Porridge - fuel for rides

[jefmcg]

Oooh it's the shouty spelling police.

.....chastising you with a sentence without a verb.

 

[theclaud]

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Has anything amusing ever happened to you in connection with a spoon?

 

[furball]

.....chastising you with a sentence without a verb.

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Insert as appropriate. Happy now?

 

[jefmcg]

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Insert as appropriate. Happy now?

Should I be? You're the one who thinks it's ok to get shouty for a 1 letter spelling error. What response is appropriate?

People in glass grammars shouldn't through spelling stones.

 

[theclaud]

Should I be? You're the one who thinks it's ok to get shouty for a 1 letter spelling error. What response is appropriate?

People in glass grammars shouldn't through spelling stones.

It's not an error - it's a variant spelling. I had a friend from Aberdeen when I was a teenager, and that was the first time I encountered the implement (quiet in the cheap seats). He spelled it 'spirtle'. I'll be beyond surprised if he's the only Scot who did.

 

[Crackle]

Quite feisty for a thread on porridge this. It's why I never eat the stuff.

 

[bruce1530]

Slept in and missed breakfast so today’s recipe was:

1 pot of instant porridge (golden syrup flavour)

Fill to the line with boiling water. Stir. Wait. Stir. Wait.

Eat.

Sweet and sickly, not particularly pleasant. But filling.

 

[derrick]

Sod the porridge it causes to many arguments. Give me a pot of yogurt.

 

[jefmcg]

Sod the porridge it causes to many arguments. Give me a pot of yogurt.

I can go off spectacularly on the subject of yoghurt yogurt yoghurt.

For instance "how do you spell it?" And "what the hell are thickeners like rice starch and tapioca doing in the ingredients list?" And "should you call it skyr without rennet?"

 

[jefmcg]

It's not an error - it's a variant spelling.

Apologies. I did check the OED (really!) before posting. Not that I would regard the OED as the denier cri on Scottish words, but I don't have a better source.

 

[stalagmike]

1 cup value oats
1 cup water
1 cup milk
Pinch of salt
Put all the above into a large bowl.
Microwave on full power for 1m 40sec
Stir
Microwave on medium power for 1min
Chuck in raisins, nuts and pumpkin seeds
Job's a good un

 

[TheDoctor]

The stuff is a waste of potential flapjack imho.

 

[NickNick]

The stuff is a waste of potential flapjack imho.

That's what my other half keeps telling me, but i'm not convinced by flapjacks.

 

[Thorn Sherpa]

I'll have porridge now and again but I'm with TheDoctor with what he says about flapjack

 

[oldwheels]

It is actually a spurtle but regardless of spelling is really only for selling to gullible tourists. Pretty useless as as an implement for anything else and a wooden spoon is the only thing to use.
Interesting how a simple thing like porridge can cause so much furore. Have we had an argument as to whether it is porridge or porage yet?