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BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/28/2012 12:30 PM, Lew wrote:
>> BGB wrote:
>>> except that grape-nuts come in one of two states:
>>> gravel (try eating this stuff straight and dry, not very good);
>>> bland mostly-flavorless glop (it directly transmutes from gravel to
>>> glop given
>>> time and exposure to fluids, and not consistently either).
>>> and is also generally associated with old-people [sic].
>> Evidence, please?
>> Just because you have an idiosyncratic association doesn't mean the
>> general public does.
> ever see people who aren't older who like the stuff?
> hence, why it is as it is.
> if something is usually only ever seen done by a certain demographic, it 
> is something associated with that demographic.

Or it might be just simply correlated to some particular medical aspect
that is itself correlated with progressed age. (I den't know for sure, though)