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.
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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?
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.
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.
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.
I just simply add more cereal to the leftover milk until it’s all used up.
I drink the horchata in the bowl that’s left over after cinnamon toast crunch.
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.
Cereal isn’t meant to be eaten 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.
Not to be dramatic, but I’d rather die.
Do you pour it down the drain?
As horrible as that is, I hope they at least don’t put the milk back in the carton
Well I’m not gonna dirty up another jug
Yes.
I already ate more sugar than I should have. I’m not going to drink the runoff. I also don’t drink the mostly-salt broth from instant ramen.
That’s insanely wasteful
When I was growing up, if you wasted that milk you died.
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.
Why waste the milk? That sounds insane. Of course I drink the milk (or I did before becoming lactose intolerant).
Aw man. Get me a bowl of cocoa puffs.
Free chocolate milk after you’re done. Yes please.
Why do you care what the other people on the hotel think about you drinking from the bowl?
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.
