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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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[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I like dipping my fries in the milkshake.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Fries in a milkshake is good. Fries in a Wendy's frosty is somehow better, and really the only reason I ever eat there.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Of course. I'm 43. I'm past giving a fuck what anyone else thinks.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

I'm a man in my mid 40s and I have no problem drinking the milk straight from the bowl.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Why waste the milk? That sounds insane. Of course I drink the milk (or I did before becoming lactose intolerant).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

What's the alternative? Just pour it down the drain? Absolutely not.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Worse to waste food (milk in this case) than to be seen drinking it from a bowl.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Do you… not drink the milk from the cereal bowl…?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Sugar. You mean sugar.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I'd rather not let milk go to waste.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

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. 😁

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I drink the horchata in the bowl that's left over after cinnamon toast crunch.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Most of it. Some goes in my coffee.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Cereal isn't meant to be eaten in public.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Yes. Yes I do.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Unequivocally, yes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

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!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Aw man. Get me a bowl of cocoa puffs.

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Hell yeah I do

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