Cereal is the most delicious thing in the universe that doesn’t require anything more than pouring two things into a bowl. No peeling, heating, mixing, blending, layering, etc. Two things, in a bowl, and what you don’t use goes back in the place it came from.
You don’t even need to add 2 things together. Cereal is great on its own
I’ve yet to meet a cereal that was better dry. Some came damned close (Cracklin’ Oat Bran is my fave), but still not better.
Crispix/Chex might be better dry
You’re right, only because they suck at being cereal. It’s boxed gruel disguised as cereal.
Rice chex and crispix both are delicious. Shame on you.
Ehhh, other cereals are just sugary gruel. I’d prefer fewer calories directly from sugar / corn syrup in my diet.
Cinnamon Life
Life?!? You’re technically correct because Life is awful with milk, but Life isn’t anything more than an ingredient for homemade Bits & Bites.
Excuse me, you can pour crack and pop rocks into a bowl.
It’s designed that way on purpose. Cereal manufacturers are some of the most egregious abusers of hyperpalatable foods.
Read: Dessert marketed as breakfast
So, like pancakes? Or jam on toast?
Ooh, I like that, “hyperpalatable”.
“Egregious” is also good, but I knew that one.
Depends which cereal we’re talking about. I’ve watching those ‘lets make lucky charms / something with chocolate’ videos and they’re basically making a complicated soup, solidifying it, and cutting it up into tiny pieces, just to make a basic soup of milk afterwards.
The weirdest thing to me was realising zalot of cereals already contain milk. Actual liquid milk, that is, baked in.
It’s the best when you’re baked too. It really helps with the dry mouth
Until one day, when you’re eating soup and innocently toss in some croutons, only to realize that what you’re eating is essentially cereal: savory edition, which you find so inexplicably disgusting that you can’t even stomach the thought of regular cereal for a depressing amount of time
That only happens if you reverse your arbitrary categorisations and let them dictate your feelings about things, instead of realising that categorisations are a) arbitrary and b) can be refined.
Cereal has to, at least, involve a cereal like rice or oats or whatever as the main ingredient.
You mean, like… Corn?!?!
Vegetable soup (with corn) has entered the chat
And my point stands.
Also, you and your strict interpretation of ‘cereal’ have room to talk right after lecturing me about arbitrary categorizations… Sounds like someone needs to take their own advice, eh? 😋🙃
Hmm I like the cut of your gib
Or embrace savory cereal and put cheese, sour cream and hot sauce into oatmeal. Trust me.
Never speak to me or my son ever again.
I think that with enough sauce, chicken alfredo becomes a soup. Where do I fit on the chart?
That would be ramen Alfredo, so you’re not quite a soup anarchist, but that’s probably for the best.
Who is out there saying soup had to be vegetarian, or that croutons make soup not soup? Half of the chart is a waste of potential controversy
where are you reading croutons?
Croutons are solid
We might need another chart about this
Vanilla soy latte is a three-bean soup.
Neither coffee nor vanilla is a bean. Coffee is a seed of the coffea family and vanilla is an orchid
If cereal can be a soup, coffee can be a bean.
Soup is a dish preparation. While I am fine with arguing that even drinkable coffee is a soup or broth and cereal has soup like properties. No, coffee is a very different part of the plant kingdom than legumes or orchids. If you just call a blue whale a bird, it does not become even remotely true.
The ocean is a soup.
A primordial soup.
(yo mamma)
“Ugh I hate clam chowder. Its just hot ocean milk with dead animal croutons.”
He definitely says “shao-dieeeer”
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That bowl was a little big for me, I’ll just drain the milk back into the jug and put these soggy bits back in the box.
If you use a funnel to pour the cereal into the jug, you can have a swig of soggy bits on demand!
I’ve seen a few people attempt to open a “cereal milk” restaurant, where you can order CocoPuff milk, Cinnamon Toast Crunch milk, Fruity Pebbles milk, etc.
The few I’ve seen have flamed out pretty fast, which is predictable for an idea that was obviously cooked up by a couple of rich college kids while passing the bong, and then convincing their wealthy fathers into coughing up the starting costs.
Youve seen this more than once? wut? same or different cities?
I’ve seen it written about at least 3 different times, in different cities. Like I said, it’s the kind of an idea that sounds like genius when you’re baked.
y’know, the kids in africa and all
Kids in Africa also don’t like soggy cereal?
I thought the rock stars fixed that ages ago.
That money went nowhere near any kids with flies in their eyes. The government got their cut though, and then used food as a weapon, literally as bait to capture rebels who were then abused
Darn you rock stars!
