Part of my morning ritual is a bowl of Weetbix with a banana. I used to eat 3, but discovered that only a mouse would eat 3 (Johnson 2006), so I have since added one more to the tally. The hair on my chest is already starting to sprout.
Anyway....I think I may have discovered the technique to eating the perfect bowl of Weetbix. Two is easy, three easy enough, but four is a logistical nightmare. The key is to sit your 4 Weetbix on a bed of bananas. The milk must then be poured down the side of the bowl rather than over the Weetbix. If you fail and pour milk over even one, its gooooooodnight. As studies have shown, Weetbix has no saturation point (Coombe 2006). You might as well eat a waterlogged piece of cardboard.
So if you manage to get past the first hurdle, you then need to 'baste' Weetbix 1 (W1) with enough milk for the first - and best - mouthful. The key here is to keep those other Weetabix nicely balanced on their assigned banana piece(s). From here you can continue to use the 'Baste' method, or once you come close to finishing W1, you can then opt to gently 'Push and Eat' method by pushing W2 into the pool of milk hence exposing it to the perfect amount of soaking time. Be careful not to 'push' too early or W2 will suck up the milk like a tampon in the red sea.
So back to this morning, I was down to the last half of W4 with perfect banana-Weetbix-mouthful ratio and then pushed it into the remaining milk, and just like that the milk disappeared into the blackhole that they call Weetbix. Not a single drop to wash down the remnants in my throat of W4. So f%^ing close and yet so far, my whole breakfast ruined by this one slip in judgement.