[Sca-cooks] (OT) Space Food Sticks

[Decker, Terry D.]

Mush specifically refers to cornmeal porridge or pudding.  It's also fairly
common to refer to it redundantly as cornmeal mush.  Mush bread is
johnnycake.

They probably used oatmeal because it was identifiable in black and white
and had better photographic texture.

Bear


> (OB Tangent: In Hal Roach's "Our Gang" comedies of the 1930's, a
> great deal of the plotlines feature mush in one way or another. The
> prop mush used for the films looks more like oatmeal to me. Is there
> any possibility or likelihood that something other than cornmeal is
> being referred to? Is mush a generic term for a hot cereal, like
> farina, or does it mean different things to different people, or did
> they simply use oatmeal because it photographed better?)
>
> Adamantius