Millennials ‘too lazy to eat cereal’, report suggests

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

That's how you know you are old.

Glutton intolerance is the new Lactose intolerance.

The typo of gluten made this post even funnier (and even more true!) than it would have been.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

I'm lactose intolerant. Cut me some slack.

I suggest almond milk.

It's slowly destroying our environment with the amount of water required to produce it, but would you rather destroy the environment or have moobies?

Case closed.

[Locke]

I abandoned breakfast entirely since I was 12. Breakfast is for chumps and the weak.

And that doesnt even take into consideration that the box has more nutritional value than the cereal.

Make it to lunch ya bunch of babies!

[peter12]

Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler

Kasha is the best. Does she bring it into bed for you like Frank Costanza?

Ugh eating in bed is the worst, but she knows how to make just the way I like it.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

We're soft. The softest people to ever walk the planet. Are millennials softer than boomers? Both generations have been raised in environments of such affluence and comfort that there's not much difference. But millennials are one more generation removed from hunger and genuine toil, so yes, on the whole they're more coddled than their parents.

I don't know that that's true. Millennials are currently on pace to make less than their parents, less likely to own cars, go to school longer, are more likely to purchase used or secondhand goods, etc., etc. The level of prosperity that boomers enjoyed is reflected in their consumption habits vs. milennials, and I'd say that's a more accurate measurement of entitlement, softness, etc.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Locke

I abandoned breakfast entirely since I was 12. Breakfast is for chumps and the weak.

And that doesnt even take into consideration that the box has more nutritional value than the cereal.

Make it to lunch ya bunch of babies!

Breakfast gets the engine burning.

[The Yen Man]

Baby boomers had it the easiest out of any generation. They're the last ones who have any right to complain about other generations being entitled or lazy.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by The Yen Man

Baby boomers had it the easiest out of any generation. They're the last ones who have any right to complain about other generations being entitled or lazy.

Boomers had it tougher than millennials as kids - a lot tougher. Their parents were poor and uneducated by today's standards. Boomers had more siblings, and with one income being the norm, families had a lot less money to go around. Only the wealthiest of families ever went on an airplane vacation. Dads were feared figures of authority. Almost all parents spanked their kids. If kids wanted to buy stuff once they were older than about 12, they had to get a job and pay for it out of their own pocket. Most boomers were kicked out of the house within a year or two of finishing high school.

But they've had it easier as adults, especially the ones who got an education. And their retirement is going to be bliss compared to the generations that follow.

[PepsiFree]

Basically Baby Boomers ruined society because they had it easy as adults but were still dinks to their kids, leaving a whole generation (Gen X) to raise their kids with the mindset of "I'm not going raise my kids like my parents raised me" which in turn have grown up to be Millennials.

Way to go Baby Boomers.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by nik-

Breakfast gets the engine burning.

Sure, just like Southerners wake up to gravy and grits. Its like eating concrete first thing in the morning.

The South shall NOT rise again!

What you eat is just as important as eating.

[VladtheImpaler]

Originally Posted by Locke

Sure, just like Southerners wake up to gravy and grits. Its like eating concrete first thing in the morning.

The South shall NOT rise again!

What you eat is just as important as eating.

Yes, dumplings are the key to a long life.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Locke

Sure, just like Southerners wake up to gravy and grits. Its like eating concrete first thing in the morning.

The South shall NOT rise again!

What you eat is just as important as eating.

Well in no way did I suggest that eating #### is good. Just that skipping breakfast is not.

[Mr.Coffee]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Bollocks. We're shaped by the world we live in, and the world changes. You really think you could hop into a time machine and happily spend a week in the shoes of your great-grandparents? That the relentless toil wouldn't leave you shocked and exhausted.

For more than two hundred years people in the West have been getting progressively more comfortable and secure. Each generation has had it easier than the one before it in real and tangible ways. Why do you think really old people are often thrifty to the point of neurosis? Because many of them remember going to bed hungry when they were children. Or having to share one pair of shoes with a sibling. You don't think that shapes you?

