Did You Have Hot Milk on Your Cornflakes?

Did you have hot milk on your cornflakes as a kid?

I did.

I loved the taste and the way the flakes went all soggy and hot. Completely different to the crunchy crispy experience with cold milk.

I liked the same for Weetabix as well. Loads of sugar and hot milk. Weetabix turned into a sort of wheaty porridge if you stirred it like this. A kind of accidental Reddy Brek.

Speaking of Reddy Brek, the real thing was simply the most delicious hot cereal around. Its hard to describe how those million feather-light flakes, when soaked in hot milk, turned into such a delightful bowl of marvellousness. It really was central heating for kids like it said on the telly. My older brothers called it reggae brek cos' they were into soul music!

I never tried hot milk on Shredded Wheat although it seems natural when I think about it. Neither did I put it on Ricicles, Rice Crispies, Shreddies, Sugar Puffs or Puffa Puffa Rice.

I did however douse buttered bread in heated cow juice. Bread and Milk was simply the best tasting stuff in the galaxy and made from the three things you are likely to have had in the pantry: white bread, butter, milk and of course some sugar to taste. Some people called it pobs but I called it the best thing since sliced bread!

The only problem I ever had with hot milk on or in anything that went to my mouth was skin. Not my skin but any skin on the milk. I hated the stuff and if that creamy membrane was visible on the cereal, like a big white clot, I'd have to leave the room.

I'm still the same really, a skinophobe, a hater of skinned milk!

What do you recall being like with hot milk and cereals readers?