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.

  • Krafting@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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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      5 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

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    5 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.

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    5 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.

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    5 months ago

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

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    5 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.

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    5 months ago

    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!

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    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!

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    5 months ago

    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. 😁

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      5 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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      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?

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        4 months ago

        Most people don’t realize that lactose tolerance is the unusual condition. I do think most people know lactose intolerance exists though, yeah.