• MudMan
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    -811 months ago

    What’s a Quaker Oats? I guess they dropped it 1958 when they first opened, along with everybody else.

    (Kidding, kinda, I have heard the name, but I couldn’t tell you what you get inside a box or what you do with it. Eat it, presumably, but I don’t know how).

    • TAG
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      11 months ago

      It is an American brand of oatmeal. You cook them to make a porridge.

      • athos77
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        411 months ago

        They also make cereals (Capn Crunch), snack bars, Rice-a-roni, Tropicana, etc.

        • MudMan
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          111 months ago

          We don’t have Cap’n Crunch either. And I don’t know what Rice-a-roni is. If Tropicana is juice we do get that. Pepsi drinks are a thing worldwide.

          As for porridge, the only reason I’ve ever seen it is I know people with medical issues.

          • @[email protected]
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            211 months ago

            I don’t understand what is upsetting in your comment for some.

            Some heavily processed foodstuffs are unique to the US and doesn’t sell anywhere else, to the point as someone who has lived in a bunch of countries across Europe, I have no idea what a rice-a-roni is either. I imagine every country has its own food types not many other countries sell. I would be surprised if French cuisine stopped at croissants as well.

            Maybe people don’t like pointing it out that US culture is not the default across the world and people have different cultural lenses with which they view the world?

            • MudMan
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              111 months ago

              I don’t know, man. I mean, I know about that last part, that is definitely a thing. I don’t know if that’s it or if the perception here is different or what. I wasn’t even trolling, I’m mildly curious about Rice-a-roni now. Just mildly enough not to google it. Maybe the Carrefour versus Pepsi thing reads as a Europe vs the US thing? I hadn’t even considered that until just now and it seems hilarious.

              For the record, we obviously get a ton of cereal, including very sugary cereal. You can get those pillowy things with nutella inside them, which are less cereal and more a way to pretend you’re having breakfast when you’re really just inhaling a full box of chocolate cookies.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      Oats are the main ingredient in muesli and granola. And there’s also a milk substitute made out of them. Avoine if you speak french.