Lumpy porridge?

[Heming]

LOL!

the spurtle is a traditional Scottish stir stick that dates from the 16th century.

These sticks are famously found in viking tombs, i.e. dating bak to the 8th century...

Homework, guys!

[davedove]

We use a wooden spoon.

I am always very wary of food that needs a special tool to eat it. A bread roll cannot be enjoyed unless you use a grossly ornate and impractical butter knife; Fish requires a knife that only right-handed people can use without dis-emboweling themselves; Corn-on-the-Cob (a glorious indulgence) can only be eaten with the use of razor sharp handles that don't actually hold anything and which will fling the corn into your lap at the first moment of inattention. And what about cake-forks - you can't enjoy a guilty slice of your favourite cake without using a fork that looks as if a couple of manufacturing processes were missed out. Again, designed for right-handed people - sorry, you lefties, your cake will taste terrible because you don't have the right tool to eat it with.

Wouldn't it be nice just to have food, rather than eating a lifestyle?

Regards

Chas

Speaking with nose haughtily in the air.

But my dear Chas, it is not done that way. One must use the proper tools. How can we keep ourselves in the proper style if we lower ourselves to that of the common peasants?

[Zardoz]

Speaking with nose haughtily in the air.

But my dear Chas, it is not done that way. One must use the proper tools. How can we keep ourselves in the proper style if we lower ourselves to that of the common peasants?

A proper spurtle is of course quite correct, and $4.60 a pittance to rise above the rif-raff.

[Chas]

Speaking with nose haughtily in the air.

But my dear Chas, it is not done that way. One must use the proper tools. How can we keep ourselves in the proper style if we lower ourselves to that of the common peasants?

A proper spurtle is of course quite correct, and $4.60 a pittance to rise above the rif-raff.

OK, OK. You have convinced me. If you could just pop over here and convince my wife....

Regards

Chas

[JimB]

Hey, those lumps aren't bits of Marmite are they?

[McClef]

Never used a spurtle in my life and didn't even know what one was.

I microwave my porage these days and never get lumps.

[ccga3359]

Never used a spurtle in my life and didn't even know what one was.

I microwave my porage these days and never get lumps.

The 16th century Scots didn't possess such luxuries as microwaves or indoor plumbing like the 16th century Welsh. They were not as evolved otherwise they'd be wearing trousers now.

[turpin]

If I owned a spurtle, I would name it Yertle. Then I'd write a children's book about it.