Porridge: love or hate? Vote now please!

Do you love porridge?

Yes I have it every day
24
36%
Yes if offered, e.g. at a YH or BB
2
3%
2-6 times a week
19
28%
Not more than once a week
9
13%
Only in winter/in Scotland
7
10%
Only when visiting the grandparents
1
1%
No, I hate it
4
6%
Not tried it yet
0
No votes
No opinion / what is porridge?
1
1%
 
Total votes: 67

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Patrickpioneer wrote:Used to hate porridge until the day I put curry powder in it and now I love it!

Exotic bordering on perverted! I may try the recipe. But what curry powder? There are so many variations.......

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Madras, and I am just about to eat it now for breakfast, theres luvlee look you.
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Patrickpioneer wrote:Used to hate porridge until the day I put curry powder in it and now I love it!

Is that you, Lister?
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Lister? no, but the sad thing is I knew exactly who you meant before looking at your link!
anyway I only use curry powder when the local shop is out of leek and daffodil flavoring.
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Pastychomper wrote:
Patrickpioneer wrote:Used to hate porridge until the day I put curry powder in it and now I love it!

Is that you, Lister?


Now then, how about a porridge pasty? This would be a fine and toothsome wedge of clammy bike fuel sure to add 5mph to anyone's average, especially if it had a touch of Madras spices in it. Such a thing might well fit perfekly in a jersey pocket, to be hauled out periodically for a chomp, washed down with the bottle-juice, which might be anything; although Bucky seems appropriate for a curried porridge pasty.

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Patrickpioneer wrote:Lister? no, but the sad thing is I knew exactly who you meant before looking at your link!
anyway I only use curry powder when the local shop is out of leek and daffodil flavoring.

:lol: That series has a lot to answer for. Not least of which is the tune that still plays in my head whenever I see mango juice in Lidl.

Cugel wrote:Now then, how about a porridge pasty? This would be a fine and toothsome wedge of clammy bike fuel sure to add 5mph to anyone's average, especially if it had a touch of Madras spices in it. Such a thing might well fit perfekly in a jersey pocket, to be hauled out periodically for a chomp, washed down with the bottle-juice...
Now there's a thought! :shock:
If we could put some well-seasoned porridge at one end of the pasty and a freshly-smoked kipper at the other, and stop the flavours bleeding together too much, it might even outdo the traditional slice of yesterday's porridge as the ultimate breakfast-on-the-go!
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Pastychomper wrote:
Cugel wrote:Now then, how about a porridge pasty? This would be a fine and toothsome wedge of clammy bike fuel sure to add 5mph to anyone's average, especially if it had a touch of Madras spices in it. Such a thing might well fit perfekly in a jersey pocket, to be hauled out periodically for a chomp, washed down with the bottle-juice...

Now there's a thought! :shock:
If we could put some well-seasoned porridge at one end of the pasty and a freshly-smoked kipper at the other, and stop the flavours bleeding together too much, it might even outdo the traditional slice of yesterday's porridge as the ultimate breakfast-on-the-go!


Well, a good jersey has at least two pockets so there could easily be room found for a kipper sandwich (with brown bread having plenty aggregate in it; and butter). One might have to squish it in next to the windproof.

I have heard of exotic pasties with multiple yet separated innards. What a craft the cookie must have learnt to create such a beast! A pasty of curried porridge with kipper should continue the Scottish theme perhaps. I suggest a whisky-imbued haggis section in the middle.

How would the would-be pasty chomper know which end to start at? One should surely follow convention and have the porridge before the kipper. Perhaps the pastry could be colour-coded?

Cugel, wondering if the painted porridge pasty should be patented.
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Once upon a time, long long ago in wild Wales I really did try making curried kippers, it was truly blooming horrible, don't do it!
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Porridge and fresh coriander = palatable!
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About a week ago I made too much curried porridge and what i could not eat I threw in the garden for the birds, the porridge is still there, the birds wont touch it, is this an omen?
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An omen? No, it's simply that the birds have good taste :)
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I usually have porridge with yoghurt or rice pudding, keeps me going until lunchtime

Today just oats, water, salt

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My porridge has flax seed, bran, sultanas, coconut chips, and cooked. I add a sliced "ladyfinger" banana and yogurt. Keeps me going from 5:30 until 9 am, then I have 2 HB eggs, an orange, and a coffee - and this is while teaching in a college.
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Surely everybody knows the correct way is to do a week’s supply on Monday and pour into the porridge drawer and cut a slice off every morning. When I worked on farms we got porridge twice per day and the auld farmer maintained we were lucky as in his young days he got it at every meal. This of course is plain oatmeal porridge and none of your fancy stuff. Fair sticks tae the ribs.
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ambodach wrote:Surely everybody knows the correct way is to do a week’s supply on Monday and pour into the porridge drawer and cut a slice off every morning. When I worked on farms we got porridge twice per day and the auld farmer maintained we were lucky as in his young days he got it at every meal. This of course is plain oatmeal porridge and none of your fancy stuff. Fair sticks tae the ribs.


Pardon my colonial ignorance, but what is a "porridge drawer"? I have tried a google search and all it says is the porridge was poured into it to cool and then sliced later. It sounds like a cake baking pan or a tin of the type for baking a loaf of bread. Elaboration, or a picture would educate me further. Thanks. Sounds like a great way to make porridge "slices" for frying.
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