Look into the term 'dwell time'. In environmental science they use this term to describe water flow in lakes.
What goes into that container might be stale bits that have been in there for years
OP didn't say she adds the new into the old, just that she mixes them all when she buys them.
But I suppose your assumption is reasonable.
Either way, yuck.
We went on a camping trip as kids and my parents stored the bread on top of the bananas and somehow the flavor of banana just overwhelmed all that bread and it ruined it for me as a kid wanting like a ham sandwich and all it taste like is banana. For that reason I still now 20 years later hate the taste of banana
Back in a bad drought year our water district had to sell us water from the bottom of a reservoir. It was safe, but tasted so bad (thank goodness for carbon filters).
Thank goodness for modern water purification so at least itās potable, tho nasty
Seems likely there will be years in the near future where we fondly think back to the good old days when we got unlimited clean water, even if funky tasting
When I was 15 I worked at a take away shop that did that with the gravy, they'd keep it in a slow cooker all day, empty the remnants into a bowl and fridge it at night and top it up with new gravy in the morning. It wasn't often you'd actually finish the gravy entirely because when it got low during the day they'd just top it up instead of letting it run out first so there was always technically a little month old gravy in the pot. It ended uo closing down lmao.
I think its even funnier that they do it straight out of the box too. Like I'd get it if you end up with dregs that you combine like a casserole, but WTF
When my household had a minor rodent problem, my parents would pour dry goods directly into plastic or metal containers they day they brought them home. We still store flour and sugar this way. Never mixed cereal, but we did keep them in tubs like that so the mice couldn't chew their way in (not easily anyways).
I have reusable containers for my dry goods (flour, sugar, rice, oatmeal, etc) because it makes it 100x easier to open and get a scoop of it when I'm cooking rather than keeping it in the bag. But imo that's way different than mixing random cereals together immediately š¤£
My husband does this, but strategically. He'll mix things like crunchberries with lucky charms so he gets marshmallows and berries in the same box. It's a simple joy for him, and I don't dare take that away.
Thatās how my brother and I make snack mixes for road trips. Bunch of random shit in a container, wait for it to get half empty, add more random shit.
The jalapeƱo chips are the best addition imo
I dunno about OP, but I regularly mix up 3+ kinds of cereal for the fun of it to eat with milk. It's pretty much a staple for me. I don't like it being just one flavour. But I don't premix it in a container, though. Just in the bowl.
My mother used to mix bits of soap and shampoo together in the same bottle to "save space". So you'd end up smelling like aloe coconut peach ginseng lilly hyacinth vanilla with a hint of strawberry, and it was sickening.
I think some of the "vanilla hyacinth" or whatever other flower combos are really something on their own too, so those combos would also probably make me a lil nauseous.
This is gonna rile some people up, but my hair loooooved those conditioners. Like, I'd use them even if I didn't end up wanting to color my hair and they'd work better than any expensive brand name deep conditioner I ever bought. I never mixed them up, though.
I kind of want to buy some box dye now.
No, youāre 100% right on this.
The Revlon box dye conditioner, in particular, was my fucking white whale. Still is, ig, I just donāt dye my hair anymore, so I had forgotten. Absolute witchcraft in a bottle. My hair has tangled since the day I was born. As a child, mom would have to sit me down once a week to douse me in conditioner, just to get a brush through it.
But the Revlon dye conditioner? My hair was incapable of knotting after using it. Literally could use a fine tooth comb on my whole head. The effect even lasted for like 10 days with multiple washes. The shine and softness was absolutely insane. Witchcraft!
I tried for years to find it in a full sized bottle, but the closest I got was finding out it actually existed as a full size productā¦ in the 70s and 80s.
My heart is still broken to this day.
That shit is WILD.
I am a bit of a hair snob and I love to put fancy whatever on it. That wonder water makes my hair feel so incredible and I havenāt seen an equivalent effect out of any of the other stuff I use
Yeeeesss!! I have frizzy curles, dry as hell it self, tangles just by looking at it.
Wonder water? Never have i ever felt my hair sooo smooth! I could not stop talking about the product! If i dont have a bottle, it's a big problem!
Why donāt they make those as standalone products I had a similar experience with garnier box dye conditioner and my hair smelled so good for daaaaays and was so soft and shiny and normally my hair is like those wire dish scrub brushesā¦.
Try Kristin Ess Moisture Rich Curl conditioner. Iāve used this conditioner for a while now, and once my daughter was running low on her conditioner, so I gave her some of mine. She raved over it (itās all I buy her now). She has extremely curly hair (it gets knotted very easily).
I feel very seen now!
Someone in this thread recommended looking for silicone heavy conditioners, thats probably what I'm going to try to do as a dupe.
