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[which_chick]

What do you put on/with your oatmeal?



In the poll that I don't have, here are some of the nonexistant ticky-box choices:

- I don't eat that stuff. Yick! It tastes like glue.
- Put *on* my oatmeal? It comes out of the paper packet already flavored. I like the peach flavor.
- Raisins.
- I prefer Cream of Wheat
- Milk
- Sugar
- Butter
- Brown Sugar

Seriously, tell me how you fix your oatmeal. I eat my oatmeal (McCann's irish-cut) with milk, sugar, and butter. It doesn't taste like anything but oatmeal.

Comments

[cassandramorgan.livejournal.com]

I do the paper packet-already flavored thing. But I don't much like the peach flavor. I like either the apples and cinnamon or the maple and brown sugar. And I mostly eat the oatmeal at my desk in work which is why I choose the already flavored thing....I don't have a whole kitchen of stuff available to me.

If it's just regular old oatmeal that I'm making at home? (which is rare but happens once in awhile) I usually put a ton of cinnamon on it.

[fooliv.livejournal.com]

Me too. Actually, I eat an awful lot of the prepackaged stuff. Boiling water, then nuke it for a minute at half-power. Gets me through the day & warms the cockles. In fact, I just finished off a bowl of ye olde peaches-and-cream.

Apple & cinnamon or one the fruit-and-cream things, generic from Weis or Dollar General. V. cheap, nutritious snack food.

[sara-merry99.livejournal.com]

A lot of mornings I eat instant oatmeal (I like the Honey Nut and Maple/Brown sugar flavors). It's simple and I can make it with the water I'm already boiling for my coffee.

When I have more brainpower/will power/time/energy, I make real oatmeal. On that I like to put a touch of butter, toasted wheat germ, maple syrup and *good* cinnamon (from Penzey's--it's a completely different experience from grocery store cinnamon). If I had cream around the house I'd use it instead of butter, but I never do.

Denny's actually makes *awesome* oatmeal and they bring it with butter, cream, brown sugar, raisins and sliced bananas. It's what I always get when I find myself at Denny's for breakfast.

[cousin-sue.livejournal.com]

I like it the way my grandmother made it.

Real oatmeal, piping hot, with white sugar and then cold milk poured over it. We also used to have raisins, but I prefer currants.

I have a recipe for crock pot oatmeal somewhere. It's an Alton Brown recipe for steel rolled oats cooking overnight.

[sector-r.livejournal.com]

If I could manage it, I'd have mine with Cinnamon Sugar and Raisins.

For convenience, lately I just grab whatever's closest to the top in the variety box I just bought at CostCo (Banana?! WTF?).

[electroweak.livejournal.com]

I make regular oatmeal (never the instant stuff), and eat it plain. Sometimes a bit of sugar goes in it.

[not-your-real.livejournal.com]

Brown sugar, As Is The Custom Of My People.

A Pun

[electroweak.livejournal.com]

My background is (mostly) Irish and Italian. We don't have Customs. We have heavily-armed border guards who get very snippy if you do things that they consider "unusual."

[ladyivy.livejournal.com]

I've done the instant stuff on many occasions. When I was living at home that was the only kind Mom ever bought (which is odd for someone who did like to cook).

When I make the regular oatmeal I put some type of sugar product in (I've used white sugar, brown sugar, and honey at various times). That is a definite. I have also at different times tried maple syrup, raisins, apples, milk, half and half, cream, and once I tried adding peanuts (hey, there are lots of cereals out there with nuts in them). That doesn't really work well, FYI.

[galena417.livejournal.com]

I've mainly just had the pre-flavoured variety - just tried the "premium" version of that kind (2 packets, with the flavour separate) and generally like maple/brown sugar, or the fruity ones.

My friend, on the other hand, puts salt & I think some milk on hers. Apparently it is a Scottish thing.

[gwangi.livejournal.com]

I only eat Cream Of The West (http://www.creamofthewest.com/), and it always gets brown sugar plus either raisens or banana slices.

[zhasper.livejournal.com]

I eat porridge made from Rolled Oats and hot water - I don't know how close that is to what you call Oatmeal

In any case, all I have on it is honey. A goodly amount of honey, admittedly- 2-3 tablespoons for a largish bowl.

That's all though. Rolled oats, hot water, time, and honey. Breakfast.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Rolled oats fall under the heading "oatmeal" in the United States. Generally, we use the term "oatmeal" for some kind of oat preparation that is mixed with water and cooked until soft. We use the word "oatmeal" though there is no actual meal (like in cornMEAL) involved. It's a very porridge-like breakfast food but Merkins do not get* to use the word "porridge".

Steel-cut oats (what the Irish eat) are "oatmeal" that takes about thirty minutes to cook.

Traditional rolled oats (Quaker's Old-Fashioned Oatmeal) are "oatmeal" that takes about five minutes to cook.

Quick oats (Quaker Quick Oatmeal) are "oatmeal" that takes one minute to cook.

That stuff in paper packets that is pre-flavored is "oatmeal" that takes hot water being added and a stir to cook.

*This is set forth in the Dialect Treaty of 1875. In order to prevent confusion among non-English-speaking peoples, Merkins are not allowed to use the words porridge, loo, and fag in the British sense. Merkins are also not allowed to throw shrimp on a barbie, go on walkabout, or chat up the sheilas at the local watering hole. I'm not sure what the Brits and Aussies aren't allowed to do, but I'm certain they made some concessions somewhere. Probably.

[zhasper.livejournal.com]

The stuff my mother raised me on takes about 30 minutes to cook - but it's called Traditional here.

Quick oats here takes about 5 minutes.

The one-minute variety (actually, if you read the instructions and add up the timings, it takes more like two minutes - but that wouldn't look half as impressive on the front of the box) are called "One-minute oats".

But umm.. we don't throw shrimp on the barbie, either. Prawns, yes, but shrimp no. (cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prawn).

We don't get to use the word fanny (in the Merkin sense) or ass (in the Merkin sense - and why do Merkins talk about their donkeys so much anyway?), and the last letter of our alphabet has a definite 'd' on the end of its name.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Why do Merkins talk about their donkeys so much anyway?

It has to do with politics.