# What is milk called when it's poured on cereal **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** soda-softdrinks\ **Created:** [November 11, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371 "2010-11-11T23:47:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/21 "2010-11-12T01:44:41Z")
Soggifier ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/22 "2010-11-12T01:49:44Z")
I have started my day with a bowl of crunchy cereal drowning in a white liquid for more than a half-century. In all that time, I have only called it milk. ---
**Author:** ![Apollo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@Apollo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollo)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/23 "2010-11-12T02:12:46Z")
Co-gredient? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/24 "2010-11-12T02:19:57Z")
Sauce? Broth? WTF? Another vote for Milk. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/25 "2010-11-12T02:29:24Z")
Milk. First! ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/26 "2010-11-12T02:40:14Z")
I think the tradition of putting grains in a bowl with milk over them came from European immigrants who put bread in their coffee (perhaps because it was dried out). [This article](http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10A17FB395416738DDDAC0A94DD405B8785F0D3) (.pdf) from the New York times in 1987 indicates that it might also have been the origin of Postum as a child’s version of coffee. And, in fact, some people on a farm in northern Italy once gave me for breakfast a large mug of coffee with milk that had crouon-like pieces of hard bread already in it. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/27 "2010-11-12T03:11:34Z")
Icky. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/28 "2010-11-12T03:30:47Z")
It’s just milk. Even when it turns interesting colors from the sugar-laden cereal floating in it. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/29 "2010-11-12T03:35:09Z")
It’s milk in a bowl. ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/30 "2010-11-12T03:37:18Z")
Milk. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/31 "2010-11-12T03:38:26Z")
WTF? It’s still milk, or course. Stoner question. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/32 "2010-11-12T03:42:14Z")
Milk. What the hell kind of weird question is this? ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/33 "2010-11-12T03:43:00Z")
Milk. Or ingredient (of the dish “cereal with milk”). ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/34 "2010-11-12T03:46:49Z")
To clarify, are we trying to decide if there’s a name change for the milk itself when used for this purpose, or is the question more like “what do you call a liquid specifically used for soaking other food with?” ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/35 "2010-11-12T03:56:00Z")
If anybody’s curious, the question is from an episode of [Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’?](http://www.gametrailers.com/video/1-vs-hawp/63698). ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/36 "2010-11-12T03:56:32Z")
Are we talkin’ cow milk? Goat milk? Mother’s milk? It’s all just milk. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/37 "2010-11-12T04:31:11Z")
My cereal makes it’s own gravy! ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/38 "2010-11-12T04:37:21Z")
wasted milk on ruined cereal. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/39 "2010-11-12T04:38:19Z")
Chocolate milk. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371/40 "2010-11-12T04:39:11Z")
Y’all ever have an “Irish Breakfast”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-milk-called-when-its-poured-on-cereal/560371.md?page=3)