About

The Europeans vs. Americans Milk and Cereal Comic is an exploitable meme format based on a blobslop webcomic by artist Catoonz comparing the milk in America vs. Europe, depicting a skinny European dipping a cookie into a glass of ethically sourced milk while an overweight American pours strawberry flavored "all natural" milk into a bowl of cookie-shaped cereal, exclaiming, "And then you microwave it!" The comic was posted to X / Twitter in late November 2025 and quickly became the subject of reactions, redraws and edits that replace the characters and alter the shown situation. It also inspired discourse about European vs. American eating standards, with some finding the comic inaccurate.

Origin

On November 29th, 2025, X^[1] user and artist @ca_toonz (Catoonz) posted a comic about American vs. European milk, breakfast and cereal, captioned, "I'm not even exaggerating here." The comic shows a European dipping a cookie in a glass of milk from a carton labeled, "whole milk fairtrade bio farm recyclable" free from animal exploitation. The European is giving a judgmental look to an overweight American on oxygen and an IV drip who is pouring milk from a jug labelled, "NEW!!! Strawberry flavored milk XXXXXXXXXL package! All natural 100% real no artificial sweeteners" into a bowl of colorful cookie-shaped cereal, yelling, "And then you microwave it!"

The post gained over 36,000 likes and 4,300 reposts in two days.

Spread

The American vs. European comic became the subject of meme edits and discourse over the following days as it spread online in late November and early December 2025.

On November 29th, 2025, X^[2] user @girlblxgs posted an edit of the comic comparing 2022 European canon vs. 2025 American fanon, gaining over 7,500 likes and 1,100 reposts in two days.

Later that day, the original comic with an additional comment reading, "'I'm not even exaggerating' as you literally exaggerate it," was posted to the /r/AmericaBad^[3] subreddit, gaining over 750 upvotes in two days.

On November 30th, X^[4] user @pyrogoyf quoted the original comic to add criticism about European milk, writing, "objectively the funniest part of this is that they earnestly believe their milk is sourced ethically," garnering over 59,000 likes in a day.

Later that day, X^[5] user @MetamaskBro posted an edit of the comic replacing the American with a fat SpongeBob, garnering over 10,000 likes in a day.

That night on November 30th, 2025, X^[6] user @IPTV_Bro posted an edit of the comic that references the Gets Brainwashed Of That Thing meme, garnering over 27,000 likes in a day.

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