Cereal kills its crunch in pursuit of a lukewarm legacy, leaving behind a soggy throne for soup to usurp, if only in name.
Soup is cereal's future, a reality deferred by the refrigerator, where leftovers go to await their porridge-like fate, an oat-based obsolescence that time and temperature alone can consecrate.
Reheating cereal is an exercise in nostalgia, a desperate attempt to rekindle the flame of a bygone breakfast, now nothing more than a sad, milky gruel that masquerades as its former self, a breakfast broth in denial of its own soup-erity.
In the depths of a microwave-safe bowl, a bowl of cereal's last stand unfolds, a final, futile resistance against the inevitable slide into soupdom, where the spoon is mightier than the spooner, and the only constant is the cereal's gradual, grainy surrender.
Cereal is soup. It's just dry soup.
I heated up some cornflakes once. It was broth.
My aunt puts milk in her soup. She calls it cereal.
I'm eating chicken noodle soup with a spoon that says Frosted Flakes on it.
I’m standing there—bowl in hand, the milk’s a foggy tide, the cereal a snow‑drift of loops, a galaxy of crunch—when the microwave dings and suddenly the whole thing is a hot spring, a lava lamp, a sunrise in a teacup and
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