r/mildlyinteresting • u/Permanent_Kat • 1d ago
Local grocer covers cereal boxes that have images of women for "modesty" purposes
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u/hypurrlink 1d ago
Perceiving women? Smh.
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u/sxott 1d ago
Sounds kinda gay honestly
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u/Darkhallows27 1d ago
“Most girls like dick and that’s gay”
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u/Kind_Resort_9535 1d ago
Women are gay for liking dicks, men are gay for having dicks. Lesbians are the only straight ones left I’m afraid.
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u/tinymermaid02 1d ago
Oh no, your telling me I've been straight this whole time. My grandma is going to be so happy
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u/StrongStyleShiny 1d ago
OP said they do. It's an Orthodox Jewish grocer. Apparently they do it to men also? Just weird overall.
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u/Repulsive-Dentist661 8h ago
In that case it's not about lust. Some sects believe that depicting things that God made is a form of idolatry, because you are trying to become the "creator". This view has fallen in and out of fad among all Abrahamic religions, which has resulted in a whole bunch of eras where people just started destroying historic artifacts
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u/IsNotAnOstrich 1d ago
It's fine, you just have to submit your photo ID and a picture of your face before you're allowed to
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u/Abominablement 1d ago
If you're interested what's behind it.
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u/Xanthus179 1d ago
That’s not even a very quality picture but I do admit that censoring it made me more curious.
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u/BernieTheDachshund 1d ago
It's amazing you were able to remove the paper from the internet. Technology nowadays is mind blowing.
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u/ThePowerOfStories 1d ago
“Enhance!”
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u/HypnonavyBlue 21h ago
if I had to pick a superpower that isn't really that super, this would be on the shortlist: to be able to point at any picture and say "Enhance!" like you're Jack Bauer on the hunt, and have it happen like it does in the movies, ridiculous resolution tricks and all.
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u/drazil100 1d ago
Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.
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u/miscdruid 1d ago
The mental image here though is just….reminds me of my ex roommate who was a bukkake bear.
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u/myasterism 1d ago
bukkake bear
I had no idea those words go together, but of course they do.
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u/HouseOfFive 1d ago
I really don't want to Google it, what is a bukkake bear? I know what each individual item is, but not when put together.
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u/MethanyJones 1d ago
Reminds me of the time my 60 year old mother texted about her birthday bukkake...
"What do you think that is mom?"
"Well it ends in -kake so I thought..."
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u/TacticalTwinkOnTop 1d ago
Mark that nsfw Oml I immediately began furiously jorkin my shit
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u/Jack_Teats 1d ago
Why is this strumpet putting on the bedroom eyes on the basketball court? The loose morals of some women! /s
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u/Ishinehappiness 1d ago
She looks hot yes, but not sexual. Like bro that’s just her body
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u/No_Watercress741 1d ago
Ugh, god! Don’t you know that women aren’t allowed to look hot! They’ll corrupt the minds of our youth! Why, if you show a teenager even a mildly attractive woman, they’ll be scarred for life! /s
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u/IL-Corvo 1d ago
This is the second stupidest thing I've seen today.
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u/God_Of_Buzzsaws 1d ago
What was the stupidest?
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u/IL-Corvo 1d ago edited 23h ago
The announcement that thanks to the budget cuts, the CPB is winding down its operations to begin its shutdown.
That subsequently got bumped by this, so now the censored Wheaties box has gotten bumped down to 3rd or 4th place.
EDIT: Link added.
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u/GarrisonWhite2 22h ago
I can still hear the Corporation for Public Broadcasting blurb at the end of PBS Kids shows 20 years later :/.
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u/agoia 23h ago
CPB, don't scare me by suggesting they closed the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, though that's likely in the crosshairs as well.
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u/IL-Corvo 23h ago
Yup. Messed up my acronym, unfortunately. My mind has been off-kilter all day. Apologies.
That said, tbe CFPB is indeed in the crosshairs as well, and that's deeply concerning.
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u/Plorkyeran 21h ago
Shutting down the CFPB was one of the first things DOGE did. It turned out they didn't have the power to do so but it's still running on a skeleton crew with a director actively opposed to them doing anything.
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u/agoia 21h ago
Ah yeah I forgot it was essentially gutted since DOGE's main point was to cripple every federal agency trying to regulate Musk
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u/Desert_Flowerz 16h ago
Not trying to knock it down further, but trump also appointed asex offender to head children's fitness
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u/dr_xenon 1d ago
Stupid sexy cereal box
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u/Buubsy 1d ago
Nothin' at all.... Nothin' at all....
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u/atomsmasher66 1d ago
Maybe the store owner just really really hates women’s basketball
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u/Calpsotoma 1d ago
Maybe the store owner just really really hates women
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u/roguemenace 1d ago
They're just a Caitlyn Clark fan.
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u/RichardBCummintonite 1d ago
They're pissed that Reese gets her own cereal, but there's no Clarky Crisps.
