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brits used to deride oats as horse feed because they hated the scottish or something, maybe we inherited that

I thought it was a classism thing because oats and/or whatever grains available were used to make prole-slop gruel to feed to the child labour slaves in the poorhouses during the industrial revolution. Maybe they got knackered together because of Charles Dickens making gruel synonymous with worker exploitation.

There's probably a racism element too, because we're talking about the British.

There's also another trend I see yanks do where they go so all-in on "teehee white people no seasoning" they run away from anything they deem to be "white" - hence the dunking on salt that was a trend a year or so ago. Some sort of weird reverse white saviour I see people do, like they try to say "i'm one of the good ones or something". I think it's a mix of all three: Racism, colonialism and I don't know what to call the last thing... Neoliberalism? Tokenism?

You can even get coarse and fine grain oats, depending on how creamy you like your oatmeal. You can yankify it by slapping some GMO peanutbutter on it or even jam, I won't judge. Douse it with sugar or caramelized bacon bits or some other epic reddit shit. But hating oats? Telling on yourself. No joy in life.

I love oatmeal. Toppings change with the seasons. In the summer I pick wild strawberries. Late autumn and winter it's appleseason babyyy. I shoplift almonds all year, so they're a staple for me. I change up the milk I use too. If I'm in a hurry I mix the oats and milk the night before so it takes no time to heat em up and get em creamy.
Not liking oats is akin to saying you don't know how to put toppings on. It's saying you're a fancy lad who gets your food made for you because you have no idea what you really like so you have no way of making yourself a delicious low budget breakfast. ""Not liking oats: This is another form of liberalism - Mao" -BanMeFromPosting