I like anything made using Clextral twin-screw extruders -- these fabulous machines create flaked, expanded, and co-extruded snacks and breakfast cereals, as well as many other foodstuffs. As good as it already was, Clextral improved last year when it acquired K.A.L. ProcesTeknik A/S, a Danish firm that specializes in refurbishing extruder screws and offers metallurgical solutions tailored to the fish feed, pet food and plastics industries.

Clextral! Clextral! Clextral! It's like music, isn't it? Lyrical, evocative, with just a hint of that impersonal, mechanical automation that gives each breakfast cereal its perfectly uniform shape and avoids all those unpleasant things like flavor and nutrition.

Nothing says "Breakfast" like properly extruded cereals, and no one does it better than Clextral.