I saw an interesting thing on an old news broadcast on YouTube. It was a Barbara Walters 20/20 from 1991 and it had the old commercials as well. The commercial was a Charlie Brown cartoon for chex party mix and how easy it was to make, even if you can only boil water. Pour it in a bowl, mix it up, microwave and tada, chex mix. Note they've taken all the work out of it and it comes in convenient two pound "Hamily" size bags. I guess they thought people would practice self control. (Yeah right!).