Half and half with some heavy cream mixed in.

digitalrain: alowishus: kenwastinger: I never noticed before, but does the creepy ginger kid have a death grip on a hot dog with his left hand? Also, is that a second hot dog waiting?

They're probably bread sticks.

That pic always reminds me of this
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What the hell!???

Gummo, right?

Just watched For Love of the Game for the first time last week. Saw that kid in it and wondered what movie he was in...

I guess he played a young George KELLOGG in the movie The Road to Wellville, too.

Weird.

In college I had a roommate who ate cereal with water when we were out of milk, which was all the time since we never bought milk.

He also ate raw spaghetti. Strange boy.

I did it once when I was about 7. No adult was home, I was hungry and the only thing I knew how to make at that age was cereal. Discovered there was no milk for the Raisin Bran so I had to use water. Tolerable but never did it again. I think they were out for a walk and I didn't want to go.

Milk.

Everyone knows milk belongs on cereal.

Milk can also be used in this manner:

I stayed the night with my grandfather when I was little, his wife made him eat his cereal with powdered milk after he had a heart attack. She asked him "Are you going to drink your milk?" when he left it in the bowl.

He said something like "Goddamn powder water!" and walked off.

Also when I was in 2nd grade, I spent the night with a friend of mine. We poured bowls of cereal and then he tells me they have no milk, but they had red Kool Aid. He used it and ate the nasty shiat.

In related news: spending the night with people you find out the nasty shiat they eat for breakfast

I went through a phase a while back when, in order to get a good night's sleep, I needed to eat Cocoa Puffs with chocolate milk and a handful of Excedrin PM's.


After I passed out a few times with the half-eaten bowl resting on my stomach, I knew I had a problem....

poot_rootbeer: skim

Yes, skim milk. Grew up drinking the stuff and still prefer it.

DamnYankees: I knew people who used to put orange juice in cereal.

Freaks.

Sounds like it would be good with the right cereal - say, Froot Loops.

Sybarite: Did they test it with a non-nutritive cereal varnish?

Wow, no one got this??

/guess it was more obscure that you anticipated
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One time, when I was seven, I poured what I thought was the last few drops of milk we had. You see, when you're poor and you want juice, your parents buy you cheap, watered down food coloring that comes in gallon jugs for $1. Now, this food coloring with a ton load of added sugar is flavored mind you, to taste like grapes, strawberries or whatever flavor you wanted. So I took a bowl of Apple Jacks and removed this gallon container out of the fridge and when I poured the contents into my cereal, lo and behold what once was a nice array of orange and red spackled cereal (the green apple jacks weren't invented yet), became a soggy mush of mock grape juice and sugar.

And momma said to eat it all since the cereal wasn't gonna go to waste. So there I sat, watching Smurfs, or Snorks or whatever was on that morning regretting my decision. That day I learned about hindsight.

Podmore: When I was single, I poured a bowl of granola

I read that as, "I poured a bowl of grandma..."

Who puts water on cereal?

100% of grain farmers say it won't grow unless you do

///This statement is not endorsed by BRAWNDO, THE THIRST MUTILATOR!

Nogale: thornhill: I'm so over cereal.

Steel cut oatmeal is the way to go. Better tasting, fewer calories, and a heck of a lot cheaper.

/ Nods. With raisins and cinnamon, and a quarter to one-half teaspoon of brown sugar (all cooked in, not added later.)

Brown sugar plus sliced strawberry are my poison.

I_Can't_Believe_it's_not_Boutros: Poor people, maybe?

My grandmother used to make scrambled eggs with water instead of milk. When I was a little kid, she told me those were her "special" scrambled eggs; later my mom told me that she made it that way because eggs were free but they couldn't always afford milk.

Actually, milk or water, it doesn't make a difference. It's the production of steam, then trapped by the egg proteins, that makes the scrambled eggs fluffier.

courtesy of the Onion News Radio:

A new cereal for the poor stays crunchy in water. It's The Onion Radio News. I'm Doyle Redland.

Kellogg's unveiled Poor-O's today, a new cereal served with water instead of milk. It's targeted to the nation's massive below-the-poverty-line demographic.

Mr. BERNARD FITCH: When your dirty, naked children try delicious new Poor-O's, we're confident they'll find them waterfully delicious.

Mr. REDLAND: Kellogg's says the cereal also stays crunchy in malt liquor.

I tried juice when I was a boy. Once. Nasty.

If this doesn't win the Ig Nobel Prize in Nutrition this year, I will have lost faith in the awards committee.

A girl I knew about 16 years ago who was lactose intolerant put water on hers with just a tiny bit of milk. Disgusting. At least she was hot.

The poor and very poor alike.

RandyJohnson: I put melted butter on my Cheerios. Always have. Always will.

Oooh, treating them like toast. That sounds strangely alluring.

I know it's already been referenced, but just because:
We ain't go no milk

Beaver1224: I've been told it tastes better than beer on cereal.

Who needs cereal if you have beer? That's all beer is - cereal in a can. Or a bottle.

gweilo8888: Weetabix plus boiling water plus sugar equals poor man's porridge.

Hell, I still do that now. Well, with splenda, actually. Before I was diagnosed with Diabetes, I would also use carrot juice on corn flakes (it has a milky sweet flavor, plus added sugary goodness).

Back in college I used to put two or three teaspoons of Folgers instant powder on my wheaties, then pour water over them for a caffeinated breakfast.

A fraternity I know of used to have a hazing ritual where, after a night of drinking, they would have the pledges eat "beerios"-- Cheerios with beer.

Aaaand finally, these days I use almond milk on my cereal-- less carbs than milk. =P

I_Can't_Believe_it's_not_Boutros: Poor people, maybe?

Ctrl+f

I knew someone that used cranberry juice on his cereal.

ewwwww

Shmopee: Poor kids who don't have any damn milk.

Thanks for bringing that memory up.

Thank you. That's the first thing. That popped into my mind too. And that quote from nancy reagan."People arn't poor till they start putting water on their corn flakes" was 8 at the time and my family was living in a car. It proved how out of touch rich people are to me, and not much has changed, including my opinon.

I like Malk on mine

Um,

And this is why people are hungry in America?

;)

I_Can't_Believe_it's_not_Boutros: Poor people, maybe?

My grandmother used to make scrambled eggs with water instead of milk. When I was a little kid, she told me those were her "special" scrambled eggs; later my mom told me that she made it that way because eggs were free but they couldn't always afford milk.

i find i actually got a lighter fluffier scrambled egg with water compared to milk

doglover: People who are lactose intolerant.

They do make lactose free milk. Water on cereal, yuck, why bother.

/drinks lactose free milk

dragonchild: Anyone who uses skim? That's basically colored water.

I drink fine filtered, lactose free skim. It's not blue and it's pretty good as far as milk goes. It seems like 2% to me.

Baryogenesis: folks who wipe while standing up

WTF? How the hell do you get a clean ass if you wipe while standing?

I've made water on cereal but that's another story.

DamnYankees: I knew people who used to put orange juice in cereal.

Freaks.

Hey, cold Orange juice on Wheaties is great. After a 100 mile bike ride, it's cold, sweet, tangy, crunchy, full of carbs and potassium. Shredded Wheat cakes are good too.
But not the sugar coated types, other posters are right: Too much can o you bad

But not on corn flakes, they cant stand up to the OJ.

/Low carb diet now, so don't do it any more

I had to choose once, in younger, poorer days, whether to eat cerial with water, or to wipe with the cardboard tube.
I CHOSE MILK!