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Porridge was not eaten in this house a lot before dare I say it before kids. What really made it a regular addition to the breakfast menu was a high colestoral result on my DH doctor. A lot of people talk about it being comfort food. Me I hate it, I find it to have both the taste and texture of cardboard. It's more the gagging texture that I can't get over babies apparently love it and it is one of the first foods we give them....I don't remember eating a lot of it as a child....I do remember lots of American style cereals. In the 80's it was very a la mode to toss out local methods of food preparation in favour of American trends. I rememembr Kellogs was big back then. While whipping up a batch of oatmeal and worrying that it might be the cause of my son's ecceam flare ups it stuck me tatsteless rice cereal for the baby it struck me...Maybe I'd like other kinds of porridges
My porridge adventure began with farine mmm taste like a cassava pone
The Greeks and Romans found the grain coarse and inedible and dubbed it 'barbarian's food' and fed it to their animals. They did however plant and harvest oat crops in Britain where it became eaten widely in Wales and even more so in Scotland - hence Dr Johnson's jibe.Dr (Samuel) Johnson's 18th Century dictionary definition of oats reads "a grain which in England is given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." And was in fact a dig at them. Which I gues was his way of saying they lkiked dogfood
