Bad Cereal

My daughter's high school vocal music department has their big Christmas Concert this evening. It's one of four performances she has between yesterday and this coming Sunday. Meanwhile, back at the Post Office, today is the busiest mailing day of the entire year. The company will move nearly 800 million pieces today. And by this evening it will feel like every last one came across my counter.

For those of you still on the hunt for Christmas gifts, video games are - from what I read - all the rage this year. But here's an interesting twist: games that teach you how to cook stuff.

And by "stuff," I mean food. Just so we're clear.

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SIGNS YOUR BREAKFAST CEREAL WON'T QUITE BE GOOD ENOUGH

Your sister took one taste, spit it out and ate the plastic toy at the bottom of the box.

It's manufactured by Krispy Kreme.

The cereal's nutritional information includes the dietary fiber from eating the box itself.

Your Rice Krispies go "Snap," "Crackle," and "Whatever...."

The sports figures pictured on the front of the box are all Sumo Wrestlers.

The free toy in the cereal box is a glucometer.

[Chris White's Top Five on Food with additional material by Mark Raymond]

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WORD for YOUR WEEK: We've had a number of people at my company accept the "early out" retirement offered recently. In fact, about the time most of you read this, I'll be attending the retirement ceremony for another one of my coworkers. However, the economy being what it is, many of the folks who retire can't actually afford to *stay* retired, and wind up going back to work. The Word Spy has coined a word for this: "returnment."

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