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        I beg to differ. Just a bit of honey and milk make 'em fucking delicious, and if milk and honey are complex seasoning, something is very wrong with your ability to cook.

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          Get a load of this guy from the land of milk and honey. Must be nice to live in the promised land with your fancy oatmeal. /s

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        even with just basic seasons

        What are we calling basic seasonings? Brown sugar is pretty basic imo and oatmeal with brown sugar is basically crack.

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        Chinese person here, the spices that work well on rice also work on congee, which is already similar to oatmeal, and IMO they work just fine on actual oatmeal too.

        Hell we even have a “lazy congee” where you literally just add leftover rice to hot water to make a sort of rice oatmeal. Super convenient in the morning when you’re in a rush!

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        I don’t even need to put salt on my rice. It’s great on its own just boiled.

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          Thai Jasmin rice. Once I found a good hookup oh baby did my view on rice change.

          Idk what they’re doing to rice over there but everything about it is perfect. Aroma, flavour, texture. It’s delicious fluffy white rice every time.

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    Defenders of McDonald’s chicken nuggets surprised to learn they contain 38 ingredients.

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    Oatmeal is a grain product, so yeah, adding other things to it to make it more to your personal liking is kinda the point.

    This is like saying bread is bad because most people like it in a sandwich.

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      Wheat is bad because you have to add more than just water to make bread

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        That’s actually not even necessarily true. You can just leave flour around in water and the natural yeast ferments. Then you can throw that in with some more water and flour and it’s sourdough. Would be better with some salt though.

        Or you can make super depressing unleavened flatbread.

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      Yes, no one who says “I love pasta!” is saying that to mean “I love just the pasta on its own without any sauce”

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    Anyone making the assertion that ingredients must taste good on their own to be considered tasty is free to go try vanilla extract to compare it to vanilla icecream.

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    Why do people insist on randomly hating what other people eat? The textbook definition of differing tastes between different people than cannot be accounted for? Unless your kid is named Oatmeal and they ate them, maybe mind your own business.

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    I mean, in a pinch you can get away with just butter and salt. Oats taste fine by themselves, it’s just really boring after two bites.

    EDIT: I am not a horse.

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    Steel cut oats don’t need anything except maybe a little milk. They’re delicious, fight me.

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      Oats, water, pinch of salt. Maybe its cause I was raised protestant but the day should start as miserable as it will go on.

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      I could never get into steel cut, but this is how I eat rolled oats. But its gotta be Quaker Original or Bobs or something. Instant oats suck ass.

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      And I like whole oat groats even better. Discrete grains not unlike cooking rice. Groats and steel cut oats are such an improvement on texture. Guess there’s a little trade-off in cooking time, but it really doesn’t take that long. I’ll make a little pot and have it for a week.

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    And here I am, enjoying just plain oats with tap water 🤷‍♂️

    If all you eat is flavoured, over salted, over sweetened, highly processed food, then that’s all your tastebuds will find enjoyable.

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      I’ve had pain oats for probably 40 years now and at this point I don’t think I can have a normal morning without a bowl of oatmeal.

      At first my parents feed us this because we were poor, then I ate it out of habit, then I ate it to save money, now I just eat because I don’t want anything else any more.

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    I love and eat oatmeal every day. More than ones through the day actually, plain

    Just oats and water.

    If i want something different than nothing beats fruits in this game for me. A good apple sauce is also awesome on oatmeal.

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    I eat oats just about every single day. The only time I’m not eating oats is around the holidays.

    But I definitely don’t mind unflavored oats. Normally I eat them savory, but plain oats are fine I suppose.

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    The defense of Oatmeal is that it’s insanely good for your health and will help you lose weight if you can shovel unsweetened oatmeal down your pie hole every morning.

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      Doesn’t have to be unsweetened, just unsweetened with natural sugars like, sugar or honey. Stevia or other artificial sweeteners are okay for weight loss.