# Millenials eating less cereal, because they have to wash a bowl **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 11, 2016, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098 "2016-06-11T11:42:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/61 "2016-06-13T22:44:12Z")
Cereal companies blaming Millenial’s moral failing for their lack of success selling to that market seems pretty entitled to me. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/62 "2016-06-14T01:40:49Z")
> [@Taber](#): > > Cereal companies blaming Millenial’s moral failing for their lack of success selling to that market seems pretty entitled to me. And then that pizza dude goes and blames it all on black folks. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/63 "2016-06-17T11:13:28Z")
> [@elliott](#): > > Metabolism changes over the lifetime account for at most 100 kcals a day of energy retention. You’re looking at half a soda a day, maybe gaining 10 pounds if you never changed your diet or exercise once in 70+ years of living. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/64 "2016-06-17T12:52:35Z")
I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess cereal consumption is down because most breakfast cereals are some variant of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, and parents are more health conscious than they used to be. My Mom would buy that junk for us, no problem. I would not dream of buying it for our kids. I’m not a better parent, we’re just more aware of stuff like that these days. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/65 "2016-06-17T13:17:43Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess cereal consumption is down because most breakfast cereals are some variant of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, and parents are more health conscious than they used to be Evidently you haven’t gone down the cereal aisle in a supermarket in the last 20 years or so. You can still find Cocoa Krispies and Lucky Charms, but there’s been a _huge_ expansion in “plain” grain and granola-based cereal with loads of stuff promoted as low sugar, high-fiber, nutrient-enhanced, organic, gluten-free, non-GMO etc. etc. Maybe some consumers have stopped eating cereal because they have to look a few seconds longer in the store to find a box of Super-Spangled Chocolate Glucose Bits. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/66 "2016-06-17T13:45:17Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > I’m a Boomer but I can’t remember the last time I heard anyone in my age group bitching about The Younger Generation. Those with kids (& some with grandkids now) may speak of _their own_ offspring–usually with pride. > > Generally, there’s other stuff to talk about. If we want to bitch, there’s Ted Cruz, Dan Patrick at the rest of the Republican idiots. Or whichever local team is currently sucking. Or the weather… Yeah, boomer here with millennial children. I think a lot of the millennials are pretty cool people. They vary, of course, like any other group of people, but in general, they seem more concerned with treating others well and with respecting individual preferences than prior generations. My kids don’t eat as much cereal as i do. Maybe that’s because they grew up with so many more options in easy food than i did. To me, cereal is a default low effort meal. Other easy meals when i was a kid were crap like poptarts, and i don’t really think of those things. Buy now there are lots of reasonably healthy filling for in that general category. If millennials eat that more than my generation, if guess it’s because we are set in our ways, not because they are too lazy to wash a bowl. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/67 "2016-06-17T17:40:41Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Sorry, no. Every black person I know _loves_ cereal (other than plain puffed wheat). Well, that explains the [Ethereal Cereal ad from Putney Swope](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLF1Erk1_rQ). And after that, do check out the “Lucky Airlines” ad (NSFW)… ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/68 "2016-06-17T17:51:44Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Well, that explains the [Ethereal Cereal ad from Putney Swope](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLF1Erk1_rQ). > And after that, do check out the “Lucky Airlines” ad (NSFW)… No shit! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/69 "2016-06-17T21:03:56Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > No shit! > > 😃 I just realized a couple of things: A youth worker at our church took a bunch of us middle-schoolers (!) to see Putney Swope, about a black ad agency, and then I ended up going into advertising. And I’ve consumed 2-3 bowls of cereal PER DAY since then. Who says the right ad (or cultural confluence) doesn’t work? “No shit” indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/70 "2016-06-17T21:12:48Z")
