These Were Always Filled With Cereal & On Top Of The Refrigerator
Posted by bronzemat@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 80 comments
Posted by bronzemat@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 80 comments
BuffaloRedshark@reddit
Iced tea.
PeteyMitch42@reddit
Thank you, I thought I was going crazy
jB_real@reddit
You can just taste the plastic like it was yesterday
emmet80@reddit
This was our Tree Top apple juice (from the frozen can) pitcher.
Mr-Wigz@reddit
My mom still has this somewhere…. But the handle broke off years ago. Probably my fault as a kid.
Ok-Brick6831@reddit
At my friends place, that was the milk jug they mixed the powdered milk in. It was not good, but on cereal it wasn’t too bad.
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
Yikes. Better than a splash of OJ I guess. We had a nonfat milk phase and that was pretty nasty. We are full flavor milk in my house now.
Electrical-Pie-8192@reddit
We had a neighbor whose mom made him eat cereal with OJ. He hated it. He wasn't even allergic to milk, just wasn't allowed to have it on cereal. He also wasn't allowed to stand at the bus stop with the 17 other kids even though it was directly across from his house if that tells you anything about his mom
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
Sounds like my next door neighbor’s Mom. He was 2 years older than me and I had to teach him how to discreetly piss outside on bushes and whatnot. His mom was furious, but before me lessons he going into the bathroom and getting butt ass naked to go to the bathroom, bro was like 9! You gotta let him sprout his wings!
Electrical-Pie-8192@reddit
She wouldn't send him outside to catch the bus until it stopped, then watched from the kitchen window. He wasn't a flight risk, he wasn't a disobedient kid. He could have a friend over but could never go to their house or even to the park a block away. I still wonder what the deal was with his mom
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
She had a weird phobia probably. I understand the desire to shield your kids, I look at their little faces and it makes sad what the world is inevitably going to do to them. But as a rational person I don’t overprotect them, if I do I’m just sending them out into the world with no ammo. Best I can do make it clear I’m always on their side and while they are here I discuss things with them.
Electrical-Pie-8192@reddit
It was such a strange concept to us neighborhood kids. We were allowed to walk/ride all over the place alone or with friends, yet that kid was stuck at home. I'm just glad the kids I grew up around didn't give him a hard time for it, I'm sure it was difficult enough for him
123FakeStreetAnytown@reddit
Blue milk
_____AMOK_____@reddit
Mom would throw a juice log in there from the freezer
raerae1991@reddit
That was what my Grandma used hers for. Frozen OJ in a can!
slithyknid@reddit
The sound of the wooden spoon hitting those plastic ends as you “stirred” it like a paddle back and forth, long-ways, to get the frozen chunks distributed…
Espexer@reddit
I used to use some hot water so it would melt faster, then fill with cold after. Sometimes we could let it melt to liquid first.
_____AMOK_____@reddit
Holy shit you made me flash back!!!!
body_by_monsanto@reddit
I’ve never heard it referred to as a juice log before, but I love it! I’m using this from now on.
_____AMOK_____@reddit
Cause I forgot the name of the brand lol
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
Bro nobody remembers the brand lol. Calling it a log is amazing though.
body_by_monsanto@reddit
Ha! Well, “juice log” is such a great descriptor. Thank you for brightening my day with this!
Gluten-Free-Jesus@reddit
Apple juice at our house.
hatfarm@reddit
Always Minute Maid orange juice or lemonade.
Electrical-Pie-8192@reddit
Pink lemonade for the win
No-Hospital559@reddit
Same
clutzycook@reddit
Yes, mine too. I recognized the container but I had to think for a minute in what context because I knew we never kept cereal in it.
Stang1776@reddit
Nothing beats the tang of concentrate
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
Not if I ate it first, full flavor
sarabridge78@reddit
We always had juice in ours too.
Pineapple_Towel@reddit
Grandma's secret recipe was 50% Frostie Flakes and 50% Special K by volume.
SeaSkimmer2@reddit
We were too poor to use separate containers for cereal. We just curled the plastic inside the cereal box and put it up.
janellthegreat@reddit
I thought these were for the cereals that come in just bags without boxes. You have the cereal in this that you can eat this week and the remainder in the bag is for next week.
SeaSkimmer2@reddit
Huh? Just twist the bag closed and tuck under.
janellthegreat@reddit
Then its being subject to being eaten too quickly. The bin is stuff which can be eaten this week. The bag is off limits.
SeaSkimmer2@reddit
That’s more rich people talk. That kind of portioning doesn’t work in normal-people homes. 😆
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
Yeah I was hammering cereal since I was self sufficient at breakfast since like age 4. My own kids are following in my footsteps.
