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Thursday lunch
Bruce wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:37:37 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
> > wrote:
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>> On Friday, March 19, 2021 at 9:16:57 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On Friday, March 19, 2021 at 2:44:06 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
>>>> On Friday, March 19, 2021 at 8:34:06 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>> On Friday, March 19, 2021 at 2:07:41 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>>> On Friday, March 19, 2021 at 7:55:54 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2021-03-19 1:07 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 3/19/2021 12:27 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 2021-03-19 11:54 a.m., jmcquown wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I'm not sure I've ever heard of "pre-sweetened" oatmeal. Is this one
>>>>>>>>>> of Bruce's random ramblings about how much sugar Americans consume?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I had to check and make sure, but those packages of flavoured instant
>>>>>>>>> oatmeal do have sugar. 8-10 grams per serving, depending on the
>>>>>>>>> flavour. In the list of ingredients it is the third item.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks for looking that up. I've never bought any "flavoured instant
>>>>>>>> oatmeal". It's Bruce again pushing his belief everyone in North America
>>>>>>>> consumes massive amounts of sugar.
>>>>>>> I had to look it up because I never buy that kind of stuff. I am North
>>>>>>> American not US American, and I never buy any sweetened cereal, though I
>>>>>>> will confess that years ago I occasionally enjoyed a bowl of Frosted
>>>>>>> Flakes. I am disappointed to go through the cold cereal aisle and see
>>>>>>> how many of them are sweetened.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I never buy quick cooking oats because they taste like paste and the
>>>>>>> instant stuff is even worse. It is large flake or steel ground for me.
>>>>>>>> On the rare occasions I eat oatmeal
>>>>>>>> I add a bit of brown sugar to it but not to the point it could really be
>>>>>>>> called "sweet". I actually like the taste of oats. 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I love the taste of oats.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Horses love oats too. I used to love feeding it to my friends horses
>>>>>>> because they got so excited over it.
>>>>>> When I had a business, I'd eat that instant oatmeal stuff for breakfast. It was dirt cheap and fast and could be made in the office microwave. What it wasn't was good. I could live with that. Two out of three ain't bad.
>>>>> Real oatmeal is cheaper, fast if you plan ahead, and can be made in the office
>>>>> microwave. It's good.
>>>>>
>>>>> Every afternoon my husband prepares a bowl with some oatmeal, raisins
>>>>> and sugar in it, and a container with a measured amount of water. At midnight
>>>>> he wakes up, prepares and eats the oatmeal, takes a Hydrocodone (which
>>>>> upsets his stomach if it's empty), and goes back to bed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>> If it was cheaper, faster, and good, I would have been doing that very thing. It ain't.
>>> As I said, it requires advance planning.
>>>
>>> I cannot fathom how someone as feckless as you had a business.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
>> I ate breakfast in the office but it had to be cheap and fast. If you had a business, you'd probably spend your time being more concerned about eating rather than the business.
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> She thinks she only eats a little bit too much, you know.
>
You think you only sniff a little bit too many folk's assholes.
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