Okay, with a title like that no one is even going to read this post. Well, what should I call it gruel? BTW, what really is in porridge. Is it just a nice way to say eat the thing because it is good for you.
When I was young, oatmeal was terrible. It became like this thing that was impervious to milk if it wasn’t eaten right away. It was just oatmeal, milk, and the kid who didn’t want to eat it at that time. Now I even like the stuff. Of course I make it differently.
I bet Brent is a gruel guy.



I heard from Whiskey Sam. He is on the road and busy.
Goodbye, gruel world.
EJ, do I get to be on a Box of Wheaties? You can put a link to the picture in the comments like this.
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Breakfast of Chumpions?
EJ, I take it you are not an oatmeal lover but why take it out on me.
Socks don’t get on Weaties… they go on boxes of “Woolies.”
Can I get those boxes in Trumpian Orange? “Make America Gruel Again”
Oatmeal was for winter mornings on snowy days before we went out to walk through the drifts to school while Dad cursed his way through putting chains on the Plymouth.
His salty command of naval language was the proper seasoning for the hot paste that we were told ‘would stick to our ribs’.
I always associate oatmeal with the fuel before the storm, proving there is no fuel like and old fuel.
I heard the “stick to your ribs” line. Is there science behind this or was it a marketing trick.
Is that Quaker State fuel you are talking about?
I believe it was ‘folk wisdom’ to make organic concrete seem like food.
“Think of all the starving children in China.”
Name three.
Sna Ping, Crack Ling, and Po Ping
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Asking the tough questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvmby_IwNuI
I did remember going on camping trips and eating Quaker Instant Oatmeal. That is where you make things on a campfire and think it is the best thing in the world. All I did was add hot water and I had a gourmet breakfast among the trees. I liked the raisin and cinnamon ones.
In my youth, my Okie forebears would occasionally afflict me with okra. Boiled okra. Was it gruel? No, but is was cruel.
Japanese like okra. They like the texture.
My father inflicted me with cocoa. I mean cocoa is good but this had that skin on the top of it.
Oatmeal is for making cookies.
Do you have a chip on your shoulder, MLH? Or are you just nuts? ;-)
Chips and raisins. No nuts.
Do you ship internationally? I am asking for a research project.
Does the project require them to be fresh?
Non-toxic is important and delicious are what I am looking for.
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Well, we are waiting.
Raisins are Ok, but I prefer mine without.
Lucky for you that you are not a sock and can pick out the raisins.
Now you are knit picking, MLH.
Lucky for you that you are not a sock.
There, fixed it.
4-5 days a week I start with a bowl of oatmeal lightly seasoned with unbleached sugar and a shot of soy milk. That is accompanied with a plate of scrambled egg whites.
Weekends are treat time. Saturday is a whole roll (8, not that halfwit roll of 5 communist nonsense) of Pillsbury Cinnamon rolls. All by myself, no you can’t have any. All of them in one sitting while still warm and the icing that drips off them is liberated from the plate timely. That is washed down with a pot of coffee.
Sunday is a whole roll of Grand’s buttermilk biscuit. Yep, every single one of them taken from the warm oven 2 at a time covered with at least half a stick of butter. Accompanied by a side of scrambled eggs and turkey sausage (gotta stay heathy and keep the cholesterol or whatever down) and the obligatory pot of coffee.
Breakfast – the most important meal of the day.
Oatmeal is for COOKIES.
If you eat the way I do on the weekends it is a necessity to clean out the arteries.
That is what I said.
Send me a tracking number for the shipment. Does FedEx have a cookie box?
They’ll be on a slow boat.
I hope not to China.
Oops.
Are the ones to Japan faster?