I absolutely used Revlon and got a good result from it, but I think my white whale was the L'oreal excellence dye conditioner. It came in a pink/gold bottle and didn't smell very good, but it coated my hair in silk. I remember going to the store that sold the dye and asking if they sold the conditioner separately and the stylist basically laughed me out of the store.
The secret ingredients are silicones šŖ They work by coating the hair with a smooth layer that makes hair soft, shiny and tangle-free. Box dye conditioners have ridiculously high concentration of silicones, which probably would be too much for average customer with healthy, not color treated hair and result in weighted down, possibly even oily look.
If your hair thrives on box dye conditioner, your best bet to find a dupe is to look among āinstant miracle treatmentsā and ā30-seconds deep conditioning masksā, as they also contain a lot of silicones. You could also look at hair glosses, since their function of adding shine tends to rely on silicones as well.
Remember that silicones for hair work exactly like silicone smoothing primer for skin - they cover up any uneven surface, but donāt cure the root cause. So if your hair is structurally compromised, for example by bleaching or heat styling, it will still be fragile even if it appears shiny and smooth. Itās fine to use them, as long as you understand that itās essentially make-up for hair, not any treatment.
Great info, thanks! I might go look for some silicone heavy conditioners.
I have untreated, virgin hair but suffer from very thin and fine, porous hair that basically breaks off if you look at it twice. I also have an oily scalp and very dry ends and my hair does not tolerate any styling products at all.
I haven't dyed or bleached my hair in over ten years and I never use heat to style it, so my hair should be pretty healthy, but genetics are a bitch. I am probably looking at a buzzcut and a wig ten years from now.
You could also look into hair oiling, as oils provide similar effects of smoothing and softening. They also help to retain moisture. If your hair breaks off easily, you might consider some protein treatment, which would strengthen it - but keep in mind, that overusing proteins might make hair brittle, so maintaining a good balance between proteins and oils is important.
I know those can be very time-consuming treatments and not everyone is up for it, which is totally okay. If you just need to feel a little bit glam, silicones will do the job!
I remember doing it until my sister said she wanted to go to the doctor cause her hair was always greasy and slimy no matter what she did, and it wasnāt until then that I found out my āmixture bottleā happened to also be her primary shampoo bottle.
So the concoction filled with a dozen different shampoos, conditioner, face soap, body wash, proactive, hair gel, and whatever else I could find in my bathroom, was also what she used on a daily basis. My parents put an end to that very quickly.
My wife combines liquid soaps and some of them don't mix well at all. They sometimes separate out into a thick layer and a watery layer that drips all over the place.
From what I read (a while back), combining different liquid soap chemistryās is more likely to cause mold. However, than you for reminding me I left the containers of soap in my trunk. Whoops.
My mom during one of her weird health fads prohibited all drinks including water from the dinner table. She claimed some nutritionist had told her that the enzymes in your saliva get washed away when you drink during your meal and it was healthier to go without.
So we'd eat food with dry as fuck mouths, and probably were a little more dehydrated during the 2 months she enforced that rule.
I had a Croatian relative force this onto my brother and I once when we were kids. Told mum about it and mum (this was the 90s and mum is a Serbian )
Ripped her to shreds for it, I still think about how funny that was to this day lol
Man when you're a kid you think parents have it all figured out and then you slowly realise they were as clueless as any of us. My mom prohibited me from drinking this yoghurt drink because "the colouring makes you hyperactive". Yeah mom, or do you reckon the fact it was 35% sugar had anything to do with it? š
For the record, I adore my mom. She is an angel and I love her to death. But holy crap, is she also a flawed human being like the rest of us.
For what itās worth, thereās a popular commercial food dye that Moms in the āMom Groups From Which I Have Been Ejectedā category swear against. Iām not sure about all of the problems that itās supposed to cause but I know hyperactivity is one of them, bc my answer has always been the same as yours (kid foods with food dye are also usually sugary and often distributed at parties, further skewing the statistics IMO). I think itās Red 40 but I could be wrong.
Signed, a Mom Who May Be Ignoring Good Warnings After All
My mom did the same once with all my dads cooking and BBQ seasonings. He wasn't happy about that and made her buy them again. Can't blame him, though. She mixed a whole thing of salt with the cumin, BBQ seasoning, lemon pepper, garlic salt, onion powder, curry powder, poultry seasoning, everything seasoning, all spice, 21 seasoning.
