i chose other because i can't get my head around it being *difficult* to give the person who loves cream of wheat that, especially in the age of microwaves. but i grew up without microwaves and made both oatmeal and cream of wheat on the stove. cream of wheat was both easier to make and easier to clean up! and i was making it for myself by the time i was 8 or 9 years old.

if it was something like "we go out to a given restaurant and all have to be at the same one", then i'd say let each of the 4 in turn pick, but which *cereal* each person's allowed to eat? i'm thinking there were some hinky control issues going on.