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That’s definitely Ghost and his partner. And I know Ghosts skin is dry af.
It's that time of the year when the cocoa butter and vaseline come out!
The body butter is also out in full force. This is a bonding moment between you and Simon because his skin is dry as tf. You also introduce him to the wonders of face moisturizer and beard/stubble oil.
You're rubbing some on his calloused palms and before you can pull away, he grabs your hand and intertwines your fingers together.
Yeah, his nose may crinkle at the scent because it's not really him but it's YOU. And then you put it all over his body and he's never smelled so... sweet before. Huh. Fancy that.
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i'm gonna put this in its own post cus this is gonna be a fair amount of Words. thank you for enabling me @theslime
there's two parts to this. there's the stubborn reason why i even started putting milk first into cereal, and then there's the practical reason why i haven't switched since.
the origin story
feel free to skip this part, but i found it quite fascinating (and pretty funny) to realize why i had started in the first place.
i was a wee child, with parents who very much appreciated every ounce of independence i could muster in daily routines. one of the things i learned to do fairly young was pour myself a bowl of cereal for breakfast every morning. and every morning, i had to eat that cereal while watching cartoons in the living room, obviously.
i had weak little baby arms, and my parents only ever bought the full gallon of milk. after some trial and error, i figured out the optimal steps to make only a single trip between the living room and the kitchen, while also minimizing the amount of heavy lifting i had to do when that gallon was mostly full. it was as follows:
bring the bowl and spoon to the fridge
pour the milk into the bowl. add in the spoon
grab the cereal box
very, VERY carefully walk from the kitchen to the living room with a full bowl of milk and an arm full of cereal box
i need to mention: this bowl of milk was Full. i was a growing creature, and i ate two as-much-as-i-can-fit bowls of cereal for years and years. i needed enough milk to satisfy this intense Hunger.
i spilled a lot of milk, y'all. fluid mechanics was something i was learning about the hard way in these moments. but i was determined. i was dead set on perfecting my technique because i never wanted to do two trips ever again.
this was my villain milk-first origin story. i put my blood, sweat, and tears into my methodology. and honestly, the thought of switching to cereal-first was painful in a sunken cost kind of way. i achieved the perfect milk-to-cereal ratio; switching would require relearning it. but i'm nothing if not a person who values reconsidering my habits and putting in the effort to change them if they will serve me better. and as someone who still eats cereal every single day as an adult, any change to my cereal ways would have a profound impact on me.
after careful consideration, i determined that milk first is superior, regardless of my emotional attachment to it.
why milk first is superior, regardless of my emotional attachment to it
it all boils down to a single factor: maximum cereal crunchiness.
i have heard of people eating their cereal in warm milk. i did it once, and never fucking ever again because i simply cannot stomach the MUSH cereal turns into upon CONTACT with warm milk. if you eat cereal with warm milk, i will not cast judgement on you as many have for my milk-first ways. but you do not belong in this conversation, bcus it literally doesn't matter which order you put the milk in. (if a warm-milker reads this and disagrees, i'd love to hear about it. genuinely.)
i value crunch. crunch gives me joy. most mornings these days, i wake up food-averse. the crunch of cereal is an important tether keeping me from skipping breakfast. i know that even if the thought of eating food is making me nauseous, once i feel the crunch of cereal, everything will be okay.
the moment cereal touches milk, its time is numbered. fully submerged cereal can lose its crunch within seconds, depending on the brand. even being partially submerged is enough to start the clock. keeping as much of it as dry as possible is so, so important if you want to maintain Crunch.
and the key is putting milk first. when cereal is poured on top of milk, there is a much larger layer of dry cereal than if it was done the other way around. (as much as i want to, typing out the physics behind this phenomenon is too daunting for me. but i think it's intuitive enough that you know this to be true, right??)
strategy is also important. i eat a bowl of cereal like a cake: cutting through the layers from top to bottom. this means each spoonful has a mixture of soggy cereal that's been submerged, and the fresh, dry cereal that's been sitting on top of it. for cereal that's had milk poured second, that cut-through ratio can be as bad as 75% soggy, 25% dry. with milk first, that ratio is closer to 50/50, sometimes better. it's sublime. knowing how good it can be makes turning back impossible.
i'm not trying convert anyone to the milk-first way. it just feels nice to finally write out my thoughts on it. i don't understand the animosity i receive when people find out i do it, but maybe now i'll link them to this essay so they can better understand my dark, twisted mind.
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milk with honey
mILK WITH HONEY
are you sure you’re not some sort of rogue AI that’s programmed to be nice because literally nobody has ever mentioned milk with honey in my entire life I didn’t even know that was a thing people drank
am I missing out
😭😆 milk and honey is known to help with headaches where im from, but it's not for everyone sometimes. I don't think you're missing out<3 Also I don't think I'm a rogue AI lol🤣 that's a first for me(I think it was sweet though<3)
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