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July 23, 2006
It has been hot, here in Seattle. To us Pacific Northwesterners who often must don fleece coats and rain hats on the fourth of July, the temperatures have been hot. Africa-hot. Thank-god-we-got-air-conditioning-three-weeks-ago hot. Let’s-freeze-root-beer-in-ice-cubes hot.
(Root Cubes! Add to massive serving of ice cream for optimal flavor.)
I bought this awful kiddie pool a while back, it took so much effort to inflate its various parts I completely gave up on it and so for the last few weeks we’ve had this deflated hunk of plastic in the backyard that JB loved to make fun of. But this weekend I redeemed myself by scissoring off the entire top “canopy” section, which left a perfectly decent pool base. When Saturday got muggy beyond all reason, we put Riley in:
He was definitely a fan. Sadly, Dog had to be sequestered inside the house while the pool contained water, so badly did she want to splash and dig and rip it to pieces with her claws.
Today we made our first foray to a local beach. We’d lived here for what, four years now? And we’ve never gone to a beach to go swimming. I didn’t even think Lake Washington was swimmable, honestly. I thought people who actually got in the water and swam were wearing wetsuits, or were drunk, or had a seven-inch protective layer of blubber, or something.
I guess my own blubber finally worked in my favor today because that water felt amazing. It was just a knockout day, sunny and blue-skied and the lake sparkled and even the proximity of the I-90 overpass was sort of nice. We took Riley in the water and he went nuts, splashing and kicking and generally having a ball.
(Once again the photogenic mother-child moment escapes me.)
Man. Summer, you know? It goes by way too fast, every year.
This was a crazy weekend in terms of keeping Riley out of various dangers, I wrote about his current stage here, but suffice to say the boy is constantly moving, curious, pulling himself up on various things, and turning me into a nervous wreck.
A rare moment of sitting still.
Peeking at me from behind the sofa.
On a final note, I’d like to ask you something. Actually, let me show you something first:
Now let me recall for you a recent conversation I had with JB.
JB: I don’t like eating cereal out of these green bowls.
Me: Why?
JB: They’re too…fancy.
Me: I got them at Target for like three dollars. What do you mean, fancy.
JB: They’re too – I end up eating too much cereal when I use them.
Me: So put less cereal in.
JB: They’re just weird.
Me: They’re nicer than our plain white bowls, I think.
JB: I think most people would agree with me.
Me: That they’re…weird?
JB: Ask your journal readers.
Me: Fine.
JB (as an afterthought): But make sure to ask the guys.
W the proverbial F? Are the green glass bowls weird? Do you fear them? Would you be hesitant to fill one with cereal? If you’re a guy, does the white bowl reinforce your manhood in some inexplicable manner?
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Hmmm…that’s an interesting question. I don’t think the bowl is too “fancy”; maybe he’s more comfortable with opaque bowls for eating. I personally like eating cereal out of deeper bowls, like the green one, for some strange reason. I have some that we got at Ikea for .40 a piece. Not that that’s what you asked for…
Cute boy, hott mom. Love the beach pictures — we’re burning up down here too! (I was so hot, I cut off all my hair. I’m wondering if I will regret this in the winter…)
well….they aren’t weird, per se….but i don’t see them as cereal bowls. they remind me more of desert bowls. and as for eating too much cereal out of them? you know that commercial on tv where the guy is eating cheerios out of a SERVING bowl?? ya, that’s what my husband does. for real. and not to be pissy or anything…i’m not sure i like the green bowls…they are kind of um…70’s. but i will say that they green bowls look “safer” for eating cereal out of….they are deeper, and thus less likely to have milk slop over the edges…right??
Huh. I like the green bowl too… I’m with Sara, I like the deeper bowls. And sorry, JB, but my husband will eat cereal out of just about anything. A flat salad bowl. A deep ice cream bowl. The smallest metal bowl that goes with the mixer. A large ramekin. And that’s just what I’ve seen…
Hey! It’s hot up here in Bellingham too. And the National Weather Service just issued an “Air Stagnation Advisory.” Ugh. No breeze blowing, and accumulating-pollutants too! I guess I need to get out in a kayak tomorrow.
