Eggcorn Forum

I did a search for bran>>brand on the Database/forum some time ago, and my memory was that I’d found nothing. After I wrote up the following post, I searched again, and got what looked like a direct hit from the older version of the forum – but I couldn’t locate the actual citation. I’m now pretty convinced the hit is an inaccessible link from offsite, but my apologies (probably to Ken) if I’m retreading old ground for us.

We’ve had various brand>>bran variations on the forum before, but I don’t think we’ve covered bran>>brand. For many users, “raisin bran” cereal is clearly a “brand” of breakfast food that has raisins in it. The substitution is common – hundreds of ughits (most on cooking/nutrition sites) – and it’s easy to find both capitalized and lowercase versions of “raisin brand.” The wikipedia page for “raisin bran” claims (without attribution) that the phrase was once trademarked but is now “genericized” and no longer proprietary for any company. If so, that ironizes this reshaping just a bit. Examples:

For example this Sat i had a bowl of raisin brand cereal with skim milk for break fast, a banana and 6-10 black berries for a snack, 8oz boneless chicken breast with spinach salad for lunch, a kiwi and protein shake with skim milk for snake, and finally a 22 oz t-bone steak and green beans for dinner.
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthrea … =125081971

During this time, I stayed away from eating Post Raisin Brand cereal and I ran out of my Vitamin Shoppe multi-vitamins.
http://www.healthboards.com/boards/show … ?p=4258228

Post Raisin Brand Cereal (1 gram(s))
calories: 3, fat: 0g, carbs: 1g, protein: 0g
http://www.sparkpeople.com/calories-in. … and+cereal
[Multiple instances on this site – as David Tuggy might say, “Raisin Brand” is clearly standard for this speaker.]

If the cramping is a result of the inability to go to the bathroom eat a food that is high in fiber such as Raisin Brand cereal or eat or drink prune juice.
http://www.helium.com/items/21081-how-t … t-medicine