Just a victim of capitalists.
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Oats are fucking awesome.
I hate it 😔
Put dried fruits and spices from around the world in mine I eat better than emperor's
I feel like my oats have been disparaged. The peasantry demands an apology.
Aside from debating oats, peasants had more time off than we did.
Beat me to it 😛
I mean, yes but have you had good overnight oats? So good!
Overnight oats are really good for my digestion and diet. What, you want me eating steak and eggs?
And they're amazing for your diet in general. M-F such an easy no brain option for a meal. Make individual containers Sunday night. Food for the rest of the week.
If you eat overnight oats for your tummy troubles the post clearly isn't for you. If you eat it because you can't afford other meals it is.
Well if you eat it because youb can't afford anything else you're quite bright as it's quite the savings comparitively, most would spend more money on a worse meal!
Not surprising, our gut flora love the stuff. My old microbio lecturer used to always get his class to run an experiment where people would test the growth of different types of good bacteria found in the gut using different food sources. Some would be random foods, others would be bio active drink made for the task and, ever present, was porridge (about the same thing). Porridge always won.
It also has one of, if not the lowest glycemic index of all carbs.
Gruel is top tier
It’s more mocking the rebranding from something terrible, to something more appealing.
Meanwhile, I have a black coffee for breakfast to help concentrate my hatred in order for me to get through the day..
you can criticise the world without resorting to past = bad which often hides things we have lost.
Also oats are nutritious, delicious, and efficient.
How about pointing out how hard you work to afford food that is often thrown out lest it undermine keeping you slaved to "the economy" etc.
No actually I'm not done. Wanting fewer material things is good actually. Opulence need not manifest in terms of the aquisition of territory and things. What if you have a tiny home and breakfast gruel but you get idle time, community, gorgeous views, freedom etc.
the problems with society aren't that you can't eat figs every meal and stroll around your estate, it's that mere subsitence demands your soul.
I get the sentiment, but overnight oats with honey and banana fucking slaps. I'd eat that if I was queen of the world (ignoring the fact that I wouldn't be queen of the world very long because I'd use my unquestioned power to dismantle all the fucked up systems that made a "queen of the world" possible)
Without a call to action, this is just an insult.
make your own call to action, decide for yourself. you don't need random strangers on the internet showing you the directiosn. they already showed you where you stand, go and make your own path.
OP has upset the peasantry.
Lotta cope and seethe in here as they flay the messenger for bein so rude in handin' em a mirror they don't like the look of. I get it yeah? But they're mad in the wrong direction
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