Dave Smith wrote:
> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
>>
>> Seriously, Jean, for me personally, cream of wheat has absolutely no
>> redeeming qualities, at least so that I wouldn't wasnte my time on
>> extgensive preparations just to make it palatable.
>>
>> I find that's true of many foods that just taken in their natural
>> state and merely cooked are really pretty dreadful. Not worth my
>> time, when there are plenty of wonderful tasting foods that require
>> little if any augmentation to make them fit to eat. :-)
>
>
> I appreciate the fact that Cream of Wheat it widely disliked. I just
> don't really understand why. I realize that it is fairly bland, or shall
> we say that its flavour is subtle. I much prefer oatmeal, but I must
> have a delicate system and eating oatmeal porridge on a regular basis
> causes problems for me. I recently switch to Cream of Wheat and it is
> very easy on my system. A little dark brown sugar, maple syrup or even
> corn syrup makes it quite palatable.

My dislike stems back to my childhood, when my mother made lumpy
CoW, with little disguise. If one didn't consume it at breakfast,
that bowl would continue to appear at meals until it was gone. Ugh.

Sure, almost anything can be disguised with adequate dark brown
sugar, maple syrup, etc. But why ingest all of those empty
calories when there are so many other more-palatable (from a
subjective standpoint) things to eat?

--
Jean B.