Oh, so people added milk to the cereal to get kids to consume milk? I always thought it was because people didn't like crunchy stuff. I never ever had milk in cereal and always wondered why it was considered odd not to.
I don't know that that's why people do it, but I decided I didn't need to care about my kids food preferences down to the detail of how they consumed the (usually healthy -- it's not all Cocoa Puffs around here) food, as long as they ate it, and since they already got enough milk, I realized I didn't have to care if the milk was in the bowl.
MM, obviously Emeline is proceeding with her plan for world domination - she's got the two of you jumping to obey her commands and the hot coffee on your crotch is to eliminate the chance of any competition (younger sibs). So far, she's doing pretty well.
Now I want to know the origins of adding cereal to milk. Or the origins of quick breakfast cereal (without any of the icky Kellogg dude's freak-ass ideas).
One (quite probably erroneous) story I once heard involved Native Americans eating pop corn for breakfast. I don't recall if the story even mentioned whether they pour milk or some other fluid over the popped corn, or where I heard the story in the first place.
But it's an interesting story, and after all, isn't that "the Truth"?
The answer is "no."
t /Leonard Nimoy
Star Trek Nimoy or Night Gallery Nimoy?
Star Trek Nimoy or Night Gallery Nimoy?
Simpsons
Nimoy. (Parody of
In Search Of...)
Here's the full quote (I used it as a tagline once)
Hello. I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that the real truth? The answer is: No.
eta: correct quote from a different source.
Darn. The one I've seen most recently is NG Nimoy.
My dad was telling me just yesterday about a one-man show he saw back in Detroit (probably about twenty years ago) that was Nimoy as Theo Van Gogh, and was based primarily on the letters between Theo and Vincent.
I was very jealous.
Didn't Alton Brown talk about Kellogg and serving popcorn as a cold cereal?
