Comments | rubyfive: cream of wheat

rubyfive

cream of wheat

May 29, 2003 09:14

most mornings, i get oatmeal in the cafeteria here at my crappy temp job. usually they offer plain oatmeal and oatmeal with somewhat delicious combinations of fruit. lately, they have been having plain old oatmeal and plain old cream of wheat. when this happens, i get a bagel. today, however, i wanted to try the cream of wheat since it had ( Read more... )

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elf_chick May 29 2003, 06:20:46 UTC

must be akin to cream of chicken or cream of mushroom.

no seriously, i have no clue!
maybe it should be called "cream of what"....

astronautical May 29 2003, 06:34:58 UTC

hee. I think it's just coarse ground wheat that's been roasted or pressurized or something.

But because it looks just like grits, for comparison I will tell you the big secret, aka, where grits come from:

take corn. run LYE over it. ha. yep, LYE. that's how you get HOMINY. grind up the HOMINY for GRITS.

enjoy, y'all!

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astronautical May 30 2003, 06:49:09 UTC

southern belles, unite!

wright May 29 2003, 06:47:14 UTC

Only a true Southern Belle would know her facts about grits.
And that is really, really unbelievable.
LYE! Argh!

Cream of what, haha!

astronautical May 29 2003, 07:20:36 UTC

because I am a NERD I have found these things for you:

it's called cream of wheat because it's the cream of the wheat, ala cream of the crop. it's made from the part of the wheat that is thought to be the most nutritous, the "middling" of the wheat (which also makes a cheap and nutritious cattle feed, and is a by-product of flour milling, which may contain different levels and sizes of germ, bran, and endosperm).

It started out b/c a flour manufacturer was having problems, and thought that the tasty porridge that he enjoyed at home would be a hot item to sell.

http://web.kraftfoods.com/creamofwheat/

lindaquelinda May 29 2003, 08:04:04 UTC

i don't know, but it's good to eat when you're sick and you don't feel like eating.

remember malt-o-meal? it's akin to cream of wheat. once when i was in fifth grade they handed out chocolate malt-o-meal, and i was expecting a chocolatey taste similar to cocoa puffs. i was sorely disappointed (it tasted like brown malt-o-meal) and dumped it in the sink. why i hold on to this memory, i don't know.