On the bowls – I wouldn’t say the green bowls are weird, but they wouldn’t be my choice for cereal. I’d choose the white bowls too. Cereal needs to be eaten from white bowls – they’re more *pure*… like the white milk that you put on the cereal. Green glass bowls might work for a small side-salad, or shrimp cocktail or something.
And hot down here in Vancouver BC…
I would eat anything out of either bowl. Perhaps as we have a bowl crisis up here and I have not remedied yet. Either bowl will do the job!
My guy drinks his coffee out of a two cup measuring cup. I asked him if it’s because he’s measuring his caffeine intake, but it turns out he just likes the handle. Boys are weird. I prefer the green because they’re deeper, therefore less potential spillage.
They both look like candy dishes to me.
Hmmm…I like the green bowls…but in a kind of retro 70s funky way. The better to eat rhubarb crumble out of….(or some other kind of grandmotherly dessert).
I’m a guy. I think JB’s being weird. That said, the green bowl looks like a salad bowl, while the white one looks more fit for cereal. *That* said, most of my bowls are closer in depth to the green one than to the white one, and I use them for cereal, soup, pasta… actually I eat out of those bowls most of the time.
So my husband agrees with JB he would not eat out of the green bowl, too fancy. He likes the depth but the bowl…I like the bowl, the white too shallow for me, but I have heavy red ceramic bowls. The hubs likes red, he won that shopping argument. I just use the kids plastic bowls, their easier to clean, really.
I agree that the bowl exudes 70s funk, but I like that kind of thing. Use it as a jello mold and have some fruit cocktail floating in it. Classy!
I, uh, agree with JB. I wouldnt eat anything out of those green bowls. But then, we have fake willoware china from Kroger, so maybe you shouldn’t ask me. :D
Um, the green bowl isn’t weird but I agree with JB – I’d rather have cereal in the white bowl but then I object to drinking tea out of a cup that isn’t white citing it as “just not the same ….”
BTW, brilliant shot of Riley in the pool, absolutely delightful.
Hi! I am delurking to agree with JB. I think the bowls remind me of when I was a kid, and I wouldn’t have been allowed to touch them in a “grownup” house jeje. Maybe that is why he thinks they´re fancy? Anyway they look a bit big, and I would also TOTALLY end up eating too much cereal out of them.
By the way, your son is incredibly cute!
I don’t think the green bowl looks weird, but it also doesn’t look like a bowl for cereal. Its too deep or something, the proportions are off for cereal bowl. I think JB also has a point about eating too much out of them. Putting less in isn’t the point. You tend to fill a bowl to a certain height, if its a deep bowl you’ll end up putting more in and therefore eating more. If that makes sense.
Ok, I’m stuck in the middle. While I like the depth of the green bowls for cereal, the fact that they’re green and textured kind of weirds me out. For cereal. I like them, don’t get me wrong, but I’m not sure I would eat anything out of them. I’d eat cereal out of the white bowls.
I don’t want my cereal spread out over a saucer – I prefer deep bowls. The same goes for ice cream, but I think the texture would be problematic in the attempt to consume every melted drop. (Not that I do that.)
I would go with the green.
I actually went, OOH, when I saw the green bowls, simply for the depth. Shallow bowls don’t work with cereal, at least for me. My Krispies go sloshing over the edge. The texture doesn’t bother me. The color might, if it gives the milk an odd green tinge.
I like the green bowls better, like everyone else, because they’re deeper. I have Fiestaware bowls that I don’t eat cereal out of because they are too shallow and the milk goes everywhere. They do seem more like china, I guess, because they’re opaque? But I would definitely eat cereal out of the green one over the white one.
My husband uses big pasta bowls rather than our “fruit/cereal,” which is shaped more like your green one. I think that the folks at Dansk would slap his wrist.
