Monday, February 04, 2008
The problem with PORRIDGE
Khao Tom, Puuro, Congee... what do all these have in common?
That, that they are unquestionably BREAKFAST. So, what is the problem? BREAKFAST as a concept is something so obvious, so comfortable, that one doesn't ever question it... and one never thinks that it could make people emotional... but it does!
Last night, we started talking about "basic porridge" with Kirsti and Mikko... and well, Kirsti was lucky to head home by 11 pm. Let's just say that it IS possible to have a two hour argument about porridge. Oatmeal porridge was a sweet Sunday treat in my home... in Finland, it isn't considered sweet, and it certainly isn't a treat.
To me, for anyone Finnish reading this, "basic porridge" is made by boiling a lot of rice, adding soysauce/nampla, vegetables, soyprotein/meat/fish, lots of garlic, spring onion, ginger, coriander... and to Finns, it's a lot of oats, milk... well, anyhow. To me, Finnish porridge is a dessert... to Mikko, Thai porridge is lunch. So we can both wonder what's wrong with the other.... one eating desert for breakfast, and the other lunch for breakfast...
But, the real surprise is the way it is possible to get worked up about it. Seriously... our first argument! Over PORRIDGE!
Luckily we had better things to do... like finish an invitation for a party on Friday:
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