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I absolutely do, but I also generally don’t eat cereal in public…I could count on one hand the number of times in the last 30 years or so (since I was a teenager)…no real reason why but I don’t think it would give me pause if I were eating cereal in public.

Aw man. Get me a bowl of cocoa puffs.

Free chocolate milk after you're done. Yes please.

I'll feel more self-conscious if I'm wasting food. And no, unless you're particularly loud, no one is judging you for how you're having something.

Do you… not drink the milk from the cereal bowl…?

Tangentially related: Where I grew up (Eastern European country in the communist era), the staple appetiser for dinner was chicken broth with noodles. I loved noodles as a kid os I would always want to eat them last. So, I would always first eat all the broth (although with a spoon rather than drinking it straight from the bowl) pushing the noodles aside, draining all the broth from them to spoon it up, and then eat the noodles. Even now, when I go to Asian restaurants and order some form of noodle soup, I eat it in a similar way.

But cereal, no. Every spoonful has to contain a balanced proportion of cereal and milk.

It's the best part

Lots of cultures drink things from bowls. It's perfectly acceptable IMHO. I don't know why Americans have such a problem with it. I always drink my pho and ramen broth from the bowl after I eat the solid stuff. The broth is the best part of those dishes on purpose, so leaving it behind is dumb.

My milk-to-cereal ratio doesn't leave much milk behind, so generally no. But if for some reason I still have milk left over, then yes.

Yes. I'm 30. I do this, it's not weird, and anyone who says otherwise is a poser.

Unequivocally, yes.

It’s actually one of the reasons I switched from milk to yogurt in my cereal- I can more easily eat it all with my spoon

Another is the sofa. I can eat breakfast on my own sofa without worrying about a spill

Do you feel weird in the strip club?

Enjoy things. Don't not enjoy things for social reasons, unless you're a pedophile.

When i was a very young kid I didn't like it. .. but after like 3 I really like it.

.. and no it wasn't thrown away: someone else would drink the remaining milk.

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.

I'd rather not let milk go to waste.

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. 😁

Cereal isn't meant to be eaten in public.

Late 30s. Hell yes I drink the milk. That's the whole reason I ate the cereal.

We have a routine going: I get the last piece of cereal from the bowl and hold it on my spoon while I drink the milk from the bowl. Then I give that piece of cereal to the dog, and then it’s time for his walk.

I'm so confused by this whole thread. I'm quite upset that some people are throwing away this food. Just use less milk FFS! I volunteer with a food-waste-prevention environmental group. Over 1/3 of all food that's grown is wasted and so it really annoys me when people don't eat everything they put on their plate. Plus I grew up poor so I still can't fathom people being so wasteful.

As for everyone else, you ate most of your milk with the spoon, why can't you finish the job with the spoon? Do you all have strangely shaped bowls that make it impossible or something?

I'm feeling an intense culture shock (given how minor this thing is) from this. Kinda reminds me of the two ways to wipe thing from a while back, where it never even occured to me that there's a different way than just using your spoon. Crazy.

I drink the horchata in the bowl that's left over after cinnamon toast crunch.

What's the alternative? Just pour it down the drain? Absolutely not.

Of course. I'm 43. I'm past giving a fuck what anyone else thinks.

Of course I drink it

It bothers the hell out of me that my roommate doesn't

He also barely puts any milk on his cereal

I grew up not having a lot of food so I guess you could say I grew up to be a bit of a bougie bitch with my food now

Worse to waste food (milk in this case) than to be seen drinking it from a bowl.

I actually hate the milk left in the cereal bowl, it's so interesting to hear people enjoy it, but I do it because my parents would scream at me if I ever left a crumb of food (we were quite poor to be fair).

I only drink the milk from the cereal bowl. I don't bother with the eating part. Thing is, I only do this in the street before I start the getting dressed phase of my commute to work, right after my morning curb squat. I've never heard of this eating cereal "in private". But after reading all the rest of these replies, I'm starting to wonder if I'm the weird one.

I gotta ask, what situation are you in that you're eating cereal in public? It's just not that kind of food generally