Date: 06-21-01  09:16
 From: Quanyin9

Larry,
Give me a break!  You mix oatmeal and cream of wheat and
then think paprika is strange?  The issue here is not the
paprika, it's the mixing of one lovely cereal, oatmeal,
with a mushy glob of disgusting cream of Wheat.   Get a
grip, Larry.  It's not too late to repent your evil ways!
There are groups that help people like you!

M

 Date: 06-22-01  22:53
 From: Quanyin9

Okay, I've sat on my hands and tried to refrain but you know me, I'm not
always
good at that so here goes....I thought I knew you people.  I mean, I thought
I
knew some of you well.  I am so bitterly disappointed in the lot of you and
I'm
not sure I wish to continie associating with this group.  Clearly oatmeal
eaters are a morally superior group of people.  That just has to be a given.
Here you are just blatently expounding your love of strange combos, and
grits,
and cream of wheat, and malt-0-meal. Did you have to brag and make it real?
Couldn't you have been at least in denial about this shameful issue?
Couln't
you have kept it a secret?  How do I just go on day after day, responding to
your posts, like nothing has happened? Char and KJ and Duckie, you of all
people!  And the rest of you should just be ashamed.  Then of course, Harv
and Aim and even Andrea have to come up with something exotic and
strange.  DOnald, I thought there was hope for you until your little fried
comment.  I am so distraught over this-I thought I knew you all.  I fell so
alone....so fragile....so betrayed....

Yours not in solidarity,
M

 Date: 06-22-01  23:16
 From: Thelma

 Nah, the world's too big.  Just when you think you've finally
 found something that makes you unique..--I like my oatmeal
 plain,   nothing sweet, and since my husband went on a no
 salt crusade I'm not even salting it.  I love it made w/ steel
 cut oats [I like the bulk stuff just as much as the much more
 expensive McCann import], but I don't mind the gluey instant
 stuff either.

 But maybe we can still rescue your superiority: I do make
 oatmeal cookies, with both rolled oats and steel cut oats
 [and pecans and pear and chocolate nibs].
                                --thelma

 Date: 06-23-01  07:06
 From: Krissyjo

Diane,
You are just a sick person. Please seek help immediately
before you do something drastic!!!!

~KJ

 Date: 06-23-01  09:38
 From: Hrstone

Ooh that is addictive and it highlights a soul wandering in the mist,
lost and trying to find its way in search of the deep south.  Aaah so
many things are just waiting for buttermilk and bacon grease.  It is
true that malt o meal is hard to find and someplaces in this world,,,,
impossible.  Drive the dusty small road of the south. Stop in a small
town eatery.  Ask and you will receive.  Tip and you will be noted as
an out of towner but that also get a smile that is worth a great deal.

 If your wandering takes you to south Louisiana.  When you order, it
takes the attractive waitress just a second as she translates what you
say into english. You can get a breakfast that is from the deep south
with a La flavor.  The smile and the breakfast makes a person want to
stay for awhile but there is a breakfast waiting in Mississippi that may
have a flavor that has not been enough by you and then comes Alabama and
Florida which have their own tastes and flavors.  Do not go north into
Georgia from Florida.  The smile and the breakfast are not something
that a person can walk away from.  Warning....travel at your own risk.

Harv

 Date: 06-23-01  11:07
 From: Ifish2b

Stop!!  Wait, maybe one of your southern gimps needs to
sponser a gimp fest.  I think my cholesterol is low, yea,
that's it, I need to raise my cholsterol.

Sarah L

 Date: 06-23-01  11:10
 From: Ifish2b

Yum, grandma used to fried us French Toast in bacon grease.
Yummy, hmm, maybe that's where I got my figure. That and the
cherry pies and Eskimo Pies grandma always used to have on

hand.  Na, that can't be it.

Sarah L

"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and
sing
them back to you when you have forgotten the words."  (unattributed)

 Date: 06-23-01  12:24
 From: Bbaylarry

That ain't grease!  That's "natural cooking oil." ;-)

--
Be Well,
Larry

 Date: 06-23-01  11:51
 From: Jofirey

That did it.  Now I need a Southern Fried fix bad.  Used
to go to a restaurant call Po Folks with my family when
I'd visit in North Carolina and loved it.  I was thrilled
when they opened one in Sacramento.  Till I tried it.  It
ain't Southern cookin' without a southern cook.  Just a
greasy nasty mess.  I'm a fairly good cook but haven't
really mastered the art of breaded and fried.  (Can make
a pretty good biscuit, and decent gravy)

Think it takes a few generations of practice.

--
Jo Firey

 Date: 06-23-01  14:07
 From: Afn39652

Oh yeah!  Black-eye peas and ham on New Year's Day!

Damn, i'm getting real hungry here!

Nann