Additionally: “W the proverbial F?” is surely the funniest thing I will read all day. :)
You did an amazing job of utilizing Riley for buttocks/thigh region coverage if I do say so myself! I read daily…speak little. I can only say I adore your child from afar….he’s to die for sweetness. His faces….make me grin even on a Monday morning when I don’t want to go to work! Also love your comment preview….it’s exactly what I’m looking at already but intriquing because it’s like phantom typing….
Sorry… I’m with JB. It looks like a candy bowl my grandmother put out for “company.”
Then again, G doesn’t like OUR Targetware either. I got that cheapy stoneware that is vaguely reminiscent of Fiestaware thinking that as we broke the dishes we could simply add more in a new color… see? It’s hip, it’s funky. He hates both colors equally. And the cereal bowls.
I don’t really think that the green bowls are weird, but that is totally a conversation I have had with my husband – but ours are the red bowls. I think the answer to all your questions is this: men are weird.
I don’t think the green bowls are too fancy, but I know that I have my own favorite cereal bowl (and my favorite ceramic mug for when I eat dry cereal as a snack), so I know what JB means. My favorite bowl is a lot like the white bowl, except it’s blue. Someone left it behind at my house in college. I love it. No idea why.
I think cereal would look prettier in the white bowls than in the green ones. The green ones would be gorgeous for salad.
I have that target bowl in both green and blue.
My hubby’s opinion: The shape is more important, I don’t give a crap that it’s green, but it has higher edges. The white one is too shallow for me, the cereal would be everywhere.
i dont like the white ones for eating cereal because i like to drink the left over milk and with a bowl like that i’d be changing my clothes before i ever walked out the door for work. for cereal? gotta have a straight solid edge :P
My husband is not only weird about our bowls, but also about our silverware. Huh? I didn’t think they noticed stuff like that. I really like your green Target bowls.
The green bowls are cute, but I agree with JB. The white bowl is definitely cereal and the green for salad. Just think of all the yummy croutons you can pile on top and not have to worry about flipping them onto the table when you try to mix in this salad dressing.
The white bowl look more girly, to me and because of the lack of depth, I’d think it would make eating cereal somewhat of a headache.
Yes, the green bowls are weird for eating cereal. They DO seem too fancy. Somehow cereal ought to be eaten out of plain white ceramic bowls. I don’t know why this is so, but it is. What beach did you go to?
Totally agree with the man. Green bowls have to go. Sorry, Mom.
The green looks like a salad bowl to me, and the white looks like a dessert bowl. Ice cream, in particular. I would probably pick the white over the green for cereal. This is the shape I like to eat cereal from: http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/sr=1-6/qid=1153747770/ref=sr_1_6/602-1162191-1171818?%5Fencoding=UTF8&asin=B00078SNS6
I think way too much about bowls. That being said, I have definitely eaten cereal out of coffee cups and glasses before.
The green bowl is a CLASSIC cereal bowl so as to help keep the milk inside the bowl and on the cereal where it belongs. The fact that Mr. Non-Fancypants doesn’t possess self control in the Peanut Butter Captain Crunch dept. isn’t the bowl’s fault. The white bowl, however, is the CLASSIC soup bowl. Both are too fancy for our house as they are made of glass and not plastic. In my opinion, of course…;)
Eating utensil preferences are weird. They don’t necessarily make sense because they’re so subjective. For instance, I have a favorite spoon for eating ice cream with that I have had since I liberated (read: stole) it from my parents’ house when I moved out. I used that same spoon through most of my childhood, and that is the spoon for eating ice cream with. No other spoon will do.
Why? Who can say? I just like the shape of it, and how it gets the exact right amount of ice cream for one bite.
The hubby says definitely the white bowl. No other explanation as to why, though…
White bowls are fancier. And I own the same swimsuit you do.
