Two Scoops

Here's an example of how my brain works.

For years we had an ice maker in our freezer/fridge combination. I loved it, ice through the door, crushed or "cubed" (they were half-crescents). The guy who repaired my appliances kept telling me he wouldn't have one because of the "liability." I was wondering what he meant by that.

Then one day not long ago, I was sitting in my basement office and I heard water running. I looked in the furnace room and water was coming from the ceiling. I assumed a pipe broke. I ran upstairs to get a bucket and noticed the kitchen floor was flooded. It looked like it was coming from the fridge. I pulled it out but the back was dry. Then I noticed the front of the freezer section was wet. I opened the freezer and water was pouring out of the ice maker. I hit it with my fist and it stopped. I'm assuming a valve was stuck open. I turned off the water to the ice maker and turned it off.

TL;DR: We bought a GE Solo nugget ice maker. If it springs a leak, the worst it could do is spill the three quarts that the side tank holds. It makes a good amount of nugget ice. One problem with it is that it wants to be cleaned about every 12 days which is a twenty-hour process (seriously). The other problem is it likes to howl at times. Or hammer. Not sure what causes that.

The ice maker came with a little scoop to get the ice out of the bin. It takes just over two scoops to fill a 16-ounce glass. And that reminded me of an old marketing campaign for cereal. My mind doing what it does (making weird connections). 

In the 1980s, Kellogg's Raisin Bran was advertised as having "two scoops of raisin in every box." Here's a typical commercial. And it got me thinking, how did they get away with that? Why didn't the FTC call them on it? But "scoop" isn't exactly an SI unit of measure. Those scoops could be whatever size Kellogg's wanted them to be. 

Now, I assume Kellogg's probably precisely measured out the raisins in each box in order to control costs and I'm sure they didn't use "scoops." I think raisins are more expensive than the cereal they put them in.

And that's an example of how my brain works.

Does your brain make weird connections like that? Let me know in the comments below.