Talk:Weet-Bix

message: FROM ARTICLE: In Australia supermarkets typically stock cheaper, generic products which are almost indistinguishable from Sanitarium Weet-Bix - whilst both products are supplemented with various vitamins such as Thiamin (vitamin B1), Riboflavin (vitamin B2) and Niacin (vitmain B3), the cheaper product lacks important minerals such as folate, iron, magnesium and zinc. Generic brands also tend to have a differing cook process on the raw wheat, leading to an inferior, more fragile biscuit. Regardless of brand, the biscuits have a crunchy texture because they are made from many flakes of wheat which are toasted, thereby removing excess moisture, having been moulded into the required shape. They are usually served with either cold or warm milk; if served with warm milk, they have a tendency to become soggy. They can also be served spread with butter and jam or Vegemite, usually served as a snack rather than at breakfast.
This to me seems wrong for wikipedia somehow. Too chatty. I think the chat about cold and warm milk should go entirely. The chat about cheaper, generic copy products seems pointless given that Weet-Bix isn't unique anyway. In any event that chat about copy products needs a severe trimming down. Asa01 09:46, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Weet Bix Waffle

message: Weet-bix are freakin' delishious--141.132.11.3 04:06, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: misc comment

message: the article needs to be reorganised.  Theres like a 500 word block of text in the intro, before the table of contents.  All this should be placed under various categories.  The intro should just have the small explaination of what Weet-Bix are.  Samatic 05:39, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That large section of text was entered verbatim today, and as it looks like it could have been a copyright violation, I removed it. If it can be verified to a source, it should then be reintegrated. Ansell 05:44, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: very disorganised

message: The England vs Warney link is dead.  It sounds good but is it critical and worth the effort to find it under a new URL to which it might have moved?  [[[User:60.242.50.195|60.242.50.195]] 19:58, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead links 

message: What does Weet-Bix have to do with the Seventh Day Adventist church? Why does that Wikiproject claim this article?-- Mikeblas (talk) 02:10, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: From the article: "In 1930, Sanitarium acquired Grain Products, which like Sanitarium had ties with the Seventh-day Adventist Church and made Weet-Bix a Sanitarium product." --Closedmouth (talk) 03:54, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Shennanigans? 

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thread_title: [[WP:FOOD|WikiProject Food and drink]] Tagging

message: The article claims that Weetabix (UK) is sweeter than Weet-Bix. This sounds unlikely to me, as Weetabix is an unsweetened product - it certainly doesn't taste sweet. Can someone comment who has hard factual knowledge of the ingredients of both products, or failing that direct experience of trying the two products together? If the claim can't be substantiated it should be removed. I won't add a citation request for the time being. --80.176.142.11 (talk) 21:03, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I was born and raised in Sydney so I therefore grew up eating Weet-Bix. As an adult I lived in the UK for 8 years eating Weetabix. I too agree that Weetabix is in fact sweeter AND has a more palatable texture. I have a box of Weetabix in front of me and it does in fact contain Organic dehydrated cane syrup. I compared both of the products ingredient labels and it shows that Weet-Bix has "Raw Sugar" 22.1g of carbs (1.1g of sugars) whereas Weetabix has "Organic dehydrated cane syrup" 29g of carbs (2g sugars). I am now sending this information to Wikipedia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.174.48.169 (talk) 18:14, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relative sweetness 

message: Reading through the history of the article, it appears to flip-flop on which country had the slogan first as weetbix affectionates from either country are offended at the suggestion they copied the other. If there is no evidence either way, I suggest that it should say that both countries use the slogan, and not give credit for who copied whom.  Further, the product is still marketed in this way, has it been all along, or did the company stop using this at some stage and start again? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.37.40.162 (talk) 05:00, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Weet-bix would appear to be an Aus creation, while Aus kids were definitely Weet-bix kids before Kiwi kids were. Of course these facts do not need to be emphasized in the article, although if it was the other way round you can be the Kiwi editors would be at pains to point the facts out. Theodore D (talk) 19:51, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Bit ironic to say that while pointing it out yourself in such a manner isn't it. Regardless, this isn't a talk page, if you have a reference either way, please present it. As the previous editor stated if there are no references either way no definitive statement should be made.Number36 (talk) 11:47, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which country came up with the awesome slogan 'Aussie/Kiwi Kids are Weetbix Kids' 

message: Not sure what to do with this, Theodore D added it in line to the article here. It's a Wordpress page set up specifically for original documents as references for this article. Not sure about what to make of that in regards to WP:RS, and WP:PRIMARY, etc. But doesn't belong in the article as this; 
:For original copies of the documentation noted above, please link to .
Just inserted at the end of the history section in bold with an external link. 
Number36 (talk) 11:58, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to original documents on Wordpress.