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.
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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 like to use my spoon all the way to the end, maybe drink the last little bit. There is nothing weird about doing that. Although I can’t say I’ve eaten much cereal “in public”.
My first thought. Are people going to a restaurant and ordering cereal?!? Under what conditions would a person eat cereal in public?
I think just hotel breakfast rooms
If that’s it, sure, I would sip the milk from a bowl of I felt like it.
I see barefoot, unbathed tourists, hungover or still on something, shamelessly partaking in hotel breakfasts on the regular, having loud conversations about their “happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” type stories. Sipping the last bits of milk out of a bowl won’t register against the people on vacation who let all standards slide to become total weirdos.
The morning bus ride just isn’t the same without a fresh bowl of raisin bran.
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.
Of course. I’m 43. I’m past giving a fuck what anyone else thinks.
Huzzah for being in your 40s
I’m a man in my mid 40s and I have no problem drinking the milk straight from the bowl.
Why waste the milk? That sounds insane. Of course I drink the milk (or I did before becoming lactose intolerant).
I’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.
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.
This sentence makes it sound like you wipe with your spoon.
Don’t do this to me, I thought everyone wiped with their spoon. Please tell me you’re joking
I use a knife. Butter knife specifically.
Moving (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…
Standing up or sitting down
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.
What’s the alternative? Just pour it down the drain? Absolutely not.
Worse to waste food (milk in this case) than to be seen drinking it from a 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!
Sugar. You mean sugar.
Because surely all the vitamins and minerals in your bowl come from the cereal and not from the milk.
shit be fortified
Do you… not drink the milk from the cereal bowl…?
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!
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.
