Leftover Cereal Milk Poll

Oh and if you're one of those people who don't put milk in your cereal, do tell!
The weirdest one I've heard to date is beer and strawberry yoghurt.

Jeff: How are you so satisified all the time, Abed? I mean, don't you ever want anything more out of life than cereal?
Abed: [thinking] Sometimes, I like to pour hot cocoa mix into cold milk, and drink it like a cold hot chocolate. I call it Special Drink.
Jeff: And someday, you will know it by it's true name: diabetes.

I eat my cereals without milk like a savage.

At Franklins Restaurant and Brewery pretty near my house, one of the better beers they brew is the Bombshell Blonde. It's quite nice. I realized one time that it tastes rather like the milk left after a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios. Everyone I have ever mentioned this to agrees emphatically.

How about those of us who don't much care for milk or cereal, together or apart?

This reminds me of something that once happened with my grandmother.  For several decades, starting in high school, I didn't eat beef.  (This was an impulse spurred by a bad situation with a sloppy joe, not any kind of ethical stance that would have been hypocritically negated by the gusto with which I ate pork and chicken.)  At one point I visited my grandmother for a long weekend, and she opted to cook for our visit*.  She'd gone to the trouble of preparing a vast feast, though, with a pot roast and about 10,000 sides.  I figured I'd be able to make an ample meal from the potatoes, rice, four different vegetables, and crescent rolls, and just negotiate politely around the beef.  But then my aunt dropped by, just as we were setting the table, and she remembered.  "Helen," she announced to Nana, "You have people here who don't eat beef!"  My grandmother, who was just putting the last of the silverware out, bristled with dismay; she slammed the handful of forks onto the table and demanded, "Not even in a pot roast?"

So, no.  Not even in non-dairy milk.  I don't like soggy, so cereal in milk is one of the foodstuffs I find most unappealing.




*She lived just outside New Orleans, and whenever any of my extended family members talked about seeing her, it was always how they'd gone out to great restaurants in town.  But then whenever I was there her plans were to stay in.  She was a lousy cook to start out with, but also came from the '50s Midwestern school of culinary arts.  She frequently bemoaned to us how hard it was to get a nice cut of meat served at any New Orleans-area restaurant that didn't come with "a coating".  Visiting her was never an especially pleasant trip.  And it doubly sucked because I'd be telling people at work that I was taking time off to go to New Orleans and they'd light up.  "What fun!" they'd say enviously, and I'd be like, "Yeah, no."

The leftover milk is generally inundated with cereal dust which is pretty much the worst food waste product of all so drinking leftover cereal milk straight is out of the question. Any of the remaining choices work though I am weary of giving the cat milk too often since I'm generally the one that has to clean out her litter box.

I don't quite get all the cereal dust concern. Unless you stomp the box, cereal dust shouldn't be a major factor except for the last pour from the bottom of the box. In those cases it's true one must suck it up and drink cereal dust laden milk, but that's what, one bowl out of ten maybe? Unless you always dispense from the bottom, like it's a ketchup bottle or something.  But it you did that, it seems like the accumulating cereal dust would be dispersed with each bowl, preventing any large build up in the box.

I'm putting way too much thought into this.