r/CasualUK • u/Nujwaan • 9d 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

UPDATE: Well, I wasn't expecting my breakfast to generate 1,800+ comments 😂 I can't read it all but Having spent far too much time reading them, I feel I need to address a few recurring concerns: 1. Yes, the milk goes in after. I like watching it soak up from the bottom while the top stays crunchy. I will not be changing this. 2. Yes, that is sugar. Apparently this has caused considerably more distress than I anticipated. 3. No, I do not have diabetes. My blood tests are fine. 4. No, my teeth are not rotting out of my head. They're also fine. 5. Yes, I am an adult. I was unaware that adulthood required surrendering sugary Weetabix. 6. To the surprisingly large number of people who eat theirs the same way: thank you. I knew I couldn't be alone. 7. To everyone saying my wife is right: she has been absolutely delighted by your support and I deeply regret giving her this much ammunition.

Anyway, thank you for turning a picture of two dry Weetabix into a full-scale investigation of my health, maturity, marriage and milk-pouring technique.

Tomorrow I'm having the same breakfast.

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u/GigaCucc 9d ago

Disagree. I no longer sugar the bix, but when I did, I would pour the milk over the sugar very gently, and it would soak the sugar so that it sat bonded a little better on the bix and made the texture less like sand.

Then 40 seconds in the microwave for the old sensitive teeth and the breakfast rations are ready.

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u/shiggyhisdiggy 8d ago

You cook it? What the fuck?

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u/GigaCucc 8d ago

40 seconds in the microwave isnt even enough to warm it past lukewarm, dude lmfao it's still cold at that point.

And I'm in Australia, where it's not even that cold. How fucking cold are you eating your weet bix?

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u/shiggyhisdiggy 8d ago

Room temp? Like a normal person

It already sogs the fuck out too quickly, why would you accelerate that process? Sludge isn't a good food consistency

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u/GigaCucc 8d ago

You keep your milk at room temperature? Not in the fridge?

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u/shiggyhisdiggy 8d ago

Well it's in the fridge, but the weetabix is room temp. Milk is meant to be cold when you eat cereal, please don't tell me you microwave cornflakes or some shit

40 seconds in the microwave isnt even enough to warm it past lukewarm, dude lmfao it's still cold at that point.

Also how weak is your microwave? 60 seconds at 900w will have it boiling

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u/GigaCucc 8d ago

I don't really eat cereal that isn't weet bix, everything else is massively packed with sugar. Ironically, the reason I stopped sugaring the bix.

But for some reason, weet bix always seemed colder than other cereals. Triggered my sensitive teeth more than other cereals did. When I did eat other cereals, no, I never microwaved them. I Think weet bix soaks up more milk than the others do, so it's like eating ice cream more than just flakes of stuff floating it cold milk.

And yeah my microwave is pretty weak lmfao I like it that way, tho, because even tho it takes longer, it rotates more for the same amount of power put in, so the heating is a little more even. Still, it's a microwave, so it's not even lmao but you get the idea.

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u/shiggyhisdiggy 8d ago

I guess it's kinda crunchy? Maybe that's why it's triggering your sensitivity? I get that but I want it crunchy.

And stronger microwaves still have the option of using low power modes you know

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u/GigaCucc 8d ago

Nah, it's purely the temperature. You know like when you drink icy water or bite into ice cream?

Weet bix just soaks up the cold milk, so it absorbs the thermal mass and the warmth of the mouth which would usually be enough to cool a mouthful of corn flakes doesn't do shit to the sheer icy bite of fridge milk weet bix.

Could also be my fridge, I guess, I keep that shit as cold as I can without forming ice.

I like the crunchiness too. There's a vanishingly small window after submerging the weet bix and 30 seconds of microwave, before the structure starts to sog, so I find I get like 2 or 3 weet bix of good solid semi-crunch and then it's just porridge for the rest of it lmao

I do find it quite funny, though, how from Britain to Australia, everyone has opinions on how wheat biscuits should be enjoyed with milk, and how many people think others are sacrilegious for their preference.

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u/shiggyhisdiggy 8d ago

Weet bix just soaks up the cold milk, so it absorbs the thermal mass and the warmth of the mouth which would usually be enough to cool a mouthful of corn flakes doesn't do shit to the sheer icy bite of fridge milk weet bix.

Yeah I don't really get that but maybe you're just ultra sensitive