Drink the milk or the broth?

[Crumb]

Poll is on its way.

Do you or do you not drink the milk left when the cereal is gone, or drink the broth when all the solids in the soup is gone?

[wei yau]

Yes, to both.

Though, I can almost understand not drinking the milk after cereal, since the cereal is the meal. But, why wouldn't you drink the broth from a soup after the solids are gone?

I mean, it's soup. The whole point is the liquid, isn't it? Who eats only the clams and potatoes out of a chowdah?

[Kael]

I do both. Feels like a waste of food otherwise. It makes me laugh sometimes because in general I'm far more slovenly than my wife, but when we have cereal or soup I always completely clean my bowl, where she leaves milk/broth in the bottom and bits stuck to the sides. Just one of those funny things about people, I suppose.

[slimshady2357]

As I've said many times on this forum, when it comes to cereal...
You always have Resse Pieces cereal
You always have a second bowl with the original milk
And you always, always enjoy the peanut-butter-chocolate-milk left over as it is a drink fit for gods.

[Waluigi]

It takes hours to make a good soup broth, why would you let it go to waste? It's like dumping the juices out of a roasting pan instead of making a sauce... blasphemy.

[viscousmemories]

I said yes and yes because yes and sometimes was not an option.

[Kael]

It's like dumping the juices out of a roasting pan instead of making a sauce... blasphemy.
:shiftier:

In my defense, I am incredibly lazy... Plus I usually give it to the cats, so it's not just thrown away.

[chunksmediocrites]

Who eats cereal anymore, other than Dinosaur Jr. and drug dealers? That shit is expensive to a ridiculous degree. I prefer to nom nom some yogurt with granola and banana. Though the granola may get skipped soon as well because it is starting to run a close pricey second to that cereal.

Also I am allergic slightly to milk (not the farty/ bowel kind of allergy, the irritate your bladder and irksome mood swing kind) and often just ate cereal with cold water.

So no on milk and yes on broth and yes on planet X

[godfry n. glad]

But of course.

I have a little surreal every morning, chunks. Whether it is with milk or stirred into my yogurt.

All us cultured types have surreal with yogurt.

Then...it's chickenfeed. Literally. Surreal is chook chow.

[256 colors]

I don't drink the milk or the broth, and when I am eating steak, I take one bite from the steak, discard the remainder, and repeat until I am full. When eating sandwiches, I cut the crusts off, then I cut off the outer portion that has become a crust, then I continue to cut off each new crust until only the delicious center section of the sandwich is left, at which point I take one bite, discard, and make an entirely new sandwich and go through the entire process again.

One day I may discover that this is wasteful and inefficient, at which point I may drink the remaining milk or broth in my bowl, but I would have to be pretty desperate to stoop so low.

[Watser?]

I don't eat cereal much but when I do it is always yes to the drinking and of course you eat the soup when you eat the soup and but of course on Planet X the soup eats you.

[Pinecone]

The word drink is just so upsetting and fraught with implications I'm unable to respond to the poll.

:freakout:

By drink do you mean turn the bowl up and pour it inside as if it were a glass? Huh huh? because I don't do that but I do spoon most of it into my face. So am I still eating it even if there are no more crunchy or chewy bits? Or am I drinking little tiny teaspoons full over and over until you want to smack me upside the head with all that spoon to bowl clickity clack because I don't just pick the damn thing up and drink it??!!

Are you getting violent with me??!! :glare:

[Crumb]

I just mean consume in any manner. I debated whether to use the word drink or eat.

[livius drusus]

Both yes. I love the broth and I don't use very much milk with cereal, so I usually only have a couple of spoonfuls left.

[erimir]

Though, I can almost understand not drinking the milk after cereal, since the cereal is the meal. But, why wouldn't you drink the broth from a soup after the solids are gone?Well, why don't you drink broth on its own then? Get some as a refreshing beverage.
I mean, it's soup. The whole point is the liquid, isn't it? Who eats only the clams and potatoes out of a chowdah?I don't consider a chowder to be a broth.

I thought of that when I was deciding how to respond.

I don't drink the remaining milk in my cereal (I simply don't like drinking milk, but I like my cereal in it, so...), but what I will usually do is pour another bit of cereal into the bowl. Sometimes I may do this more than once. So I don't throw out too much of the milk anyway.

