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lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Tue Feb 9 10:58:08 PST 2010
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
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