general Millenials don't eat cereal?

[Espurr 449]

I think I'm a Millenial. Dunno. If I am, well, I haven't had a bowl of cereal in forever just because. I like Lucky Charms, but I only eat the marshmallows. What I really like though is frosted flakes and that's if I'm going to have cereal. I'd really just like a sweet apple. Or a pear. Or almost any fruit really. Except bananas.

[CaptainDoubloon 856]

As a millenial, I don't eat cereal all the time. Most of the time I'm not very hungry first thing in the morning or I wake up late on weekends and start my day with more lunch-type of foods instead.

 

Espurr, millenial is someone born between 1980-2000.

Edited February 25, 2016 by Captain Doubloon

[Meson Bolt 2,648]

I love cereal. Berry Colossal Crunch is my favorite.

 

I'm also not a millenial, so... 

[Detritus 258]

I've always found "millennial" to be an extremely flawed classification. Someone born in the early '80s had a different childhood to someone born in the late '90s. For example, a lot of people born in the '80s grew up without the Internet. Whereas someone born in the late '90s has probably always had Internet access.

 

Anyway, I'm kind of getting off topic here. I suppose I'm considered a millennial because I was born in 1987.

 

I actually do eat a lot of cereal, and I've always considered myself extremely lazy. I guess there are a lot of people out there who are even worse than me if they can't muster the energy to clean a cereal bowl.

[melody strike 4]

I actually agree with a lot of these. Milk is annoying because you have to go to the freakin' store all the time to replenish. My wife and brother in law use so much milk I am going to resupply every 2-3 days versus the week it would last if I used it just for ingredients and casual drinking like I do. The stuff that is good for you is the worst tasting and the stuff that is the worst for you is the best tasting, and eggs and pancakes definitely are a much better and rewarding breakfast.

 

I'm also getting tired of all the propaganda to try and convince people that millenials are lazy. It's just crap created by the baby boomer generation to have an excuse not to listen to legitimate complaints that millenials are presenting by brushing all of their complaints under the rug as "whining" and "entitlement". Millenials are being called entitled for wanting to be able to get jobs that pay more than minimum wage after working for minimum wage for 5 years and not being able to pay for basic needs. So what do baby boomers do? Make more crap that says millenials are lazy so they have an excuse not to listen.

 

Don't feed the Baby Boomers. More importantly isn't this legendary click bait material as an asinine article that accrues ad revenue from both generation cohorts.

Edited February 25, 2016 by meIody-strike

[Guest]

Don't feed the Baby Boomers. More importantly isn't this legendary click bait material as an asinine article that accrues ad revenue from both generation cohorts.

 

I'm going to say this because it needs to be said, it might be a bit of a tangent and slightly off topic, and if so I apologize, I'm not trying to hijack this topic or anything but:

 

Baby boomers do this crap all the time. This is a never ending slander campaign that they have had going for years to brand the millenial generation as "lazy" and "entitled" so that it creates an excuse to not listen to any of their complaints. "Oh those millenials are so lazy and entitled, they just want the easiest path and free stuff, so don't listen to their opinions on the economy or the job market or anything like that." And frankly I am sick of it. I am literally at the point where I think the baby boomer generation needs to shut the hell up and stop trying to get people to blame the next generation for the problems THEY caused.

 

Literally if generation Y is "lazy and entitled" they were raised by baby boomers, put through their school programs and raised with their values. The baby boomer generation literally created the greatest debt in human history and enjoyed the time period where people had more wealth than even and squandered said wealth to themselves. And the worst part is: those of us in generation Y were told REPEATEDLY throughout childhood "go to school and get a great job!" We were basically pressured into going to college in the hopes we'd get the 50k a year job because that's what we were told. Then we did everything we were told, got out of school and lo and behold: there are no 50k a year jobs hiring young people with no experience. Then when told we have to get experience no one lets us get our foot in the door to even try.

