Weetabix.... Hot or Cold?

[timbloke]

This may sound like a stupid topic... and probably it is. But last week on tour one of the younger members looked shocked (almost offende) when I suggested that I eat Weetabix with cold milk. Don’t know why we managed to get onto the subject. Anyho, a debate ensued the source of which was should Weetabix be consumed with hot or cold milk… I’ve always had it cold, but a few of the band said they’d always had it warm… perhaps this is like Marmite……. Love it/hate it – you decide!!

[Naomi McFadyen]

lol!
I had this conversation this week with a couple people up north...

:lol:

[Euph-Bari]

WHAT!?!?!
Weetabix with warm milk? never heard of that before! :o

[Naomi McFadyen]

i didnt til a few days ago... wouldnt try it either

[timbloke]

I had this conversation this week with a couple people up north...

must be doing the rounds... some common link, a freind of a freind. its weird how these topics of conversations get around.


Weetabix with warm milk? never heard of that before!

neither had most of us on the coach. which was partly why i brought up this question, just to see if i was the weird one!! :hammer

[Darth_Tuba]

I used to have it warm when I was younger (bung it in the microwave). From being a teenager though I have always had it cold, with about half an inch of sugar on top and it it quick before it goes too soggy! Must be crunchy! Can never have too much sugar either! :shock: When I started uni I was confused by peeps from down south who had never had chips and gravy :shock: :o They've never lived!

[leisa]

How do u eat it cold??????? does it not say on the box heat???? ive neva heard any1 have it cold before!

[Cantonian]

Mut be hot and soggy but not all the milk absorbed or it is gluey.

[leisa]

when u eat it cold is it all hard???

[Euph-Bari]

i once ran outa milk on holiday so i tryed orange juice - not such a good idea :!: :roll:

[Naomi McFadyen]

:shock: lol!

ewww

:wink:

[Euph-Bari]

I was young!!! :P :lol:

[Naomi McFadyen]

kids! lol

gotta experiment with these things though... thats a joy of going to uni when ya a bit older than young :-P

:wink:

[leisa]

i mean does it not taste funny??

[dave jake]

Used to eat them with butter and Bovril on when coming in from work, abslutely LUSH :D :D

[leisa]

i cant believe you eat it cold!

[Roger Thorne]

To right Dave, grab a couple of Weetabix, a thin layer of lard and smother with Marmite.

Absolutely Delicious !! :?

. . . or you could just eat them with cold milk and loads of sugar.

:wink:

[super_sop]

i cant believe you eat it cold!
nothing better than 4 weetabix soaked in ice cold milk MMMmmmmm.
couldnt eat it any other way!

[Keppler]

why is there not an option for "Can't stand the stuff!" bleurgh!

P.s. who thinks about these things?

[On the Horn]

You people are sick with your cold milk.
Has to be hot , mix it with some sugar and wow its a fab meal - I also do this to cornflakes !!

[Roger Thorne]

Slightly off topic here.

My kids drink Ribena, but only with water. When I was younger I used to drink it with cold milk. The kids think that's disgusting, but does anyone else drink Ribena with milk?

:wink:

[Keppler]

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Rog, I'd expect something like that from the Twigge posse, but I am shocked...

bleurgh!

[Roger Thorne]

I'll take that as a NO then Neal!

:lol: :lol:

[leisa]

You people are sick with your cold milk.
Has to be hot , mix it with some sugar and wow its a fab meal - I also do this to cornflakes !! :)

[PeterBale]

I would only ever use cold milk.

I've never come across this myself, but I've heard someone say that weetabix used to be much more firm, and they used to spread them with jam and eat them like that :shock: :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[SammyT]

Oh no! it has to be with hot milk (microwaved). Very nice! Specially mid winter!!
My other half doesn't like anything cold if you can have it hot!!!

[Mike Saville]

I've hadit both ways (fnah, fnah!) but my preference is for cold, although you do need to have loads of milk becuase them little weeties don't arf soak it up!