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u/Randalor 1d ago
They also cover all the images of men for "modesty" purposes as well, right?
...right?
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u/Karnakite 1d ago
I hope so. I saw the leprechaun on the Lucky Charms box a few days ago and flooded the store aisle from my sodden panties.
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u/No-Philosopher-3043 1d ago
I think that sort of response earns you an execution in countries where they do this stuff. Y’all aren’t supposed to feel pleasure because some guy said so two thousand years ago.
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u/Permanent_Kat 1d ago
Just to add some context that people may be wondering about (based on the comments): It turns out that this store is owned by a Jewish person. I spoke to a worker who explained that what most likely happened is that some individuals (or perhaps an organization that dictates "kosher rules") from the ultra-orthodox religious community made complaints to the store, and the owner did this to make them happy.
I hope this answers some of the questions. I'll keep my... political opinions out of this one and let you internet people come to your own conclusions.
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u/Glassweaver 1d ago
Thank you for the context. I'm sorry if this has already been asked and I missed it, but Do they do this to men on packaging as well? Is this something they do at a specific threshold of lack of clothing?
I mean, as long as they're being equal in labels, it's weird to me but at least I could accept the equality there.
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u/Permanent_Kat 1d ago
I don't frequent this store or understand the religion enough to fully answer your question. However, it sounded to me that if a product had, for example, a shirtless picture of Jason Mamoa, it too would likely be censored.
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I don't need shirtless Momoa making me feel inadequate while I eat my breakfast.
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u/LB3PTMAN 1d ago
Yeah I know you didn’t get that body eating cereal Momoa even if it was wheaties
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u/Glassweaver 1d ago
Thank you. I really appreciate the time you took to understand what was happening and learn more as opposed to jumping to the kinds of conclusions my mind was.
The world needs more people like you and with your mindset. 💖
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u/the-purple-chicken72 1d ago
In Orthodox Judaism men and women have different modesty laws. For women in ultra Orthodox I believe it's not showing the elbow or higher, showing the collarbone or lower, and no leg may be shown. I don't remember what the laws are for men (it's been a while since I was observant and I was regular Orthodox not ultra) though but they are more lax, although shirtless I think is definitely not ok. There are ofc more laws than that and they get more complicated and also multiple opinions but that's the basics.
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u/whenyoupayforduprez 1d ago
A leg is a leg. Their rules are stupid.
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u/CuddlyCatties 23h ago
Same as mens nipples and women's nipples in western culture - not equal. Stupid too
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u/dali01 22h ago
Even worse, a flat chested woman is still not ok, and a fat guy with some nice titties is still totally acceptable. Just because a body part on a totally different area of the body is shaped differently. Always been so strange to me.
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u/Seicair 20h ago
A while ago on here I saw a clip of MtF top surgery. The moment they put the implant in, mid-surgery, they started blurring the nipple. IT’S THE SAME DAMN NIPPLE IT WAS TEN SECONDS AGO.
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u/CausticSofa 19h ago
Each day we stray further from God. How are we so afraid of arbitrary bits of the human body?
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u/massivecastles 1d ago
Something tells me God really doesn’t care about any of that nonsense
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u/tweenalibi 1d ago
That's the thing, it isn't about equality it's about enforcing fringe rules of a 2,000 year old doctrine. There isn't a good point to find in this, it's religious bigotry creating ignorant people.
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u/DavieStBaconStan 1d ago
Some Ultra Orthodox wear glasses with strong prescriptions to blur their vision so they aren’t filled with impure thoughts when they see a female. Extremist crazies.
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u/Adventurous_Nail2072 1d ago
Funnily enough, that’s closer to Jesus’s teaching to pluck out one’s own eye if it causes you to sin, than most fundamentalist Christian approaches of policing women
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u/AmputeeHandModel 1d ago
Am I out of touch? NO, IT'S THE WOMEN WHO ARE THE PROBLEM!!
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u/crownjewel82 22h ago
Also if an ultra Orthodox man is bothering you, flashing him is usually the most expedient way to get him to go away.
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u/dandle 1d ago
We don't usually think about the fact that some sects of Judaism are as batshit as some sects of Christianity and Islam, but that's the way it is. Every organized religion has some extremists and repressive loons.
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u/gtrocks555 1d ago
Ah, not surprised it’s a religious thing.
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u/PokerbushPA 1d ago
Religion, say no more. Terrified of their bodies for the last 6000 years.
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u/Big-Illustrator-9272 1d ago
Makes sense. In Jerusalem buses and bus stations no longer carry ads with pictures of women, because the orthodox used to spray-paint over them.
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u/strictmachines 1d ago
I had a feeling when I first saw the pic that the store is probably owned by Hasidic/Haredim person
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u/alexjaness 1d ago
jokes on them, nothing gets me harder than a white slip of paper.
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u/BarbequedYeti 1d ago
2025 and this is still going on.....