 

We're told we have to work crappy minimum wage jobs that no longer pay ends meet for a period of time before we're "allowed" to get a job that pays more. Let me tell you something: I have had full time jobs since I was 18. I'm almost 25 now. Last year I got the FIRST job ever that paid more than minimum wage... By 1 dollar an hour. And it still has virtually nothing to do with my degree which is in COMPUTERS. Not even something obscure, something there is a "demand" for. And whenever I complain saying it's impossible to make ends meet, I am told by baby boomers that I should "Get a second job". Coming from a generation that actually made enough money at McDonalds to finance a car in their teen years, this is bullshit. We have people working FULL time WITH overtime being told to get a second job instead of raising the freakin' wages, opening up more high paying jobs to young people, or lowering the cost of living. So when I am told I am lazy, I am being told I am lazy because I want what the previous generation had for LESS work than me. I am lazy because I want to afford the necessities in life without having to be at work 24/7 to where I can never see my wife. I am told I am lazy because I want what everyone else has for the same amount of work. I am told I am lazy because I don't think it's fair to tell me as a kid to go to college to get a good job then when I grow up tell me "yeah we actually care more about experience than college" and leave me with a huge debt. I'm lazy because I have been baited and switched. I am lazy because I want to get home from 40 hours a week of work and not have my paycheck INSTANTLY spent on bills before I can even THINK about what the hell I am going to do for food this week.

 

And now I'm lazy because I don't eat fucking cereal? Literally this is getting ridiculous. It's bad enough that we get to pay for the mistakes of the previous generation, and they offer us little to no opportunities to advance in the world, but now they are just coming up with any excuse possible to insult us? Seriously? No offense to anyone who is a baby boomer if you don't think this way, and if you're on this site I'm sorry if you do not fall into the group of baby boomers who DO have this mentality, but seriously:

 

Screw you. We millenials just roll over and take this treatment so much, but not me and not anymore. I am from now on going to call this crap out whenever I see it.

 

By the way: my wife eats cereal every freakin' day. I don't eat it because I don't really like cereal. Someone's breakfast choice does not dictate their laziness and furthermore it's super mega convenient that the source of your research is hidden behind a paywall so no one can check your facts and no doubt you set the experiment up in a way to achieve the results you desired rather than unbiased results.

 

I find the notion to even suggest this is an indicator of anything beyond some stupid journalist having way too much free time and getting paid to write about literally nothing of importance to be offensive. Honestly laziness is working her job clearly. Because how is this news? She was too lazy to even put her sources in a place where people can check them. Unprofessional, lazy and  honestly not news worthy. How is people not wanting to wash a bowl even news? It must be nice to make 40,000 a year writing articles like this while those of us millenials you loathe so much are working all the hard labor minimum wage jobs that are beneath you.

[N.W. 3,619]

I stopped eating it in elementary school, even then I mostly had it without milk.

To me it's like eating Styrofoam (even with milk), it doesn't stick to my stomach and I end up hungry an hour or two later, might as well not have had breakfast at all.

Bagels are the superior breakfast food in my opinion. 

[ManaMinori 4,145]

Snip.

this is news, just as much as Hillary Clinton barking like a dog, fist fights breaking out in parliment, and kittens that have natural markings that like moustashes are news

[Guest]

this is news, just as much as Hillary Clinton barking like a dog, fist fights breaking out in parliment, and kittens that have natural markings that like moustashes are news

Fist fights breaking out in parliament may be news, but the rest is not news. Just because someone reports it doesn't mean it's news. This is just someone filling a quota of articles and getting their stab at millenials in at the same time. News is something that is relevant, something that people should know about. When there are so many other issues going on in the world and so many things happening right here in the US, the BEST story they could muster up was millenials don't like to eat cereal? I'm sorry, but I don't believe that.

[Wind Chaser 4,768]

I'm going to say this because it needs to be said, it might be a bit of a tangent and slightly off topic, and if so I apologize, I'm not trying to hijack this topic or anything but:

 

Baby boomers do this crap all the time. This is a never ending slander campaign that they have had going for years to brand the millenial generation as "lazy" and "entitled" so that it creates an excuse to not listen to any of their complaints. "Oh those millenials are so lazy and entitled, they just want the easiest path and free stuff, so don't listen to their opinions on the economy or the job market or anything like that." And frankly I am sick of it. I am literally at the point where I think the baby boomer generation needs to shut the hell up and stop trying to get people to blame the next generation for the problems THEY caused.

 

Literally if generation Y is "lazy and entitled" they were raised by baby boomers, put through their school programs and raised with their values. The baby boomer generation literally created the greatest debt in human history and enjoyed the time period where people had more wealth than even and squandered said wealth to themselves. And the worst part is: those of us in generation Y were told REPEATEDLY throughout childhood "go to school and get a great job!" We were basically pressured into going to college in the hopes we'd get the 50k a year job because that's what we were told. Then we did everything we were told, got out of school and lo and behold: there are no 50k a year jobs hiring young people with no experience. Then when told we have to get experience no one lets us get our foot in the door to even try.