[Big Twigge]

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Rog, I'd expect something like that from the Twigge posse, but I am shocked...

bleurgh!
I've tried that but it was absolutely 'orrible....like coke and icecream, if I wanted a brown cow ( it think thats what they're called) I'd get one out of a field!

[Big Twigge]

by the way, weetabix should always be eaten cold!

[On the Horn]

I think we need an official representive from the weetabix company in to settle this one.

P.S. I'll have a hot breakfast in the winter :D

[Jo Elson]

should Weetabix be consumed with hot or cold milk

I don't have it with either. I eat it with loads of butter on. An yes I have already been told that I am weird, but I like to call it different and individual. Although I don't actually see what's wrong with it, I mean people butter bread and toast etc! :!:

[floral_dance]

butter :shock: Hot milk and sugar lovely especially in the winter :wink:

[Euph-Bari]

COLD COLD COLD

[leisa]

HOT HOT HOT!!!!!

have u noticed most girls seem to be goin for hot
and u males for cold??

[Euph-Bari]

well girls are strange spieces!

[leisa]

erm - NO!!!!!!

u lot are the weird ones, cold weetabix.......

[Euph-Bari]

we could go for ever here :P :)

[leisa]

we were ok till u said girls were weird!!!! aroooh we could start a whole other thread....GIRLS vs Boys!!! :) :o

[Naomi McFadyen]

uh oh... not another girls V boys thread :?

I went for Cold! as all but what, 5 people have...

[groovy]

I've never tried hot weetabix, but they sound yummy!

I like to make my weetabix all gooey, then mix them with rice krispies. Gorgeous.

Those mini weetabix are good too.

I love Weetabix!!

[Pythagoras]

Isn't hot Weetabix one of those things you have when your changing from eating baby food to adult food? Not sure what that says about the maturity of some on here :wink:

[leisa]

no it's just nice hot!! especially in the winter! :)

[Naomi McFadyen]

thing is... a lot of people are talkin as if the Weetabix is hot or cold...
but it's not is it... it's the milk! lol :lol:

:wink:

[manx_yessir]

COLD!!

It's too gooey when hot. Has to be nice and crispy.

Slightly off topic but when I was younger my Dad always tried to give me bread soaked in warm milk when I was ill. :oops: he tried sometimes to get us to eat kippers and custard too.....yes together!! :oops: :roll:






Andrew Garrett
2nd Cornet
Liitleborough Public Brass Band

[Raspberry]

I love my weetabix cold.

"I never leave home without my Weetabix" without fail. Remember the advert???? :roll:

[rutty]

I haven't eaten Weetabix for about 20 years, but when I did it was always with cold milk - but I especially liked it if I was the one that opened a new pint of milk and got the creamy bit at the top all over my Weetabix. 8)

You don't get that anymore, especailly as the missus insists on Skimmed milk :cry:

[asteria]

I haven't eaten Weetabix for about 20 years, but when I did it was always with cold milk - but I especially liked it if I was the one that opened a new pint of milk and got the creamy bit at the top all over my Weetabix. 8)


Weetabix - Yeuch!! I'll eat it if i have to, but not through choice. I'm not really a breakfast person, very rarely eat cereal, i usually just go straight on to lunch!!

And creamy milk - double yeuch!! I love drinking milk, but can't stand the cream on top - think it's to do with a childhood memory of drinking some that had gone off!! :?

[timbloke]

i once did some work experience for the contractors that built the weetabix factory at burton latimer (kettering). one of the guys said he went on a tour of the factory and it put him off eating weetabix for life!!

[Darth_Tuba]

I think that's true of almost anything you eat or drink when you see it being made at the factory stage. I worked in a wines and spirits bottling place last year over summer, and that almost put me off the stuff! (Note almost! :wink: )

[rach marriott]

hmmm.. such decisions!!! I'd definitely eat weetabix with warm milk. But this is the girl who still eats farley's rusks with warm milk at the age of 23!!! :?

