Jingsamichty

I normally just have a bowl of cereal and a cup of tea for breakfast, but it's getting cold outside now so I decided to have porridge instead. I went up to the hot food counter in the camp mess hall and took a bowl.

Bleeeuuurrrrghhh!!!! It was creamed wheat, not oats. It was like eating sawdust in Magic Marvin glue. Absolutely revolting. How can anyone eat that vom?

Oink

I had the same experience at HID mother's house. She kept on banging on how as she was married to a Scot, she makes this lovely porridge but it turned out to be rancid cat vomit from a box. She got quite the hump when I wouldn't eat it. I blame Kraft and it's cohorts enculturating various ethnicities into how to be model north Americans.

Novocastrian

It's better with Honey & Mustard dressing.

Jingsamichty

You could be right, if the proportions were creamed wheat 0%, Honey & Mustard dressing 100%.

Shard

Porridge this morning. Some sort of cinnamon variety out of sachet. Milk and microwave, but very nice.

ann m

orly

Eating porridge hot...oh dear.

Shard

You're obviously not a bear.

MillieF

Why does Canada try to lurk cinnamon into everything? I hate the stuff, but they stick it into all forms of buns, and drinks...and porridge! Yuck!

Porridge is a good 'proper' food that shouldn't be mucked about with.

Shard

TBF my porridge was Quakers Oats So Simple from Sainsburys. There are so many flavours these days, I'm just a bit partial to cinnamon, the wonder spice!

ann m

I used to say exactly the same thing Millie. Cinnemon and Vanilla.

Six years on, I'm a bit partial to both now...in certain things.

bats

Noo! I use them in cooking but real vanilla and real cinnamon, not chemical versions, and cinnamon not as the predominant flavour.

flashman

You may have got some Grits which is great for installing wallpaper !

Oink

I lived in the south for a while and I didn't mind a bit of grits with my breakfast. But the best were the biscuits (scones) with sausage meat gravy, that was the bollocks.

Jingsamichty

On investigation, I suspect it was grits. Never again, it's disgusting.

The lack of flavour might explain why so many of my colleagues wash them down with deep-fried bacon, maple syrup and full-fat Coke.