And with soup, it depends on the kind of soup and such. If it's chicken noodle, then it depends on how much broth is left and how hungry I am, I guess. I probably won't eat/drink it all, tho. I won't necessarily want to drink the chicken water.

But a lot of soups aren't broth-y anyway, so I didn't include them. If it's not a very liquidy soup, I eat it all unless I'm full. So, chowder, or baked potato soup, or tomato bisque, or split pea soup, etc. wouldn't really fall into that category.

So it's really a no (but I don't usually leave that much milk), and a sometimes (but only if it really is just a broth left).

[Ymir's blood]

Yes and yes. The soup because that's what it is. The milk because it's sweet (due to having been in the sweetened cereal) and also because I wake up thirsty. Plus it would be wasteful not to.

[ShottleBop]

I neither eat cereal nor drink milk. I do drink the broth when the gedicht is gone, however.

[Watser?]

I'm betting gedicht doesn't mean poem in that sentence, like it does in Dutch.

[ShottleBop]

I'm betting gedicht doesn't mean poem in that sentence, like it does in Dutch.

Nope. Yiddish. My folks and grandparents always used it to mean the good, thick stuff in bottom of the soup pot. (According to Webster's (http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/Yiddish+%2528Transliterated%2529/Gedicht), its meaning in Yiddish is "ample, full, thick.")

[freemonkey]

I do not drink the milk because I like my milk to be milk flavored, not cereal flavored.

I do drink the broth because I like the flavor and I see it as an integral of the soup.

[Watser?]

I'm betting gedicht doesn't mean poem in that sentence, like it does in Dutch.

Nope. Yiddish. My folks and grandparents always used it to mean the good, thick stuff in bottom of the soup pot. (According to Webster's (http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/Yiddish+%2528Transliterated%2529/Gedicht), its meaning in Yiddish is "ample, full, thick.")

I kinda figured that. We use "dicht" (which also means closed) in the sense of "dense" (a dense forest for instance) in Dutch, as the Germans do too.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Of course and usually.

BB2 says "Gedicht" also means poem in German.

[Watser?]

Yeah, forgot to mention that.

Actually it also says so in Shottlebop's link to the dictionary.

[Naru]

I love milk more than life itself and always drink mine after I finish my cereal.

[SharonDee]

Cereal gone, remaining milk goes to my dogs.

Broth? What broth? My soup is chunky to the end, thanks to the saltines I drown in it. Run out of chunks, add saltines.

[Qingdai]

I'm trying to remember the last time I had cereal, and can't.

I can't remember when I last had a broth based soup either.
Except miso is all broth. I drink that.

[Dingfod]

Don't eat cereal. Will consume all soup broth with spoon. But, put bowl to mouth? Not unless nobody is looking or in earshot.

[roastelk]

There is usually no milk left in the bowl to drink after I'm done eating cereal. This is because I always let my cereal sit long enough to soak it up to point of being soggy. Theres nothing more disgusting than crunchy cereal..bleh


As for soup, it all depends on how salty the broth is. If its so salty that its like trying to drink sea water, and some soups are like that, its going down the drain.

[slimshady2357]

What about something like won ton soup? Now that is broth that is left... and I eat it every time - yummy broth

[Miisa]

Yes and yes, though another rare cereal eater, and when I do have cereal, I usually have so little milk in it that the last spoonful of milk comes with the last spoonful of cereal. And broth is often fabulous, especially if it is a leftover soup and it has had a whole day or two to suck up flavour from the peppers or rest of the soup.

My kids leave milk in the bowl every morning, and it drives me nuts, as it seems such a waste of milk.

[Listener]

I don't eat cerials - my standard breakfast is natural "live" yogurt and fresh fruit.

I can't remember the last time I had a meat-based soup but I eat a lot of meat and reckon the "gravy" the best part.

[ceptimus]

I think 'broth' has a slightly different meaning in the UK, or at least my part of the UK. I understand the meaning in the poll here to be the watery part of a watery soup that is left once all the chunky parts have been eaten - and that's how I answered (yes).

But here a 'broth' is often a very thick kind of soup - one where you could fairly easily consume the whole bowlful using a fork if you didn't happen to have a spoon handy.

http://www.ayushveda.com/womens-magazine/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/non-veg-soup-recipes.jpg

[Crumb]

I understand the meaning in the poll here to be the watery part of a watery soup that is left once all the chunky parts have been eaten
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