[leisa]

hmmm.. such decisions!!! I'd definitely eat weetabix with warm milk. But this is the girl who still eats farley's rusks with warm milk at the age of 23!!! :?

ooh we had a bag of those on whit friday!!! neva had them b4 but they were nice!

[geordiecolin]

I'm definitely a Hot man in the winter, nowt to get you get you warmed up like hot weetabix! although you need more milk and more sugar than normal!!

Will eat them cold in summer.

Hot milk and Grape Nuts is gorgeous too...

What Naomi said about students experimenting, try these 2 gorgeous :? recipes:

1) Pasta a la Gravy..... Surprisingly nice
2) Poulet avec Weetabix - chicken breast in a casserole dish, add an italian style tomato sauce (non of this out of a jar rubbish, home-made if you please!!), crumble in a weetabix, stir well, add a weetabix topping, cook until cooked!!

[rach marriott]

ooh we had a bag of those on whit friday!!! neva had them b4 but they were nice!

They're ace!

Rusks definitely rule!!! :D

[timbloke]

I had this response from weetabix!!!

Dear Mr Benson
Many thanks for your enquiry and for the referral to your site.
Weetabix hot or cold, is a subject aired by consumers on many occasions and no doubt the debate will run. We know many enjoy Weetabix with hot milk, especially in winter while others prefer the immediate crunch with a little cold milk. Some, like one of your members, prefer to use it as a savoury biscuit topped with butter, cream and or preserves. It all goes to show the versatility of Weetabix!
Whichever method is chosen, we hope you all continue to enjoy Weetabix for many years to come.
Thanks once again for getting in touch. It was great to hear from you.


Yours sincerely

Paul Blomley
Consumer Services Officer
Weetabix Limited
tel. +44 (0) 1536 722181
fax +44 (0) 1536 724785


cool eh?

[Roger Thorne]

Watch this space:

I can see the tMP Band appearing in the next Weetabix Advert!

Nice one Tim.

:wink:

[super_sop]

nice 1 timbloke

[geordiecolin]

ONLY timbloke.................

[Straightmute]

I'm more of a Shredded Wheat sort of person. Stays crunchy for longer.

D

[michellegarbutt]

COLD
place weetabix in dish, pour cold milk AROUND NOT OVER weetabix sprinkle with loads of sugar. Must be eaten quickly so bottom of weetabix is soggy but top is crispy

[craigyboy1]

There was an article in a newspaper about strange food combos a couple of months back.
Can't recall seeing weetabix and marmite or ribena and milk in there but kippers and strawberry jam was there and sandwiches on carnation milk to name but two :? :?
Cheese and jam sadwiches are my own favourite :D

[Moy]

Weetabix aghhhhhhhh
Leave it in the box.

[Sellers_Bird]

cold milk all the way...even better with nesquik milk *strawberry or chocolate or banana* but ALWAYS cold!!

[DublinBass]

Weetabix

Is this more of your blasted Yorkshire Slang??? ;)

Seriously what are Weetabix? A type of cereal?

[TIMBONE]

"When I were a lad", (which I wouldn't have said then 'cause I was in Zumerzet), I ate cereal, (don't touch the stuff now). In the Winter months, Mummy always served it with warm milk, and the 'cream of the crop' was WEETABIX - the warm milk infused into the wheat flakes, and with a careful manouvering of the spoon, produced a kind of WEETASOUP - mmmmmm - o to return to my chidhood.

[ju33les]

Before I went off milk , used to eat Weetabix with a small amount of hot milk and loads of sugar, so that it had the consistency of clay.
Don't touch the stuff now.
Have also been known to eat it "dry" with jam on top........................

[flugelgal]

I don't like milk either. I used to eat my weetabix scrunched up with LOTS of sugar on top. Haven't voted because there's not an option for me.

[lynchie]

I don't like milk either.

WHAT?? What is with these people??? Milk is easily the pinnacle of all animal-juice products!

Anyway, I always ate my weetabix with cold milk, and try to get them all down before they go soggy... pretty difficult when going for manly 3-bix brekkie...