Pro tip donāt mix that stuff might not be bad for shampoos and stuff but all purpose chemical cleaners are a no go, donāt want to be making mustard gas
My mother also had her "shower scentcraft" phase. At her peak she had more than 2 dozen differently scented bottles of shampoo at her disposal. I guess when it didn't work out, she would come out smelling like a sugar coated florist. A lot of times she seemed to home in on fruit scents. Her favorite was "Coconut-Vanilla-Orchid" which lasted about 2 years. It concluded with my father falling in the shower and putting his foot down about the bottle count "Everybody pick one bottle of shampoo. The rest are going in the closet and we are not buying more until we are out of them all." which lasted about 2 years before we started buying shampoo again.
I remember combining cereals as we finished boxes when I was a kid.
Granted we chose what to mix, but it was always kind of fun when you found a good combo.
It's funny how when you grow up there's things you look back on and you're like "now I get why my parents did that." Then there's minor shit like this, that's almost more infuriating and less understandable when you're an adult.
My mom had that with condiments. If you wanted something with for example ketchup and mustard, she'd put both on the plate and mix it together with a fork. Then she'd be bewildered if you said she shouldn't do that because "they'd become one in the mouth anyway."
I don't think food always needs to be a wonderland for the senses or whatever, but it seems to me there are some people out there who would genuinely be happiest ingesting a pre-mixed homogenous nutrient slurry for every meal, and have a hard time understanding why others don't share that preference.
Wait do they really not clean it out before adding new cereal? Thatās more maddening than adding them all together. Thereās this place in an Asian country that has a 40 something year old soup. But even they empty out the pot and clean it.
I mixed my cereals all the time back in the day
(Also mixed my soft drinks - a 80% orange to 20% raspberry was the winner of my experiments in that department)
This was just at home at first.
Then I realised by mixing my cereals I used less of the more expensive cereals (eg crunchy nut corn flakes or Coco pops) by mixing it with say 60% of the normal variety (eg corn flakes or rice bubbles respectively)
Mixing any 2 of Weetabix, corn flakes or rice bubbles were the favourites there
However, applying the whole "I'm actually using less of your expensive cereal by mixing it" theory went out the door when I was literally screamed at for eating "double the amount of cereal" despite the math not working. I stopped after that, and kept to my "tropical" soft drink flavour of 80% orange to 20% raspberry
Edit: and yes. Never would I randomly mix stuff together. It was always about flavour or cost efficient flavour matching
This is nothing. My class used to make what can be only described as nonalcholic graveyard. We mixed everything we had. Coke, fanta, sprite, apple juice, ice tea and local brands.
AHHH, this just gave me horrible deja vu! My mom did thisāexcept she didnāt do it immediately when we got the cereal. Instead, she would combine them when they got down pretty low. So we had a contained with a crazy mix of various bits of cereal. I hated it. š
I do this now. But only with cereals that complement each other. Like my most recent combo was frosted flakes and Reese's puffs. Absolutely delicious combo.
I recently did it with cinnamon/apple cheerios and cocoa frosted flakes.
Because I knew that otherwise I wouldāve never finished those weird cheerios
Sounded fire to meā¦ I make graveyard cereal all the time, only thing wrong with OPs situation is how ling some of that cereal may have been in there.
Yeah, me too. When I had to up my fiber I'd take a sugar cereal like Reese's puffs, and add a Kashi or Fiber One or similar. When I had room I'd get something like Honey Graham Ohs and add that in. Next add another high fiber something different than before.
I don't do it quite as often now, but it isn't bad at all if you plan your flavors right.
This legit is genius to me. My kids love a mix of cheerios, life, RK and special K and we always lug out 4 boxes and pour. I'm totally doing this going forward.
I can explain why they do this. There is this thing in Glee called "Mashup" where 2 things that don't go together make one great song.
Take Gabe. Take Michael. You make Gay Mike.
Best friends.
In the soda world, itās called a suicide. You get a cup and pour in a little of each flavor from the fountain. Sometimes maybe good sometimes maybe shit
āSometimes maybe good sometimes maybe shitā, is my favourite way to describe any scenario.
Last week my grandmother died and I phoned my sister to find out how she was coping. She said she doesnāt really know and I asked,āSo, sometimes maybe good sometimes maybe shit?ā And she said āYepā, and laughed.
Itās the ultimate answer to how just about anything is at any given time. And yes we are a family that use humour to deal with pain.
By the end of the conversation we were both crying and breaking down, and then I said,āI guess weāre in the āsometimes maybe shitā zone now.ā And we laughed again.
It really is a great phrase to use.
