Our goal is to provide an honest and balanced overview of the pitfalls and hazards of cereal/milk integration; in colloquial terms, it represents a conundrum analogous to the chicken and the egg. But we must strive for a more humanist perspective. While the chicken and her egg are divorced from the human realm, milk and cereal are both products of human engineering – agriculture and processing, mechanization and industry, pasteurization and homogenization. Indeed, one ought to perceive that the cereal-milk dilemma is of profound existential importance: does our relationship with our scrumptious breakfast foods define who we are? We should seize this opportunity to define our own meaning in life: in seizing the moment, we should pour our milk after our cereal. We may not relieve the absurd, but perhaps we’ll make the world a bit of a better place, and that’s all we need to do.
This series of posts will start by providing an objective basis by which to judge the success of various methods of milk/cereal combination. We’ll use the criteria we establish to explore the phenomenon of cereal/milk mixing. Later, we’ll examine the history of milk and cereal. We’ll conclude by take a look at things from an aesthetic perspective.
In our next installment, we’ll determine what constitutes a successful homogenate of milk and cereal. We’ll attempt to establish qualitative and quantitative fitness criteria and variables to measure the arguments.