I usually eat it dry with a glass of oat milk on the side.
We usually have four young people around the house ages 16-21 ((only three are ours). We’re lower middle class and don’t receive any food assistance. Our food bill straight up destroys our budget.
I have 4 boys 12-17. Costco treats me like royalty.
Yeah for me Costco is almost an hour away but Sam’s Club is about 5 mins. So yeah that’s where I do a lot of shopping. Thank goodness for bulk packs.
I remember a reddit post from forever ago where the guy said that the grocery store had asked his mom to let them know when their son went to college because him leaving would impact the quantities of chocolate milk they stocked.
I remember that one too. What a world.
the solution to every human problem is “don’t have kids”
no humans, no human problems
pull out of her.
pull out of her.
Do you want kids? Because that’s how you get kids.
And it’s dry… I was just looking at her in disbelief the whole time. Then we have lunch and she gobbled 1kg of fruit afterwards… Bitch’s not even fat yo where she’s storing all that shit?
My nephew moved in with us years back so at the time i had a partner in his 20’s and a nephew in his late teens so I just groaned and doubled the grocery budget.
testosterone makes 'em a food hoover until they hit about 25, deal with it
My parents always had rice in the rice cooker and some kind of stew in the fridge. My favorite is the pig feet stews.
Cereal is overated
Agree. Cereal is so overrated.
Lpt: replace all - and i mean all the snacks and prepackaged food with fruits and vegtables or just healthy things. Watch, as these thi gs will last for seemingly forever. Until you’ll be forced to eat them. It’s funny
Or they might develop cooking skills, which enables you to turn even the healthiest of ingredients into delicious junk.
It won’t last forever. It will rot the day after I buy it.
-_-
Keep them in a well ventilated space, if they rot too quickly it may be due to ethane making them ripen too fast. A mixed fruit bowl is one of the worst possible ways to store fruit.
Apples offgas ethane as an example, making other things around them ripen faster. In a cool, ventilated environment where you replace the ethane with something inert they can last over the winter.
I tend to get 1-2 weeks of shelf life from fruit, though I tend to only buy the stuff that stores well. (apples, bananas, oranges etc.)
I have learned more from your comment than anything else in my adult life.
I bought a cantaloupe recently. It sat there for a week because I didn’t want to cut it. Then when I cut it, it disappeared within hours.
In my experience, without the drive of ‘I need to eat better’ really being cemented into your soul, this will just result in everyone covertly buying snacks and letting tons of fruit go to waste.
People do seem to like nuts though, barring a legitimate reason like an allergy; I don’t think I’ve met anyone that dislikes nuts.
One of my best friends doesn’t like nuts. He’s very sensitive to bitterness.
See that just blows my mind, I would never describe nuts as bitter.
That makes sense. They are full of fats, proteins, and other carbs. Lots of them are even dusted in salt or sugar
And they wonder why Americans aren’t having more kids
I used to do that
Get some grapes nuts it’ll last for months
When I was running a lot I would eat 1/2 a box or more of grape nuts, add 1/3 of that volume in honey, and add milk.
This is why they invented leaving your family.
“Mother won’t be back, son. We ate too much cereal and brought this upon ourselves.” - my husband, probably.
They are basically savages.
Can’t wait! I’d eat like 4-5k calories a day, and literally couldn’t put on weight, although swimming competitively helped a bit I’m sure. Was just a bean pole.
Smoked an unhealthy amount of weed as a kid too, and my go-to high snack was a half gallon of milk and an Entemann’s All Butter French Crunbcake. Believe it or not, I cannot eat like that anymore.
although swimming competitively helped a bit I’m sure
Swimmers fallacy :)
Was it not illegal back then to smoke weed when you were a teen
Yes, it was. Nobody was going to jail over weed though. They handed it a year of probation if you got caught by the cops.
Ah yes, because the legality of it famously stopped so many people from smoking weed…
Well, you could get put in jail! They would risk getting high for that? Bit stupid, honestly.
I lifted weights (not competitively), had PE class and did folk dance and that was enough that I could also eat around 4-5k calories daily and not put on much weight besides a little muscle mass
Ah and I also cycled to school oftentimes
Someone probably shouldn’t be your teenage son AND your husband.
Yeah that was me. Come home from school after eating a big school lunch, eat a quarter loaf of bread and 1L milk. Have a 2 hour nap, eat 2 servings for dinner, ask if anyone else wants more before scraping the leftovers in the pots and pans onto my plate.
