Should cereals like Honey Bunches of Oats be shipped upside down?

Couldn’t you jsut turn them upside down when you bring them home or am I missing something?

they have to face upright on the store shelf so old ladies can read the labels.
lol..oh wait.. i see what you’re saying.. But that’s work! lol

The same thing would happen if it was turned the other way lol. It’s called ‘Settling’. You have to shake it up or turn it yourself.

Or you open the bottom of the box/bag instead of the top.

oh! sorry, the point of turning it upside down while transporting is so that when the receiving store handlers handle it.. they shake it back the other way.. this way, the box is evenly shaked on both sides by the time you pour it in your bowl!

get it? making it more evenly distributed for you.

I still think a work around is either turning the box upside down or shaking it yourself.

“they shake it back the other way.. this way, the box is evenly shaked on both sides”

What you know…, you will be so lucky, the honey bunches will be in the middle of the box then.

i’d think they’d be as evenly distributed as possible.

Why not just turn the box upside down and open it at the other end? this way, the Honey Bunches of Oats will be there to greet you in full force. its called settling. all cereals settle to the bottom in shipment.

if you eat the all the settled sugar, it’s too sweet! besides, it leaves the rest of your cereal with a poor distribution.

and shaking it.. just isn’t something i want to have to do.

i like my cereal ready for action whenever i am!

@ninjacolin Youi are absolutely correct. I would not have quit eating cereal had they shaken the contents all over the transport and when stocking the shelves.

I applaud your keen insight (and I am still laughing from the question’s original wording).

@ninjacolin O.k., O.k. – I’ve got the solution for you. We’ll have a government program for funding the shaking of the box so that you don’t have to do it yourself. We’ll pass the legislation real soon.

And i like the idea of a ninja eating his honey-cereals in the morning.

Well if it is a problem to you maybe you should move to Australia !

hey pretty_lilly. i like the orientation of your avatar ;)
stick-em ups with clicking sound

Maybe we could invent a cereal box shaker and have a half hour long infomercial about it. We could have a studio audience go “oooohhh” and “aaaaahhhhh”, and have on the street testimonials about how much better their lives are since they no longer have to choose between opening the box from the bottom or the onerous task of turning it up and down a couple times.
@ninjacolin Why do you like her orientation? You’re going to have to shake her and turn her upside right!

Probably

I like when the sweet stuff settles. That is the best part. It’s like finding a prize at the bottom of the box. Yum!

Life must be pretty good if this is the stuff we worry about.

@worriedguy That’s how I feel about the salty powder at the bottom of a dry roasted peanuts jar!

Should cereals like Honey Bunches of Oats exist?

There is a thing called segregation that occurs in dry mixtures of anything. Like materials tend to group themselves as a result of agitating the media. I am in the powdered metal industry where various materials are added to iron powder to give it desired characteristics when it is processed. Mixing is a very technical precise process. Too much mixing increases segregation, too little gives the same result. Mixed batches are tightly packed and shipped on air-ride trailers to reduce the chances for segregation.

The trouble with cereal is that if you pack the boxes too tight, you crush the flakes, too loose and the contents segregate. Your best bet, if you insist on a uniform mix is to either live close to the factory or mix it in a large bowl when you open a new box.

:)

@Ron_C do you think my upsidedown transportation plan would help a little?

Not really, you just change the orientation of the segregation. Like I said, if you really want uniformity, you need to mix (but not over-mix) them yourself. By the way, there is also the problem of adhesion where the bunches are more likely to clump to each other than to the flakes.

If someone were to monitor this thread we would definitely be judged to be obsessive compulsive.