On 13/01/2016 2:57 PM, jinx the minx wrote:
> 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?
>
I can find nowhere that Julie used the term 'common'. You used that
term. She said it was often eaten in the midwest and gave no specifics
beyond that. Often doesn't necessarily equate to common. It might have
been, say, a mere 10 or a dozen families of her acquaintance in the
midwest who often ate popcorn as a cereal. That could be considered
'often' in her retinue. YMMV.

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Xeno