A cultural question
Nov. 17th, 2006 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaala[Adapted from email]
Me: So, exactly how much is one supposed to salt porridge? One can buy quite tasty oatmeal very cheap at grocery stores so, in the interest of cultural understanding, I've been trying eating it salted. Should one be able to actually taste the salt?
This is a matter of grave importance, you understand.
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Dad responded: My only contact with this quaint custom is via newly-emigrated Scots twins who I knew in Grade 9 (the family had come over when his father became Pipe-Major of the local regiment). Among the treats they'd bring for lunch would be cold fried oatmeal and onion sandwiches, and I recall the question of salt on hot oatmeal coming up. The answer was that it just enriched the flavour but was barely noticeable as a "salty" taste.
Me: cold fried oatmeal and onion sandwiches Yeccch. Mind you, I'll probably end up trying haggis, tatties and onions or something like that eventually. I was sorely tempted by deep fried Mars bars the other day too. [Ed - I had one shortly thereafter. The first bite was gorgeous but by the end I felt quite sick.]
Me: The answer was that it just enriched the flavour but was barely noticeable as a "salty" taste. Ah. I'm doing it right, then. [Ed - It didn't last long though. I eventually caved and bought brown sugar again.]
Me: So, exactly how much is one supposed to salt porridge? One can buy quite tasty oatmeal very cheap at grocery stores so, in the interest of cultural understanding, I've been trying eating it salted. Should one be able to actually taste the salt?
This is a matter of grave importance, you understand.
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Dad responded: My only contact with this quaint custom is via newly-emigrated Scots twins who I knew in Grade 9 (the family had come over when his father became Pipe-Major of the local regiment). Among the treats they'd bring for lunch would be cold fried oatmeal and onion sandwiches, and I recall the question of salt on hot oatmeal coming up. The answer was that it just enriched the flavour but was barely noticeable as a "salty" taste.
Me: cold fried oatmeal and onion sandwiches Yeccch. Mind you, I'll probably end up trying haggis, tatties and onions or something like that eventually. I was sorely tempted by deep fried Mars bars the other day too. [Ed - I had one shortly thereafter. The first bite was gorgeous but by the end I felt quite sick.]
Me: The answer was that it just enriched the flavour but was barely noticeable as a "salty" taste. Ah. I'm doing it right, then. [Ed - It didn't last long though. I eventually caved and bought brown sugar again.]
