AIBU to be horrified by this?! (Lighthearted)

[MadScientist10]

My British husband and MIL insist that adding sugar to cereals (rice crispies/shredders/corn flakes) is a thing that everyone does. I have never heard of this before and although I’ve lived in several different places no one I know has ever done this!! AIBU to think if you’d like a sweet version of corn flakes you’d just go ahead and buy Frosties????

I love a teaspoon of demarara sugar on porridge. Apart from that only eat muesli and granola and of course I don't add sugar to them.

Same as others - I had sugar on cornflakes in the 80s .

I let my dc add 1 teaspoon of maple syrup to porridge but not to anything with added sugar, even wheetabix. I found some cornflakes in Lidl which are really low in sugar but my dc wont eat them. Bah.

I forgot about sugar on cereal!!! My Grandparents used to do this, even on sweet cereals, mind you they were the generation that fed their children sugar sandwiches

I only let dd sprinkle a small amount of sugar on weetabix or cornflakes.

We did this when we were young but it makes me shudder now (although a perfect thin crust of sugar on a weetabix was a sight to behold). My DCs get to do it at the grandparents’ if they are having a sleepover, I was a bit about it til my mum reminded me we used to get virtually non-stop chocolate biscuits at her mum’s and she’s right so I’m not kicking up a fuss. They don’t ever get to do it at home, it’s Grandma’s treat.

I don’t eat cereal now but we added sugar to all of them in the 80s!

One of my favourite treats is two weetabix soaked in just enough whole milk to make them soft topped with a thick layer of sugar on each biscuit. Yum.

We used to have sugar on cereal in the 70s, also on strawberries and on slices of melon for breakfast. I don't have sugar on any of these now. My mum also used to send me to school with brown sugar sandwiches or golden syrup they were really good. We still eat honey and Nutella on bread not much different really.

I remember corona pop but it was a Sunday lunch treat not an everyday thing. Living in a tourist resort us kids used to look around the bins especially in car parks for unreturned bottles as they were worth 10p each.

No no no noooooooo. No nutella on sandwiches. Bread and chocolate never go together - no chocolate croissants, no chocolate bear claws - nope nope no!!

Have you heard of sugar sandwiches OP? Bread and butter sprinkled with sugar. It’s lush.

I was never allowed to add sugar (90s child) but most definitely had friends that did. I did however have chocolate spread sandwiches for a packed lunch! Didn't have sugar in tea either but did have weak milky tea in BABY bottles 🤷🏻‍♀️

Reading these replies and trying to imagine sending my primary school aged (10 ) child with sugar sandwiches, hundreds and thousands sandwiches dressed up as fairy bread,
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Years ago it was the norm but not anymore I don't think.

I was born in ‘74. We had a Corona man and I remember Lucozade having an orange cellophane wrapper.

I had sugar on cornflakes, Rice Krispies or Weetabix.

One thing I haven’t seen in North America is cube jelly (jello). It’s powdered here. I used to eat that stuff by the pack. I have also been known to fish it out of the jug of hot water before it fully melted and was all gooey!

Not unusual in Australia either.

It was a thing in the 80's when I was a child but I think we have all learnt that adding sugar isn't the best idea . I would say anyone that does it comes from a family where health and weight are not something they worry about .

I haven't added sugar to anything since I was a child.

I love these nostalgic threads.
I used to do this and still do on porridge and weetabix.
Our pop van was Barrs. Also had Twinnings tea van.
I remember having a stick of raw rhubarb with a cup of sugar as an after school snack !
Grew up in 70,s and 80,s.

Sugar sandwiches, i'd forgotten all about that! My Uncle used to make apple sandwiches - white bread and butter, slices of apple sprinkled with white sugar, they were really nice. Thinking about it I had far more sugar growing up than my dc.

I have golden syrup on porridge, occasionally have cornflakes with white sugar as a treat.

Surely this is what Demerara sugar is designed for? My favourite dirty snack is cornflakes with raisins and Demerara.

Sugar on cornflakes is nothing like the same as Frosties.

Dh's family make a big thing of no sugar on cereals or in tea. However they then put it on odd things like Christmas pudding. Just different tastes.

I'll add their teeth are substantially worse condition than my families.

I grew up adding sugar to cereal (whenever I'd visit cousins, they'd be doing it, too). However, I totally put it down to being working class (and maybe black). I'm 24-years-old, and during the nineties, our parents didn't seem to know much about nutrition and fed us all sort of things that I wouldn't dare eat now and wouldn't dare feed my own kids. Either that or they just didn't have the time/energy to prioritise it because they were so preoccupied with making ends meet.

It's normal tbh. At the hospital I work in sometimes it's standard to bring a bowl of sugar along for cereal and 80% of people put it on

Sugar on cornflakes was definitely the norm when I was a kid in the 80s. Our daughter gets them plain though.

I don't really eat cereals now (don't like milk). When I was a kid I used to put so much sugar on my rice crispies that when I'd finished eating the cereal the milk was like the sea and the sugar like the sea bed underneath - and I used to drink it! < ewww