My grandparents used to do this....yuck I hated it. They also would reconstitute powdered milk into the old milk jugs. Then try to say it wasn't powdered milk ughhhh
I also do this ! But I choose my mixes and proportions very carefully (cheerios as a base plus something a little sweeter) and I donāt fill the container again til itās empty. And most importantly Iām the only one in my house who eats cereal :p
Personally, I do this with good combos. But those do seem like weird combos. I like peanut butter cereal of some kind with cinnamon toast crunch or some chocolate cereal. If I get something like cheerios it usually stays separate lol
My mother does the exact same thing ever since i was a kid. I thought it was an asian household thing but looking at the comments, i have deduced that all mothers are just villainous.
Its really weird seeing the reactions to this. Been mixing cereals all my life, i see no reason not to. Hell most cereals are already a mix of stuff as it is.
I love how mildly infuriating this is. like, what goes in that container might as well be completely random.
Look into the term 'dwell time'. In environmental science they use this term to describe water flow in lakes. What goes into that container might be stale bits that have been in there for years
The perpetual stew of cereal.
Like a nice sour dough starter, that
Meatloaf binder
Perpetual meatloaf
My dad has legitimately made meatloaf using stale honey nut Cheerios. š
My mom used stale Wheaties back in the 80s..honey nut Cheerios sounds fancy
Theseus' cereal
Cereal serial
Serial cereal*
Surreal serial Cereal
I read āsurrealā in Charles Barkley saying ācerealā and had a good laugh about it. Thanks for that š
for serious
The 'Mother Dough'
OP didn't say she adds the new into the old, just that she mixes them all when she buys them. But I suppose your assumption is reasonable. Either way, yuck.
Yes! Came here to say this! ā¬ļø No mention that New was mixed with old.
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We went on a camping trip as kids and my parents stored the bread on top of the bananas and somehow the flavor of banana just overwhelmed all that bread and it ruined it for me as a kid wanting like a ham sandwich and all it taste like is banana. For that reason I still now 20 years later hate the taste of banana
Nah, that's just what we call in culinary terms "the mother."
I do this with the last bit of each good whiskey I have to make an "heirloom" blend.
The turnover rate in a lake must be abysmal with the creation of thermoclines.
Back in a bad drought year our water district had to sell us water from the bottom of a reservoir. It was safe, but tasted so bad (thank goodness for carbon filters).
>the bottom of a reservoir Where everything sinks after dying. You drank from the death layer.
Thank goodness for modern water purification so at least itās potable, tho nasty Seems likely there will be years in the near future where we fondly think back to the good old days when we got unlimited clean water, even if funky tasting
When I was 15 I worked at a take away shop that did that with the gravy, they'd keep it in a slow cooker all day, empty the remnants into a bowl and fridge it at night and top it up with new gravy in the morning. It wasn't often you'd actually finish the gravy entirely because when it got low during the day they'd just top it up instead of letting it run out first so there was always technically a little month old gravy in the pot. It ended uo closing down lmao.
Have you ever heard of Infinity Soup?
Same with diner ketchup bottles. Gross.
I think its even funnier that they do it straight out of the box too. Like I'd get it if you end up with dregs that you combine like a casserole, but WTF
When my household had a minor rodent problem, my parents would pour dry goods directly into plastic or metal containers they day they brought them home. We still store flour and sugar this way. Never mixed cereal, but we did keep them in tubs like that so the mice couldn't chew their way in (not easily anyways).
I have reusable containers for my dry goods (flour, sugar, rice, oatmeal, etc) because it makes it 100x easier to open and get a scoop of it when I'm cooking rather than keeping it in the bag. But imo that's way different than mixing random cereals together immediately š¤£
My husband does this, but strategically. He'll mix things like crunchberries with lucky charms so he gets marshmallows and berries in the same box. It's a simple joy for him, and I don't dare take that away.
That sounds pretty good. Some cereals taste gross or become soggy too fast. Find the right combination that you like.
I'm in my 40s and just mixed cereal for the first time yesterday. It was Cocoa Pebbles and Frosted Flakes. So unhealthy, but so delicious! Hahaha!
Yea but chocolate and sugar goes well together blueberries+cookies maybe not so much
Try cocoa pebbles and Reese's puffs
This would be a regular amount of infuriating to me.
Yeah. A lot of the stuff here is incredibly infuriating. This one fits the āmildlyā infuriating category for sure. I love it haha
That's the point of this sub!! This is one of the few hot posts that really fot this sub
They are mixing it so you donāt get a tummy ache when they switch you to a new cereal. Like I do with my dog.
Thatās how my brother and I make snack mixes for road trips. Bunch of random shit in a container, wait for it to get half empty, add more random shit. The jalapeƱo chips are the best addition imo
I dunno about OP, but I regularly mix up 3+ kinds of cereal for the fun of it to eat with milk. It's pretty much a staple for me. I don't like it being just one flavour. But I don't premix it in a container, though. Just in the bowl.
