# Poll: Do you like hot cereal? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 11, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-like-hot-cereal/709561 "2015-01-11T18:43:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-like-hot-cereal/709561/61 "2015-01-13T01:25:23Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Heh…when I was going through Air Force basic training at Lackland AFB–near San Antonio, Texas…grits were served with breakfast as Og intended. The yankee boys in the flight apparently thought it was cream of wheat or something equally vile, because they promptly–and before tasting–added milk and sugar to their grits, much to the amusement of the rest of us. On the opposite end of the spectrum, when my South Georgia born and bred husband was stationed at Fort Drum, some cook from Brooklyn had no idea that grits and cream of wheat weren’t the same thing. As I understand it, there was a phone call placed to an Italian grandmother that weekend, and she explained in rather colorful terms that, basically, grits = polenta and cream of wheat = farina and no idiot grandson of hers was to ever make that mistake again. Also? Toasted cream of wheat sounds damned good. I toast my rice before cooking - usually in butter or olive oil. Do you add oil to the CoW, or just toast it in a dry pan? ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-like-hot-cereal/709561/62 "2015-01-13T01:25:40Z")
Sunny Boy and Red River Cereals for the Canucks: steel cut wheat, rye, and flax.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-like-hot-cereal/709561/63 "2015-01-13T03:09:52Z")
My abula used to make me harina de maiz, cornmeal porridge that always included a stick of cinnamon. I used to use it to mix the milk and sugar in. I haven’t thought of that in years. Yummy! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-like-hot-cereal/709561/64 "2015-01-13T04:55:38Z")
I eat, but do not like, oatmeal. I like cream of wheat even less and avoid it altogether. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-like-hot-cereal/709561/65 "2015-01-13T05:47:58Z")
I eat malt-o-meal when I need a hug and my mom’s not around. ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-like-hot-cereal/709561/66 "2015-01-13T06:27:50Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > I was able to mark every single box on this poll. > [@](#): > > \*\*dracoi \*\* > > I’m tentatively voting yes. > > The reason it’s tentative? While I will happily eat and enjoy hot cereal … if it’s the only option, it’s rarely the only option. Since I like almost all the other options even better, I only eat hot cereals a couple times a year. This and this. If I’m going to eat breakfast, I’d rather have most anything than cereal, hot or cold. Some of that is probably due to knowing I should go light on the carbs, so I’d rather have some that I truly enjoy. But honestly, I usually eat first around 10 or 11 AM and a sandwich goes down much better. Anyway, if I must, cream of wheat or grits…well, preferably coarse yellow cornmeal mush, but whatever. And yes, I will put butter, salt and brown sugar on my grits/mush and I don’t care what you real Southerners think. 😉 At times I’ve even eaten a small bowl of grits with S/P, and then another small bowl with brown sugar after, much to the amusement of the in-laws. Oddly enough, I made fried cornmeal mush tonight, with marinara sauce, Progresso breaded chicken breasts, and those yummy flat green beans. (I cooked the mush yesterday, served some hot to the littl’uns, and poured the rest in a loaf pan so I could slice and fry it today.) Now that’s the \*\*best \*\*way to have hot cereal! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-like-hot-cereal/709561.md?page=3)