Pluggers by Rick McKee for May 10, 2024

See me tolds ya Pluggers is not waste anytheengs.

Pluggers were taught by their mothers not to waste food.

Pluggers know from experience that the best milk with the most sugar and the most chocolate is at the bottom of the bowl!

Oh dear. I sense a bit of snooty disapproval toward this supposed breach of high-society table manners: How gauche! Would Emily Post approve?

This is, in fact, a purely practical way to sip the very last of the sugary goodness dissolved in the milk. And … how else is one to view the approval of the smiley face in the bottom of the bowl?

Please note that that the Plugger has his pinky finger extended daintily. And that, if no other, is his saving grace in this instance. :) :)

and on the front of my shirt

Our dog “Lucy” gets the last of the bowl licks ;-)

Okay! Is someone looking at my wife and I eating cereal?

I remember being scolded for doing that!

I was scolded for the noise!

Gross.

I know I do!

If you would drink the remaining milk from your cereal bowl, would you still drink it if it was poured from the bowl and into a regular drinking glass?

Allan Sherman had a bit about “Clean Plate Club” and starving children in Africa. He cleaned his plate 5-6 times a day, but the kids were still starving and he got fat.

Especially after Honey Nut Cheerios.

Unfortunately you can only do this at home, and with soup as well. Seems to me there is a European country where drinking the last of your soup from the bowl is acceptable, but I don’t remember which one.

I like to pour the cereal milk into my coffee.

Again… doesn’t everybody? Sorry for those who miss out on that nectar.

Whole milk, Cocoa Krispies, that’s pretty tasty.

for my shredded wheat, i use half & half, sweeten with stevia, and throw some raisins in

I mostly eat porridge or oats and trust me its a harder to drain the bowl when the dregs of the bowl is porridge lol.

UGH!

Especially if it has colors in it.

Always…..

The hard part is getting the cereal and milk to even out. I always have a little milk left, so I pour in a little more cerial. Then there’s not enough milk left, so I pour in more. Repeat until box or milk jug is empty.

When I was a kid. When I was a teen. And now when I’m a Plugger.

avoid that awkward problem altogether. Use glasses instead of bowls for cereal and drink away when done…..and receive a bonus ….glasses hold less cereal so you can keep re-filling to have crisper cereal from the start

Being too literal even as a child – I would not add milk to my “dry cereal” or it would not be dry. Also no one ever even suggested adding sugar to it – and always plain Cheerios.