I'm sorry, anyone that puts in the milk first is just plain wrong (except in the specific instance that the milk is being warmed up separately from the cereal). In fact, if I was in charge I would make it the LAW that everyone has to put the cereal in first!

Discuss.

Milk. Just to annoy you though.

I put in the asparagus first.

I eat my cereal dry

I put them at the same time.

-Like a Boss-

Milk. And this is my logic:

In my formula of eating cereal, milk is the constant, cereal is the variant. I've never ate and had cereal left over and needed more milk. It's always that milk is left in the bowl and I need to add more cereal in so I don't waste the milk. So to measure how much I want to eat, the amount of milk becomes my measurable constant.

Secondly, usually take my cereal to eat at another room - to watch a DVD or start gaming. And out of the two, milk has to be put back in the fridge, but not the cereal. So by the time I leave the kitchen, I'd like to be done with the milk. And I take the cereal with me so that I can add more into the bowl to make sure no milk is left too.

I'm a very stubborn person who likes to do the same things the same way (a bit like Sheldon from Big Bang Theory), and I actually can't think of a time when I added cereal first in my life...

cereal then soy milk

that's nothing, i make it alternately and then i have it in layers! ha!  (not really)

I agree 100%. If someone were to put the milk in first they would end up with much more than they needed. It is always cereal first, then milk.

Cereol first. On the basis that I'd like to fill the bowl with as much cereal that the bowl can hold. Afterwards, I let the milk fill in the remaining saps of air. This would achieve maximum cereal capacity and I would get the sufficient amount of milk. Milk only serves to co-exist with a certain amount of cereal.

It would be nearly impossible to achieve maximum cereal capacity if I were to pour the milk first. If I pour the milk first, then I may not leave enough space for the maximum amount of cereal that the bowl can carry, because there is no visible limit for the amount of milk. The ideal amount of milk is directly dependent upon the amount of cereal, not the other way around. For that reason, milk should be poured 2nd to satisfy the already poured cereal.

The only time I pour the milk first is when I want to make a secret bowl. (In my household, it is immoral to eat cereal after noon). The milk can help serve to dampen the impact of the cereal and soften the sound.

People who pour their milk first are just like left-handed people. They just want to be difficult.