[flugelgal]

WHAT?? What is with these people??? Milk is easily the pinnacle of all animal-juice products!
Maybe you were never forced to drink free warm milk when you were in primary school. That is what did it for me...

[PeterBale]

Friend of mine was always telling how "in the good old days" weetabix used to be much stronger, and how they would spread them with jam and eat them like that :shock:

[TuTuKu]

Mmmmm weetabix! Cold milk & buckets of sugar for me please.


They have to be eaten just before they get to the soggy mush stage, then they are lovely!! mmmm

[akwarose]

ARRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
weetabix are the root of all evil!!!
DESTROY THEM!!

[Dawnys_flug]

Doesn't anyone have it covered with tonnes of sugar then pour boiling water over it and mush it up? That's the only way i've ever had it!!!

[PeterBale]

ARRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
weetabix are the root of all evil!!!
DESTROY THEM!!
To amend a popular misquotation, that should read "The love of weetabix is the root of all evil!!!"

[flugelgal]

Friend of mine was always telling how "in the good old days" weetabix used to be much stronger, and how they would spread them with jam and eat them like that :shock:
They were right, Peter. It used to take a lot more effort to "scrunch them up" than it does now. (Although I was a lot younger and possibly more feeble in those days...)

[jameshowell]

I used to love them when I scrunched them up, added milk, and then 'whisked' with my spoon until they took on a porridge-like gloopy form...


...Boooooooooootiful... :-D

[mikelyons]

Need 'both' option on there folks. I usually have them cold in warm weather and hot in cold weather but never, never, never with sugar. Sometimes with honey if I need a sugar fix, and always with a full pint of proper milk - that way it doesn't go gloopy.


Roger, I'm with you on the Ribena thing. We regularly had Ribena milk shakes when we were little, but I can't drink it now it's too sweet. :( (In fact even lemon juice is too sweet for me these days :) )

[Naomi McFadyen]

I used to love them when I scrunched them up, added milk, and then 'whisked' with my spoon until they took on a porridge-like gloopy form...




...Boooooooooootiful... :-D




I feel sick at the thought of that! :|


Cold for me btw.... with milk.... when they are crunchy they are nicer... too soggy is yuky :?

[Superstar Horn player]

Weetabix with cold milk?!?! Its probably like eating cornflakes with hot milk! Ive ALWAYS eaten me weetybangs with hot milk-they go nice and soggy then!

[brassybabe]

I'm one of the minority that eats it dry with loads of butter on it. Lovely!!!!!

[DublinBass]

This may sound like a stupid topic... and probably it is. But last week on tour one of the younger members looked shocked (almost offende) when I suggested that I eat Weetabix with cold milk. Don’t know why we managed to get onto the subject. Anyho, a debate ensued the source of which was should Weetabix be consumed with hot or cold milk… I’ve always had it cold, but a few of the band said they’d always had it warm… perhaps this is like Marmite……. Love it/hate it – you decide!!
This thread (and the fact that Diana's band rehearses by the Weatabix Factory in Burton Latimer) peaked my interest, so I bought a box of Weatabix. Can't stand it!!

I'll be bringing the 3/4 of the remaining box to Pontins, so you can have it for breakfast if you want, Weatabix boy :D

[Nuke]

Wheres the whats a weetabix option??

[six pints]

I'm one of the minority that eats it dry with loads of butter on it. Lovely!!!!!

my mate does that.

i have mine warm with raisens in (raisons, raisins, raisuns, raisans???) urm with sultanas in!!

[lynchie]

This thread (and the fact that Diana's band rehearses by the Weatabix Factory in Burton Latimer) peaked my interest, so I bought a box of Weatabix. Can't stand it!!

I'll be bringing the 3/4 of the remaining box to Pontins, so you can have it for breakfast if you want, Weatabix boy :D
errr... any chance of you saving some for a poor studenty trombone player??

[DublinBass]

errr... any chance of you saving some for a poor studenty trombone player??

Whatever Timbloke doesn't want you can have, but he gets first dibs :)