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Started by Brahmsian, June 25, 2010, 06:50:15 AM

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Brahmsian

All this talk of 'serialism' is making me hungry!  :D

What are some of your favorite cereals?

Here are a few of mine:







Always like to dump in some whole almonds, raisins or blueberries in there.

jowcol

At our house, we apply "total cerealism" where we keep a large container with a mixture of several different kinds of cereals. (A cereal salad?) It's really great because the mix keeps changing, and it's hard to tire of any one type.
"If it sounds good, it is good."
Duke Ellington

karlhenning


Franco

I guess you've reached that stage of life, as I have ... which reminds me of a Saturday Night Live routine featuring a commercial for Colon-Blow Cereal.

:)

MN Dave

I like most cereals. I'm a cereal killer.  >:D

False_Dmitry

millet; oats; wheat; barley; rye; buckwheat; maize; corn; quinoa; rice; semolina; bulghur.

You can't have a second helping of any of the twelve above until you've tried all the others in rotation.

The "Kelloggs Variety Serial Pack" is now recognised as an important member of the Second Viennese School.

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drogulus

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     As with most things, the enjoyability of "cerealism" ought to be in inverse proportion to it's healthfulness. When it isn't you are at least a borderline ninny.

     

     
Quote from: False_Dmitry on June 25, 2010, 10:49:07 AM
millet; oats; wheat; barley; rye; buckwheat; maize; corn; quinoa; rice; semolina; bulghur.

You can't have a second helping of any of the twelve above until you've tried all the others in rotation.

The "Kelloggs Variety Serial Pack" is now recognised as an important member of the Second Viennese School.



     
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Elgarian

As a boy, my favourite cereals were Flash Gordon and Kit Carson.

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Quote from: False_Dmitry on June 25, 2010, 10:49:07 AM
millet; oats; wheat; barley; rye; buckwheat; maize; corn; quinoa; rice; semolina; bulghur.

You can't have a second helping of any of the twelve above until you've tried all the others in rotation.

But there is a duplication there. In the UK, the term "corn" applies to what we in the US call "wheat," and the term "maize" applies to what we in the US call "corn." All told, there are two grains there, not three; it's as if your cereal row has both an F# and a Gb. You could solve the problem by adding teff, the Ethiopian grain used in their fermented bread, injera.
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False_Dmitry

Quote from: Sforzando on June 25, 2010, 02:59:37 PM
But there is a duplication there. In the UK, the term "corn" applies to what we in the US call "wheat," and the term "maize" applies to what we in the US call "corn." All told, there are two grains there, not three; it's as if your cereal row has both an F# and a Gb. You could solve the problem by adding teff, the Ethiopian grain used in their fermented bread, injera.

corn


wheat


;)
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Quote from: False_Dmitry on June 25, 2010, 03:21:34 PM
corn


wheat


;)


US corn = UK maize
US wheat = UK corn

maize

Got it now?
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

MN Dave

I did not know that!

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Quote from: MN Dave on June 25, 2010, 04:09:15 PM
I did not know that!

As in the opening of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus":
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

MN Dave

Quote from: Sforzando on June 25, 2010, 04:39:21 PM
As in the opening of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus":

Very cool.

karlhenning

Maybe I'm a-maized.

Teresa


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Quote from: Sforzando on June 25, 2010, 03:39:13 PM

US corn = UK maize
US wheat = UK corn

maize

Got it now?

Blimey, in the UK we don't really use the word maize much (except when we're teaching our kids about the Aztecs  :D )..... Corn to me is the stuff FD said it was, likewise wheat. Cerealism is confusing!!!

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Quote from: Luke on June 26, 2010, 07:03:06 AM
Blimey, in the UK we don't really use the word maize much (except when we're teaching our kids about the Aztecs  :D )..... Corn to me is the stuff FD said it was, likewise wheat. Cerealism is confusing!!!

Wikipedia, on maize:

QuoteThe term maize derives from the Spanish form of the indigenous Taino word maiz for the plant. This was the term used in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where it is now usually called "sweet corn", the most common form of the plant known to people there.[3]

Outside the British Isles, another common term for maize is "corn". This was originally the English term for any cereal crop. In North America, its meaning has been restricted since the 19th century to maize, as it was shortened from "Indian corn."[4] The term Indian corn now refers specifically to multi-colored "field corn" (flint corn) cultivars.[5]

Whatever the variations in usage (and it's good to know you Brits are finally learning how to speak the English language), we are not talking about three separate grains here. And Shakespeare's Roman mob was not talking about corn on the cob. Neither was Keats in "Ode to a Nightingale":

"Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn."

"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

Luke

You highlighted a phrase in the second Wiki paragraph you quoted; I'd highlight one in the first paragraph: 'This was the term used in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where it is now usually called "sweet corn" 'Keats' and Shakespeare's usage of 'corn' for 'wheat' is not that that current Brits use when talking about what they are having for their dinners, or what is growing in the fields, though it might be used that way in a more poetic, generic sense, I suppose.