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Alex R ([personal profile] alexr_rwx) wrote2006-10-12 09:40 pm
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The best way to find anything out is with a poll!

We've identified two major possibilities as to how Rice Krispies could be manufactured. But we don't know which of them is true. The first possibility is that they're little puffed-up rice grains. Pop-rice, if you will. Alternatively, Kellogg's might smash all the rice down into rice flour and then make a dough and then form the little Krispies out of that. Informed by the best empirical and scientific research traditions, we will now conduct a poll. A poll on LJ. Because truth is by consensus.

[Poll #843573]
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[identity profile] laurapatt.livejournal.com 2006-10-13 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
According to wikipedia, Rice Krispies proper are actually made of corn that is formed into a rice-like shape and then puffed up. Puffed rice, however, is heated rice that puffs up (like my envirokidz organic cocoa bron rice puffs).

[identity profile] sault.livejournal.com 2006-10-13 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
I just explicated truth while untying my shoe.

AWESOME!

[identity profile] yaello.livejournal.com 2006-10-13 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
so, I voted for krispie suffrage (one grain, one vote!) but then I realized that the ingredients list on the box is probably a little longer than "hmm.. rice" and you prolly need to mash it up all nice first to get the sugar and preservatives and such in there.

[identity profile] praetorian42.livejournal.com 2006-10-13 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
They put the rice into a vat of water and cook it at super-high temperatures, and then eject the rice out of really tiny holes at high pressures, where (as a mush) it is rolled and toasted.

Sorry to burst your bubble.

[identity profile] gtv42.livejournal.com 2006-10-13 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
I said "one krispie = one grain of rice", as I know that's what puffed rice is, but I didn't bother to consider the fact that few things in this marketplace orgy of an economy we have are as they seem.

I'm inclined to agree with Erik.

[identity profile] rheavatarin.livejournal.com 2006-10-13 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
As the person who evenly split the vote 7 to 7, I feel I should add a bit more to the consensus part of the poll. While traditional puffed rice is indeed "one grain, one puff" (and I'm the one with the puff), as a commercial process I'm sure they make it into a mush as it would be easier and more economical.
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