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From: "Carol" <cshenk@virginia-beach.com>
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Subject: Re: A nice simple dinner
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 23:00:51 -0000 (UTC)
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Dave Smith wrote:

> On 2025-03-03 8:46 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >On 2025-03-02, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> > > > That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
> > > > a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I can't do the quick cooking oats.They taste like paste.
> > 
> > Perhaps they have the texture of paste.  Their flavor should
> > be the same as rolled oats.
> 
> Should perhaps, but they don't. Steel cut and large flake oats are
> very tasty. I think they are delicious. The quick cooking is less
> flavourful and the instant stuff is bland. It has to be sweetened and
> flavoured to taste like anything.

You may have missed it, but the instants got better.  Way better than
the spackle they used to be.  I'd have agreed with you if they were
still as bad as the old ones when they were a fairly new product.