Gen Z Is Ditching This Popular Breakfast Food
The Sports Junkies
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🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up in just about 15 minutes, we'll give you a chance to win a pair of tickets to go see Cypress Hill and atmosphere at Pier 6 pavilion on August 15th. |
| 0:09.6 | Here's a headline. |
| 0:11.6 | All right. |
| 0:12.3 | Boomers loved it. |
| 0:13.9 | Gen Z won't touch it. |
| 0:16.5 | Why cereal is no longer a breakfast staple. |
| 0:22.3 | Cereals is becoming passe. |
| 0:24.6 | It's not as popular as it used to be. |
| 0:26.0 | Had some Captain Crunch earlier this week. |
| 0:28.2 | Sales of boxed cereal once a pantry staple for generations have been declining in the U.S. |
| 0:35.1 | for over 25 years. |
| 0:37.9 | Is that because we, even though we're as fat as we've ever been, |
| 0:42.4 | we kind of know that it's not a lot of redeeming value in cereal? |
| 0:46.6 | I'm sure that's part of it. |
| 0:47.7 | And Gen Ziers are turning to more toast, eggs, pancakes, fruit instead of cereal. |
| 0:55.9 | Even opting to eat, this is weird, but I can see it like you mix it with your eggs, |
| 1:00.4 | more vegetables as part of their morning routine. |
| 1:02.8 | Yeah, my daughters love avocados on their toast. |
| 1:05.3 | Avocado toasts is a big jet-saint-a-thing. |
| 1:08.9 | That's a big lunch item for me. |
| 1:10.7 | Avocado toast was a little salmon. So gross. It's pretty good, actually. That's a big jettison thing. That's a big lunch item for me. |
| 1:12.4 | Avocado toast was a little salmon. |
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