Typical Espanish

You know how there are certain words that are like nails on a chalkboard for some people? For example, if you watch "How I Met Your Mother," you know that Lily hates the word "moist." Well that's how I've come to feel about the phrase "typical Spanish." I think it's perhaps mostly because of the way it's used: in its own incomplete sentence and heavily Spanish accented. Teepeecal Espaneesh. I swear, if one more person tells me something is "teepeecal Espaneesh" one more time, I'm going to pretend that I didn't hear them.

Anyway, one evening last week I was eating a bowl of cereal (cocoa crispies, to be exact) with milk and one of my roommates asked me if I wasn't going to heat up the milk. I replied that no, I always eat cereal with cold milk. "¡Qué frío!" ("How cold!")

Now, I can't speak for all Spaniards since I've really only witnessed very few eat cereal and I haven't started a poll, but it's definitely relatively common here to pour milk on cereal, and then stick it in the microwave for a minute or two. When I lived with my señora (host mother, essentially) during my semester abroad and then my first year here this time around, she would always stick bowls of Special K cereal in the microwave and heat it until that stuff must have been soft enough to drink like a hot smoothie. 

I personally gag at the smell of hot milk (I'm not sure what would happen if forced to drink it), so the thought of heating it with cereal until the latter is a soggy smelly mass kind of makes me lose my appetite. But hey, cultural differences. Typical Espanish.