I like oatmeal. I put it in a bowl, I pour milk over it, and I don’t cook it. And then (brace yourselves) I eat it. Everybody I know in real life thinks I’m crazy. I figure this is the SDMB so enough people will wander in to convince me I’m not really so crazy after all.
Why do I do it? Because it tastes good. Cooked oat porridge is just nasty, with or without milk. It has the texture of glop, and I don’t eat glop. I’m not too cheap to buy packaged breakfast cereal like Cheerios and such. It’s just that two or three days a week, I’m in the mood for oatmeal (but not glop).
One bad thing though: I sh*t like a horse. On the other hand, I’m hung like one too.
Does anyone else care to step forward and admit to having enough horse sense to eat raw oatmeal?
Only if it’s surrounded by butter, sugar and raisins (aka oatmeal cookie dough.) I don’t know what it is. I can take or leave any other kind of cookie dough, but most of my oatmeal cookies never get baked.
I don’t think it’s unusual at all to eat raw oatmeal. What is it, really, just rolled oats? If you get the muesli/granola stuff at the natural foods stores, you’ll notice that rolled oats is a pretty big part of their makeup, so lots of people are probably eating it without thinking too much about what’s inside. Sometimes when I get tired of paying extra for the muesli, I’d just buy the oats in bulk and eat that (no cooking).
Yeah, all that fiber makes me go, too, but it doesn’t affect my vocal chords.
I jsut started a thread recently called How trule weird are you? Where I admit to eating dry oatmeal (no milk).
No bad effects yet, but it may have made me effect the election in a bad way;)
When I was in college, and REALLY poor, and desperate for a between-meal snack…straight oatmeal rescued me lots of times. Raw polished white rice tastes good, too.
