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!
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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 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.
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'm a man in my mid 40s and I have no problem drinking the milk straight from the bowl.
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.
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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.
Do you… not drink the milk from the cereal bowl…?
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.
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I'd rather not let milk go to waste.
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
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I drink the horchata in the bowl that's left over after cinnamon toast crunch.
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.
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Cereal isn't meant to be eaten in public.
Unequivocally, yes.
Yes. Yes I do.
Late 30s. Hell yes I drink the milk. That's the whole reason I ate the cereal.
I'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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Hell yeah
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
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.
Absolutely. If other people want to judge me for it, then their opinion doesn’t matter to me anyway.
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.
Aw man. Get me a bowl of cocoa puffs.
Free chocolate milk after you're done. Yes please.
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
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