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!
I 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
I like dipping my fries in the milkshake.
Fries in a milkshake is good. Fries in a Wendy's frosty is somehow better, and really the only reason I ever eat there.
There 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.
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.
I'm a man in my mid 40s and I have no problem drinking the milk straight from the bowl.
Of course. I'm 43. I'm past giving a fuck what anyone else thinks.
Huzzah for being in your 40s
Why waste the milk? That sounds insane. Of course I drink the milk (or I did before becoming lactose intolerant).
I'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.
Do you… not drink the milk from the cereal bowl…?
It'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!
Because surely all the vitamins and minerals in your bowl come from the cereal and not from the milk.
I did include the ones that were in the milk to begin with before posting my comment.
I gotta ask, what situation are you in that you're eating cereal in public? It's just not that kind of food generally
Driving I'm guessing. Just pours the milk into the bag inside the box and sticks a spoon in.
Spoon? I'm sure they would just wear the bag like a helmet for hands free eating and driving
I'd rather not let milk go to waste.
If 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. 😁
I'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.I'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?
Most people don't realize that lactose tolerance is the unusual condition. I do think most people know lactose intolerance exists though, yeah.
Cereal isn't meant to be eaten in public.
I drink the horchata in the bowl that's left over after cinnamon toast crunch.
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!
Most of it. Some goes in my coffee.
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Next time I have cereal I need to try this.
I 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!
Unequivocally, yes.
Yes. Yes I do.
Late 30s. Hell yes I drink the milk. That's the whole reason I ate the cereal.
Lots 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.
It’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
Why do you care what the other people on the hotel think about you drinking from the bowl?
If there's milk left over, you put too much in.
I just add a little more cereal to soak it up.
"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....
Pretty 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.
This 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
That's alright though, breakfast should be at least 40% of your daily caloric intake.
So 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.
Hell yeah
Absolutely. If other people want to judge me for it, then their opinion doesn’t matter to me anyway.
Of 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
My 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.
Aw man. Get me a bowl of cocoa puffs.
Free chocolate milk after you're done. Yes please.
I 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.
It depends on the cereal. Are there little soggy bits of cereal? Then no. Is it cinnamon-sugar flavored? Add a splash to my coffee.
Yes. I'm 30. I do this, it's not weird, and anyone who says otherwise is a poser.
I'm 46 and I do this.
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
When 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.
The idea of drinking someone else's cereal milk makes me quite squeamish
Hell yeah I do
Just drink the milk if you like it
I 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).
I 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.
Tangentially 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.
I just simply add more cereal to the leftover milk until it's all used up.
Putting 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.
We 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.
Not to be dramatic, but I'd rather die.
When I was growing up, if you wasted that milk you died.
@d00phy i only have water in ceral so it's not really an issue.
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