 

We're told we have to work crappy minimum wage jobs that no longer pay ends meet for a period of time before we're "allowed" to get a job that pays more. Let me tell you something: I have had full time jobs since I was 18. I'm almost 25 now. Last year I got the FIRST job ever that paid more than minimum wage... By 1 dollar an hour. And it still has virtually nothing to do with my degree which is in COMPUTERS. Not even something obscure, something there is a "demand" for. And whenever I complain saying it's impossible to make ends meet, I am told by baby boomers that I should "Get a second job". Coming from a generation that actually made enough money at McDonalds to finance a car in their teen years, this is bullshit. We have people working FULL time WITH overtime being told to get a second job instead of raising the freakin' wages, opening up more high paying jobs to young people, or lowering the cost of living. So when I am told I am lazy, I am being told I am lazy because I want what the previous generation had for LESS work than me. I am lazy because I want to afford the necessities in life without having to be at work 24/7 to where I can never see my wife. I am told I am lazy because I want what everyone else has for the same amount of work. I am told I am lazy because I don't think it's fair to tell me as a kid to go to college to get a good job then when I grow up tell me "yeah we actually care more about experience than college" and leave me with a huge debt. I'm lazy because I have been baited and switched. I am lazy because I want to get home from 40 hours a week of work and not have my paycheck INSTANTLY spent on bills before I can even THINK about what the hell I am going to do for food this week.

 

And now I'm lazy because I don't eat fucking cereal? Literally this is getting ridiculous. It's bad enough that we get to pay for the mistakes of the previous generation, and they offer us little to no opportunities to advance in the world, but now they are just coming up with any excuse possible to insult us? Seriously? No offense to anyone who is a baby boomer if you don't think this way, and if you're on this site I'm sorry if you do not fall into the group of baby boomers who DO have this mentality, but seriously:

 

Screw you. We millenials just roll over and take this treatment so much, but not me and not anymore. I am from now on going to call this crap out whenever I see it.

 

By the way: my wife eats cereal every freakin' day. I don't eat it because I don't really like cereal. Someone's breakfast choice does not dictate their laziness and furthermore it's super mega convenient that the source of your research is hidden behind a paywall so no one can check your facts and no doubt you set the experiment up in a way to achieve the results you desired rather than unbiased results.

 

I find the notion to even suggest this is an indicator of anything beyond some stupid journalist having way too much free time and getting paid to write about literally nothing of importance to be offensive. Honestly laziness is working her job clearly. Because how is this news? She was too lazy to even put her sources in a place where people can check them. Unprofessional, lazy and  honestly not news worthy. How is people not wanting to wash a bowl even news? It must be nice to make 40,000 a year writing articles like this while those of us millenials you loathe so much are working all the hard labor minimum wage jobs that are beneath you.

I think this post is the winner of the world championship right here. I should save this somewhere.

 

I, too, am tired of this scapegoating; it's nothing but denial on the part of the older generations, and an unwilling to face up to the fact that young people today don't have as good economic prospects as they did by shifting the blame and denying that the problem even exists, which is easy to do if you already are in a good position. It's nothing new for a younger generation to want to live better off than their parents - too often we're the bad guys for wanting that. They often blame us for not wanting to work harder when the problem is that we are working just as hard for only half as much as they got. On top of that, what they consider to be "self-centered" or "narcissistic" behavior is actually common across all generations when they get into this age group, and even Boomers, X'ers and others were called the "me" generation before we were.

 

Not to mention we grew up in a culture that valued extreme individualism, had a collective messiah complex, invented such things as "participation awards", and fed us the regurgitated and obsolete message that "we could do anything if we tried", in lieu of more important values such as community, friendship, and problem-solving. Who do you think is to blame for that? (Hint: obviously not us; we're not the ones raising ourselves!) I think shifting the blame is the most extreme negative projection of this individualistic line of thinking. It pretty much incentivizes you to sit back and watch the world burn.

 

What sucks even worse is that there are people who actually live up to this stereotype who give them credence and us a bad name, and young people who pretty much drink the Kool-Aid and believe this crap about themselves and their own generation. It sucks that we get screwed and we're expected to just take it, but it's even worse that people actually believe it's meant to be that way. They wonder why people like Bernie Sanders are popular among this generation: that's exactly why.

