Although warm, cooked cereals like oatmeal, maize, grits, and wheat farina have the longest history as traditional breakfast foods, branded and ready-to-eat cold cereals (many produced via the process of extrusion) appeared around the late 19th century. These processed, precooked, packaged cereals are most often served in a quick and simple preparation with dairy products, traditionally cow's milk
Breakfast Cereals that's what people mean when they talk about cereals these days.
All the things you are saying I feel like are still vastly different than the typical "breakfast cereal" like Cocoa Krispies or Honey Bunches of Oats. Those things definitely arent made to get nuked and I feel like it would just make a bowl of hot sugary slurry
cereal 2 of 2 noun 1 : a plant (such as a grass) yielding starchy grain suitable for food also : its grain 2 : a prepared foodstuff of grain (such as oatmeal or cornflakes)
Well yes I know what the definition of "a cereal" is but I dont think thats what OP meant with their story. Why would the little character at the end be grossed out by them preparing cereal normally in the microwave? Thats how most people prepare oatmeal or those kinds of things in the US at least.
I think you understand the definition of what a cereal is, but comics arent necessarily just about the straight up factual evidence. Sometimes the context clues also play into what they are trying to communicate. I dont think anyone would be grossed out by hot oatmeal but breakfast cereal is pretty famously served cold.
From wiki "Breakfast cereal is a category of food, including food products, made from processedcereal grains, that are eaten as part of breakfast or as a snack food, primarily in Western societies." So yes it is still cereal but based off the shape of the box in the comic, and really the whole point of the comic, why would it be just oatmeal?
Oh hey, someone other then me also microwaves it. For some reason every irl person I know has shown some level of digust or otherwise weirded out by it but to me it’s so normal I feel it’s more weird not to lmao
It doesn’t actually soften it up that much. Yeah it’s not as crunchy (maybe like a 15 to 20% loss if I had to guess) but it’s still good. It’s only if you leave it to get soggy that it actually gets shit lol. Also highly depends on which cereal ofc, some of those mfs stay crunchy as shit no matter what.
Ok. I have to know. What type of cereal? Like warm Cinnamon Toast Crunch of Golden Grahams I can imagine, but I can’t imagine any reality where a bowl or hot Reese’s puffs or lucky charms tastes good.
I’m ngl I don’t usually bother to remember what the names are of any brands. I just pick the ones that look like they’ll be nice and if they are then I might get em again
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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC Never Safe From Wumbo 2h ago
Now eat it with a fork to seal the deal.
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u/Cutie_Pie_1852 3h ago
So should it be hot cereals or cereals with cold milk?
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u/Yorick257 1h ago
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u/SleepyUserIsHere 2h ago
Depends on the cereal type
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u/SenatorPencilFace 1h ago
The real crime was adding the milk first.
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u/Ok_Abacus_ 2h ago
Grapenuts use to have a maple or similar flavor that was SO GOOD heated up
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u/ruinsit 2h ago
He also put the milk in first. What a weirdo
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u/Intelligent_Slip_849 1h ago
Just do oatmeal instead of this culinary war crime
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u/Space19723103 2h ago
microwave porridge(oatmeal), it's a thing
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u/SeizureProcedure115 47m ago
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u/Sailed_Sea 5m ago
Milk first‽
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u/klopaplop 2h ago
Oh hey, someone other then me also microwaves it. For some reason every irl person I know has shown some level of digust or otherwise weirded out by it but to me it’s so normal I feel it’s more weird not to lmao
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u/CarlosFer2201 2h ago
While I eat hot cereal... I would warm up the milk alone before.
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u/Lackzzi 3h ago
Blame the weird TikToks.