People were tougher in the past because they had to be. They lived in more brutal times. Their wants and insecurities were over basic needs. For most, being lazy meant going hungry. The amount of grinding labour just to prepare food every day, keep dishes and clothes and body clean in a home with no electricity or running water, would break the average person in Canada today.

How long do you think the posters on this board would last in the trenches? Ridden with lice, chasing rats off our food. Hurling ourselves into a storm of steel and flame month after month, year after year, while around us our friends were blown to pieces?

We're soft. The softest people to ever walk the planet. Are millennials softer than boomers? Both generations have been raised in environments of such affluence and comfort that there's not much difference. But millennials are one more generation removed from hunger and genuine toil, so yes, on the whole they're more coddled than their parents.

As for cereal, everyone has time for a bowl of cereal. Whether they care to do other things with that time instead is a different matter. Me, I like sitting at a table with other people for meals. Breakfast in our house is a 30-40 minute affair - cereal, toast, fruit. Pancakes and bacon on weekends. I find it an enjoyable way to ease into the day.

Every generation has it easier yes, but that is not a comment as to the nature of people but the environment they find themselves in. These are different things. To say that people are softer now because airplanes fly and computers turn on, while my great ancestor had it harder because they were out walking uphill both ways- that may all be true but doesn't speak to character, work ethic, perseverance, determination, any of these intangible human characteristics.

If we scooped up millenials and put them in a time machine and moved them to 1950, my assertion is that they'd be just like the baby boomer generation is and was- because people are people.

edit- and to add, the assumption based on your analysis would be that the current trajectory of humankind is to eventually become stationary puddles of blob that are immobile and incapable of thinking because they're so lazy. I don't believe this to be the case.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by nik-

Well in no way did I suggest that eating #### is good. Just that skipping breakfast is not.

But is it better to skip, or eat s*** food, if those are the choices you leave yourself with?

I've been trying to get back to my premium weight so I've stopped buy breakfast. I've been doing a cold-oatmeal thing. Some cut up fruit (usually apples or bananas), maybe a 1/4 cup of oatmeal, a few table spoons of yogurt, a couple dashes of cinnamon. Put it in the fridge overnight and take it to work with me. It's pretty delicious. I don't know how good it is for me, but I'm 99% sure it's better than the egg sandy.

On the topic of egg sandys, are they really bad for you if it's not some mass produced chemical egg and processed everything? Like if I make an egg sandwich at home (sometimes do the night before and heat it in the toaster oven at work), is that bad for me? It's just 2 eggs, a slice of cheese and a slice of ham with the english muffin (sometimes some peppers or tomatoes). Seems like a pretty standard breakfast minus some fruit.

[Fuzz]

McDonalds actually uses real cracked eggs for their sandwich(well, som of them) sand it is fairly decent on calories. Probably one of their better menu items. But not something you should eat every day.

[Sainters7]

Haha I love how this thread just turned into a cereal/breakfast discussion..

And as someone who practically lived on cereal growing up, but then became lactose intolerant in their 20's, it's also a tease. I really, really miss cereal. Poor a little out for your boy..

[Coach]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

McDonalds actually uses real cracked eggs for their sandwich(well, som of them) sand it is fairly decent on calories. Probably one of their better menu items. But not something you should eat every day.

Even those douse their muffins in butter and have processed cheese (not to mention the sausage/bacon).

Either way, my theory on fast food in general is that the burgers/sandwiches, while not good for you, aren't the big problem in the meal. Its the fries/hashbrowns and sodas that really kill you.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

edit- and to add, the assumption based on your analysis would be that the current trajectory of humankind is to eventually become stationary puddles of blob that are immobile and incapable of thinking because they're so lazy. I don't believe this to be the case.

I'm thinking more likely a divergence into morlocks and eloi. H.G. Wells was onto something.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler

Yes, dumplings are the key to a long life.

If I could have dumplings for breakfast I would.

[polak]

Originally Posted by Locke

If I could have dumplings for breakfast I would.

You can!

I've had sushi as my first meal many times in University. Go after class. Yum.