No shit? [Here you go.](http://www.hulu.com/watch/10304) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/71 "2016-06-17T22:05:43Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I just realized a couple of things: > A youth worker at our church took a bunch of us middle-schoolers (!) to see Putney Swope, about a black ad agency, and then I ended up going into advertising. > > And I’ve consumed 2-3 bowls of cereal PER DAY since then. Who says the right ad (or cultural confluence) doesn’t work? > > “No shit” indeed. Did you meet your wife at the Yale-Howard game? ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/72 "2016-06-17T23:30:10Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > You can still find Cocoa Krispies and Lucky Charms, but there’s been a _huge_ expansion in “plain” grain and granola-based cereal with loads of stuff promoted as low sugar, high-fiber, nutrient-enhanced, organic, gluten-free, non-GMO etc. etc. Before I stopped eating cereal almost entirely, I tried some of these healthier cereals. In my experience, they tended to taste like shredded cardboard. Perhaps there are some more delicious ones out there, but I wasn’t going to keep buying one depressing health cereal after another trying to find a tasty one when there are other things I could be eating for breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/73 "2016-06-18T01:17:17Z")
Just when you thought elderly people’s millenial bashing couldn’t get anymore puerile, critiquing our supposed reasons for not eating nutritionally vacuous junk takes the cake (and if you’re stupid enough to think we think cleaning a bowl is too much work, I have to ask how seniors think we eat food in general?) I’d expect something like thid from Freepers who will believe anything in print that supports their prejudices. Poor showing, SDMB. (FTR this low income millenial works fulltime and supports an ailing grandmother 2000 miles away financially, tell me more about how entitled we are, it’s good for web hits!) ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/74 "2016-06-18T01:40:00Z")
These young people nowadays! They are lazy, spoiled, and don’t know nothin’ from nothin’! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/75 "2016-06-18T03:36:23Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Did you meet your wife at the Yale-Howard game? Huh? Are you quizzing me to see if I’m your husband incognito? Or is there a reference to this in Putney Swope (that I’ve forgotten since I saw it in 1969)? Although I do remember that when a reporter asked him if it was true he’d slept with his wife before they were married, Swope answered “Not a wink.” ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/76 "2016-06-18T03:45:14Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > Before I stopped eating cereal almost entirely, I tried some of these healthier cereals. In my experience, they tended to taste like shredded cardboard. Perhaps there are some more delicious ones out there, but I wasn’t going to keep buying one depressing health cereal after another trying to find a tasty one when there are other things I could be eating for breakfast. Hmm, I’m fond of wheat chex, and nothing goes better with strawberries and milk that corn chex. Grapenuts are tasty and have a nice crunch. Raisin bran is comfort food, and the raisins make it delicious. Some of the granolas are yummy, but I find them generally too sweet to eat for breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/77 "2016-06-18T03:48:33Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Cite? 100 Calories a day is like 10 lbs a year, so if he’s right about the difference in metabolism, he’s wrong about the amount of weight gain. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/78 "2016-06-18T04:06:58Z")
I’ve gone from Lucky Charms and Trix to Mini-Shredded Wheats. 100% whole grains, almost no sugar. I’m healthier than I’ve ever been. Well, yeah, I switch it up and have frosted ones for a treat (Trader Joe’s has delicious Maple Brown Sugar Mini-Wheats). Please, a moment of respect for Maple Brown Sugar Mini-Wheats… ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/79 "2016-06-18T04:14:35Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Huh? Are you quizzing me to see if I’m your husband incognito? Or is there a reference to this in Putney Swope (that I’ve forgotten since I saw it in 1969)? > > Although I do remember that when a reporter asked him if it was true he’d slept with his wife before they were married, Swope answered “Not a wink.” Yes, it’s a Putney Swope line. I saw it 30 years ago, but lots of the quips stuck with me! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098/80 "2016-06-18T14:58:48Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Yes, it’s a Putney Swope line. I saw it 30 years ago, but lots of the quips stuck with me! The only lines I remember from “Putney Swope” are part of a song lyric: _I have a malignancy in my prostate But when I’m with you it’s benign_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millenials-eating-less-cereal-because-they-have-to-wash-a-bowl/757098.md?page=5)