Here in Southern California, it’s been cold enough to convince me to have hot cereal for breakfast, most of the time, instead of dry cereal. I enjoy oatmeal and Malt-O-Meal. What do YOU like? 
I like a lot of these options - I often make steel-cut oats in the crock pot overnight. I’ve also gotten very fond of Bob’s Red Mill brand brown rice farina, which comes out with a texture like cream of wheat. It’s great made with almond milk and a dash of brown sugar.
Blargh.
I like cream of rice better than cream of wheat.
I want my Maypo
I like both regular and instant oatmeal. Cream of wheat’s texture is weird to me - it’s like I’m eating baby food. However, 90% of the time I don’t eat breakfast anyway, and when I do, it’s rarely oatmeal.
I was able to mark every single box on this poll.
For those who marked Cream o’ Wheat–did you find lumps in it–or raisins? 
Steel cut oatmeal cooks up in about 15 minutes or so. I like mine savory, with some dried thyme, butter, crumbled bacon and topped with a fried egg, salt & peppah.
Having been low carb for a while now, I don’t eat any cereals anymore 
(ETA, I’m voting based on the ones I like, not the ones I eat which would be none.)
That said, I like all on the poll list but my all-time favorite is Wheatena. I swear, you can actually feel the fiber working.
I would never in a million years add sugar to any of them, blech.
I even used to like Coco Wheats, hold the sugar.
The only hot cereal I don’t like are the sweet ones like the packets of instant oatmeal.
When I was a kid, my mom was convinced that if it was cold outside, I HAD to have hot cereal. I hate hot cereal. I hate Cream of Wheat, oatmeal, all of it. It all has a gross texture that I loathe.
Why I couldn’t have a nice scrambled egg (which I did like), I don’t know. But no, it had to be hot goddamn cereal.
puke
Are grits considered a hot cereal? Love me some grits.
Grits is strangely absent from your list of approved cereals.
ETA: Ninja’d by 4 minutes. Curses!!
Mine is sometimes lumpy, but that doesn’t bother me any. It’s all just texture.
(But, definitely, raisins are a bonus!)
You’ll laugh, but I first had grits a few months ago. I live in southern California, where is just isn’t a thing. I was at a Hometown Buffet, and tried their “shrimp and grits.” Good! But I actually had to ask the manager, “What is this stuff?”
50% maple-syrup-flavored Malt-O-Meal + 50% plain oat bran. (M-O-M alone: Toooo sweet. Oat bran alone: Toooo bland. Mix: Juuuuuuust riiiiiiiiight.) Cooked in 2% milk, not water.
Also: Ever try Post Grapenuts? (Not the flakes.) Makes pretty good hot cooked cereal (likewise, cooked in milk). You might want to mix in some honey or other add-ons.
I always liked Cream of Wheat but then I used to eat at a restaurant where they served it with little side dishes of raisins, brown sugar, and butter. Butter! Makes plain Cream of Wheat into ambrosia. Mmmm. I tend to use dates instead of the raisins and leave out the brown sugar when I make it, but never leave out the butter.
Lumps? Were you not following directions and stirring “continuously”?
I too was raised in SoCal.
My first experience with grits was after college after I reported to USAF active duty in Oklahoma. I had to ask “what *is *this stuff?”
The waitress, who in her 50-plus years had only been out of Nowheresville, OK once or twice simply couldn’t comprehend the question.
It turns out “Them’s grits”. Who knew?
I almost never eat breakfast.
However, I like rolled oats, high fiber “breakfast cereal” or bulgur wheat for dinner.
Sweet with butter and fruit, or savory with eggs, it’s all good.
Yes, I should have listed grits as a choice–I have Southern ancestry on both sides.
From George Carlin:
“What’s that white stuff?” ( asked in a diner by a serviceman stationed in the South.)
“Hell, them ’ s grits!”
“They’re movin’, man.”
About Cream o’ Wheat, from Bill Cosby:
"No chance! My throat knows a raisin from a lump of Cream o’ Wheat! "
About scrambled eggs: Yes, I eat them; I eat other foods for breakfast; but cereal is easier to prepare, and we don’t always have eggs.
Never cared for grits when I lived in Atlanta. Don’t know if it’s that my tastes have changed since getting older or that I finally made the linkage between grits and an American Indian staple, but I kinda like them now. Still don’t like hominy.