
When making a bowl of cereal, what comes first? Is it the cereal or the milk?
The age-old question remains open-ended to this day, so much so that it has fueled a so-called “cereal debate” online. Last year, players of the Chicago Bears weighed in on their go-to way to make a bowl of cereal. Reddit threads — like this one, titled, “People who pour the milk before the cereal probably do a lot of other weird stuff we aren’t aware of” — have conducted deep dives into people’s cereal eating preferences. And think pieces on why pouring milk first is the only acceptable way to enjoy cereal have been written en masse.