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breakfast's oldest survivor, gluing humans together since before we could write the recipe down
means A hot dish of oats or other grain boiled in water or milk until thick and spoonable.
from A blurring of the older English 'pottage' — a thick soup or stew of vegetables and grain simmered in a pot, from Old French 'potage,' literally 'that which goes in the pot' (pot + the suffix -age). Over time the 'tt' softened toward 'rr' (perhaps tangled up with 'porray,' a leek-based pottage), and the meaning narrowed from any pot-stew to the grain-thick breakfast we know. The slang 'doing porridge' for serving prison time is later still, a nod to the bland fare of jail.
- ancient eats
- Porridge predates bread by thousands of years
- prison slang
- British slang for serving a jail sentence
- world record
- Scotland hosts the World Porridge Making Championship
- bog mummies
- Iron Age corpses had porridge as last meals
- fairy tale
- Goldilocks ruined three bears over temperature preferences
prison porridge — historic staple food served in british and american prisons from 1800s onward
scottish oatmeal porridge — traditional breakfast in scotland, made with steel-cut oats and salt