Cereal description: Oversized, yellowish carb wads of varying sizes and shapes. Unlike popcorn, which suggests kernels turned inside out, these pieces seem to have been overinflated and thickened. If ...

Novelist Saladin Ahmed was looking at the back of a Corn Pops cereal box when he noticed a small, but jarring, detail. The colorful illustration on the box depicted a chaotic scene of little yellow ...