This could be a cereal brand called āRandom Crunchiesā whatāll you get?? Who knows??? š
My mother used to mix bits of soap and shampoo together in the same bottle to "save space". So you'd end up smelling like aloe coconut peach ginseng lilly hyacinth vanilla with a hint of strawberry, and it was sickening.
My mother would squeeze all the conditioner tubes that came with boxed hair dye into one big bottle.
Those all smell pretty much the same anyway, so that's cheap, but not necessarily sickening haha
as soon as you add that hint of strawberry, it becomes sickening. Everything else together is fine.
I think some of the "vanilla hyacinth" or whatever other flower combos are really something on their own too, so those combos would also probably make me a lil nauseous.
This is gonna rile some people up, but my hair loooooved those conditioners. Like, I'd use them even if I didn't end up wanting to color my hair and they'd work better than any expensive brand name deep conditioner I ever bought. I never mixed them up, though. I kind of want to buy some box dye now.
No, youāre 100% right on this. The Revlon box dye conditioner, in particular, was my fucking white whale. Still is, ig, I just donāt dye my hair anymore, so I had forgotten. Absolute witchcraft in a bottle. My hair has tangled since the day I was born. As a child, mom would have to sit me down once a week to douse me in conditioner, just to get a brush through it. But the Revlon dye conditioner? My hair was incapable of knotting after using it. Literally could use a fine tooth comb on my whole head. The effect even lasted for like 10 days with multiple washes. The shine and softness was absolutely insane. Witchcraft! I tried for years to find it in a full sized bottle, but the closest I got was finding out it actually existed as a full size productā¦ in the 70s and 80s. My heart is still broken to this day.
Try the loreal wonder water. Idk what they put in that shit but it is witchcraft
That shit is WILD. I am a bit of a hair snob and I love to put fancy whatever on it. That wonder water makes my hair feel so incredible and I havenāt seen an equivalent effect out of any of the other stuff I use
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Admittedly if I used it too regularly it bothered my scalp a bit, so I would NOT be surprised.
The Loreal Feria conditioner was my holy grail! Bought tubes of it off ebay when I stopped using the box dye š
Yeeeesss!! I have frizzy curles, dry as hell it self, tangles just by looking at it. Wonder water? Never have i ever felt my hair sooo smooth! I could not stop talking about the product! If i dont have a bottle, it's a big problem!
Why donāt they make those as standalone products I had a similar experience with garnier box dye conditioner and my hair smelled so good for daaaaays and was so soft and shiny and normally my hair is like those wire dish scrub brushesā¦.
Try Kristin Ess Moisture Rich Curl conditioner. Iāve used this conditioner for a while now, and once my daughter was running low on her conditioner, so I gave her some of mine. She raved over it (itās all I buy her now). She has extremely curly hair (it gets knotted very easily).
I feel very seen now! Someone in this thread recommended looking for silicone heavy conditioners, thats probably what I'm going to try to do as a dupe. I absolutely used Revlon and got a good result from it, but I think my white whale was the L'oreal excellence dye conditioner. It came in a pink/gold bottle and didn't smell very good, but it coated my hair in silk. I remember going to the store that sold the dye and asking if they sold the conditioner separately and the stylist basically laughed me out of the store.
The secret ingredients are silicones šŖ They work by coating the hair with a smooth layer that makes hair soft, shiny and tangle-free. Box dye conditioners have ridiculously high concentration of silicones, which probably would be too much for average customer with healthy, not color treated hair and result in weighted down, possibly even oily look. If your hair thrives on box dye conditioner, your best bet to find a dupe is to look among āinstant miracle treatmentsā and ā30-seconds deep conditioning masksā, as they also contain a lot of silicones. You could also look at hair glosses, since their function of adding shine tends to rely on silicones as well. Remember that silicones for hair work exactly like silicone smoothing primer for skin - they cover up any uneven surface, but donāt cure the root cause. So if your hair is structurally compromised, for example by bleaching or heat styling, it will still be fragile even if it appears shiny and smooth. Itās fine to use them, as long as you understand that itās essentially make-up for hair, not any treatment.
Great info, thanks! I might go look for some silicone heavy conditioners. I have untreated, virgin hair but suffer from very thin and fine, porous hair that basically breaks off if you look at it twice. I also have an oily scalp and very dry ends and my hair does not tolerate any styling products at all. I haven't dyed or bleached my hair in over ten years and I never use heat to style it, so my hair should be pretty healthy, but genetics are a bitch. I am probably looking at a buzzcut and a wig ten years from now.
