[Sca-cooks] Buttered wortes

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Angharad wrote:
>As a matter of curiosity, when Americans say 'oatmeal' do they mean
>porridge? This is the impression I have. For me, raised in England, and
>living most of my adult life in Australia, oatmeal is the finely ground
>stuff, and porridge is a breakfast cereal made with rolled oats.

Us Merkins don't eat no stinkin' "porridge"! (joke, joke)

We eat hot cereal!

Oatmeal is
1.) the substance from which a hot cereal is made, nearly always rolled oats
and
2.) the hot cereal made from this substance.

-- 
Someone sometimes called Urtatim