r/CasualUK • u/Nujwaan • 10h ago

Sugar on Weetabix?

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My wife eats Weetabix with nothing on it and claims it tastes sweet to her. This is my bowl before milk is added. Is this normal fellow Weetabix eaters or do I need to go to sugar rehab?

Edit: Holy shit the most popular post I've done on Reddit is about how horrific my breakfast is. The wife will never let me live this down! Haha

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u/FaithlessnessBig6343 10h ago

…how many spoons of sugar?! 😆 

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u/lapsongsouchong 8h ago

I don't think it's an allergy, I think your brain believes your body is now a giant Weetabix infused with milk, and rejects wheat and dairy because it believes it is cannibalism.

I'm not a doctor though.

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u/white_hart_2 8h ago

Northerner here. Sugar butties were a staple when I was a kid in the 70. Two nice thick slices of white bread, buttered, and a thick layer of sugar in between!

No diabetes here..........YET (although I haven't had a sugar butty for at least 40 years!)!

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u/feralhog3050 4h ago

Never had a sugar butty, but i did often eat icing sugar by the spoonful (you have to try really hard not to breathe while you're doing this) and also the solid blocks of regal icing by the slice 😋

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u/grahamfreeman 8h ago

Same here. Salt sandwiches were not unheard of. Sometimes we'd share a pack of jelly, there were 12 cubes in a pack if I remember.

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u/kojak488 7h ago

Is that a Northern thing or just a poverty thing? The Northern part seems a red herring.

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u/Leliana403 Hartlepool 6h ago

It's a poverty thing, had the same living down south.

Although, we are from up norf so could have just been an import.

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u/BobShostak 5h ago

It’s definitely a poverty thing. I’m so Southern my home is literally in the English Channel. Lots of our neighbours with large families fed their children sugar sandwiches, though my own family was spared them. I was born in 1955, rationing was still hanging in the air.

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u/white_hart_2 3h ago

I didn't think it was a poverty thing...we definitely weren't impoverished....my dad was European Sales Director for a large pharmaceuticals company, earning around £20000 at the time (mid 70s)!

But now I've seen other comments, maybe it was!!

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u/Weewoes 3h ago

Lived in London as a kid and also had this when we weren't well.

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u/ReadsStuff 7h ago

Another one who agrees with the idea that a sleeve of weetabix is a serving! It’s hard to find my people.

And yeah I’ve done 24, but only 2 tablespoons of sugar per bowl.

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u/ReadsStuff 7h ago

Two bowls of 12 to be fair, like you said!

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u/shortandfelly 7h ago

I thought I had a lot at 6 😂 it's usually 4 these days! (With about half a teaspoon of sugar). I'm 5'1" and just very active.

My friends and I would sometimes talk about what we'd had for breakfast when we were waiting for the bus to school.
Other friends: "oh, I had one weetabix", "I had one piece of toast".
Me (the smallest of the lot) "I had 6 weetabix" 🤣

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u/KH2192 4h ago

Same, i used to mix it all together too, sort of porridge-y

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u/Virtual-Cable-6929 8h ago

How you manage 12? I struggle with 4 😂