In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement” (Kellogg 1877).

Yellowdog's avatar

Circumcision does not effect masturbation or sexual pleasure. The overwhelming majority of males in the U.S. are circumcised—never knew any non-circumcised person until I was in college, and I assume the number is still very small. It is normally done to babies, not prepubescenr boys. Its purposes/benefits are medical, not a punishment for masturbation. Disease and bacteria are the reasons.

I am not against those who oppose it, and I do not doubt your sources are out there I know that the inventor of Graham Crackers had some pretty bizarre ideas about masturbation—and some pretty bizarre and abusive things were done to women suffering from ‘hysteria’ I’ve read some pretty bizarre stuff but never that circumcision had anything to do with masturbation.

The Kelloggs of Battle Creek don’t seem at all like they’d do anything unnatural—in fact they believed in evolution, and were disfellowshipped from the Adventists
;

ScienceChick's avatar

I’m not arguing the point, @Yellowdog. I’m just cutting and pasting what he wrote. The guy was demented.

Yellowdog's avatar

He believed in Evolution and Natural Sciences—not the sort of religious zealot who would eschew masturbation and prescribe circumcision for ten year olds.

ScienceChick's avatar

Why are you arguing when I am quoting to you his own words that he proudly wrote and published? I’m sorry to question your omnipotence, but you obviously haven’t heard about this and I am telling you something you didn’t know. He exactly prescribed circumcision for both boys and girls.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Well, I guess Chaosium didn’t cover everything. See here @Yellowdog. I don’t care what religion a man is, they have a fixation on sex.

We know that circumcision doesn’t affect masturbation or sexual pleasure. That’s what Kellogg thought, though, and that is what @ScienceChick was trying to explain to you. She was offering her evidence that that is what he believed.

However, I wonder how we know that circumcision doesn’t affect sexual pleasure? The hood of the penis kind of protects the head from wear and tear, right? Just curious.

ScienceChick's avatar

As someone not experienced or interested in penises, I just report the news.

Dutchess_III's avatar

I am penised out!

ScienceChick's avatar

But what worries me is that he promoted female circumcision. Putting acid to burn away the tissue. I mean, the man was fucking out of his mind. Male circumcision has been a thing for a very long time, with the majority of them being Muslim because of the religious practice….and there are pockets that try to do it with women also…. but in the US of A? Really? If I was a non Muslim or non Jewish person of the male sex in the US… I would be asking very loudly, ‘Why am I circumcised? ’

Dutchess_III's avatar

It was just The Thing to do here. I don’t know why. I opted to not have my son circumcised. The nurses put a big sign on his bassinett that said, ”NO CIRC!” If they didn’t a nurse might just come in and whisk the baby away to be circumcised.

ragingloli's avatar

it is child abuse, regardless of whether it is inflicted on males or females.

ScienceChick's avatar

Why was it just ‘the thing to do’? Puritans hoping to scare away the nasty pleasure centre? yeah, what ever…. I don’t care, really, I just want the truth about this Kellogg arsehole to be exposed. Did I mention that under my science training, I grew a dislike for phoney, bullshit psychology that was used to mask horrific religious and xenophobic beliefs?

Yellowdog's avatar

Well, if someone who is male opts for sexual reassignment surgery, that foreskin is useful in making a labia majora for a neovagina

This is supposed to be about tigers, not pussies.

Dutchess_III's avatar

I do not know @ScienceChick. I guess people just didn’t think about it. I did, which was a pretty big deal in the 80s. All my friends were having babies. It didn’t occur to any of them not to circ their boy babies.

Mimishu1995's avatar

I thought everyone knew Dr. Kellogg created corn flakes as an anti-mastrubation food…

Nowadays people know his theory is bullshit and people liked corn flakes because they tasted good, not because they wanted to stop feeling horny.

Can’t really blame the guy though. The Victorian people just hated sex with a passion and a lot of bullshit theories about how sex destroyed people were all over the place. Just look at female hysteria. The guy was just a product of his time.

Dutchess_III's avatar

In my research I saw nothing that tied his cornflakes to anti-masterbation.

Yellowdog's avatar

The inventor or Graham Crackers prevented Graham Crackers in order to prevent this. But the Kellogg’s were fairly progressive and pro-science, albeit a little eccentric.

Its a minor point, but I’m sure I would have run across this.

Hey, but maybe before I go accusing people of not letting this go, I should realize I am doing the same I have no evidence against it, just I’ve never seen anything to support it. It really DOESN’T sound like progressive vegetarians who run posh health resorts and advocate Darwin’s views, at odds with their Millerite/Adventist upbringing.

Dutchess_III's avatar

I’ve posted a link supporting the views on masterbation, twice. Here is is for the THIRD time, @Yellowdog.

ScienceChick's avatar

@Yellowdog ‘s ‘if this were true, I’m sure I would have heard of it’ rhetoric is wearing thin on my science-abiding nerves. You can have your own opinion about masturbation and circumcision… I couldn’t care less…but I’m telling you a scientific, published fact about a person and you are doing some sort of contortionist tap dance trying to not accept a fact. Is it that you are a top and never a bottom? You will give your answers and facts, but won’t listen to evidence? Why even ask questions here then?

Dutchess_III's avatar

He doesn’t read evidence that is provided, and he never provides any evidence to back up what he says. I really don’t understand it myself.

ScienceChick's avatar

Ah… so, it’s not just me that he ignores… but it is especially folks like me he ignores. Thanks for that, @Dutchess_III .

Dutchess_III's avatar

He ignores everyone he doesn’t agree with. Don’t take it personally.

MrGrimm888's avatar

@Yellowdog is a great jelly. Reading links, and coming to the same conclusion of the jelly that provided them, is not mandatory on Fluther…

Yellowdog's avatar

I read the links and research and concur that you are correct.

I wonder how anyone survived such mutilation without infections and other damage

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