Do you drink milk from the cereal bowl?

d00phy@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 126 points –

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

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.

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.

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!

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!

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

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.

Most of it. Some goes in my coffee.

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Next time I have cereal I need to try this.

Late 30s. Hell yes I drink the milk. That's the whole reason I ate the cereal.

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!

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.

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

Aw man. Get me a bowl of cocoa puffs.

Free chocolate milk after you're done. Yes please.

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.

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.

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’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

Absolutely. If other people want to judge me for it, then their opinion doesn’t matter to me anyway.

Why do you care what the other people on the hotel think about you drinking from the bowl?

I just simply add more cereal to the leftover milk until it's all used up.

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.

The 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?

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.

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.

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 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).

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

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.

Do you feel weird in the strip club?

Enjoy things. Don't not enjoy things for social reasons, unless you're a pedophile.

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.

Try water

Well, I don't eat cereal much these days (maybe twice a year), but I don't get the premise; it's fine without anything in my opinion.

Say that to your teeth.

As a kid who lived on dry cereal, even after getting adult teeth in, everything seems to be fine here.

If your teeth are degrading from eating dry cereal, I think you might be the one with messed up teeth lol

Not to be dramatic, but I'd rather die.

Do you pour it down the drain?

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.