/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6682161
People like this are truly the scum of the earth. They give those faggot hipsters with good food a bad name.

>>6682161
Is this a restaurant that serves milk and cereal? What the fuck?

>>6682207
Look closely at the people serving and eating the food.

Is that... is that a restaurant dedicated to sugary breakfast cereals?

The history and lore of breakfast cereals is a minor hobby of mine, but those people look fucking pathethic. I envy some of the boxes, but I'm not sure I could stand the company. Or the fucking smarminess.

Also who eats this shit as an adult? And what fucking restaurant allows uncovered beards? Fucking disgusting.

>>6682222
They look kind of like they're stupid contrarians who live and die by dumb gimmicks.

>>6682227
Yes, that's what a lot of hipsters do. There are a lot of hipsters that run good restaurants though.

OP's picture is something my brother would come up with. The dude has a million retarded ideas. I can hear him:

"Dude, imagine a restaurant that imports cereal from all over, and you can buy it by the bowl. If you like it, you can buy a box to take home with you. They've got shit from US, Australia, England...everywhere. I'm going to be rich."

>>6682236
I don't deny that. Hell, some of my favorite places to eat are blatantly hipster. These guys, however, are not running a good restaurant. More like a high-priced version of a day camp's cafeteria at breakfast time.

dude spag bol sounds so good

>>6682161
Ugh, there are one of the "cereal bars" near me. They manly cater for white middle class brats who have more moeny than sense.

why does this trigger you so much

what exactly is the problem with the idea of somewhere you can get individual bowls of cereal

Do they even serve stuff like cereal based deserts? A Lucky charms cake? Honey nut Cheerios brownie?

>>6684298

yeah they have cereal cakes. or at least they did on launch, i can't find it on the current menu (though there are some in their promotional images)

>>6682161
That is exactly what I pictured the proprietor of a breakfast cereal bar would look like. I wonder if they're walking distance to the adult day care.

>>6682224
>the history and lore of breakfast cereals is a minor hobby of mine

Oh fuck off

>>6682207
Expense british bowls of cereal.

i am so sure i know the guy in the bottom pic i really wish there were a slightly better angle.

>>6684321

>Expense british bowls of cereal.

the whole point is that you can get all kinds from aroound the world.

>>6684318
Hey cereal funded the pro circumcision movement in american. To reduce mens "urges".

>>6684327
But it's on london isn't it? Those look like english hipsters.

>>6684332

yeah it's on brick lane.

>>6682236
The way I see it, there are a lot of people that just aren't plebs. Jelly plebs often refer to these people as "hipsters". But then there really are fucking filthy hipsters, like in the OP.

>>6684327
So? Who gives a fuck? It's cereal. Unless you're a fucking child there's not much that breakfast cereal can offer you. Even the ones that they release as special shit to cross-promote movies and shit are usually brought back and recycled years later, not that you were missing out on anything if you never got a chance to try it in the first place. Cereal is what you eat if you are an adult with no time to prepare a real breakfast, or a child with parents who don't love them. I would never go to a restaurant for fucking cereal.

>>6684431

>So?

so it's not british.

cereal, like any other food, is something some people enjoy eating. you don't, so don't go, but don't sperg out about a business that doesn't personally address your wants or needs.

>>6684479
Even if you were really interested in eating sugar-coated American corn (see: 80% of the cereals on display there) , why would you go to a brick and mortar establishment to order it rather than simply getting some off of the internet? It's the most pointless thing you could ever serve on the internet. That'd be like American weebs going to a cafe that only serves Japanese candy, instead of just ordering it online or buying it at a specialty store.
Also, keep in mind that American cereal brands actually have a pretty big presence in Europe and it's not hard to find American brands of cereal.

PS: Honey Bunches of Oats are the first and last breakfast cereal to have ever achieved anything.

http://cerealkillercafe.co.uk/ (source)

some of the memorabilia is cool. the execution is fucking annoying though

>OMG a restaurant that that only serves Pizza

>Fucking hipster trash

>>6684275
I think its the fact that not only are the bowls of cereal marked up to an almost criminal degree, but the people selling them to you aren't saving you any labor either. The cereal came from the factory boxed up and ready to eat, nothing more than a shake of the box and a splash of milk required. At least pizza places, who have a similarly enormous profit margin, are saving you the effort of kneading and tossing dough, cooking sauce, and shredding cheese. There's really no reason to eat there at all unless you really like looking at those old cereal boxes they decorate the place with and whatever motivation dirty hipsters have for doing the things they do.

