I eat the cereal and the milk in equal quantities so the last of the milk goes with the last of the cereal via the spoon into my mouth. Why would anyone pour more milk than they need?
That shouldn’t happen but sadly I think you’re right.
On a personal level though I abhor waste of any kind, even the dregs of my cereal milk. That’s probably due to being raised by parents who lived through rationing in the UK during WW2.
This. It had never occured to me that anyone might do that. I thought this was à joke threa at first.
Oh man, I chug that shit like a frat boy downs a beer!
I thought the whole point of eating cereal was to get to that sweet milky goodness. Not drinking the milk is akin to not eating the tootsie at the center of a tootsie roll pop.
Of course, like Lynn, I have to leave an offering to the cat overlords. If ever there was a sign I love my cats…
I pour mine out in the shower.
[sub]What, doesn’t everybody do that?[/sub]
I know that a lot of people toss the milk that’s left, but the idea is baffling to me. It’s milk, sweetened by the remnants of the Cap’n Crunch you just ate - why WOULDN"T you drink it?
Yeah, in Spain I hear that milk men, or “Los colectores de leche,” actually come to your house every morning and TAKE the milk away from your cereal bowl, unlike the traditional American idea of “milk men.” They then filter the cereal sludge from the milk with a series of powerful centrifuges, rebottle the resulting high-purity milk, and donate it to local food kitchens.
Same here. I came in expecting a righteous storm of indignation. I’m a little taken aback at the casual attitude to regular wastage of food.
Until seeing this thread, it had never occurred to me that anyone would actually slurp a few ounces of overly sweetened milk with chunks of cereal floating in it from their bowl.
Actually, being a rational and tolerant human being, I’m able to comprehend that other people might have different behavior than I do, and don’t feel a need to express indignation or disbelief. You might want to try that some time.
Actually I was not being judgemental. It really did blindside me that people do this. I have somehow never come across anyone who did this so I really did not know it was a thing and going on the responses it actually seems a pretty common thing to do.
That’s not milk.
Being afraid to waste food makes people fat. It made me fat.
Once food is on your plate, it’s wasted. It’s not going to go to anyone else if you don’t eat it. If the idea is to force yourself to finish as punishment so that you won’t take so much next time, well, that’s crazy talk. I love to eat. Eating is never a punishment. If the idea is to force yourself to eat those last bites so that you be so hungry later, and so won’t eat as much then, that’s also crazy talk. An extra couple gulps of milk now isn’t going to affect my hunger level or portion size later. All those “wasn’t really hungry but didn’t want to waste food” bites really add up over the years and pack on the pounds. Becoming overweight and having more health problems and being less productive is tremendously more wasteful than putting unwanted scraps of food in the trash.
I mean, if a car was going to the junkheap, would you run the engine to burn off the gas so that it isn’t “wasted”? Why is sending food to the sewer less wasteful than to the landfill?
Seriously, the last thing most people need is another dose of sugary, fattening milk. Throw that milk away!!!
Yeah but people seem to be deliberately adding too much milk before they start to eat as a preference. Seems a bit decadent to me.
When it comes to how much milk is left after I have finished the cereal for me is never more than a table spoon’s worth so I do wonder if it is a matter of people just adding a lot more milk than I do in the first place that causes this behaviour.
No, being afraid to waste food doesn’t make you fat, eating more than you require makes you fat. A huge amount of unfinished food can be refrigerated or frozen and reused for other meals, it doesn’t have to be eaten there and then. Not all food, granted, but a lot.
Sending food to the sewer (presumably you mean as bodily waste) means that the food produced has served its purpose, sending it to landfill is a waste of resource.
So that there will be some left over in the bowl to drink, of course.
I “need” enough milk in the bowl to reliably wet all of the cereal I plan to put in my mouth. Inevitably, that means there will be a small amount of liquid remaining in the bottom of the bowl that gets discarded after I’m done eating the cereal.
Sorta like putting salad dressing on your salad and then having some dressing remain on the bottom of the bowl (although usually far less dressing because its viscosity usually lets it stick to the greens better).
It’s not like I fill the bowl with an inch of cereal and then pour milk in right up to the rim.
I drink it. I don’t throw it away. I rarely eat cereal, though, so it is a treat.
Elsie and Elmer are coming to their houses for some serious head butting.