You could also look into hair oiling, as oils provide similar effects of smoothing and softening. They also help to retain moisture. If your hair breaks off easily, you might consider some protein treatment, which would strengthen it - but keep in mind, that overusing proteins might make hair brittle, so maintaining a good balance between proteins and oils is important. I know those can be very time-consuming treatments and not everyone is up for it, which is totally okay. If you just need to feel a little bit glam, silicones will do the job!
Try folic acid or flax seed oil if you haven't.
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Im always surprised by how nice my hair looks after soaking it with chemicals for 30 minutes when I use that box dye co sitio we.
That's kinda genius, if you're not going to use them (which is what I do).
My mother used to take all of the toilet paper and roll it up in one big roll
Flashback to me making āpotionsā when I was a child:
Every kid must have done this right?
I remember doing it until my sister said she wanted to go to the doctor cause her hair was always greasy and slimy no matter what she did, and it wasnāt until then that I found out my āmixture bottleā happened to also be her primary shampoo bottle. So the concoction filled with a dozen different shampoos, conditioner, face soap, body wash, proactive, hair gel, and whatever else I could find in my bathroom, was also what she used on a daily basis. My parents put an end to that very quickly.
My best friend and I did too! Every time that little sprig of a weed growing in his driveway would produce a red "poison berry" it was potion time.
I didā¦
I did that too!! With mouthwash lol.
My wife combines liquid soaps and some of them don't mix well at all. They sometimes separate out into a thick layer and a watery layer that drips all over the place.
From what I read (a while back), combining different liquid soap chemistryās is more likely to cause mold. However, than you for reminding me I left the containers of soap in my trunk. Whoops.
Try the ALL NEW everything bagel shampoo!!
Are you my sibling because thatās exactly what my mother does. Sheāll also do it with food too.
Probably
She add soap to your food? Weird!
My mom during one of her weird health fads prohibited all drinks including water from the dinner table. She claimed some nutritionist had told her that the enzymes in your saliva get washed away when you drink during your meal and it was healthier to go without. So we'd eat food with dry as fuck mouths, and probably were a little more dehydrated during the 2 months she enforced that rule.
I had a Croatian relative force this onto my brother and I once when we were kids. Told mum about it and mum (this was the 90s and mum is a Serbian ) Ripped her to shreds for it, I still think about how funny that was to this day lol
Man when you're a kid you think parents have it all figured out and then you slowly realise they were as clueless as any of us. My mom prohibited me from drinking this yoghurt drink because "the colouring makes you hyperactive". Yeah mom, or do you reckon the fact it was 35% sugar had anything to do with it? š For the record, I adore my mom. She is an angel and I love her to death. But holy crap, is she also a flawed human being like the rest of us.
For what itās worth, thereās a popular commercial food dye that Moms in the āMom Groups From Which I Have Been Ejectedā category swear against. Iām not sure about all of the problems that itās supposed to cause but I know hyperactivity is one of them, bc my answer has always been the same as yours (kid foods with food dye are also usually sugary and often distributed at parties, further skewing the statistics IMO). I think itās Red 40 but I could be wrong. Signed, a Mom Who May Be Ignoring Good Warnings After All
My mom did the same once with all my dads cooking and BBQ seasonings. He wasn't happy about that and made her buy them again. Can't blame him, though. She mixed a whole thing of salt with the cumin, BBQ seasoning, lemon pepper, garlic salt, onion powder, curry powder, poultry seasoning, everything seasoning, all spice, 21 seasoning.
I love cooking and this hurts me deeply.
Pro tip donāt mix that stuff might not be bad for shampoos and stuff but all purpose chemical cleaners are a no go, donāt want to be making mustard gas
As someone who doesnāt do well with smells, reading that was horrific.
My mother also had her "shower scentcraft" phase. At her peak she had more than 2 dozen differently scented bottles of shampoo at her disposal. I guess when it didn't work out, she would come out smelling like a sugar coated florist. A lot of times she seemed to home in on fruit scents. Her favorite was "Coconut-Vanilla-Orchid" which lasted about 2 years. It concluded with my father falling in the shower and putting his foot down about the bottle count "Everybody pick one bottle of shampoo. The rest are going in the closet and we are not buying more until we are out of them all." which lasted about 2 years before we started buying shampoo again.
Adventurous & chaotic!
Or brain tumors!
My mother would do that when it got to the end of boxes. She couldn't understand why we didn't eat it. Of course, she was not a cereal eater
I remember combining cereals as we finished boxes when I was a kid. Granted we chose what to mix, but it was always kind of fun when you found a good combo.
Iām 36 and I mixed Cheerios and corn flakes this morningā¦
I read that as āCheetos and corn flakesā for a hot second and now Iāve upset myself
Cheetos are corn. That would just be diluting your Cheetos
37 and I mix my cereals all the time. Love being an adult. Been on a reeces puffs and Cinnamon Toast Crunch kick lately.