Warcrygirl made me laugh with her use of the phrase “CLASSIC cereal bowl”. :) I actually don’t like either pictured bowl for cereal, though the green is prime for ice cream or soupy things. And I agree that it is absolutely imperative to have those kind of high, thin-rimmed sides for drinking the leftover milk, which is a must when having cereal. However, where the white bowl is too shallow and would allow for way too much sloppage, the green bowl is too deep and would result in too much soggage. My own cereal bowls are right in the middle between the two extremes: no wide rims, not too shallow, and just deep enough that they prevent overflow without allowing for soggy, mushy cereal at the end, which is the kiss of death for the whole cereal-enjoying experience. That being said, I would choose the green bowl over the white bowl in a heartbeat. That white bowl is absolutely no use at all when it comes to cereal. And on other notes, yes, Riley is adorable, AND I absolutely must hate you (HATE!) for looking less like a mom than I do, despite your actually being a mother and my being not. I resent your sveltness, your lack of thunder thighs, and your glorious upper arms. Did I mention the hate? ::sigh:: kd
First, I’m going to confess that I’m commenting without reading all the other comments first. Cuz.. well.. there’s a *lot*.
I like the green bowl. I like big oversized bowls no matter what I’m eating, to prevent spillage and message. When I make myself a big salad at home, I make and eat it in a mixing bowl so I can mix up the ingredients and dressing without throwing salad and cucumbers all over my kitchen.
Riley makes me SQUEEEEEE!
I haven’t read any of the above comments but frankly, while I like the green bowl, I wouldn’t eat cereal from it. I think the greenish tinged milk would be off-putting. If there was no milk in the bowl, then yeah, I’d use it. But anything liquid? Nah.
The white bowl seems like cereal would just spill out of the edge all over the place. I find it…confusing, I guess, that he is afraid of the green bowl. Is it because it’s clear? Is that it? Too deep? Cereal is meant to be eaten in deep bowls, IMO.
I don’t feel comfortable with the green bowls for cereal, but I feel even less comfortable with the white bowls, which are too shallow. The green bowls are insufficiently Morningish for cereal. Also, I think they are insufficiently opaque.
Green bowl all the way!!! And this really does prove that DANG, men are weird.
I vote for Karamarie’s bowls. Those look perfect for eating cereal!
The best cereal bowl I ever had was an old plastic drink cup from a University of Minnesota Hocley Game back in the early 80’s. Those cups were primo!! Wide enough mouth to get a spoon into it, yet high sides and perfect for drinking leftover milk out of.
The green bowls look like salad or ice cream or jello bowls. The white ones would do if you couldn’t find cupboard space for Karamarie’s bowls.
Ok Sundry, way to prove that we’re all weird cat ladies with super-specific bowl preferences (for the record: I’d put a candle in the green bowl; eat salad from the white).
But more importantly, I second the hurrah for key Riley placement in the beach photo! Your legs look hot, momma.
Cereal bowl shmereal bowl. Pour the milk into the box and eat. Quickly.
It’s funny how when babies become toddlers their little heads start to look like bruised apples.
My hubbie would say the green bowl looks more like an ice cream bowl. Maybe your hubbie is too strong, so he thinks, that he might break that dainty bowl in his strong hands?! LOL.
It’s been wicked hot here in Mass as well. We did the cook-the-egg-on-the-drive-way test. I wrote it in my blog, believe it or not. I know, must not have anything else better to write about.
I sent this link to my husband and asked for his imput. He said the green bowl would be the better of the two because: The white one is too shallow, especially for a child; the green is deeper there for easier to scoop out of — less spillage and holds more ceral.
If I were to choose, I’d choose the green one as well. Mostly for the “holds more cereal” reason.
You have air conditioning? I’m jealous.
I definitely like deeper bowls when eating anything that also includes liquid. I’m maybe not so crazy about the color or style of the green ones, but I’d still choose them over the white for the anti-spill factor.
Also, everytime I visit your blog and see pictures of Riley I think surely he must be the cutest baby ever had. Pretty much. At least until I have one of my own someday. But for now, definitely the cutest.
