Is milk added to cereal a beverage, a broth, or a sauce?
I saw this image macro on a meme dump on imgur a few days ago, and it left me thinking that I had never even considered this question. So, has the milk turned into something else after being poured onto a bowl of cereal? Is it still a beverage? We know we can drink the milk straight from the bowl as soon we finish the cereal. Could it be a broth? That would imply the whole thing has now become a soup. Or maybe it’s a sauce to finish the meal.
Is there a right answer for this question? Some imgur users on this comment thread attempted to answer this question with mixed results.
- Some think that it has become a broth because cereal with milk is a breakfast soup.
- Others say that it’s still a beverage because a broth implies it was cooked with other ingredients and thickened, and that would make it a meal on its own.
- A few others think it’s a sauce because sauces can be used in preparing other food.
I honestly don’t think whoever created the first batch of cereal to be eaten by adding milk ever considered the confusion over the then newly created breakfast dish, but Vsauce attempted to answer this question a couple of years ago.
Personally, I consider that milk a beverage because it’s like dunking cookies in milk to soften them and absorb some of the milk.
But what do you think?
One Comment
Anonymous
Well as compelling as your argument may be, I sir still reside in confusion. I cannot determine because of all the contradictory concepts. A broth is cooked with the food, and milk is added on to the cereal like a sauce on pasta, yet the amount of milk consumed in one spoon has a direct correlation to a broth in chicken noodle soup. But then you throw in this thought of the beverage, and it takes everything out of context. truth be told I cannot determine what the answer may be, like how I cannot determine whether water is wet, but what I can tell you, there are many substances in chinese cuisines that are added the same as milk, and eaten as milk is in cereal, and those substances added on, can be considered sauces…
What do the Chinese know that we don’t?????