Food: Cereal: Theme
Tutankhamun's tomb: The breakfast cereal   (+14, -1)  [vote for, against]

Once you've found the secret entrance to the box, inside you find crunchy cereal shapes in the form of treasure from Tutankhamun's tomb. One in every million boxes contains either a genuine bit of gold treasure or a deadly poison.

On opening the box it is obligatory to look inside and say "I see wonderful things!".
-- hippo, May 23 2010

"can I have some more, mummy?"
-- po, May 23 2010


Naturally the eye of Ra would be honey-flavored.
-- RayfordSteele, May 23 2010


cute but cursed!
-- xandram, May 24 2010


Sounds like a pyramid selling scheme to us.
-- 8th of 7, May 24 2010


The cereal itself could be Alpha-bits in ancient Eqyptian characters.

I think the box itself needs to be a pyramid in shape.
-- RayfordSteele, May 24 2010


Of course you should include a few tantalising hints that there might be further undiscovered chambers somewhere in the box.
-- Wrongfellow, May 24 2010


Mummified cats ...
-- 8th of 7, May 24 2010


There could certainly be a "false bottom" to the box, leading you to think it's empty when it's not.
-- phundug, May 26 2010


Not to be confused with 'Pharoah's Tomb: The breakfast cereal' which consists of a box with a randomly positioned hole in the side and that is almost completely empty apart from a few grains of sand and some cobwebs.
-- DrBob, May 26 2010


<reads ingredient list>
Two grams of Natron?
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 26 2010


There could be a whole series of tomb themed breakfast cereals. e.g. The Viking Tomb breakfast cereal, in the shape of a longship, with a book of matches pasted to one end. The Qin Shi Huang Tomb breakfast cereal, contains one piece of cereal and thousands of plastic collectable figurines.
-- pocmloc, May 26 2010


FREE INSIDE! One Book of the Dead!
-- RayfordSteele, May 26 2010


We wonder what might be in the box of Richard Dawkins breakfast cereal.
-- 8th of 7, May 26 2010


Lots of sharp, metal, jagged pieces of broken crucifixes, likely.
-- RayfordSteele, May 26 2010


//Alpha-bits in ancient Egyptian characters// I really like this concept - Alphabetti Spaghetti (and by extension, any other alphabet-based foodstuffs) only in hieroglyphs - Hieroglyphi Linguini?
-- zen_tom, May 27 2010


FREE INSIDE! One mummified cat.
(EDIT: 8th of 7 beat me to it. Big surprise.)
-- swimswim, May 27 2010


//Mummified cats ...//

This does not sound like a breakfast for a hungover day. The little bones and clumped fur would push anyone over the edge!
-- saedi, May 27 2010


I prefer the little organ jars myself. Crispy on the outside, soft on the inside.
-- DrWorm, May 28 2010


Tiny, crunchy canopic jars, filled with chocolate. Mmmmm...
-- 8th of 7, May 28 2010


Why tiny? Make them full size, perfect replicas inside and out, all edible.
-- pocmloc, May 28 2010


That sounds like the guts of an idea ...
-- 8th of 7, May 28 2010


Your wish is my command
-- pocmloc, May 28 2010


"There seems to be no doorbell on this pyramid - just a small horn hanging by the door."
"Yes, just toot and come in."

Sorry.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 28 2010


Even following your instruction [MB], I cannot in.
-- pocmloc, May 28 2010



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