What blubber? I wouldn’t eat out of either of those bowls, especially the green one — there’s just something about it. I’d use it as a candy dish, though. We have Corelle (just try and break it — my mom did, and she had to throw that plate down THREE times in order to get it to break in half!). My boys would eat cereal out of a medium Rubbermaid container. A Cool Whip tub works nicely, too…
The Main Squeeze has voted and says that “you should never put milk in bowls that you can see through. it’s just weird.” so he’d agree with JB that the green bowl isn’t something that should be used for cereal. We both like the shape and “portion size” of the green bowl, but the see-through green-ness speaks more to salads (fruit, veggie, jell-o) and dribbly desserts than Froot Loops and Cap’n Cruch. Worthy to note that it’d be the same feeling if the bowl were seethrough blue, or red (egad!) or tan or anything else.
LOVE the shot of the little dude peeking around the couch.
I almost bought one of those green bowls for use as an ashtray at a barbecue. I don’t think they’re “weird”, but they don’t strike me as cereal bowls. They really remind me of candy dishes my grandpa had.
On another note, Riley is absolutely too cute for words. My fiance always knows when I’m looking at your site, because I start making playing-with-a-baby noises.
Well I tend to like deeper bowls, so I’d vote for the green, except that lately I’m on a use-the-shallower-bowls kick because I realized we were using our deep bowls for everything and that meant we filled up our dishwasher like every two days. We are a family of three – it just seemed ridiculous to be running the damned dishwasher every other day. Finally, realized it was the bowls. Sure, they are a pleasing depth etc, but damn do they take up room.
Also, here in Oregon it was hot as hell this week-end and I came to work this morning to an email from the building administrating telling us the cooling system had gone out over the week-end. It’s about 90 degrees in my office. I’m giving them until 10:00 to fix it and then I’m going home. We are just not prepared to handle nasty heat in the NW. Make it stop…
I just asked my husband and he immediately agreed with JB. He doesn’t like the fact that they are green, and that they are clear glass.
Personally I think the green bowl is very cool, although it doesn’t look like a cereal bowl (I thought of a salad when I saw it). I *love* the depth…and I would probably eat too much cereal from it as well. LOL
I will say this: The green bowl is too small to survive cereal feasts in my home. Our bowls are bigger than the green one, therefore the white one is weird to me b/c it seems so SMALL.
I gotta go with Claudia. While I like the green bowl, I wouldn’t want to eat cereal out of it for fear it would make the milk look green. But, what do I know? We registered for this really cool set of dishes when we got married and the bowls, while attractive, are borderline useless b/c they have this wide flat rim that sticks out about an inch from the bowl. (Does that make sense? It looks just like this – only smaller http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000CCY2G/103-5130117-6267817) They are easy to hold and carry but impossible to slurp milk out of. We eat cereal out of oversized coffee mugs . . .
I think the green bowl less attractive than the white one, but, when preparing to eat cereal, I would go with the green. The white bowl isn’t deep enough and my milk will go all over the place in that thing. The white bowl is the martini glass of cereal bowls, if you ask me.
Oh, and also, now I know why you guys are so thin out there. The green bowl holds TOO MUCH CEREAL? What are you, nuts?! I eat about four times the amount of cereal that the green bowl holds for a snack! Geez Louise, JB’s quite a pansy, huh?
Sorry but I have to side with the man this time. The green bowl is just not ceral friendly. The white one is much more user friendly for the ceral. The green bowl has its uses. Think of it this way the green bowl is SQL, surely you would rather use access for a smaller project! Ok … don’t listen to that analogy, heres a better one, it is too deep. Even putting less ceral in it, the spoon won’t set right.
Riley is getting so big! He’s beautiful! I am sure he will eat ceral from the green bowls!
Comments from my fiance: “The green one looks better for salsa and reheating macaroni. The other one is the right shape for cereal.”
Then, upon sending him the link (I didn’t want to bias his results so I just emailed the picture with no explanation) he said: “He’s right, I wouldn’t put cereal in those. I don’t want a clear cereal bowl. Nobody needs to see an underwater view of soggy corn flakes.”
