When I was a kid, I ate my Post Toasties (if you've never had those, they were/are the Post version of corn flakes) without milk. I'm not sure where this habit started, but I still tend to like my cereal dry.
Knowing that I grew up with milk cows and even once we didn't have them any more I would still shake the milk jug (much to my mother's amusement), I wonder if this habit started when we switched from raw milk to regular. Or maybe it was all about texture--even when I do eat cereal with soymilk (which I'm "off" of now for some reason), I have to eat it really fast before it starts to turn mushy.
I'm certainly no vegan. I love other milk products like cheese and yogurt, but the idea of drinking milk for the joy of it kind of turns me off. Most other animals don't continue to drink milk after they are weaned, so that makes it seem a little shameful or weird to me, I guess. Of course, the other side of me says that no other species squeezes soybeans, almonds, rice, coconuts to get "milk" out of them, either. I suppose the answer to that one is that we have thumbs and were able to figure that stuff out.
Anyway, I should probably move on from my pondering of the deep-rooted psychology of my preference for dry cereal and get some work done.
On a side note, go Carla on Top Chef! I was much pleased with the results this week.
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4/19/2009 04:40:06 am
Seems to me like you used to take dry cereal up to the bus stop because you couldn't get around in time to sit down and eat it with milk when we were kids! Maybe I am disremembering?
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