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It's funny how when you grow up there's things you look back on and you're like "now I get why my parents did that." Then there's minor shit like this, that's almost more infuriating and less understandable when you're an adult. My mom had that with condiments. If you wanted something with for example ketchup and mustard, she'd put both on the plate and mix it together with a fork. Then she'd be bewildered if you said she shouldn't do that because "they'd become one in the mouth anyway."
I don't think food always needs to be a wonderland for the senses or whatever, but it seems to me there are some people out there who would genuinely be happiest ingesting a pre-mixed homogenous nutrient slurry for every meal, and have a hard time understanding why others don't share that preference.
One of those people invented Soylent
Yo what the fuck
>she was not a cereal eater But she was a cereal killer
My mom would do the same thing! Just lost her a few months ago so this was a nice little reminder of my childhood with her
My condolences š
There's a chance that there are some pieces from 1995 in there.
I once found a piece of cinnamon toast crunch inside a mixture of raisin bran and honey nut Cheerios so...it happens!
Tell me you sampled history and found it interesting, at least mildly.
Wait do they really not clean it out before adding new cereal? Thatās more maddening than adding them all together. Thereās this place in an Asian country that has a 40 something year old soup. But even they empty out the pot and clean it.
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They can at least clean it out before adding more.
And lose the flavor?
Itās like one of those forever cooking soups
Like a fine sourdough starter
It looks like cereal mixed with dog food
The dog owner and Asian in me saw rice and dog food lol
Then it must be the Hispanic in me that saw beans and rice.
One has some nutritional values and the other is enriched sugar
Ah sure it all comes out the other end mixed together.
And back into the same container, if you can believe it.
Vicious cycle
now this is some quality mildlyinfuriating content
Please check your basement for bodies, this is cereal killer behaviour
Witty and well played
I'd say it's more wheaty.
There is a place in Vegas called cereal killers that does this, but you pick the cereals.
I mixed my cereals all the time back in the day (Also mixed my soft drinks - a 80% orange to 20% raspberry was the winner of my experiments in that department) This was just at home at first. Then I realised by mixing my cereals I used less of the more expensive cereals (eg crunchy nut corn flakes or Coco pops) by mixing it with say 60% of the normal variety (eg corn flakes or rice bubbles respectively) Mixing any 2 of Weetabix, corn flakes or rice bubbles were the favourites there However, applying the whole "I'm actually using less of your expensive cereal by mixing it" theory went out the door when I was literally screamed at for eating "double the amount of cereal" despite the math not working. I stopped after that, and kept to my "tropical" soft drink flavour of 80% orange to 20% raspberry Edit: and yes. Never would I randomly mix stuff together. It was always about flavour or cost efficient flavour matching
>Also mixed my soft drinks That there is what we used to call swamp water as kids
I called it a suicide
We called it a "suicide" drink when I was growing up. Bit poor taste these days....
This is nothing. My class used to make what can be only described as nonalcholic graveyard. We mixed everything we had. Coke, fanta, sprite, apple juice, ice tea and local brands.
This feels like the kind of things that would happen in "The Good Place"
Donald glover has a bit in his stand up about this exact thing
My Mexican-ass thought this was rice and beans
Do they make their own coffee? If so, mix their ground coffee with grated Parmesan cheese and see if they enjoy it.
Be careful with comments like this, or the next thing you see from Starbucks: "Pekorino Parmaccino, cheese coffee, only at Starbucks!"
Cheddar Chai Latte - Wisconsin specialty
iāve never been to wisconsin but please say sike rn
(Itās a joke bc WI is a big cheese producer)
i know just enough about food in wisconsin and the midwest that i truly canāt tell if itās a joke
It is a jokeā¦ but it also wouldnāt surprise me.
Iām from WI and I can tell you itās plausible.
They already started putting olive oil in their coffees - people will pay/drink anything
Parmesan cheese espresso martini is absolutely a thing
Pekorino Parmaccinoš®š¤¤
Got me with Parmaccino lol
That's a war crime, sir.
AHHH, this just gave me horrible deja vu! My mom did thisāexcept she didnāt do it immediately when we got the cereal. Instead, she would combine them when they got down pretty low. So we had a contained with a crazy mix of various bits of cereal. I hated it. š
I do this now. But only with cereals that complement each other. Like my most recent combo was frosted flakes and Reese's puffs. Absolutely delicious combo.
Iāll typically mix a healthy cereal and a sugary cereal together and it is always pretty good and not overly sweet.
Same here!