Edited February 25, 2016 by Wind Chaser

[simba86 1,541]

they don't have time to clean dishes when they have to work 3 jobs to pay off their student loans, they are always on the go.

i'm not a big fan of it myself because i ate it every morning for like 20 years LOL

[Holiday Agnaktor 1,436]

I ... think I'm a millennial, but I just eat mah cereal every morning. Yes, it takes a lot of milk, yes I have to clean up afterwards, but I'm not lazy. I like milk. I like cereal. I'll probably continue eating it all my life. It's tasty. :grin2:

[cider float 2,538]

I like to put peanut butter, strawberry jam, or honey into my cereal. Yes I'm weird.

[melody strike 4]

@@Key Sharkz I know where you're coming from, however I don't agree.

Edited March 30, 2016 by Silvy Spoon

[Gernia 691]

I don't generally eat cereal because it doesn't fill me up as much as a sandwich or omelet does. It has nothing to do with cleaning up anything.

[Twilight Dirac 721]

I don't eat cereal because as a food, it is kind of nasty.  Its basically a collection of flavored croutons in milk.  Who thought that was a good idea?  And you're on the clock when you eat it, because it quickly turns into an unappealing mush.  Being lactose intolerant doesn't help matters, I am not purchasing gallons upon gallons of bloody lactaid milk to eat this poor excuse for food.

 

If I am going to spend the time and effort in the morning to prepare breakfast, I am going to make some real food.  I can prepare eggs, bacon, toast and orange juice in about 5 minutes and clean in about a minute, and bacon and eggs is a far superior breakfast than cereal.  Seriously, screw cereal.

 

 

 

The original article conveniently didn't link the source, which I am currently looking for with no luck apparently you have to pay to get the data.

 

 

To be fair, most research data is behind paywalls.  This is just the way most peer-reviewed journals are run.

Edited March 21, 2016 by Twilight Dirac

[Invincible 2,091]

That's actually a pragmatic form of thinking.

[Ianpiersonjdavis 513]

Unfortunately, being born in the early 90's means I'm a Millennial-so, I would like to add that love cereal.

Edited February 29, 2016 by Ianpiersonjdavis

[Rainboom Dash 1,056]

I do eat cereal sometimes, but I prefer toast if I have little time. (was born in late 90s)

[Odyssey 5,717]

Just how am I a bad person for disliking cereal? I don't ever eat breakfast anyway, and it's not because it's a matter of laziness. My mornings are really hectic since I have to start off the way very early, so as such I don't ever get the chance to have breakfast at all. And even when there is a time where I do have breakfast, I always avoid having cereal because I despise how soggy it is and how most flavours taste like cardboard.

 

It's a pretty unhealthy way of thinking to say that all millennials are bad people only because of how they deal with cereal. To be blunt, it's also somewhat petty. :/

Edited February 29, 2016 by Odyssey

[stellaluna 47]

I actually like some kinds of cereal quite a lot; though to be fair, I'm not the household member in charge of purchasing milk. 

I kind of think the whole thing about millenials being 'lazy' is more like we just prioritize things differently. We grew up in an era where computers and technology were becoming quickly prevalent, and many of us tend to have jobs that require us to prioritize technology and intellectual pursuits over unnecessary physical tasks. (especially students, ofc) so that's oftentimes much more important. Can we take a breakfast bar to class or eat it on the way? Can we easily read a book while consuming a bowl of cereal? Is it more important to do the dishes right now or finish that essay? Of course we all do procrastinate, but whether or not that comes into play doesn't really change the fact that streamlining things makes them a lot easier for everyone. 

[PinkieatHeart 208]

I used to eat cereal. I love Life cereal, Honey Bunches of Oats and Fruit Loops, especially. And I'd still eat them all the time, but my mom kept going after me, saying cereal's "so bad for you," and "it'll make you fat," and "if you feel sick, it's because you ate cereal." So I stopped. Partially cuz I'm trying to lose weight and be healthier, and there are probably healthier things to eat, and partially to keep my mom quiet.

 

However, as little kids, my siblings and I ate cereal every single morning. Eventually, we got sick of it, and took a few years hiatus before enjoying cereal again.

[cider float 2,538]

Can you blame the Millenials? They had this guy for President for two terms.

 

[KatonRyu 1,033]

First I had to look up what the hell a millennial even was. Then I wondered what millennials, which apparently includes me, actually do eat if they're too lazy to clean a cereal bowl. What could you possibly have for breakfast that does not require cleanup of some kind? A bag of chips? You'd have to throw away the bag, though, and walking to the trashcan is probably too much effort for those poor sods.

 

Seriously, just do your fucking dishes. It's not that hard. Speaking of which, I should probably go and do that right now...

[Leave a Whisper 703]

What a weird survey and a weird conclusion.