Do you drink milk from the cereal bowl?
Do you drink milk from the cereal bowl?
Do you drink the cereal-flavored milk straight from the bowl? I grew up doing this because my parents taught me how good that milk tastes. As I’ve gotten older, I feel a little self-conscious about doing it in public. It’s not something I notice other non-children doing.
Editing to add: I do drink the milk from the bowl. As to when I'm eating it "in public:" hotels mostly. Self-conscious was probably the wrong word. I'm more wondering if people silently judge a grown person drinking cereal milk from the bowl. Not losing sleep if they do, just curious.
I always drink from the bowl, I eat fries and burgers with my hands, sometime I like drinking from a straw and much more. If other people aren't happy, that's their problem, keep doing it if you like it!
36I eat fries and burgers with my hands, sometime I like drinking from a straw and much more
These ones feel pretty normal, at least where I am
11I like dipping my fries in the milkshake.
6Fries in a milkshake is good. Fries in a Wendy's frosty is somehow better, and really the only reason I ever eat there.
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I definitely judge the kind of person who leaves milk in the bowl as if it were a waste product of cereal consumption and not half the point.
25There is no other option. Thou shalt drink thy cereal-flavored milk.
Most bowls suck for this though, too flat on top. Disposable bowls are the worst.
24Of course. I'm 43. I'm past giving a fuck what anyone else thinks.
21Huzzah for being in your 40s
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I'm a man in my mid 40s and I have no problem drinking the milk straight from the bowl.
20I'm so confused by this whole thread. I'm quite upset that some people are throwing away this food. Just use less milk FFS! I volunteer with a food-waste-prevention environmental group. Over 1/3 of all food that's grown is wasted and so it really annoys me when people don't eat everything they put on their plate. Plus I grew up poor so I still can't fathom people being so wasteful.
As for everyone else, you ate most of your milk with the spoon, why can't you finish the job with the spoon? Do you all have strangely shaped bowls that make it impossible or something?
I'm feeling an intense culture shock (given how minor this thing is) from this. Kinda reminds me of the two ways to wipe thing from a while back, where it never even occured to me that there's a different way than just using your spoon. Crazy.
18Kinda reminds me of the two ways to wipe thing from a while back, where it never even occured to me that there’s a different way than just using your spoon.
This sentence makes it sound like you wipe with your spoon.
4Moving (reluctantly) past it sounding like you wipe with a spoon - what are the two ways to wipe? I had no idea there were other ways...
1Standing up or sitting down
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Why waste the milk? That sounds insane. Of course I drink the milk (or I did before becoming lactose intolerant).
17I'm just sitting here trying to figure out if I've ever eaten cereal in public.
I guess maybe in a hotel that offered "free continental breakfast"? If I did make a habit of eating cereal in public, I can't say I'd have a second thought before picking up my bowl and drinking the (oat) milk leftover. Do some people not do this? What do they do, throw it away? Scoop milk into their mouths with a spoon?
Life's too short to be self-conscious about how you eat cereal.
16What's the alternative? Just pour it down the drain? Absolutely not.
15Worse to waste food (milk in this case) than to be seen drinking it from a bowl.
13Do you… not drink the milk from the cereal bowl…?
13It's not just flavored, it also has all the vitamins and minerals that floated off the cereal (or were in the milk in the first place). Drink up, for health!
10Sugar. You mean sugar.
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2Because surely all the vitamins and minerals in your bowl come from the cereal and not from the milk.
1shit be fortified
3I did include the ones that were in the milk to begin with before posting my comment.
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How about you do you? If they’re going to judge or exclude you for drinking some cereal milk from the bowl, who needs those people anyway? Scan the room while you drink the cereal bowl milk and identify the small minded judging you and rule them out as individual unworthy or your consideration.
Be happy, enjoy life. Jump in puddles and sing!
8I'd rather not let milk go to waste.
8If you were asking this to a global audience, it would definitely be an extreme minority. About 70% of the adult population of the world is lactose intolerant.
I just like mentioning that statistic because white people usually don't believe me. 😁
7I'm white, lactose intolerant, and drink the oat milk from the bowl when I have cereal.
I encourage the kids to do the same with their cows milk.10I'm not lactose intolerant but I've ibd and depending on how my disease is going I might not be able to drink milk, I'm also white. I thought lactose intolerance was widely known about?
1Most people don't realize that lactose tolerance is the unusual condition. I do think most people know lactose intolerance exists though, yeah.
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I gotta ask, what situation are you in that you're eating cereal in public? It's just not that kind of food generally
7Driving I'm guessing. Just pours the milk into the bag inside the box and sticks a spoon in.
3Spoon? I'm sure they would just wear the bag like a helmet for hands free eating and driving
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Most of it. Some goes in my coffee.
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Next time I have cereal I need to try this.
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I drink the horchata in the bowl that's left over after cinnamon toast crunch.
7Cereal isn't meant to be eaten in public.
6Late 30s. Hell yes I drink the milk. That's the whole reason I ate the cereal.
6Unequivocally, yes.
6I'll feel more self-conscious if I'm wasting food. And no, unless you're particularly loud, no one is judging you for how you're having something.
