Word: oatmealization
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...children, many Americans greeted a bowl of oatmeal with an expression of disgust. "It's good for you," Mom would intone, but who believed her? The yucky greige sludge might be filling, but good for you? Forget it. They sure believe her now. Today cholesterol-conscious consumers are eagerly lapping up not only oatmeal but oat bran and oat muffins and oat cookies -- in fact, just about anything with oats in it. The once reviled grain has suddenly emerged as the hottest health food around. People are sprinkling it on cereal, mixing it with fruit, baking it in cakes, dissolving...
Nutritionists object to the campaign, since Coke has a fattening, tooth- decaying dose of sugar. One answer: wash down your oatmeal with a sugar- free diet Coke...
Breakfasts will soon degenerate from the wholesome goodness of fresh cooked oatmeal into instant shots of sugar. Now that vending machines hold a future breakfast staple, one can only expect candy for breakfast, synthetic fruit for artificially sweetened hot cereal, and microwaveable concoctions of bagels, pork, eggs and grease. Then again, given the alternatives, Coke may actually be a cylinder of hope rising out of the vast wasteland created by breakfast pollutants. Burp...
...Commissary is an arty cafeteria with decent, moderately priced choices. Breakfast may include crackling thick Irish oatmeal or homemade muffins, and at brunch and lunch there are well-made omelets. Probably Philadelphia's most widely acclaimed French restaurant is Le Bec-Fin. Although not quite up to its national reputation, it does offer some fine food -- at steep prices -- in a dated Louis-the-Something setting. Avoid complex dishes such as lamb wrapped in veal and heavily sauteed scallops with snow peas. More successful are the Cornish hen with a garlic-and-thyme cream sauce, and veal medallions nestling...
That much oatmeal between glossy red-white-and-blue covers made the party's surviving left wing gag. Observed Ann Lewis, director of the Americans for Democratic Action: "It was not the stuff that energizes voters." Pointing out that Democratic primary voters this year have recoiled from centrist candidates, she added, "Every primary in which there was a clear choice between a real Democrat and an imitation, they chose the genuine article." If "real Democrat" is defined as liberal, the returns in several key contests bear her out. In Georgia, for example, Hamilton Jordan ran on a platform of moving...