Just when you think you have heard it all:
Apparently if it isn’t in a disposable package, it’s just too darn much trouble. Because rinsing a bowl and putting in the dishwasher, waaaaahh!!
Forgot the link:
Yes, it’s simply awful for the new generation to develop their own habits and practices different from ours.
Their habits fill up landfills faster than mine. Yes, that’s awful.
Well, washing a bowl uses precious water, so there are always trade-offs.
But the only millennials I know eat plenty of cereal and they use a bowl. They do use paper plates a lot though. Especially at large family gatherings.
Yes, 39% of Millennial respondents agreed with the statement “cereal is inconvenient because I have to clean dishes after eating it. But that doesn’t mean such “laziness” is why they aren’t eating it.
“Millennials are awful people!” articles are created so that folks like the OP will have yet another reason to froth at the mouth over “kids today”. But they can’t help themselves, bless their hearts. You’d be a sucker too if you grew up on a diet of Cap’n Crunch and Frosted Flakes.
I’m older than a milleniall (I think I bring up the tail end of Gen X) and I don’t eat cereal.
why? because by and large it’s all junk food. if I eat anything for breakfast it’s usually a V8 and a hard-cooked egg.
the sad thing is that the people who complain about “kids today” don’t want to admit that they’re the reason kids are the way they are.
They’re the reason the irritating little bastards even exists.
Dumb pitting - cereal is junk food. Maybe they’re just smarter or better informed.
But that’s not what millennials say. Read the OP. 40% say it’s because it’s too inconvenient.
No, 40% said it’s inconvenient, not that they don’t eat it because it’s inconvenient. You’re misinterpreting the survey results.
Since 70% said it doesn’t keep them full long enough and 56% said it’s not portable and 45% said it’s just junk food (sugar rush) it’s very unlikely that 40% don’t eat cereal because it’s too inconvenient. They have many reasons for not eating cereal; inconvenience is one of them but not the dominant one.
I bet those lazy bastards would probably even refuse to walk to school if it meant they had to go uphill both ways like the OP had to.
The difference, I suspect, is that when I read I read with comprehension.
I hope the cereal at least gave them enough energy to get off the author’s lawn.
in snow 
To be fair, once you have the barbed wire wrapped around your feet for traction, the snow isn’t much of an issue.
For traction? We wrapped barbed wire around our feet for the warmth.
There you go - millennials are just as ignorant about nutrition as other “generations”.
If all you know about cereal is Fruit Loops and Cap’n Crunch, then yeah they’re junky. But there are plenty of healthy cereal options, especially when you don’t eat the whole box at one sitting and add fruit.*
*I had a bowl of combined mini-wheats and dark chocolate/almond organic non-GMO/handmade by virginal Bernie Sanders supporters granola this morning, with raspberries and just-picked serviceberries from my garden. I’m feeling so healthy I can’t stand it - though I was too lazy to wash out the bowl afterwards.
You had feet? We wrapped barbed wire around our stumps, so we wouldn’t fall over.
So I hear this noise out on the lawn and there’s a bunch of god damn kids arguing about whether or not they can eat cereal because they have to wash the bowl. Just before I yelled at them to G.T.H.O.M.L., I reminded them that back in my day you could get cereal in little single serving boxes THAT CONVERTED INTO A BOWL! When you were done you could throw it out. Gone. No washing. (On a serious note, they may or may not still make these. I’ve been attempting to chase slow loading threads on this matter but with limited success. Kellogg evidently was thinking of re-introducing this concept in 1989.)