Whole Wheat Oatmeal?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Today, at my breakfast place, they had whole-wheat oatmeal. I must admit, I was thoroughly confused. Where is the wheat in oatmeal? I always thought oatmeal was made with…you know…oats. And that oats were a good, natural source of fiber.

Has anyone else encountered whole wheat oatmeal? Do you know how oatmeal can be made whole-wheat? And why would someone want to add whole-wheat to whole grain oats anyway?

Personally, I think some marketer just stepped on (another) down escalator on his trip to Hell.

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Sounds like the breakfast special at the Oxymoron Diner to me: whole wheat oatmeal, turkey bacon, chicken sausage, vegan scrambled eggs, and a pumpernickel corn muffin and glass of soy milk on the side.

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Ding, ding, ding! I think that’s the winning answer. Sounds like someone’s jumping on the whole-grain bandwagon.

Wonder if it was quick-cooking oatmeal…

4

That’s like full fat coke, or unleaded beer.

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I could see “Wheat Germ & Oatmeal” as a breakfast item. Malt-O-Meal is a whole wheat breakfast food. Oatmeal is made from oats with no wheat. It’s an old enough food product that the FDA’s name guide lines keep people from getting slop in the naming. Rolled oats are this processed grain, and oatmeal is this specific product.

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Some hot breakfast cereals are blends of more than one grain. Fantastic Foods offers: oatmeal and whole wheat, oats and barley, and oats, barley, and triticale.

(No quadratritacle, sadly . . .)

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Gee, I can’t wait until some marketing genius comes up with Kosher Ham.

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Maybe they meant wheat flakes (wheat berries rolled and flattened the same way that oats are rolled and flattened) cooked up like oatmeal? Tasty stuff.

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I have a package of Morningstar Farms (meatless) bacon in my freezer, and it does have a “kosher” symbol on it.

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I’m on it!

:rolleyes:

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I saw a bottle of water on the supermarket shelf labelled “Organic”. Marketing morons.

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Reminds me of the time I was at a friend’s bachelorette party, and overheard one of her dumb friends saying, “I only drink light beer, because it’s fat-free!” :rolleyes:

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That’s great. Maybe the water was polluted with benzene.

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Nah. Probably bird and animal droppings, insect parts, rotting animal carcasses, animal hair, rotten and/or poisonous plants, naturally occurring arsenic, etc.

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They probably meant whole grain…but yeah, that’s pretty dumb. Next time you see it, order it and complain that it isn’t very wheaty.

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Triticale?

I had never heard fo triticale before so I paid a little visit to my homepage, which happens to be Google. Through it, I found this informative article. It’s rather long and I admit I didn’t read the whole thing but I found these parts interesting:

And:

This article was published in 1989, so I’m assuming that things have started looking up in breakfast cereal trade for our friend triticale since then. Maybe triticale beer is next.

Just thought I’d share.

(I was going to save quadratriticale (preferred spelling seems to be quadrotritricale) for some other time but what the hey. It turns out that Tribbles really dig it. Been a long time since I’ve seen that episode.)

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Seems like it is going to be a regular item now. Personally, I’ll stick with my skim milk oatmeal with strawberries and brown sugar.

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Funny, I’d just call a mix between wheat and rye whye .

Sandwhich maker: What kind of bread will that be on?
Patron: Whye.
SM: Because I need to know so I can make it for you.
(continue ad naseum a la Abbot and Costella)

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Beyond being stupid, isn’t that illegal? There is no carbon in H2O so it can’t be organic.