Bowls are mostly for wet foods.
Wet foods spill.
Therefore, depth and tall edges are exactly what make a bowl a “good” bowl.
I think JB’s real problem might come with the color. Green is not a color normally associated with grown-up cereals (I know, it’s a big assumption on my part to think JB is past the fruitloop stage) – but if they were white or clear, but the same size/shape – I bet it would have taken at least twice as long for him to notice.
Personally, I’d chose the green bowls you have over the white ones any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
The green bowl is strange and off-putting. The white bowl looks like a candy dish, but at it doesn’t seem too odd to have cereal in it. Someone eating cereal out of the green bowl, on the other hand, would seem like a displaced scene from Harold & Maude.
oh bosh. a bowl is a bowl. functionality is key, and the green one is safer to eat out of. sloppage, as said how many times before.
and seriously. it’s a bowl.
oh yea, and also, FANTASTIC idea with the rootbeer cubes. my mouth waters even now, just thinking of it. mmmmm.
Green Bowl = Perfect
White Bowl = Too Shallow and not Cerealy
(Shut up. That’s a word.)
I love the pictures of Riley!! Esp. the one of him peeking around the sofa. SO CUTE!!!
I am with Zoot in the white bowl seeming small. I don’t think I could put cereal in the green bowl b/c it is GREEN. I foresee salad in the green bowls, fruit in the white bowls, and new bowls for cereal. :)
A bowl is a bowl is a bowl… but I will say, I’ve always thought bigger is better to keep my cereal from jumping out the side. I have a certain way I like to dunk my cereal before I take a bite and well, bigger is better is all I’m saying. But my husband, being a man and all, would probably have some weird reason for choosing one over the other. But this is the man that doesn’t like a certain ice cream place in town because they give him too much ice cream. Too much ice cream? huh? I didn’t know that was possible.
I couldnt agree more with JB. I would borderline refuse to eat from the green bowls
As a gal who hangs out with guys too much, I have to agree with JB. That green bowl threatens the “man” in me, I’m scared we might have to talk about our “feelings” after I eat from that. When I look at that bowl, I think “Flowers (or potpourri mix) go in there and not food.” It’s not that it’s too huge, the cereal bowls I prefer are twice that size with thick porcelain walls and weigh about 500lbs each. The other white bowl is still a bit frilly, but it’s definitely the “prefered” choice from the two.
disclaimer: I’m can’t say I’m a bowl expert from the girly sense, when I go backpacking I bring a titanium bowl that honestly looks like a DOG food bowl – but I love the stupid thing.
Gosh, I’m so happy for you that Riley is finally showing appreciation for your loss of brain cells from blowing up that thing. His brow furrowing skill is unbeatable.
I would prefer the green bowl, for it’s depth. I hate a wide, shallow bowl.
I’m going to agree with HollowSquirrel, Michelle and KJ here…texture and the lack of opacity are both at issue.
It would skeeve me out a bit to eat cereal with the green bowl, or anything that I had to use a spoon with. In scooping up the last of the milk, my spoon would scrape against the ridges, and I’d cringe.
It’s hard to tell, also, what the, er, sound would be. If it’s glass instead of ceramic (or, china, or whatever), that’d also stress me out. Bumping a metal spoon against a glass bowl would get to me. I think it’s that, the glass-ness, which makes people thing ‘fancy’ (or, ‘candy dish’).
It really depends on what aspect of the bowl you pay attention to. (And clearly, some folks are willing to eat cereal from anything that’ll hold the milk in.) Personally, I’m all about deep bowls; the practically would outweigh the aesthetics. So if you forced me to choose between the two, I’d take the green. The shallower bowl seems good for…um…well, a small snack, really. (Though maybe I’m misreading the scale of the bowls and they’re both larger than they seem?)
I love deep bowls for cereal…but I am a girl and therefore understand that my opinion doesn’t matter much here. I think the translucence of the green bowl would throw me off though, cereal belongs in non-see through bowls as far as I’m concerned.
