Sugar free cereal
Xeno > wrote:
> On 13/01/2016 11:13 AM, jinx the minx wrote:
>> Julie Bove > wrote:
>>>
>>> "Cheri" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> "jinx the minx" > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> Michelle > wrote:
>>>>>> On Monday, January 11, 2016 at 2:46:01 PM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>>> Snipped a whole bunch of stuff.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Another thing that the OP might consider is popcorn. It is often eaten
>>>>>>> as a
>>>>>>> cereal in the Midwest. My mom liked to put it in a tall glass, pour
>>>>>>> milk
>>>>>>> over it and eat it with an iced tea spoon. My uncle said at his house
>>>>>>> they
>>>>>>> just used leftover popped popcorn as they would a breakfast cereal.
>>>>>>> Put in
>>>>>>> a bowl and pour milk over.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You've said this before, but I wonder - was it just your family?
>>>>>> Or maybe your specific place in the Midwest (AKA Wichita)?
>>>>>> Because I've lived in the Midwest all my life (first Illinois, now
>>>>>> Missouri)
>>>>>> and I have never heard of this or seen anyone do it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've asked coworkers who come from other parts (Iowa, Indiana, Kansas)
>>>>>> and they've never heard of it either.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've lived my whole life in the Midwest as well (Minnesota), including
>>>>> having a grandmother from Kansas and many other relatives from Wisconsin,
>>>>> Iowa, Indiana, South Dakota, and I've never heard of it either. It's
>>>>> about
>>>>> as crazy as her claim that in the Midwest we use potato chips in
>>>>> casseroles as the starch as well. We only use them as topping!
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> jinx the minx
>>>>
>>>> All of my family came from Sioux City Iowa, and it was common for them to
>>>> use popped corn for cereal.
>>>
>>> Thank you! I did post some links so obviously this isn't some cockamamie
>>> thing that I just dreamed up. Some of us might find it hard to believe that
>>> they eat Jezebel sauce in some parts of the US. But I'm not going to call
>>> them liars just because I've never seen it served. I also would never
>>> assume that just because my family does something or someone else I know
>>> does something that *everyone* does it. But I have heard and read about the
>>> popcorn as cereal enough to know that many people do, do it.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> That you know many people that do it does not make it "often eaten as
>> cereal in the Midwest". I know of people that have eaten grasshoppers in
>> the PNW, and I can find plenty of recipes online for them, that does not
>> make eating them "common in the PNW".
>>
> If you can find recipes online, that makes them common.
> Unless you sit at the breakfast tables of myriad other families, you're
> not in a good position to determine what is common outside your own retinue.
>
Like Julie just did?
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