6Yes. Yes I do.
6I feel like most of the people commenting here about how much they like cereal flavored milk need some horchata in their life. And good news for the lactose intolerant, it’s made with rice milk!
5Lots of cultures drink things from bowls. It's perfectly acceptable IMHO. I don't know why Americans have such a problem with it. I always drink my pho and ramen broth from the bowl after I eat the solid stuff. The broth is the best part of those dishes on purpose, so leaving it behind is dumb.
5So what do you think happens if you do that around others that really do not?
I use the spoon usually, but depends on the bowl and how well the spoon matches the curvature.
4Of course I drink it
It bothers the hell out of me that my roommate doesn't
He also barely puts any milk on his cereal
I grew up not having a lot of food so I guess you could say I grew up to be a bit of a bougie bitch with my food now
4I absolutely do, but I also generally don’t eat cereal in public…I could count on one hand the number of times in the last 30 years or so (since I was a teenager)…no real reason why but I don’t think it would give me pause if I were eating cereal in public.
4My milk-to-cereal ratio doesn't leave much milk behind, so generally no. But if for some reason I still have milk left over, then yes.
4It depends on the cereal. Are there little soggy bits of cereal? Then no. Is it cinnamon-sugar flavored? Add a splash to my coffee.
4Aw man. Get me a bowl of cocoa puffs.
Free chocolate milk after you're done. Yes please.
4Hell yeah
4Absolutely. If other people want to judge me for it, then their opinion doesn’t matter to me anyway.
4It’s actually one of the reasons I switched from milk to yogurt in my cereal- I can more easily eat it all with my spoon
Another is the sofa. I can eat breakfast on my own sofa without worrying about a spill
4Yes. I'm 30. I do this, it's not weird, and anyone who says otherwise is a poser.
3I'm 46 and I do this.
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A lot of the time I can't wait to finish my cereal so I drink all the milk like halfway through. I love milk
3When i was a very young kid I didn't like it. .. but after like 3 I really like it.
.. and no it wasn't thrown away: someone else would drink the remaining milk.
3The idea of drinking someone else's cereal milk makes me quite squeamish
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Hell yeah I do
3The only cereal I eat as an adult is that expensive granola stuff you get at the market (I hate that sugary stuff they give away at hotels, so I just grab a bagel), so I never do it in public, but, ya know… obviously. Why waste the milk?
3Why do you care what the other people on the hotel think about you drinking from the bowl?
3I just simply add more cereal to the leftover milk until it's all used up.
3Just drink the milk if you like it
3I actually hate the milk left in the cereal bowl, it's so interesting to hear people enjoy it, but I do it because my parents would scream at me if I ever left a crumb of food (we were quite poor to be fair).
2We have a routine going: I get the last piece of cereal from the bowl and hold it on my spoon while I drink the milk from the bowl. Then I give that piece of cereal to the dog, and then it’s time for his walk.
2Tangentially related: Where I grew up (Eastern European country in the communist era), the staple appetiser for dinner was chicken broth with noodles. I loved noodles as a kid os I would always want to eat them last. So, I would always first eat all the broth (although with a spoon rather than drinking it straight from the bowl) pushing the noodles aside, draining all the broth from them to spoon it up, and then eat the noodles. Even now, when I go to Asian restaurants and order some form of noodle soup, I eat it in a similar way.
But cereal, no. Every spoonful has to contain a balanced proportion of cereal and milk.
2It's the best part
2I only drink the milk from the cereal bowl. I don't bother with the eating part. Thing is, I only do this in the street before I start the getting dressed phase of my commute to work, right after my morning curb squat. I've never heard of this eating cereal "in private". But after reading all the rest of these replies, I'm starting to wonder if I'm the weird one.
1If there's milk left over, you put too much in.
I just add a little more cereal to soak it up.
1"whoops, there's too much milk left over, I'll just add some cereal"
"Oh no, now my milk is finished, but I still have cereal left, I'll just add some more milk"
"Well now I have extra milk again, time for more cereal"
I see where you're going....
3Pretty close - when eating cereal the correct method is to eat all the cereal and then refill with a slightly smaller amount of cereal, eat that, and repeat one or two more times until there's no milk or cereal left.
2This is the most psychotic take I've ever seen on cereal. It's a recipe for making cereal a 1,000 calorie breakfast if the cereal in question isn't super absorbent
1That's alright though, breakfast should be at least 40% of your daily caloric intake.
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@d00phy i only have water in ceral so it's not really an issue.
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Absolutely. If other people want to judge me for it, then their opinion doesn’t matter to me anyway.
1I don't use milk, I use vanilla yogurt, or Greek yogurt. It is healthier and makes you more full.
1Do you feel weird in the strip club?
Enjoy things. Don't not enjoy things for social reasons, unless you're a pedophile.
0Putting liquid on your cereal was your first mistake :P :)
I know that's an un-popular opinion. The two times I ever had cereal with milk, I puked. Possibly for unrelated reasons, but never did that again after the second time.
-2Not to be dramatic, but I'd rather die.
-5When I was growing up, if you wasted that milk you died.
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