PORRIDGE "OFF"?
FOOD FOR PREMIERS. More amusement than Indignation has been aroused among Scotsmen by a Plymouth doctor's statement that the use of porridge Is on the decline, writes a Highland correspondent. Perhaps, he admits, porridge may not be used* so much by the Clyde Black Squad in the mornings since their hours were altered, but it is coming into great favour as a supper meal among all classes. In the country districts oatmeal is the staple breakfast of school children, and Highland lads and lasses bave their porridge as regularly as their ancestors had years ago. Farm servants, who got rather too much porridge in the old times—thrice a day—still have it for breakfast, and on some farms the men get it for supper by their own request. The Premier knows the value of porridge as a breakfast dish. HJs mother had a profound faith in porridge and milk, and an old Elgin lady who knew her intimately, said: "Jean," as she called her, "always saw that Ramsay bad his porridge." And look around in London even. What about the thousands of Scots haggis, the chief ingredient of which is oatmeal, now consumed there? And go into restaurant or public-house in the big cities, and it ■will be found that oatcakes and sardines are a favourite snack.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 116, 17 May 1924, Page 19
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