Note that this is about cold cereals like Cheerios or Frosted Flakes or Honeycomb, not cereals that you need to cook like oatmeal.

I was born with a deadly allergy to milk, which I fortunately no longer have. What this means is that I did not grow up eating milk with cereal, and instead tried it for the first time as an adult.

And that shit is nasty.

It is a soggy wet mess. "Oh but just eat it in the half a second before it becomes wet cardboard" you say. Listen to yourself! Why would you do this to your food? No other food becomes disgusting in a single digit number of seconds after it's served. Whenever we eat anything else comparable - soup with bread, oreos and milk - you serve them separately and dip each bite individually. Cereal is the only food where people went "you know what's great? Sopping wet bread."

So what is the best way to eat cereal? Dry, of course. Like popcorn or potato chips. It has all the flavor plus it's crunchy instead of soggy. You want the combination of the cereal and milk? Drink a glass of milk while you eat the cereal. All of the benefits and none of the downsides.

Wet cereal is gross as hell. CMV.