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Feb. 11, 2013 10:02pm Erica Ritz

Mick Hobday Eats Corn Flakes in Over 60 Countries, Spends Over $50,000

Mali (Photo: Facebook/Mick Hobday)

33-year-old Mick Hobday likes Corn Flakes so much, he decided to spend roughly a decade sampling them all over the world. In the course of his journey, the British citizen estimates that he’s eaten 4,000 bowls, spent at least $50,000, and visited 63 countries.

“I’ve eaten them for breakfast from a young age, but I later began to eat them more and more – sometimes as a quick and easy lunch and dinner,” he explained. “I thought my idea was the perfect way to combine my two passions.”

Hobday recently published a book, “The Adventures of a Hard-up, Diabetic Traveller with a Corn Flake Problem,” in which he describes some of his wilder trips:

I’ve camped in a mosque and outside Venice with 200 dogs, I’ve visited ancient sites such as Machu Pichu and a lost city in the Colombian jungle. I’ve hang-glided over Rio and Hot-air ballooned over the Valley of the Kings. I’ve come across hippos, bears, Komodo dragons and an anteater. I’ve been diving with sharks, seahorses, dolphins and I’ve ridden a camel and an elephant. I’ve encountered all sorts of people, from an evangelical Christian in Albania, to a guy in Mauritania who lent me his house. I’ve seen the Sahara, the jungle, walked on glaciers, I’ve taken boats down rivers and I’ve also cycled over 13000 miles, through 21 European countries. I’ve modelled in a fashion show , been interviewed in Spanish on Peruvian radio, I’ve searched for UFOs in the desert, flown over the Nazca Lines, been to a music festival in the Sahara and I was almost kidnapped by Al-Qaeda.

Here are some of the photos from his journey, which he posted on Facebook:

Mauritania (Photo: Mick Hobday/Facebook)

Lichtenstein (Photo: Mick Hobday/Facebook)

Turkey Pammukkale

Egypt (Photo: Mick Hobday/Facebook)

Portugal (Photo: Facebook/Mick Hobday)

Gambia (Photo: Mick Hobday/Facebook)

The Daily Mail gathered Hobday’s top and bottom five “Corn Flake experiences.” The top 5 are:

1. Egypt – Crunchy flakes whilst sitting on the Giza plateau.

2. Turkey – Great flakes, tasted sweet.

3. Bosnia – At the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun in Visoko.

4. UK – With the flakes I grew up loving outside Stonehenge.

5. Germany – nice crunchy, dark tasty flakes before England v Sweden in World Cup 2006.

And the bottom 5:

1. Mauritania – The camel milk was awful.

2. Bulgaria – They were really cheap and like plastic.

3. Indonesia – Cheap flakes and the milk was warm.

4. Albania – Eating them next to a motorway, I could taste smoke.

5. Singapore – The flakes tasted awful after the extortionate price I had to pay.

In an interview with Portsmouth News, Hobday was asked whether he retains his early enthusiasm for the cereal after all these years.

“I’m very sick of them to be honest with you,” he responded, eating a bowl at that very moment. “Especially when these are my mom’s, and they’ve probably been in the cupboard for about three years.”

Here’s the full interview:

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Comments (21)

pap pap
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:03pm
I liked the journey . . . but really . . . corn flakes ???

Corn flakes are good but after a box I need something else that’s not made of corn.

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dadsrootbeer
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:25am
This guys sounds like he would be a great cabinent candidate for the child king.

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Inform
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:08am
Hmmm. Could have saved 50k and had boxes of cornflakes shipped to him!

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thegodfather
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:59am
Translation: “I’m a rich , bored, ********, who enjoys wasting my life on such a ridiculous stunt”. And by the way…my conclusion is…..They taste like corn flakes”

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huey6367
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:48am
Get a job. And since you don’t have a job, where did you get 50K to eat corn flakes. This dude is a flake.

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Kupo
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 4:29am
I think this is a cool story. I can also sympathize with his feelings regarding camel milk. It was the only kind of milk we could get while we were deployed to the Gulf and it is the nastiest crap ever.

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N37BU6
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:59am
He’s done more with his life than most of us… that’s sad.

For everyone.

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- tmone70
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:23am
  He has def done more than you, troll.
  
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- N37BU6
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:49am
  Haha, that’s great… the only reason why I left that comment was so somebody would say just that.
  
  I love how you called me a troll, yet didn’t recognize the fact that you took the troll bait… it’s almost as if you think calling someone a troll is an insult rather than an observation.
  
  Are you new to the internetz?
  
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WhatTheFrack
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:26am
Sour grapes. All the tolerance and good will out to shine on “The Blaze”. The guy did what he wanted to do and nobody got in his way. Good thing he didn’t have to ask the “Blazers” for permission. If it wasn’t for this site being an excellent news source it’d be huffington jr.

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JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:14am
Idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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- Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:40am
  Why is he an idiot? He saw 63 countries! And he wrote a book. Even if it isn’t exactly a bestseller, that and all the media appearances he’s doing will at least offset some of his expenses, so he will at worst end up having visited 63 countries for only a couple of hundred bucks each.
  
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- Southerner01
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:06am
  He has a story on The Blaze and you don’t.
  
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- tmone70
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:34am
  He is an idiot for squandering generations of hard work, tenacity, and hardships for nothing more than a childish obsession. He throws away resources that could have been other-wise used for greater things, ie, family. Im sure the guy has some. This man is nothing more than what society has turned him into.
  
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- Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:44pm
  Money spent traveling and seeing the world is never wasted. It is the best investment you can make in NOT being an idiot.
  
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DZ-015
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:03am
Did a government grant pay for this caper?

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Jake Dog2
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 10:56pm
A fool and his money will part. A corny thing to do.

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Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 10:49pm
Mmm, Temmy’s Corn Flakes! I wouldn’t go all the way to Egypt just to eat them, but whenever they get them at my local 99 cent store, I always stock up on Temmy’s Corn Flakes,

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chips1
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 10:16pm
He didn’t mention once that he kept the box tops. You get good prizes if you send them in with a dime.

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mharry860
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 10:14pm
So he’s a Trust Fund baby. Must be nice to be him.

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chips1
Posted on February 11, 2013 at 10:13pm
One flake to another?

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