ickplant

Your teenage son AND your husband

https://lemmy.world/post/42728152

Feb 5 at 10:19pmWeb
Show threadickplantFeb 5

To be fair, my husband will just have 6 bowls of cereal in a row all of a sudden.

But my son… here he is with his mixing bowl.

Edit: when my son went through a miso soup phase, he would get the big mixing bowl and use a whole block of tofu. Probably straight up 2L of miso broth. For context, he is 6’2” and 19.

Show threadceenoteFeb 5
Your son is producing fewer dishes. Be better, husband.
Show threadickplantFeb 5
Husband does reuse the bowl though. He is not a monster.
Show threadHolytimesFeb 6
That or he’s really good at hiding it…
Show thread5714Feb 5
Are the tofu blocks in America bigger or something, because 200g tofu isn’t that much of a deal.
Show threadickplantFeb 5
It’s 454 grams, I just checked.
Show thread5714Feb 5
Ok, that’s something
Show threadDrusasFeb 6

TIL Canada has small blocks of tofu.

I've bought tofu in the US and in Japan and the standard block is the same size in both (approximately--400g in Japan; 14oz in the US). Can vary slightly by brand and it course smaller options are available, but that's the usual size for at least those two.

Show threadDrusasFeb 6

You should introduce your son to Korean soups/stews. If he likes miso soup that much, he'll find some favorites in Korea as well. I'm especially partial to spicy doenjang jigae (a Korean miso stew--you can mostly use the ingredients recommended to add to the broth as suggestions and use whatever you like because it's all about the broth).

This is very similar to how I make it except that I use packaged dashi and usually use shellfish and leafy greens, sometimes noodles (udon or dangmyeon glass noodles): https://www.beyondkimchee.com/doenjang-jjigae/

It's easier than it sounds. Put dashi packet in water. Heat then remove. Add doenjang, gochujang, garlic and heat up/mix. Add solid ingredients of your choice and heat until cooked through. Add green onions (optional, I guess, but c'mon). Eat.

So good. Thank you, Korea.

Doenjang Jjigae (Korean Soybean Paste Stew) - Beyond Kimchee

Quick 20-minute doenjang jjigae made with rich soybean paste, tofu, and vegetables. A cozy Korean stew that’s easy for any weeknight.

Beyond Kimchee
Show threadickplantFeb 6
He would probably love that. He does love some Korean instant noodles. Thank you so much, I shall be trying this!
Show threadbaggachipzFeb 6
It sounds easier to fly to Korea
Show threadDrusasFeb 6
It's not substantially more difficult to make than it is to make packaged foods.
Show threadprettybunnysFeb 6

We had a 4 box treaty, no more than 4 boxes of cereal could be opened at a time.

Leading to box reckonings where multiple bowls would be eaten to bring “peace to the kingdom”

🫠

Show threadSmuuthbraneFeb 5
Cereal is the most delicious thing in the universe that doesn’t require anything more than pouring two things into a bowl. No peeling, heating, mixing, blending, layering, etc. Two things, in a bowl, and you don’t use goes back in the place it came from.
Show threadsuodrazahFeb 5
I usually eat it dry with a glass of oat milk on the side.
Show threadFireRetardantFeb 5
That bowl was a little big for me, I’ll just drain the milk back into the jug and put these soggy bits back in the box.
Show threadSidewaysHighwaysFeb 5
y’know, the kids in africa and all
Show threadProprietary_BlendFeb 5
I thought the rock stars fixed that ages ago.
Show threaddeHagaFeb 6
That money went nowhere near any kids with flies in their eyes. The government got their cut though, and then used food as a weapon, literally as bait to capture rebels who were then abused
Show threadProprietary_BlendFeb 6
Darn you rock stars!
Show threadneukenindekeukenFeb 6
Kids in Africa also don’t like soggy cereal?
Show threadPennomiFeb 6
If you use a funnel to pour the cereal into the jug, you can have a swig of soggy bits on demand!
Show threadBarneyPiccoloFeb 6

I’ve seen a few people attempt to open a “cereal milk” restaurant, where you can order CocoPuff milk, Cinnamon Toast Crunch milk, Fruity Pebbles milk, etc.

The few I’ve seen have flamed out pretty fast, which is predictable for an idea that was obviously cooked up by a couple of rich college kids while passing the bong, and then convincing their wealthy fathers into coughing up the starting costs.

