Deadpool (2016)
Written by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick
Directed by Tim Miller
Starring (in this scene): Stefan Kapičić as Colossus, Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead
Chef’s Note: This scene has confused some: why is Piotr eating breakfast while in his armored form? Their confusion is justified – it is generally thought that when armored Colossus neither needs food nor can he digest it.
The answer to this puzzle is actually right on display:
That’s right, Piotr isn’t eating just any old cereal – he’s enjoying a big healthful bowl of Grape Nuts cereal!
As many of you know, Grape Nuts has a density and mouthfeel similar to Jersey Shore gravel. So, obviously, Piotr has turned into organic steel so that his teeth and jaws are strong enough to enjoy his bowl of magical wake up rocks.
The first new thing he came up with was a cereal we all know (and love?), Grape-Nuts. It was based on wheat and malted barley, which sweetened the cereal a bit. Malted barley is barley that has been allowed to ferment, whereupon the starches start to turn into simple sugars. It certainly was not the same as refined sugar from sugar cane, but, since they thought it to be similar to sugar found in grapes, they called it grape sugar. So, that is how Post got the name for Grape-Nuts. He made the cereal by a similar method to granola. Some have also speculated that the name had something to do with the little nuggets of cereal looking like grape seeds.
And here is where it gets interesting. He proceeded to make some absolutely outrageous health claims about the product, even for those days when you could get away with saying whatever you wanted, at least legally. He called Grape-Nuts a scientific health food containing vitalizing elements. He sent out advertisements claiming the cereal cured all sorts of diseases and conditions: rickets, rheumatism, malaria, heart disease, consumption, appendicitis, and brain problems. He even claimed that it strengthened the teeth, which is like saying that chewing on rocks will strengthen the teeth, in my opinion.
Chef’s Note: Happy National Cereal Day!