# Do you put strawberries in your cereal as commercials would have us believe people do? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 27, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512 "2012-07-27T01:08:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/21 "2012-07-27T02:43:26Z")
Quite often - whenever we have fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, bananas, etc. in the fridge, they are likely to end up on my cereal. Raisins? Only on my oatmeal. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/22 "2012-07-27T02:50:13Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Every day. > I eat my Kashi GoLean Crunch with non-fat Greek yogurt, Strawberries and dried cranberries. > Every. Day. And that’s the secret to that Flanders body you be rockin’. I haven’t eaten cereal in years, but if I wanted to be fancy and put fruit in cereal, it would be bananas. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/23 "2012-07-27T03:07:40Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Pretty common in oatmeal, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone do it IRL with cold cereal. I slice strawberries onto cereal often. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/24 "2012-07-27T03:28:22Z")
I eat a lot of cereal. Mostly Fiber One these days. But as a kid, up until my 20s, I ate cereal nearly every day for breakfast. I’ve not once sliced strawberries into my cereal. Bananas, yes. Strawberries, never. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/25 "2012-07-27T03:51:15Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > How do you figure bananas, one of the sweetest and highest-calorie and sugar-content fruits in existence, are “insubstantial”? 😕 Texture, I assume. Bananas work fine with, say, Rice Crispies or Cheerios the way that (say) apples wouldn’t. I don’t eat much cereal but thats my guess. And when I do occasionally eat cold cereal, yeah, no prob with fruit–berries especially. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/26 "2012-07-27T04:06:52Z")
you can use blue berries, black berries or raspberries because they are small and light. it is pretty much a fair fight of who gets to float. straw berries sliced or not are just huge and heavy, holding down the masses of cereal. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/27 "2012-07-27T04:07:22Z")
My standard cereal is Cheerios. I love it with sliced strawberries, fresh blueberries, dried blueberries, raspberries, dried tart cherries, banana and any combination of the above. I also like to mix a müsli made of rolled oats (and sometimes other grains), a few banana chips, raisins and other dried fruits, almonds with Greek yogurt. Sometimes, I’ll add a sliced banana or chopped apple. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/28 "2012-07-27T04:08:50Z")
Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, bananas, nectarines, raisins, almonds: it’s all good. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/29 "2012-07-27T04:25:22Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > It’s been a while, but yes. Sliced. This, and, I once bought a strawberry slicer in a cooking store. I wasn’t even aware such a thing existed. It seemed like the most ridiculous thing, but it actually works like a charm. I’d eat cereal strawberries now if they weren’t so damned expensive. ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/30 "2012-07-27T04:26:12Z")
Another vote for Cheerios and sliced strawberries at least 3 times a week. (Sam’s Club has fresh strawberries year round, yes I know, I hate Wal-Mart also, but I love strawberries.) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/31 "2012-07-27T08:47:30Z")
Most likely blueberries or sliced banana. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/32 "2012-07-27T09:59:58Z")
I’ve never done it, but not out of any aversion to the idea. I just don’t tend to have a lot of fresh fruit around. Sliced bananas in corn flakes is an old standby though, and one of the cereals I normally eat has dried strawberry slices in it, so I’m sure fresh strawberries would taste just fine. Long ago, I came up with a theory that cereal was just some clever scheme devised by moms and food companies to get kids to drink more milk. Adding sliced fruit just adds to the cleverness. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/33 "2012-07-27T10:06:50Z")
The idea never comes up, but even if I had a vague hankering to do so, I wouldn’t, as when I was little my mom would put strawberries and/or blueberries in my cereal – frozen, and only the outsides would unfreeze, sometimes giving me an unpleasant frozen surprise in the middle when I bite in. I don’t know if I ever complained about it or not. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/34 "2012-07-27T10:16:05Z")
I’ve never tried it, and I don’t really have the desire to. What I like about cereal is the crunch, and the berries would interfere. Berries in _yogurt_ is a common snack for me, though, when berries are in season. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/35 "2012-07-27T11:06:30Z")
I had blueberries on my cereal this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Lunar\_Saltlick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@Lunar\_Saltlick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lunar_Saltlick)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/36 "2012-07-27T12:12:58Z")
Had blueberries in my cereal this morning. Haven’t had strawberries in cereal in a while, but I put strawberries in a crêpe this past weekend. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/37 "2012-07-27T12:18:35Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Every day. > I eat my Kashi GoLean Crunch with non-fat Greek yogurt, Strawberries and dried cranberries. > Every. Day. Ha! I’m reading this as I eat my daily morning bowl of Kashi GoLean (the twigs version, not the crunch) and almond milk. And when I get done I usually eat a snack of yogurt and berries. Every. Day. You don’t think there’s some super secret additive and we are addicted to you? Did you get the Tomacco version? Because I got the Tomacco version. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/38 "2012-07-27T12:20:23Z")
When I’m at college I eat [cereal with freeze-dried strawberries](http://www.specialk.com/cereals/red-berries/) whenever it’s available. Yeah, sure, if I’m eating cereal that day and there’s strawberries at the table, I’d probably slice some and put them in the bowl. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/39 "2012-07-27T12:44:42Z")
I used to put sliced strawberries on my cereal when I was a kid, if I was eating a bland cereal. And/or sliced banana. ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512/40 "2012-07-27T12:49:27Z")
Bananas sometimes, but have never put in strawberries. The next question is if people smile and say “Mmmmm” with every bite as commercials would have us believe people do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-strawberries-in-your-cereal-as-commercials-would-have-us-believe-people-do/629512.md?page=3)