breakfast thoughts

[playfulfordian]

Am I the only one who routinely runs out of milk while eating cereal? Everyone else seems to refill the cereal to use up the extra milk... who are these people and how do they eat?

Comments

[sonatanator]

Many factors in play. One is the cereal in question. Grape Nuts, for instance, allow for less milk to be in the bowl than, say, Kix (or better, Chex). There's also the question of your spoon and what milk to cereal ratio you have in a bite.

[playfulfordian]

I don't think the cereal type matters. But it is probably likely the fact that I stubbornly only use soup spoons... and like a lot of milk.

[sonatanator]

No, grape nuts pack densely because they're small. Granola too. Less milk in between cereal pieces. Kix have more space for the milk, and Chex are hollow inside, so there's milk in the cereal and around it.

[wayman]

I ran out of milk just a couple days ago. I've never had extra milk. We're normal, everyone else is weird :-)

[nullsurface]

I encountered the strange phenomenon of people refilling their cereal when I was a kid eating breakfast somewhere else after a sleep-over. I don't know why it bothers me, but it did then and it does now. I realize that cereal is pretty simple, but it seemed a little bit like, I don't know, adding more flour to a cake after you've started eating it.

On the other hand, I have been known to pair the wrong amount of milk with cereal before. I deal with it and move on.

[sonatanator]

I think a better parallel is adding more chocolate sauce or ice cream to a sundae.