There has been much confusion over the overwhelming success of the Jerry Seinfeld television program. Its characters, after all, are monsters of the id, totally dreadful human beings with only the shallowest and most temporary of redeeming qualities. They do not think so much as get trapped in semantic loops. And next to the cereal shelf were stacks and stacks of bowls. The age of the plate is gone.
Plates are useful for putting house plants on, or for piling bagels upon when friends come over.
But actual consumption is done in bowls. And, more often than not, what is actually consumed is cereal. Naturally, there was shame in this for some citizens. And yet, that is the reality of life today. We eat grain and more grain and sugar and more sugar.