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
Same but not poor, just no time for the extra steps. My Mom did like keep landmines (old gross shit) disguised as margarine all up in the fridge though. Those were our containers.
SeaSkimmer2@reddit
🤣 Yeah my mom will still put new sticks of butter on top of ancient butter bits in the butter dish and never wash it. I threw it in her sink recently after a dinner to let it soak, and she had a massive shit fit. The next stick ended up on a tea plate covered with foil.
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
My mom lost her shit when I tossed some eggs (cooked) she had hanging out in the counter for 36 hours to make deviled eggs.
hey_suburbia@reddit
Yeah, this was some rich kid shit. Or, at the very least a stay at home parent
Acceptable-Double-98@reddit
Or the cereal box on top lol
Soulforge411@reddit
Mine was cereal 👍
Imaginary_Attempt_82@reddit
Nope iced tea in grandmas fridge.
iamnoone815@reddit
Nope. That was grandma’s iced tea. The best ever
mrnoonan81@reddit
I miss that lid. They don't make lids like that anymore.
NakedSnakeEyes@reddit
This really takes me back. I think we kept pink lemonade in it.
SLyndon4@reddit
Yep. Usually Raisin Bran or Grape Nuts.
celem83@reddit
Still got it, holds dog food
hunnypunny@reddit
We kept flour or sugar in them
chriszimort@reddit
One day I ran inside so hot and sweaty from running around like a wild man with my friends all afternoon - just like a sunny d commercial - ran to the fridge to grab something to drink, spotted this exact pitcher lookin’ straight frosty. What’s inside? Freak yes, apple juice. Threw that bad boy back and just guzzled. Held my breath for like 5 seconds while I chugged the sweet nectar. Finally breathed. Tasted.
Chicken stock. It was chicken stock.
CaptServo@reddit
country time lemonade
RepresentativeSink29@reddit
There's never been anything close to a lemon in it. 🍋 🌳
FruitMustache@reddit
Lipton iced tea in the fridge at grandmas!!
AnnetteXyzzy@reddit
We filled ours with popcorn kernels, which we would then pop in the air popper.
BulimicMosquitos@reddit
Permanently stained red from all of the Kool-Aid. Much like the Country Crock container stained from all the spaghetti.
maggie320@reddit
Kool-Aid pitcher in my house.
Traditional_Isopod80@reddit
Yes!
nickd1980@reddit
As a few others have mentioned we had juice or lemonade in ours. Or if our milk carton broke we used it to put the milk in it as a backup.
ANewTempo@reddit
It was filled with water, lemonade or tea at our house. I had a mini version that I put water in and my sister hated that I had my own 😂
RumblestheDwarf@reddit
Five Alive or Frozen OJ.
MerriweatherJones@reddit
Frosted mini-wheats.
Stang1776@reddit
Red box or the orange box?
MerriweatherJones@reddit
I don’t remember. It was the sweet ones.
Kuroude7@reddit
Still have ‘em, just a little more modern-looking! The kid loves ‘em.
irishprincess2002@reddit
Wait it had a handle? Ours never had a handle! We used ours for cereal and drinks it just depended on what we needed it for at the time and what was available.
wmubronco03@reddit
It was a secondary koolaid pitcher for us and my aunt who lived across the street had like 3 in her fridge filled with coffee, at all times. The woman craved caffeine like it was crack. She would go through a coffee maker every year or two. It’s was nuts. RIP aunt Linda, crazy caffeine lady.
Defiant-Difference17@reddit
Late MIL had ( now i have) the cake carrier with the same "handle" and design. Our other" cereal " container is more updated with the blue lids... but it is our tea jug.. 1.5 gallon. 👌
PilotC150@reddit
Orange juice.
Cereal stayed in the box
Next-Honeydew4130@reddit
We were savages and put orange juice in there to leech out the chemicals and poison ourselves.
aspect-of-the-badger@reddit
I currently have them on top of my fridge with cereal in them. If I don't the ants will get in them.
BigBadJeebus@reddit
musashi-swanson@reddit
DO NOT open another box unless that shit is empty
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
I maximized the cereal by combining the “shake” from the boxes into cereal potpourri. I was a bit of connoisseur
Raychao@reddit
Weavils
dibbledabblescrabble@reddit
The only thing that was ever in ours was kool-aid………memories
MrsMethodMZA@reddit
Lemonade!
NindieNation@reddit
Not at my house, but I always felt like the families who had those were a little more put together.
cbih@reddit
To mask the shame of bagged generic cereal
FestivusErectus@reddit
Ours was tea stained from years of iced tea.