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[–] [S] 69 points 9 months ago* (12 children)

To be fair, my husband will just have 6 bowls of cereal in a row all of a sudden.

But my son… here he is with his mixing bowl.

Edit: when my son went through a miso soup phase, he would get the big mixing bowl and use a whole block of tofu. Probably straight up 2L of miso broth. For context, he is 6’2” and 19.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    You should introduce your son to Korean soups/stews. If he likes miso soup that much, he'll find some favorites in Korea as well. I'm especially partial to spicy doenjang jigae (a Korean miso stew--you can mostly use the ingredients recommended to add to the broth as suggestions and use whatever you like because it's all about the broth).

    This is very similar to how I make it except that I use packaged dashi and usually use shellfish and leafy greens, sometimes noodles (udon or dangmyeon glass noodles): https://www.beyondkimchee.com/doenjang-jjigae/

    It's easier than it sounds. Put dashi packet in water. Heat then remove. Add doenjang, gochujang, garlic and heat up/mix. Add solid ingredients of your choice and heat until cooked through. Add green onions (optional, I guess, but c'mon). Eat.

    So good. Thank you, Korea.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Are the tofu blocks in America bigger or something, because 200g tofu isn't that much of a deal.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    TIL Canada has small blocks of tofu.

    I've bought tofu in the US and in Japan and the standard block is the same size in both (approximately--400g in Japan; 14oz in the US). Can vary slightly by brand and it course smaller options are available, but that's the usual size for at least those two.

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  • [–] 113 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (51 children)

    Cereal is the most delicious thing in the universe that doesn't require anything more than pouring two things into a bowl. No peeling, heating, mixing, blending, layering, etc. Two things, in a bowl, and what you don't use goes back in the place it came from.

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  • [–] 77 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    That bowl was a little big for me, I'll just drain the milk back into the jug and put these soggy bits back in the box.

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  • [–] 31 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    y'know, the kids in africa and all

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I thought the rock stars fixed that ages ago.

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  • [+] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I've seen a few people attempt to open a "cereal milk" restaurant, where you can order CocoPuff milk, Cinnamon Toast Crunch milk, Fruity Pebbles milk, etc.

    The few I've seen have flamed out pretty fast, which is predictable for an idea that was obviously cooked up by a couple of rich college kids while passing the bong, and then convincing their wealthy fathers into coughing up the starting costs.

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  • [+] 49 points 9 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (23 children)

    Until one day, when you're eating soup and innocently toss in some croutons, only to realize that what you're eating is essentially cereal: savory edition, which you find so inexplicably disgusting that you can't even stomach the thought of regular cereal for a depressing amount of time

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago (13 children)
  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Vanilla soy latte is a three-bean soup.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Neither coffee nor vanilla is a bean. Coffee is a seed of the coffea family and vanilla is an orchid

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    If cereal can be a soup, coffee can be a bean.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Soup is a dish preparation. While I am fine with arguing that even drinkable coffee is a soup or broth and cereal has soup like properties. No, coffee is a very different part of the plant kingdom than legumes or orchids. If you just call a blue whale a bird, it does not become even remotely true.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Who is out there saying soup had to be vegetarian, or that croutons make soup not soup? Half of the chart is a waste of potential controversy

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    "Ugh I hate clam chowder. Its just hot ocean milk with dead animal croutons."

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    That only happens if you reverse your arbitrary categorisations and let them dictate your feelings about things, instead of realising that categorisations are a) arbitrary and b) can be refined.

    Cereal has to, at least, involve a cereal like rice or oats or whatever as the main ingredient.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    You mean, like... Corn?!?!

    Vegetable soup (with corn) has entered the chat

    And my point stands.

    Also, you and your strict interpretation of 'cereal' have room to talk right after lecturing me about arbitrary categorizations... Sounds like someone needs to take their own advice, eh? 😋🙃

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    You don't even need to add 2 things together. Cereal is great on its own

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I've yet to meet a cereal that was better dry. Some came damned close (Cracklin' Oat Bran is my fave), but still not better.

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  • [+] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)
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    [–] 37 points 9 months ago (19 children)

    It’s human kibble basically

    Try this:

    1. instead of a giant bowl pour a regular bowl with extra milk
    2. when you finish the cereal do not drink the milk
    3. pour more cereal
    4. repeat as desired
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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    ... Too warm?

    You guys don't eat the cereal milk heated?...

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Are you saying you heat the milk you pour in cereal? What in the actual fuck?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Yes??? I heat it as hot as soup would be??

    Y'all eat it cold from the fridge???

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Like sugary breakfast cereal or like instant oats or oatmeal cereal. Because if we're talking about hot milk in sugary breakfast cereal then I'm equal parts horrified, disgusted, and fascinated. Why, how did you start heating your cereal milk?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Idk??? I guess my parents always did it and I kept doing it until I'm now in my 20's

    I eat all kinds of cereal. Nowadays I do half simple corn flakes and half oats with chocolate chips so I don't take in tooo much sugar

    When I was little my parents would always buy sugary cereal.

    Well...

    I guess I just found out not to do this around other people LOL

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Corn flakes, and oats in hot chocolate sounds more like a confection than breakfast but hey man let your freak flag fly. Be sure to stay on top of the dental hygiene!

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    No issues so far

    My toothbrush is probably doing heavy lifting haha

    I do dental checkups yearly, only got praise from the dentist so far

    Though I do try to eat cereal rarely, I realise it's probably not too healthy and too sugary.

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  • [–] 32 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    When I was a teen in highschool... I was in a weightlifting gym class and I did soccer. When is get home, for a snack if have a party pizza (or two). Probably went through a carton of milk myself. God my mom was so pissed. I was probably half or grocery budget alone for a few years

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I've got a cousin like you -- football club all day every day. Ate like a wolf and ran it all off within an hour.

    Then he quit football and chonked up because he didn't know how to reduce his food intake

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Oh man, that hits home... just before COVID hit, I was doing 5k's and got injured. And I didn't transition to a lower calorie intake to adjust to the lower physical activity. Just as I was starting to get back into the gym... COVID landed and the gym was closed. Now, I'm a fat bastard. But trying to work on that.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I mean I think it happened to all of us. I used to cycle 30km a day before COVID, and then once work became fully remote, I just started hibernating for winter and never stopped.

    Also a fat bastard, but I live in the hope that it's nothing that a gym can't fix. Here's to 2026, friend!

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  • [–] 29 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Someone probably shouldn't be your teenage son AND your husband.

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  • [–] 81 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    I'm still can't believe some crazy guy 100 years ago convinced the whole country that eating sugar with milk is somehow a healthy breakfast. And the same guy convinced the same country to do the genital mutilation on male infants.

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  • [–] 47 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    You're combining the two Kellogg brothers. One thought that pleasure was sin, and that a good diet should be as bland as possible to maintain piety. The other thought his brother's cereal tasted like shit and was really hard to market and sell, until he added sugar and salt, then subsequently became filthy rich.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago

    Ironically, pre-sugared cereal may have also reduced the amount of sugar in kids' cereal. For a while, kids were taking regular cereal and dumping sugar on it. Instead of actually parenting and telling them no, the parents started buying sugary cereal.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Kellogg's theory was that bland foods that were full of fiber would stop people from masturbating.

    Because he didn't approve of that kind of icky nonsense.

    So I think the sugar came later.

    I think Graham of Graham crackers was working with a similar concept.

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