Seriously, who knew that a question about bowls would become a hot controversial topic? “Too green!” “Too glass!” “Too 70’s!” “Not pure enough!” and my favorite, “too underwear view!” I would love to make fun of you all, but I totally understand because I, too, am a freak. Linda, *I* love those bowls and I would totally eat cereal out of them – and I would totally spill milk out of the shorter bowl. Mornings are not for, you know, paying attention to things like keeping a bowl UPRIGHT, but rather for coffee and stubbing one’s toes.
I’m with JB, only for me it’s the colour. I couldn’t eat food out of something wholly green. I have sheer glass bowls that have leaves embossed on them and have no trouble eating of those.
I totally love the green bowl. I eat cheerios with a banana cut in there also and always end up filling the bowl up with too much milk and cheerios always spill over the sides and on the floor. My husband is always finding wayward cheereos everywhere. So, I eat out of my own special deep bowl and have solved the wayward cheerio issue.
P.S. – for the life of me, I don’t know if it’s cheereos or cheerios! I’ve been eating this cereal all of my life.
P.S.S. – My husband, the guy, is totally for the deeper bowl also.
The dimensions of the green bowl are IDEAL for cereal in my opinion (both Jared and I use target bowls of similar proportions for our cereal eating. I think, however, that it’s the colored, ridged glass that might be throwing him off. They seem more like candy bowls, dessert bowls or something else along those lines.
One more vote for deep bowls over shallow due to potential spillage. I freak a little when I go to my mom’s because their bowls are super-shallow (and she’s super-anal *cough*) so I would rather eat cereal out of a tupperware container than their shallow bowls.
When my ex-hub and I were picking out our dishes we had to get ones with a plain (preferably white) center, even if there was a design on the rim, because designs and/or colors with his food were really unappealing to him. Ask if he’d feel the same were the bowl clear.
I like the green bowls, they are more attractive and stylish, whithour being fancy. I forced my husband to look at them too. His man-perspective was that the green bowls were better becuase the hold more cereal, he says he hates wimpy bowls that must be filled up more than once. JB likes wimpy bowls – something must be wrong with his manhood. My husband didnt think the greens ones were fancy, he described them as “forresty” not sure exactly what that meant, but he thought the white ones were more girly as the swirling inside looked like “flowers”. Hey – its the oxymoron of man-logic….
I dislike the green bowls, sorry. I like the white bowls better for cereal but I honestly don’t like them much either.
Now Riley, he’s good enough to eat. :)
to me it seems that the green bowl, although my favorite color would make the milk green and funky looking, as well as looking like it is textured on the outside, and I wouldn’t like that.
personally, i would MUCH prefer eating my cereal out of the green glass bowl (not that there is anything wrong with the white bowl at all). the green bowl looks like it would be perfect to balance in my hand as i sit on the sofa and eat my cereal while watching tv (which is (pathetically, where i eat most of my meals).
Hmm, I’d use the green bowls for fruit salad. use the white ones for cereal. Does that make me masculine? Hope not!!
I would choose the green bowl. I think the white bowl is too shallow for cereal.
I’m not a huge fan of either bowl (sorry), but if I had to choose, I’d pick the green one because it would hold more cereal -_-
my hubby says, “green bowl, it holds more cereal”. heh. men.
I much prefer a deep bowl than a wide bowl for soup or cereal. As a woman and a mom, I imagine that relates to less spillage which equals less mess for me to clean.
I just asked my husband, without telling him why, to tell me which bowl he would eat cereal from. His vote is for the green bowl. He says the white one is too shallow and wouldn’t hold enough cereal!
I’d also prefer the white bowl – I don’t like liquids out of unnaturally coloured bowls. God I’m strange.
I think it is funny as all get out that 91 people so far have an opinion on this and that there is a surprising amount of people who maintain that its about the fact that the green bowl is see through and the milk is opaque.
