Poll: Pour or drink remaining milk in cereal?

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

Drink it. It's milk...

 

[Kolby Jack]

I love milk in every single way EXCEPT straight milk from a glass. For some reason just a glass of milk doesn't do much for me. It's not disgusting, but it's not preferable, especially with breakfast. I can't drink milk with eggs and toast, no matter how hard I try. Also don't like skim or 1% milk with anything really. 2% or whole all the way!

But leftover cereal milk is always good! How can someone not finish it? Obviously your girlfriend is a Cylon. KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

 

[BadPublicity]

I don't want to live in a world where people tip their milk down the sink.

But on a serious note, yeah I drink the milk.

 

[Nuuu]

I pour it down the drain. I can't drink milk after all the cereal has been mixed in. I love milk, but i really only love plain milk, i don't like it mixed in with all that sugar/chocolate.

Plus, i find milk really hard to drink at breakfast.

 

[NLS]

I pour it on top of the cereals, then add some more cereals.

 

[MCrewdson001]

I always pour my leftover milk

 

[TheSmokingFox]

I bet this 'pouring away' business s just like those people who won't drink the milk they were dipping biscuits in. it wasn't until i was 16 that i realised there was another option to drinking it.

You disgust me.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I used to always drink it, but it seems that more and more times I'm pouring it because I don't have much appetite left.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I come from Wisconsin, the big dairy state, not to mention I come from a long line of milk haulers. When I found out my (now ex) girlfriend would waste the remaining milk down the drain when she was done, I considered it a sin. What do you do with the remaining milk, what are your thoughts?

The milk remaining from cereal is warm, sweet, and flavourful. Why would you do anything but drink it????

warm?

i think i would barf if i had milk that was like that...


OT: it depends on the cereal usually, but i'll usually do half and half, where i'll take a few good swigs out of it if its a big leftover amount, and then dump the last 4-5 gulps.

if it's only a few gulps left then i drink it though.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Are you kidding? Most cereals are ridiculously sugary. Captain Crunch, fruity pebbles, frosted flakes, etc. Go down the cereal isle and read the nutritional facts, you'll see a whole lot of sugar in everything from lucky charms to honeybunches of oats. They are tasty, but I don't like my milk to be that sweet.

Ah, we don't have Captain Crunch or Fruity Pebbles here. Never been a fan of frosted flakes, I prefer müsli, cereals with a "grainy" tast or Coco Pops (If I can afford them)
OT: I drink the milk, unless it's the milk left after coco pops, in which case I pour it down my throat in such an enthusiastic fashion that it cannot be called "drinking".

no captain crunch or fruity pebbles...??

i feel truly sorry for your lots.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

I don't like cereal but when I did eat it as a kid I'd obviously drink it, wasting food is terrible and milk is good for your bones...and I turned out 6.1 feet tall so I guess they were right!

 

[Elidibus]

Warm milk is one of those things that absolutely turns my stomach. My milk has to be cold as ice for me to drink it. Since putting it with cereal makes it warm, I pour all of it out. Of course there's maybe a 1/4 cup or less of it when I'm done, but I still pour it.

And yes, I am extremely weird

 

[dave1004]

I don't like milk. I use only the slightest amount in my cereal, and anything left over is dumped out afterwards.

It makes me nauseous if I consume too much.

 

[Unesh52]

I love drinking the milk, especially if I was eating a sugary cereal like Frosted Flakes. Then the milk is really sweet and good. Besides, it helps fill me up so I'm not starving in my 11 to noon class.

Also, is it just me, or are the poll options not working far more often than they are?

 

[Shoqiyqa]

I drink it.

Throwing it out seems ... unwise ... as well as wasteful.

Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1929

It is now generally agreed that the first clear evidence, based upon experiment, for the existence of dietary factors of the nature of vitamins came from the school of Bunge at Basel. In 1881 Lunin, one of the workers in that school, fed mice upon an artificial mixture of the separate constituents of milk; of all the constituents, that is, which were then known, namely the proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and salts. He found that upon such a mixture the animals failed to survive and was led to conclude that "a natural food such as milk must therefore contain besides these known principal ingredients small quantities of unknown substances essential to life". Such a statement, already half a century old, when allowed to stand out clear and apart from a context which tended to bury it, seems to contain the essentials of what is believed today.

... Socin, it is true, was led to think that the ineffectiveness of the synthetic diets employed by him might be due to an inadequacy in the quality of the protein contained in them, a view not wholly unjustified and foreshadowing knowledge which only long afterwards became definite and proven. He became clear, however, that other and unknown substances must be sought, substances which, he remarks, are certainly present in whole milk and egg-yolk. ... After speaking of experiments carried out on lines similar to some of those done in Bunge's laboratory, and indicating that they pointed to the existence of some unknown essential, Pekelharing goes on to say: "Till now my efforts, constantly repeated during the last few years, to separate this substance and get to know more about it, have not led to a satisfactory result, so I shall not say any more about them. My intention is only to point out that there is a still unknown substance in milk which even in very small quantities is of paramount importance to nutrition. If this substance is absent, the organism loses the power properly to assimilate the well-known principal parts of food, the appetite is lost and with apparent abundance the animals die of want. Undoubtedly this substance occurs not only in milk but in all sorts of foodstuffs both of vegetable and animal origin." Here we have a clear statement of the vitamin doctrine already a quarter of a century old. It is noteworthy that Pekelharing records prolonged endeavours towards the isolation of a vitamin.

Throwing milk to the sewer rats is inviting them to thrive.

This thread makes no consideration for those who prefer their morning cereal with orange juice.

I'm told they are numerous.

I tried it once.

I went back to milk.

 

[goober1988]

When I found out my (now ex) girlfriend would waste the remaining milk down the drain when she was done, I considered it a sin.

So was that the final straw...?

I haven't eaten cereal in years and the last few times I did it was straight from the box without milk but when I did eat bowls of cereal and milk, I would always drink the milk from the bowl. I used to like eating Cocoa Pebbles and ending up with a bowl half filled with chocolate milk.

Being raised in an upper-lower-middle class family I was taught from a young age to not waste food or drink.

Well, the straw that broke the back was her telling me that she cheated on me...while we were out on a nice dinner...on valentines day...

 

[Evelynia]

I would always, always drink it. It's all tasty and sugary!
I usually eat something else entirely for breakfast given the chance, though. If you think about it, the concept of cereal with milk is really kind of weird and I tend to save my milk for breakfast tea anyways. It's expensive for broke people like me, lol. The thought of wasting any strikes me as heinous.

 

[jawakiller]

Back in the depression we kids had to- Haha, who the fuck am I kidding. I drink it of course. All that milk, you don't waste that. What's wrong with people?

Milk: it's delicious.

Well, the straw that broke the back was her telling me that she cheated on me...while we were out on a nice dinner...on valentines day...

Dude, fucking lame. That just ruined my day.

 

[goober1988]

Back in the depression we kids had to- Haha, who the fuck am I kidding. I drink it of course. All that milk, you don't waste that. What's wrong with people?

Milk: it's delicious.

Well, the straw that broke the back was her telling me that she cheated on me...while we were out on a nice dinner...on valentines day...

Dude, fucking lame. That just ruined my day.

As the great Abe Lincoln was famous for saying, "meh."

 

[Cowabungaa]

Why would you even do that?! The left-over milk usually is so much sweeter after cereal has been dunked in it. It's like, the best part of eating cereal in the first place!