Whats the difference between porridge and oatmeal? Or is it the same thing?!
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Porridge can be made from any cereal or grain. Oatmeal can only be made from oats. Cream of Wheat and Red River are both porridge but neither is made from oats.
Porridge is when you do bird, it is not a word outside cockney rhyming slang (bird= jail term)
Porage is oats boiled and, with a small permitted amount of milk and salt added, is a Scots breakfast to be treasured. If the mixture does not have a marked 'edge' at the point where it touches the bowl, it is not correct; it needs too be fairly stiff even if you slosh a tiny bit of milk over it.
There are other oat flaked dishes, and all the better for that, but I will not stand by and hear Porage denigrated or misunderstood, else ma' claymore will riven ye sassenachs an' awa' the Scots.
And, 'what's' deserves an apostrophe before the ess, kindly please note.
Me Mam made porage that could blunt a skean duibh
in china, porrige is over cooked rice with bits of meat, eggs and veggies. so yea, there is a difference in china :D
porridge is a british word. oatmeal is american
