I don’t eat oatmeal porridge regularly anymore (because it’s a pain in the ass to wash the dishes afterwards, and bread is extremely cheap in Germany), but I have a special relationship to it. We were raised on porridge breakfasts, and my piggy Sergei too (he got warm porridge in the morning and cold porridge leftovers in the afternoon, with vegetables, milk and other nice things).
The thing about how it comes out totally different depending on who makes it is something I have observed in real life. It makes me laugh when I try in vain to express in words how my mum’s and my sister’s porridges reflect their personalities. :o)
Niin, ja Varmamummun kaurapuuro oli maailman parasta ja halusin aina sen kattilanlopun; siis syödä suoraan kattilasta. Mut kai se johtu puuhellastakin ja siitä määrästä, minkä mummu aina aamuisin keitti.
Siihen lisättiin maito, joka 60-luvulla oli rasvasta, voinokare ja vähä sokeria.
Vieläkin saan maun kielelleni!
More wonderfully detailed scenes, well done. What’s that wall with fishies doing in the background?
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“Don’t worry, I dodn’t pay anything…” –> somehow not likely to reduce worry. 😛
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Can’t say I’ve ever been a big fan of porridge, not that I especially *dislike* it. I’ve hear it often joked that it’s ‘food for livestock and Scotsmen’, but I can’t see how it’d be any worse than the cereals popular here in the antipodes.
It’s a poster with different fish species … You can see it more clearly at the end of chapter 3 (http://kommiekomiks.com/driftwood/?p=403 – argh, it makes me cringe to look at the artwork, English language and scan quality of the early parts of this comic …).
It’s a cultural thing with the porridge. :o) It has traditionally been the basic food of poor people in northeastern Europe, from Russia to northern Scandinavia. I had really bad pneumonia once in Russia, and a friend of mine made really nice Russian oatmeal porridge for me. I thought it was the best thing ever, but she at first thought I was making fun of her when I was so happy about it, since it’s such a basic and “poor” dish …
Muistakko Irlannissa ja Skoteissa ja Walesissakin, kun käytiin kaupoissa; varsinkin Irlannissa oli suuria pusseja kauraryyniä. Muistakko varsinkin ne kauheet säkit perunalastuja Irlannin marketeissa!
Apua … Perhepakkauksia!
From what I’ve heard, there’s a similar cultural thing about potage Parmentier – soup made of potato puree – in France. And about omelets. Simple dishes that are highly dependent on the hand that makes them.