Farina (food) - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• Allen Hoskins' character in the Our Gang comedies was named "Farina" after the cereal.
• In the Futurama episode "Three Hundred Big Boys", a stem cell rejuvenated Professor Farnsworth orders a "mild farina" in a restaurant – after talking about "living life on the edge" to his date. Although he can pass for 25, he still prefers the bland food appropriate to a 160 year old.
• In Dr. Katz, Katz refers to farina as "The thinking man's oatmeal".
• The punk band Screeching Weasel mentions Farina in their song "Supermarket Fantasy".
• The punk band Ramones also mentions Farina in their song "Every time I eat Vegetables, it makes me think of you"
• In the Seinfeld episode "The Dinner Party" Jerry talks about when he found a hair in his Farina cereal when he was younger.
• In the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Mississippi governor Pappy O'Daniel's son tells Tim Blake Nelson's character Delmar O'Donnell that he hopes Delmar will eat his daddy's Farina and vote him into a second term.
• In the book "Four Blind Mice"(page 133), part of James Patterson's Alex Cross detective series, Farina is referenced as the favorite breakfast food of one of the main characters (John Sampson) .
• In the movie Farinelli, the title character receives his nickname after challenging a trumpet player with his singing voice, and a member of the crowd shouts,"He mashed your famous trumpet player into Farina!"
• In the October 29, 2007, episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart alluded to Hurricane Katrina with the line "It's wet and rhymes with Farina"
• In the movie Sweet Wheat Gold Coast's own David Whitlock plays the character "Cream of Wheat" due to his striking resemblance to the young boy portrayed on the Farina box.
• Comedian Eddie Murphy performed comedy routines in the 70's and 80's about his character 'Buckwheat', and referred to his sister 'Farina', along with other family members named after breakfast foods.
• In John Man's The Survival of Jan Little, at times the family lives almost exclusively on Farina when their supplies run out.
• In the musical "BARNUM!", during the song "There Is A Sucker Born Ev'ry Minute" Barnum suggests as an attraction a "lady fair whose head was lost" and now "eats farina through a hose, and wears pink tights instead of clothes".
• In the Three's Company episode "The Root of All Evil" Jack is criticized for making railroad tracks in his Farina cereal and eating it with a fork.
• In Isaac Bashevis Singer's "A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories" the author describes pouring buckets of water over hot stones "until the vapour became as dense as farina."