>>6684491

>hy would you go to a brick and mortar establishment to order it rather than simply getting some off of the internet?

avoiding having a whole box of the novelty cereal you only wanted to try once and had to pay postage and packing for and you don't want to throw away because you paid over a tenner for it. browsing a variety you don'y have to research yourself. being social. addressing an occasional and unpredictable craving. it isn't just about american brands, they're internationally sourced and often relatively obscure even in the locations in which they are sold.

i can make various relatively virtuous justifications for going there but at the end of the day it's just a gimmick and i can enjoy a gimmick because why the fuck shouldn't i?

>>6684491
>to have ever achieved anything

I'm not even going to ask what that means because it's probably you're unbelievably pretentious wording of "tasting good"

>>6682161
>>6682161
He's playing with his phone while eating with someone. Fucking rude.

>>6684328
THANKS J. HARVEY KELLOGG, you constipated bastard!

>>6684323
I think I know him too - which probably means I don't because hipsters tend to look similar.

They should really have a display of cereal toys

>>6684526
I bet everything I have that a single bowl of cereal and milk from that hipster cafe costs more money than a whole box of cereal does by itself.

>>6684491
Better not be talking shit about my Battle Creek Cereal cunt

>>6684519
The difference being that even though pizza is pleb-tier fast food, is still requires preparation and cooking, and it has a bigger variety of flavors available and you can actually stand to benefit from having it made to order. There is no reason to go to a restaurant to have someone poor milk on some dry balls of processed corn from a bag.

>>6684548

it was like 2.50 for a small and 3.50 for a large last i checked. obviously a box of cornflakes from tescos is cheaper but some obscure korean watermelon flavour pretzel and oreo mash-up cereal would be more effort to hook up.

>>6684558
All I see are generic American cereals for children. I'm pretty sure if you wanted an exotic cereal or a discontinued cereal it'd cost more. Also, £3.50 for a bowl of dry corn balls is fucking criminal.

>>6684568

>I'm pretty sure if you wanted an exotic cereal or a discontinued cereal it'd cost more.

not from what i have read or experienced (i checked the place out once).

>>6684571
I just looked at the menu on the website. All the cereals there are familiar, ongoing American brands. I don't see any "obscure korean watermelon flavour pretzel and oreo mash-up" cereals, or anything even remotely as exotic. There are a few global cereals, almost all of them are from as close as continental Europe and all of them are ongoing brands with nothing special about them.

Also, MFW this is the front page of their website.

>>6682161

It's amazing, they look exactly like you would expect the patrons of cereal restaurant to look like. How many of them have a Bandcamp page?

>>6684579

were you looking at the 'american brands' section?

Not sure why this bothers people so much.

I lived in a city that had an all-night cafe (students used it for the internet mostly) that had a "cereal bar". This was probably 5 years ago. Had a bunch of different kinds like in OP's pic, and several different types of fruit you can get it with. It was nice. I'd order some occasionally. I never buy cereal to keep in my house, or even keep milk in the fridge.

So much conjecture and "stop liking what I don't like" itt. I can't understand why someone would care if another person bought a bowl of cereal somewhere. Although this is /ck/ so I shouldn't be surprised.

>>6684586
I mentioned the global brands didn't I? Cereal from Spain and France with generic flavorings like honey and chocolate aren't that bloody exotic. Also I'm pretty sure you can buy Chocapic in the UK, so I don't know why they're marketing it as an expensive and exotic cereal.

Pretty sure they wouldn't even have rare cereals to eat since it'd all be discontinued and stale.

>>6684597

they have had more obscure cereals in the past but as this poster points out: >>6684601

there are obvious issues in that. however if you include the american brands list, and i don't know why you wouldn't seeing as this is a british business, there are quite a few cereals on the menu that most of us won't have come across. fuck going to cybercandy or whatever to buy a 7 quid box of something when you can just grab a bowl one day at a novelty café.

spag bol ftw

meatballs > bolognese

>>6682161
Holy shit what a bunch of losers

>>6682161
there was a cereal place at the community college i took some classes at a few years ago.

i think they called it 'the morning bowl' or something, tons of hippie shit on the walls.

at the time it was 3 bucks a bowl and you could get whatever cereal you want in it, as many as you want.

>>6684596
It's not the concept people have a problem with. It's the execution. And the owners and to a lesser extent the patrons.

Jesus Christ.

Only in America.

>>6686608
Idiot or troll?