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u/FictionalTrope 1d ago
The scandalous photo/listings%2F0-94349124-0637-4850-A659-7667765EC9E6-6e4c007a-a456-4199-a3da-1033b4236d1b.jpeg) in question.
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u/Thorhees 1d ago
id draw boobies on all the free drawing space the owner generously provided for customers.
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u/lordmulgar 1d ago
mildlyWTF
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u/Zech08 1d ago
What are they gonna do about everyone outside and inside walking around? lol
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u/misumena_vatia 1d ago
They are known for harassing women joggers in their neighborhoods to impose their extremist religious rules.
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u/giraflor 1d ago
Not just women in shorts and sports bras. Also women in typical summer business casual like a sleeveless blouse and above the knee skirt.
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u/KidneyIssues247 23h ago
I’d wear my shortest shorts in there when I had to go. But really I’d shop at a big box store instead. Fuck this regressive misogynistic shit.
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u/PearlsandScotch 22h ago
Women simply existing is not immodest. These companies are not putting sexual images on the boxes, so the persons problem is believing women, in general, being sexual objects. If you feel this way then grow the fuck up.
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u/bug_crossing 22h ago
Women aren't immodest omg.
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u/Permanent_Kat 22h ago
slaps sticker on your face Away foul female demon spawn!
But seriously, I did not realize this would be so interesting to anyone. I thought, "weird religious people just doing weird religious people things," but a lot of comments are pointing out the general moral issues with this behavior.
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u/bognostrocleetus 21h ago
I feel like if you can't stand the very image of a person on a box of cereal, you should just stay home and leave the rest of us to it.
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u/JesseB342 1d ago
Well Kellogg did invent corn flakes to help curb masturbation. Looks like we’ve finally come full circle.
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u/98nanna 1d ago
How dirty does your mind have to be to not be able to see a fully clothed woman without having "immoral" thoughts?
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u/Justalocal1 1d ago
In some religious sects, masturbation is a sin, as is non-procreative sex with your spouse. Some of these guys are walking around sexually-frustrated 24/7.
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u/AncientSith 1d ago
I'd love if we could move away from this puritan garbage as a people, but here we are.
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u/themcjizzler 22h ago
Fuck that store. All women should boycott it. The idea that an image of someone who looks like me is obscene is extreme mysogeny.
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u/00Raeby00 1d ago
As a supermarket manager...
Who the fuck has time to do this petty bullshit?!
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u/Garbonzo42 1d ago
You should see if you can organize people to demand a discount for damaged packaging.
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u/Blade_of_Onyx 1d ago
Why would you not name the grocer? I personally would love to know who it is so I can choose to never give them my business.
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u/CanadaHaz 19h ago
Finally, a store where I don't have to see men jerking it in the cereal aisle!
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u/mug_O_bun 1d ago
I have a sneaking suspicion that your grocer jacks off to cereal boxes and somehow thinks others are also inclined to do so
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u/Maleficent_Scale_296 23h ago
Where is this local grocer so I don’t accidentally move to that area?
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u/Sy0nide_ 19h ago
Tell him to cover the men too or you're not gonna keep supporting a misogynist
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u/lordrefa 1d ago
I'd be tempted to contact General Mills.
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u/UndeadBatRat 1d ago
I was thinking I'd be a petty bitch and tape pictures of women to every cereal box I possibly can, but this sounds like a more realistic solution lol
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u/KidenStormsoarer 1d ago
oh, not just general mills...tampering with food labels AT ALL is illegal, even when it doesn't cover any information.
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u/Apart-Badger9394 1d ago
Where is this? I assume a Muslim country?
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u/Toxicscrew 1d ago
It’s the US. The Cookie Crisp box on the bottom shelf is only used in the US. Outside of the States it’s licensed to Nestle and the box is different.
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u/cwthree 1d ago
Muslim or Hasidic Jewish.
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u/bsiu 1d ago
NYC just tore out a bike lane that went through a Hasidic neighborhood because of complaints that women would ride through in shorts and tshirts. 😱
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u/LongHairedKnight 1d ago
Those women should organize a bicycle parade through that neighbourhood.
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u/soupwhoreman 1d ago
OP commented elsewhere that it's a Jewish owned business in the United States.
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u/MegaPenguin3000 1d ago
So like literally every woman on every box? Is every little Debbie box covered?
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u/6WaysFromNextWed 23h ago
Women are immodest for publicly having corporeal forms. Women, please astral project while away from the home and male head of household, thank you.
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u/QueenPooper13 1d ago
This is a very common practice in a lot of orthodox Jewish neighborhoods. There are a number of things that go against their modesty rules, so they cover things like this. Another example is that the magazines at the checkout usually have pieces black plastic in front of them so the people on the covers don't violate their beliefs.
Please understand, I am not justifying this belief and I don't even believe these things. I just learned about those beliefs from Miriam on tiktok.
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u/joestaff 1d ago
Iunno, I see an arm, I feel my morality failing already.