Personally I like the deep green one as the milk to cereal ratio is quite good and I would be able to have enough milk in there for TWO bowls. But then again, I maintain that cereal is a dinner food, so what the hell do I know?
As a bonafide male person I have to agree with JB. I would go for the white bowl for cereal every time. Sadly I don’t think that I can give a rational reason for it…
-c
I replied earlier, but just had my husband look at them and he picked the white one immediately. When I asked why, he pulled a face and said he didn’t know why, but he just doesn’t like the green one.
Yet another fascinating sociological experiment by Linda!
My husband eats all bowl-appropriate food out of enourmous white round coffee cups with handles–the type intended for a latte or such. Cereal, soup, ice cream, you name it. You can find them at Pier One or Cost Plus-type stores. Give one a try.
You know, at this point, you really need to do some kind of serious study on this. Not, as we might think, the bowl color, but instead, why we are all so opinionated about this. Jeeze, this is like the most comments ever, and on something as obscure as the color of your cereal bowl. There must be some kind of social import pertaining to all this.
*sorry, I just went out to dinner and am a little buzzed from drinks and tend to pontificatedue to the buzz*.
My brother thinks that the clanging sound of spoon on green glass would not be right, whereas with the white ceramic one, the sound would be more pleasing in the morning.
My husband is not capable of putting food into or onto correctly sized dishes. His food is always falling off the edge of the plates, and his soup spashing out of too-small containers. Right now he is sitting on the floor in front of the tv eating an enourmous piece of lasagna off of a teacup saucer. So I’m not asking him about your green bowl.
The green bowl clearly has an atypical aspect ratio. It is too deep for the small diameter of both the rim and bottom. Also the sides are too strait. they should be rounder.
The Walrus eats cereal out of a KitchenAid mixing bowl, so the green bowls are totally normal and socially acceptable to me.
Sorry, I have to agree with your husband.
The green bowl is way too weird to eat cereal out of. You’d have to fill it, like, only half way, and dip your spoon in really deep…
Yeah.
The white bowl all the way! :P
Well, they’re both kind of…awful. But Riley will be in the crockery breaking years soon, so it will all be moot!
heh. pete: they both do like like candy dishes, don’t they?
also, i stared at the root beer ice cubes for like 5 minutes trying to figure out what it was. i thought it was a rusty something or other. then i read the entry. duh. next time, i’ll read first.
I prefer to eat my cereal out of a deeper bowl – because I normally fill up the shallow-er bowls with way to much cereal and the the milk spills out and I’m not a fan of Cleaning Things Up.
I’m not a particualr fan of either bowl, but if being forced to choose, I’d choose the green one. Its just cooler.
I say the white bowl is better for cereal. The green bowl is too deep. I would end up knocking cereal out of it while trying to dunk my spoon far enough to get enough milk. The white bowl is shallow allowing the milk to be closer to the top of the cereal. No spillage.
Erin sent me over from http://callingthishome.blogspot.com/, and I must say, I don’t think there would be anything wrong with eating from a green bowl. Personally, they look kind of like the bowls my grandma use to have, but I wouldn’t be against eating from them. The white bowl looks a lot more fancy to me.
But at the risk of quoting Dennis Miller, that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong.
P.S.
I love your photos. You take great candid shots.
Have you actually tested the two bowls to see if the green bowl really holds more? They look about the same volume to me. And which one I’d eat cereal out of depends on what my mood was that morning and what the cereal was. I’d choose the white one for Mini Wheats and the green one for Cheerios.
The green bowls are so cool! They would only be “70s”-ish if they were sitting on an orange counter a la Carol Brady’s kitchen. Who cares if it’s green? As long as the milk going INTO the green bowl is not green, you shouldn’t get too peeved.
I say rock out with the green bowls!
Oh, and yes, the white bowl is WAY too shallow.
here are the only two rules of cereal eating:
1. cereal must be consumed out of a deep bowl.
2. cereal bowls must be opaque.
ergo, neither bowl you showed is sufficient for cereal.
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