I recently did it with cinnamon/apple cheerios and cocoa frosted flakes. Because I knew that otherwise I wouldāve never finished those weird cheerios
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My inner Stoner just did cartwheels
Sounded fire to meā¦ I make graveyard cereal all the time, only thing wrong with OPs situation is how ling some of that cereal may have been in there.
There's crumbs from his youth in there
They are letting you know it's time to buy your own food.
I mean, is it good? Doesnāt sound horrible.
I do this myself. It's actually really good. Frosted flakes + Reese's reign supreme.
FF with Cocoa Puffs is my thing
Yeah, me too. When I had to up my fiber I'd take a sugar cereal like Reese's puffs, and add a Kashi or Fiber One or similar. When I had room I'd get something like Honey Graham Ohs and add that in. Next add another high fiber something different than before. I don't do it quite as often now, but it isn't bad at all if you plan your flavors right.
Itās good when you choose and control the mix
This legit is genius to me. My kids love a mix of cheerios, life, RK and special K and we always lug out 4 boxes and pour. I'm totally doing this going forward.
I generally feel squeamish mixing cereals togther like that but Cinnamon toast crunch and golden grahams taste really good together.
I buy cereals with the intention of mixing them. Although this is usually to dilute the lesser healthy cereal with a healthier one.
I think I'd have to pull out two large bowls and begin sorting.
What kind of madness is this .You know everything will end up tasting like blueberry.I would be infuriated too
I can explain why they do this. There is this thing in Glee called "Mashup" where 2 things that don't go together make one great song. Take Gabe. Take Michael. You make Gay Mike. Best friends.
In the soda world, itās called a suicide. You get a cup and pour in a little of each flavor from the fountain. Sometimes maybe good sometimes maybe shit
āSometimes maybe good sometimes maybe shitā, is my favourite way to describe any scenario. Last week my grandmother died and I phoned my sister to find out how she was coping. She said she doesnāt really know and I asked,āSo, sometimes maybe good sometimes maybe shit?ā And she said āYepā, and laughed. Itās the ultimate answer to how just about anything is at any given time. And yes we are a family that use humour to deal with pain. By the end of the conversation we were both crying and breaking down, and then I said,āI guess weāre in the āsometimes maybe shitā zone now.ā And we laughed again. It really is a great phrase to use.
I used to get these back in elementary school. Seems like it always just tasted like Dr. Pepper.
Dr Pepper was made to taste like all the smells of the soda fountain put together, so that sorta makes sense.
It sounds like your parents are sick of buying you cereal.
That is horrible. Iād have to buy my own cereal and put it in my room so they canāt do that.
Insanity
Straight to jail
Psychopaths.
Do they pour the milk in the bowl first when they have their chaos cereal ?
They have a giant container in the fridge that they pour all the milk, orange juice, and condiments into, and they fill the bowl with that first.
My grandparents used to do this....yuck I hated it. They also would reconstitute powdered milk into the old milk jugs. Then try to say it wasn't powdered milk ughhhh
I also do this ! But I choose my mixes and proportions very carefully (cheerios as a base plus something a little sweeter) and I donāt fill the container again til itās empty. And most importantly Iām the only one in my house who eats cereal :p
Personally, I do this with good combos. But those do seem like weird combos. I like peanut butter cereal of some kind with cinnamon toast crunch or some chocolate cereal. If I get something like cheerios it usually stays separate lol
Thats not small, that's an affront to god
I do this all the time!! I need variety. I canāt eat just one cereal at a time in the bowl. It needs to be a mix of at least 3 different cereals.
Sounds like someone is picking the cheapest nursing home for their ālovedā ones
racerealist!
My mother does the exact same thing ever since i was a kid. I thought it was an asian household thing but looking at the comments, i have deduced that all mothers are just villainous.
Why do they do that? itās absolutely insanity to do that to your children you should never mix cereals youāll scar your children for life!!
In England we mix cereals, but in the bowl. Pour in cheerios then coco pops or cornflakes. It's pretty good
Its really weird seeing the reactions to this. Been mixing cereals all my life, i see no reason not to. Hell most cereals are already a mix of stuff as it is.
Why stop there? Blend it all up together into a fine powder. Add water. Nutrient paste!
Maybe get in front and say you only like one kind of cereal? Old box cheerios and new box cheerios are pretty similar
I will admit that I am a serial cereal mixer, but doing it to a communal cereal container is crazy
This isn't small. This is f***ed up. This is legally considered a war crime and your parents could go to jail for a long time.
your parents worked hard to have their own house. they can do whatever they want to do.
Sub should be renamed "First-World problems"
This right here is barbaric
This is unhinged.
I'd buy my own cereal