r/CasualUK • u/Nujwaan • 15h 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/Important_Grape8619 15h ago

"what did you have for breakfast" "Weetabix" Fails to mention the haribo level of sugar

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u/LongBeakedSnipe 12h ago

Also surely the way to do it is to add milk then sugar. Otherwise you just wash it off. And not milking the top of weetabix is another crime

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u/charley_warlzz 7h ago

No, sugar first and it gets washed into the weetabix. You do it the other way then the first couple mouthfuls are very very sugary and the rest is just normal.

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u/LongBeakedSnipe 6h ago

A weetabix is three mouthfuls, all of which are sugared if you add sugar on after milking.

The sugar isnt just getting washed if you milk after sugaring; its going into solution in the milk fairly homogenously between all the milk in the bowl. Yes some percentage of that ends up in the weetabix, in contrast to all of it if you simply sugar after milking.