Show threadunemployedclaquerFeb 6
Youve seen this more than once? wut? same or different cities?
Show threadBarneyPiccoloFeb 6
I’ve seen it written about at least 3 different times, in different cities. Like I said, it’s the kind of an idea that sounds like genius when you’re baked.
Show threadTanis NikanaFeb 5
homercerealfire.gif
Show threadalaphicFeb 5
Until one day, when you’re eating soup and innocently toss in some croutons, only to realize that what you’re eating is essentially cereal: savory edition, which you find so inexplicably disgusting that you can’t even stomach the thought of regular cereal for a depressing amount of time
Show threadOkokimupFeb 5
“Ugh I hate clam chowder. Its just hot ocean milk with dead animal croutons.”
Show threadsamus12345Feb 6
Show threadtetris11Feb 6
neh-vier!
Show threadFudgyMcTubbsFeb 7
He definitely says “show-dieeeer”
Show threadwuffahFeb 5
Show threadRickyRigatoniFeb 6
The ocean is a soup.
Show threadsamus12345Feb 6
A primordial soup.
Show threadtetris11Feb 6
(yo mamma)
Show threadzurohkiFeb 6
Vanilla soy latte is a three-bean soup.
Show threadCapsaicin1337Feb 6
Neither coffee nor vanilla is a bean. Coffee is a seed of the coffea family and vanilla is an orchid
Show threadzurohkiFeb 6
If cereal can be a soup, coffee can be a bean.
Show threadCapsaicin1337Feb 6
Soup is a dish preparation. While I am fine with arguing that even drinkable coffee is a soup or broth and cereal has soup like properties. No, coffee is a very different part of the plant kingdom than legumes or orchids. If you just call a blue whale a bird, it does not become even remotely true.
Show threadFishFaceFeb 6
Who is out there saying soup had to be vegetarian, or that croutons make soup not soup? Half of the chart is a waste of potential controversy
Show threadtetris11Feb 6
where are you reading croutons?
Show threadFishFaceFeb 6
Croutons are solid
Show threadtetris11Feb 6
We might need another chart about this
Show threadfaythofdragonsFeb 6
I think that with enough sauce, chicken alfredo becomes a soup. Where do I fit on the chart?
Show threadwuffahFeb 6
That would be ramen Alfredo, so you’re not quite a soup anarchist, but that’s probably for the best.
Show threadcuriousaurFeb 6
Or embrace savory cereal and put cheese, sour cream and hot sauce into oatmeal. Trust me.
Show threadalaphicFeb 6
Never speak to me or my son ever again.
Show threadFishFaceFeb 6

That only happens if you reverse your arbitrary categorisations and let them dictate your feelings about things, instead of realising that categorisations are a) arbitrary and b) can be refined.

Cereal has to, at least, involve a cereal like rice or oats or whatever as the main ingredient.

Show threadalaphicFeb 6

You mean, like… Corn?!?!

Vegetable soup (with corn) has entered the chat

And my point stands.

Also, you and your strict interpretation of ‘cereal’ have room to talk right after lecturing me about arbitrary categorizations… Sounds like someone needs to take their own advice, eh? 😋🙃

Show threadFishFaceFeb 6
Hmm I like the cut of your gib
Show threadMongosteinFeb 5
It’s the best when you’re baked too. It really helps with the dry mouth
Show threadFinjaminPoachFeb 5

Depends which cereal we’re talking about. I’ve watching those ‘lets make lucky charms / something with chocolate’ videos and they’re basically making a complicated soup, solidifying it, and cutting it up into tiny pieces, just to make a basic soup of milk afterwards.

The weirdest thing to me was realising zalot of cereals already contain milk. Actual liquid milk, that is, baked in.

Show threadbreadleyloafsyouFeb 5
It’s designed that way on purpose. Cereal manufacturers are some of the most egregious abusers of hyperpalatable foods.
Show threadSmuuthbraneFeb 6

Ooh, I like that, “hyperpalatable”.

“Egregious” is also good, but I knew that one.

Show threadprotistFeb 6
Read: Dessert marketed as breakfast
Show threadFishFaceFeb 6
So, like pancakes? Or jam on toast?
Show threadpanda_abyssFeb 5
Excuse me, you can pour crack and pop rocks into a bowl.
Show threadgustofwindFeb 5

It’s human kibble basically

Try this:

  • instead of a giant bowl pour a regular bowl with extra milk
  • when you finish the cereal do not drink the milk
  • pour more cereal
  • repeat as desired
    • Show threadSchmidtGeneticsFeb 5
    The milk gets too warm.
    Show threadUnspecificGravityFeb 5
    Nah, its warm like it just came from the udder and full of chunks and mucus, just as god intended.